ARTS 299 Arts Portfolio Seminar

Taken during the last semester of transferring to a four-year college, the Arts portfolio seminar is a capstone course for visual and digital arts students who are graduating with an Associate of Arts degree in Art, Graphic and Interactive Design, Gaming and Simulation Design, or Television and Radio. Emphasis is placed on a comprehensive portfolio review by arts faculty, followed by revision, and development, resulting in a body of work, which represents a student's course of study in a specific degree program. Topics include writing a professional resume, bio, and artist's statement; exhibition preparation and installation; university transfer and application processes; ethics; business concerns in the arts; copyright; community-related art opportunities; peer collaboration; and other important topics related to the specific field associated with the student's degree program. Students will display their work in a final exhibition in the Art Department Gallery.

Credits

2

Notes

Permission of the Art Department Chair is required.

Hours Weekly

2

Course Objectives

1. Identify the strengths and correct the weaknesses and omissions in one’s portfolio.
2. Create a professional resume, biography, and artist’s statement.
3. Understand, evaluate, and apply ethical reasoning with regard to copyright and related
   moral, personal, and artistic ethics in one’s field of study.
4. Understand and participate in, if relevant, university application, transfer, and interview
   processes.
5. Work collaboratively and creatively in a team to prepare and install an exhibition in a gallery
   space.
6. Present an exit portfolio that represents mastery of all studio courses taken at Howard
   Community College, including evidence of content and meaning in one’s own work, as well
   as an artist statement, which effectively demonstrates the ability to intellectually critique
   one’s own work and that of others.

Course Objectives

1. Identify the strengths and correct the weaknesses and omissions in one’s portfolio.
2. Create a professional resume, biography, and artist’s statement.
3. Understand, evaluate, and apply ethical reasoning with regard to copyright and related
   moral, personal, and artistic ethics in one’s field of study.
4. Understand and participate in, if relevant, university application, transfer, and interview
   processes.
5. Work collaboratively and creatively in a team to prepare and install an exhibition in a gallery
   space.
6. Present an exit portfolio that represents mastery of all studio courses taken at Howard
   Community College, including evidence of content and meaning in one’s own work, as well
   as an artist statement, which effectively demonstrates the ability to intellectually critique
   one’s own work and that of others.