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An Afternoon in Adobe InDesign: Learn the Basics (A) – NEW!

July 07, 2020

Learn the basics of Adobe InDesign to create, revise and update documents. Using your own Mac or PC computers and software, share files from the instructor, and work with your classmaters on several projects. We’ll go over the basics of using tools, and create a simple document “from the ground up.”

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Video Editing With Adobe Premiere – NEW!

July 07, 2020

Learn the technical skills of digital film editing as you explore creative possibilities through several short exercises. Students will be introduced to both conventional and alternative editing strategies and theory that can be applied towards narrative, non-fiction, and experimental cinema. All media will be provided for you, with the option of supplying your own. An […]

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An Afternoon in Adobe InDesign: Learn the Basics (B) – NEW!

July 07, 2020

Learn the basics of Adobe InDesign to create, revise and update documents. Using your own Mac or PC computers and software, share files from the instructor, and work with your classmaters on several projects. We’ll go over the basics of using tools, and create a simple document “from the ground up.”

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Introduction to Interior Design (A)

January 15, 2020

Explore key concepts of interior design: continuity, scale, proportion, balance, color and light. We’ll use slide presentations and class discussions to prepare you to investigate and analyze the interiors of your choice.

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Introduction to Graphic Design

January 15, 2020

Learn to combine images, words and visual elements together to communicate an idea. You’ll get hands-on opportunities to learn the basic ideas of graphic design. We’ll also explore form and color, typography, page layout, use of images, as well as applying design at different scales and on various platforms using Adobe InDesign. Learn to make […]

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Introduction to Interior Design (B)

January 15, 2020

Explore key concepts of interior design: continuity, scale, proportion, balance, color and light. We’ll use slide presentations and class discussions to prepare you to investigate and analyze the interiors of your choice.

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Introduction to Graphic Design

October 01, 2019

Learn to combine images, words and visual elements together to communicate an idea. You’ll get hands-on opportunities to learn the basic ideas of graphic design. We’ll also explore form and color, typography, page layout, use of images, as well as applying design at different scales and on various platforms using InDesign Software. Learn to make […]

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Designing Books + Magazines

October 01, 2019

Explore the process of designing and producing a book or magazine. You can use images you already have or develop new images and content expressly for the book project. Portfolios or graphic and photographic narratives to represent your work or the work of others can be an asset to your career or personal artistic process. […]

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Introduction to Interior Design

October 01, 2019

Explore key concepts of interior design: continuity, scale, proportion, balance, color and light. We’ll use slide presentations and class discussions to prepare you to investigate and analyze the interiors of your choice.

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Art Exploration – NEW!

August 08, 2019

Explore a variety of media each week including clay, painting, drawing, sculpture and collage. We’ll experiment with a new medium each week to create our own 2-D and 3-D art collections.

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Editing the Digital Photograph in Adobe Lightroom B

June 18, 2019

Adobe LR is a powerful program that allows you to catalog and enhance your digital photographs. We will cover its most useful features like importing, making collections, fix exposure and color, apply local adjustments, use graduated filters, create fun presets, and convert images to black and white. Each week, students have the opportunity to practice […]

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Editing the Digital Photograph in Adobe Lightroom (A)

June 18, 2019

Adobe LR is a powerful program that allows you to catalog and enhance your digital photographs. We will cover its most useful features like importing, making collections, fix exposure and color, apply local adjustments, use graduated filters, create fun presets, and convert images to black and white. Each week, students have the opportunity to practice […]

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Adobe InDesign Basics for Professionals

June 18, 2019

Do you want to improve the quality and consistency of your organization’s communications materials? Learn to create print or digital documents in Adobe InDesign. We’ll cover importing and formatting text, placing and editing images, as well as working with typography and logos. You’ll learn to pull all of those elements together to create an attractive […]

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Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator + InDesign for Beginners (C)

June 18, 2019

Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign are the three most popular programs within the Adobe Creative Cloud. When used together, they allow you to create and manage visual content with amazing results. Learn to create documents for printed or digital platforms using Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. You’ll edit your photographs in Photoshop, design graphic elements in […]

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Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator + InDesign for Beginners D

June 18, 2019

Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign are the three most popular programs within the Adobe Creative Cloud. When used together, they allow you to create and manage visual content with amazing results. Learn to create documents for printed or digital platforms using Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. You’ll edit your photographs in Photoshop, design graphic elements in […]

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Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator + InDesign for Beginners (B)

June 18, 2019

Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign are the three most popular programs within the Adobe Creative Cloud. When used together, they allow you to create and manage visual content with amazing results. Learn to create documents for printed or digital platforms using Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. You’ll edit your photographs in Photoshop, design graphic elements in […]

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Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator + InDesign for Beginners (A)

June 18, 2019

Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign are the three most popular programs within the Adobe Creative Cloud. When used together, they allow you to create and manage visual content with amazing results. Learn to create documents for printed or digital platforms using Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. You’ll edit your photographs in Photoshop, design graphic elements in […]

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Introduction to Graphic Design

June 18, 2019

Learn to combine images, words and visual elements together to communicate an idea. You’ll get hands-on opportunities to learn the basic ideas of graphic design. We’ll also explore form and color, typography, page layout, use of images, as well as applying design at different scales and on various platforms using InDesign Software. Learn to make […]

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Introduction to Interior Design (B)

June 18, 2019

Explore key concepts of interior design: continuity, scale, proportion, balance, color and light. We’ll use slide presentations and class discussions to prepare you to investigate and analyze the interiors of your choice.

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Introduction to Interior Design (A)

June 18, 2019

Explore key concepts of interior design: continuity, scale, proportion, balance, color and light. We’ll use slide presentations and class discussions to prepare you to investigate and analyze the interiors of your choice.

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Build Your Own Website – NEW!

April 29, 2019

Learn the basic skills to build your own website using WordPress. This course will cover web hosting concepts and principles including managing your own domain, file transfer protocol (FTP), mySQL and more. Explore the foundations of the most popular content management system on earth, WordPress, including basic tools such as posts, pages, the appearance panel, […]

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Break the Rules of Your Medium – NEW!

April 08, 2019

Stuck in a rut? Trying to find a new groove? Through a series of discussion and class-guided creative assignments, we’ll take a critical look at the framework of rules that we as artists create and follow in our work. This class is open to artists working in any medium. Expect to complete creative exercises outside […]

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Digital Hand-Drawn Lettering

April 08, 2019

Think outside the font and create your own custom lettering designs by hand. We’ll explore hand lettering from the sketching phase to a polished, finished piece. We’ll be using both traditional and digital tools to explore the basics of lettering. Students will leave the class with a few finished lettering projects, knowledge of lettering and […]

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