Art & Design (Part 2) (Summer School) module (SS03021)

This module compliments Art and Design 1 and allows students to hone skills developed. This is a project-based approach to introducing art and design practice. A series of tasks will be set revolving around an exciting common theme, which will allow applicants to respond through a range of creative approaches.

Aims and Objectives

This module offers a project-based approach to understanding art and design practice. You will carry out a series of tasks revolving around an exciting common theme. This allows you to be creative when completing your work.

This module will introduce you to two core aspects of art and design practice. The first is the use of sketchbooks to collate and record research, and develop and document ideas in relation to a project brief. Second is the subsequent development of these ideas into a completed outcome which conveys appropriate levels of skill, creativity, imagination, and knowledge in relation to the professional field. You will be offered an exciting, thematically-based project brief that will be universally applicable to all Access Summer School candidates intending to study at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design (DJCAD).

What you will learn

In this module, you will:

• respond to set briefs
• undertake and document research
• utilise various artistic mediums such as drawing, collage, mixed media, photography, etc.
• create sketchbooks
• employ digital and analogue creative approaches
• develop ideas
• create 3D works and explore three-dimensional mediums
• explore line, form, materiality, colours, textures, etc.
• use visual mapping techniques
• express yourself in an appropriate creative medium
• write artist/designer statements
• present work visually and verbally
• engage in creative conversations within tutorials
• conduct critical analysis and reflection

By the end of this module, you will be able to:

• understand research methods
• generate and implement ideas
• write critical reflections on learning experiences and practices
• communicate and present your work in written, visual, and oral formats

Assignments / assessment

You will complete a piece of coursework from a specific project brief given to support your learning.

Teaching methods / timetable

• project launches
• talks
• workshops
• group tutorials
• self-directed study to develop project work

A detailed timetable will be issued at the module launch.

Materials required will be based on what is readily available to applicants, and a list of online resources that is accessible to all students will be provided with each project brief. Applicants will also be provided with access to appropriate digital software where required.

Both Art and Design 1 & 2 must be taken together