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This course will introduce students to the key aspects of applied arts process: the influence of materials, of specific tools and techniques, of design constraints and the importance of justifying and visualizing their ideas. Students will improve their creativity by drawing and by handling specific materials and tools to develop a set of jewelry (models in brass and pewter).

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2D Mixed Media is a course that demands experimentation. Each exercise will require the overlaying of at least two mutually compatible mediums to obtain visual effects that are impossible to achieve with a single medium. Further, non-traditional supports for each assignment will enhance the artwork of every student and introduce them to the many possibilities available to contemporary artists.

Under the supervision of the major advisor, students prepare a portfolio of their work to be presented to a jury of all of the AUP Fine Arts Professors, plus one outside guest artist. The student puts together a dossier of all of his/her works, along with an artist’s statement, and makes a presentation, to the panel of professors. It should include the original work, plus a professional looking catalogue of photographs that could be presented to a gallery. The student should be prepared to answer questions from the panel defending their work.