A Sculpture Certificate of Achievement (COA) provides students with foundation-level technical knowledge, skills, and aesthetic judgement in preparation for advanced study in this area at a four-year institution or professional art school.  Students develop conceptual tools and technical skills in three-dimensional art forms. Instruction focuses on the formal study of spatial relationships as well as the context and history of 3-D art objects and their settings.  Skill development emphasizes traditional modeling, casting, joining, and welding techniques as well as the use of newer technologies. The certificate can lead to a career focused on individual studio practice, industrial design, or ceramic or arts instruction at any educational level. This certificate provides a secondary area of emphasis that can complement any Art AA or AA-T degree.

Upon successful completion of this program, students will be able to: 

• Demonstrate basic drawing skills, color manipulation, and design principles in areas of emphasis.
• Demonstrate three-dimensional techniques in creating objects in selected areas of emphasis.
• Demonstrates the proper use of the camera and the basic techniques of analog and digital photography in selected areas of emphasis.
• Critically evaluate digital media and graphic communication design and production techniques and their use in selected areas of emphasis.
• Analyze works of art in terms of their historical contexts and social and cultural values.
• Analyze works of film and media, create and edit works of film including narrative and editorial.