Teaching starts Spring

Language of instruction

Norwegian.

Learning outcomes

The student will be able to use different types of documentation connected to planning, execution and assessment of different works.
Through the visual art workshop, the student will:
- through observation and imagination connected to his own creative work, have attained fundamental skills in drawing, painting and printing techniques
- master simple space-creating tools and fundamental principles of stylization/simplification and mixing colours
- have explored basic principles for use of ICT in artistic work.
During the clay workshop, the student will:
- through his own creative work have attained fundamental skills in the most common techniques for creating sculpture and crafts
- have shown that he can use various ceramic surface treatments, such as oxidized water and glazes.
During the textile workshop, the student will:
- through creative work with issues connected to various crafts and images, have attained knowledge about and experience with various textile materials, tools and techniques
- be able to use a sewing machine and master basic skills in the arts of matting, weaving, silkscreen, masks and embroidery.
During wood shop, the student will:
- be able to create crafts out of wood where the development of ideas connected to studies of visual art and arts and crafts (historical and contemporary) plays a central role
- be able to work with natural wood and processed wood materials
- master basic methods of assembly and various techniques for processing wood surfaces.

Course contents

The course will help the students to develop a foundation in visual language and form from which they can experience, understand and evaluate the different manners in which our culture is expressed. They will also develop knowledge of children´s visual language of art as well as how to convey art to children.

The course takes place in workshops for

- Wood

- Textiles

- Clay

- Illustration

Teaching methods

Practical work in workshops.

Compulsory attendance.

Examination requirement

- Compulsory assignments
- Compulsory attendance, assessed as passed
- Teaching practice, assessed as passed.

Assessment methods and criteria

- Exhibition, including works from all the workshops.

Assessed on the basis A-F (with A as the highest level and F as fail).

Type of course Practical.

Level of course First cycle.

Year of study

Third year (elective) of bachelor`s programme.

Name of lecturer/contact person Assistant Professor Anita Skogen

Mode of delivery Face-to-face