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Hello.
Welcome to the art department.
My name is Stephanie Danker.
And I'm an assistant
professor of art education.
We're going to start the tour in
the communication design area.
The communication design
program at Miami University
is focused on preparing learners
for professional practice
in areas of visual design
and user experience.
Embracing the liberal
arts, students
learn to combine thinking,
knowledge, and skills
from many disciplines to inform
design processes, research,
and outcomes.
We have small class sizes
where a cohort of learners
work personally with faculty,
visiting designers, and alumni.
Designers learn traditional
and emerging technologies
for planning, developing,
and producing digital
and physical design outcomes.
This is the primary studio
space where communication design
faculty teach courses.
The conference room,
strangely and fondly referred
to as the womb for many years,
is excellent for small group
meetings.
Pinup walls and mobile
dry erase boards
allow for a range of
critiques and collaborations.
Team-based courses like
HighWire Brand Studio,
taught with the
marketing department,
can meet in the various
modular areas of the studio.
Curmudgeon press is a letter
press printing studio,
a unique space where
designers can physically
create while focusing on the
details of typography, color,
and layout to translate
to their digital work.
Considered visual
laboratories, the programs
of Hiestand Galleries
exhibit artworks
that highlight timely,
enlightening, and challenging
exhibitions that consider
the ever-changing world
of contemporary
visual expression.
With over 12
exhibitions per year,
the galleries feature artworks
by national and international
artists and
designers, as well as
work by undergraduate
and graduate students
in the department of art.
This is a ceramics studio.
This is the wheel
throwing space.
We'll move into the area
that's used for hand building.
This is where students would
take metals and jewelry design.
These are the
foundation studios.
So all first year students would
take prospective drawing, color
theory, creative
technologies in these spaces.
And then there's a room
for them to hang out.
This is photography.
Our photography program
considers themselves ohana--
family.
We have black and
white photography.
And we also have digital
photography here.
You'll see some of our
digital printing spaces.
We have studio lights, large
format, 4 by 5 cameras,
computers, scanners,
inkjet printers, et cetera.
This is the animation studio.
This is the rad lab,
which is used primarily
for emerging technologies
game classes,
but also has the occasional
fashion class and photo class.
This is the art
history lecture space.
And our art history program
provides a global coverage
of art history, including
specialized courses
in the arts of Asia and Africa.
This is one of the
art education studios.
It's also where art
therapy is taught
and some arts
management classes.
Our art education
program prepares students
for an Ohio teaching license.
This is our painting studio.
We have all levels of painting.
We have realistic painting,
and abstract painting,
and graduate
studies in painting.
This is our drawing studio.
All students at Miami take
drawing as foundations.
They draw from observation,
as well as figure drawing.
Learn how to draw the
figure from live models.
Thanks for visiting
the Department of Art.
We hope to see you at Miami
University in the fall.
