洪堡州立大学

The studio concentration offers small classes with individual attention and large, well-equipped studio facilities, including a computer lab and a foundry. In studio courses, students learn processes and strategies used in creating works of art in various media through problem solving assignments and accompanying instruction. Students are given the opportunity at the upper division level to concentrate on a particular studio area in depth, allowing them to prepare a portfolio for further professional opportunities or for post-graduate study.

The Digital Arts + Graphic Design area promotes new media and technology as tools for creative problem solving and artistic expression. Our program emphasizes experimentation, creative thinking, and diverse applications of research and visual communication with a focus on a technology based approach. A variety of tools and approaches are used to focus on developing projects around still and moving image-making, typography, print, web and layout design, as well as multimedia approaches. Throughout these projects, students are encouraged to use art and design as pathways towards social, environmental and cultural progression that reflects their own learning and concerns. The Digital Arts + Graphic Design area promotes creative risk takers, collaborative thinkers, and inquisitive innovators that are ready to integrate experimentation and critical problem solving in their creative processes.

The printmaking program offers beginning through advanced instruction in a variety of processes: relief (woodcut, linocut, wood engraving), intaglio (etching, drypoint), planographic (waterless and stone lithography) and screen print (photo-silkscreen). Students receive a thorough grounding in print fundamentals. Color, black and white, unique, and edition printing are all covered in the curriculum. Traditional and contemporary print techniques are taught through a drawing-centered approach, with an emphasis on individualized conceptual expression.

Humboldt State offers photography students the opportunity to master all aspects of the photographic process–from traditional darkroom black and white photography to color digital imaging.

The Jewelry and Small Metals program provides a strong technical, historical and aesthetic education, blended with creative thinking and artistic problem solving. Students concentrate on the thinking and creating, of wearable jewelry, conceptual work, functional and non- functional objects and small-scale sculpture.

Beginning Drawing courses introduce the basics of line, form, perspective, composition, foreshortening, and proportion, as well as various drawing materials and techniques. Through demonstrations, lectures and critiques, students develop a strong base of technical skill, the ability to assess their own and others' artwork, and the proficiency to think critically and conceptually about drawing. In addition, students are exposed to many styles and characteristics of historical and contemporary drawing.