Curriculum
Try something new—or go further than ever before—to expand your creative expression and artistic vision.
FOUNDATIONS
Foundation Drawing
Anatomy
Understanding human anatomy is an essential part of learning how to draw accurate body proportions. If you love drawing human bodies and forms realistically and want to further develop your skills, this is the class for you! You will learn how to draw the human form through structures of skeletons, muscles and varying body types to create detailed masterpieces.
Concentrations
SADI’s flexible curriculum gives you the freedom to shape your own artistic direction. Students choose four concentrations of study modeled after Moore’s undergraduate course offerings. To support these concentrations, students are automatically enrolled in foundation studios.
Animation
Enjoy animated films or developing stories and comics? Bring your ideas and sketches to life, using traditional and digital animation techniques to design unique characters and fascinating visual narratives.
Ceramics
Craving some hands-on creativity? Working with clay is a mesmerizing, meditative, and challenging form of self-expression. Learn the basics of throwing clay on the potter’s wheel to create vessels like vases, bowls, plates, and more!
Character Design
In one of our most popular classes, learn how to bring a cast of your own original characters to life! Discover the process of character development through staging, silhouette, posture, costume, color and shape.
Interior Design
Delve into the exciting and evolving field of interior design and embrace the art of the built environment. Learn how designers think, solve problems and improve our world by creating inventive spaces where people live, work, play and relax.
Illustration
Become adept at creating uniquely stylized artwork for telling stories, designing characters and developing scenes, from imagination to paper. You will experiment with various techniques and materials to find inventive ways of combining words, images and ideas.
Fashion Design
Evolve from a fashionista to a fashion designer by producing ideas, sketching concepts and constructing your own designs. A future career in fashion will be in view as you create inspiration boards and fabric stories and learn draping techniques for designing garments.
Game Design
Explore digital and analog game-making as an inventive artist, storyteller and creator of fun. By designing and building original games, you will gain a thorough understanding of game structure, play experience and community gaming culture.
Graphic Design
Learn about the art of visual communication and how to create impressive designs for real world applications. Develop graphic design skills by creating impressive logos, branding, and marketable media designs for real-world clients!
Painting
Create expressive artworks that harness the versatility of acrylic paint. You will explore how to depict and organize forms, colors and textures of both observed subjects and ideas from your imagination.
Photography
Go beyond the digital realm and explore the world of film and darkroom photography. Increase your understanding of how to compose compelling images through the camera’s eye and gain skills in aesthetics, camera functions, film development and darkroom printing.
Printmaking
A powerful means for communicating ideas, printmaking allows you to take drawn or painted images and transform them into something new. Focusing on screen printing and wood block techniques, you will explore new materials and create personalized imagery.
Filmmaking
Go beyond the smartphone and learn to share stories that will prepare you for a career in the industry. Start in screening and production classrooms, gain access to professional cinema equipment, and move into post-production. Gain critical and technical skills to adapt to advancing technologies and be leaders in the field currently emerging as the most ubiquitous form of art, culture and communication.
