The design department consists of clothing design, textile design, furniture design, graphic design, illustration design, metal and jewelry design, industrial design and other majors.
Art is divided into art history department and painting department.
Media art department is divided into computer art department, media and performing art department, photography department, film and television department and comic art department.
In addition, Savannah College of Art and Design also offers professional minor courses, such as dance, decorative arts, sketch, electronic design, interactive media design, museum research, printing, sculpture, sound design and English writing.
Savannah College of Art and Design not only pays attention to cultivating students' artistic quality, but also encourages students to explore their majors in school by combining the most advanced science and technology in the world. The Department of Illustration Design provides students with two large computer laboratories, which enable them to create works of art in the traditional form first, then scan them, and finally display them in digital form.
The biggest feature of the Department of Illustration Design is that the faculty and staff are professionals. They participate in the field of illustration, update the syllabus at any time, and catch up with new trends, new styles and new technologies. Professors and students are creating works at the same time, not only to complete their homework, but also to meet the needs of the market. Like illustration art, film and television art is also a communication art. The teachers in the film and television department of Savannah College of Art and Design not only teach students film theory and film history, but also encourage students to make practical creations. The whole film and television department is like a large-scale film and television studio, with all the equipment from pre-production, shooting to post-production. Through continuous shooting practice, students learn to communicate with actors, crew members and audiences, and strive to make their works truly communicate with the audience. The annual Savannah Film Festival provides students with an opportunity to meet movie master face to face.
Savannah Film Festival is a gathering of professional filmmakers and students. Students will have the opportunity to attend various lectures and seminars, talk with professional directors, actors and producers, and observe and learn the latest film and television works from all over the world.
The "Montanero" Theater of Savannah College of Art and Design is a garden for students majoring in performing arts to study and practice. Teachers encourage students to learn all professional knowledge as much as possible, from stage performance to dance, from film and television performance to stage design. In the world of performing arts, only the most dedicated people can succeed.
From the musicals Tommy, Aouita and In the Park with George on Sunday to the plays Macbeth and The Real West, students majoring in performing arts have many opportunities to perform in real theaters. What excites the students even more is that celebrities in the entertainment industry, such as angela bassett, Robert Rodford and James krom Will, accepted the invitation and came to the campus to communicate with the students and give them professional guidance, which will help them to go out into the society and show their talents in the future.
The college also organized students to participate in the Edinburgh International Arts Festival, the world's largest drama festival, giving students the opportunity to appreciate international trends and enjoy various drama performances and street performances. In this festival, both graduate students and undergraduate students will perform a live program. This building was built in 1926, and its interior decoration is very modern. The photography department of Savannah College of Art and Design is located in it.
The photographic equipment provided by the school ranges from ordinary 35mm cameras to the most advanced large cameras.
There are two large combined darkrooms in the basement downstairs, each equipped with 20 magnifying glasses, which students can learn to use step by step.
There are exhibition rooms and classrooms on the first and second floors, as well as photography shops, where students can buy all kinds of equipment, such as photographic paper and film, and also develop negatives.
The space on the third and fourth floors is a studio and a digital laboratory with a computer workstation. Students will learn all kinds of techniques from traditional photography to digital photography using the most advanced equipment here.
Experienced teachers ask students to choose a technical style and aesthetic way as far as possible for in-depth research and creation, so as to establish their own unique creative techniques as soon as possible. If the creation of photography art can have a certain distance from real life, then interior design is an art closely related to our daily life. The interior design course of Savannah College of Art and Design includes both residential design and commercial interior design, and extends to scene design and even network design. Although there are more than 250 computers and three specialized interior design laboratories for students to use in the branch of architectural art, teachers still emphasize that computers can never replace real design, and real design comes from the brain, mind and pencil in hand.
The teachers in the interior design department are both from the United States and from all over the world. They are versatile, with both technical knowledge and artistic inspiration. Under their guidance, students are eager to pay more experience and create the best works. Like interior design, furniture design is an art closely related to people's daily life. The Furniture Design Department of Savannah College of Art and Design is located in the newly renovated19th century cotton warehouse with an area of 16000 square feet, including studio, design room, welding room, computer room and sketch room. Here, teachers often emphasize the concept of furniture design.
Schools usually combine courses with various forms of exhibitions, and students have the opportunity to participate in international activities such as Milan Mobile Salon Exhibition, Paris Furniture Exhibition and new york International Contemporary Furniture Exhibition. This is conducive to their professional contact with reality and comprehensive self-development. In the exhibition, students can sit in chairs, turn on the lights, see how the lights illuminate the room, and go forward to evaluate other people's works, which will help them to become better designers in the future. The industrial design department of Savannah College of Art and Design is also a garden for cultivating excellent designers. As far as computer resources are concerned, this is one of the most advanced product design departments in the United States. Students can use KTS software to design their own works. This software is the same as that used by Boeing Company to design Boeing 777 aircraft. In addition, there is a well-equipped model studio that provides all the tools needed to help students turn their ideas into reality.
The teaching philosophy of Industrial Design Department of Savannah College of Art and Design is based on product design to improve people's quality of life. Teachers ask students to design products that can adapt to the environment, be pleasant and interesting, make life more convenient and enhance interpersonal communication. Savannah College of Art and Design is located in Savannah, an ancient city with a history of more than 200 years in Georgia. Because the ancient buildings in the whole city are well preserved, it is called one of the most beautiful cities in America. The teaching building of the architecture department of the college itself is an ancient house built in 1887, and the whole city is more like a living architectural museum. Buildings with a history of 100 years can be seen everywhere, and people still live and use them today.
This unique humanistic environment is conducive to the students of architecture department to stand on the shoulders of giants, experience architectural theories of various styles in ancient and modern times, fully understand the design standards of excellent buildings, and stimulate their creative ability. The goal of teaching is to help students form their own unique creative style as soon as possible.
Students from the Department of Architectural History cooperated with students from the Department of Computer Arts to complete a project called "Virtual Ancient City Savannah". They created a three-dimensional model. Throughout the ages, the whole website is like a time machine. As long as tourists choose a specific time to visit Savannah, the system will automatically display the face of Savannah at that time. Facing the beautiful ancient city of Savannah, students in the Department of Historical Protection always feel the importance and sense of responsibility of their major. Since the graduates majoring in historical relics protection will mainly be engaged in the rescue and protection of the historical environment, students often go out of the classroom to investigate the historical buildings all over Savannah, and use the advanced laboratory equipment of the college to carry out the research work of cultural relics restoration and historic site protection.
Over the past year, teachers and students of the Department of Cultural Relics Protection have undertaken nearly 40 social projects. The Zapero Island Church in Georgia, which they participated in research and protection, is the first Baptist church built by African-American immigrants in the United States. They also participated in the restoration and protection of different museums in Savannah. In addition, the teachers and students of the Department of Historical Relics Protection also participated in the protection of a state-funded building in new york called Lyndhurst Building, which is the most typical representative of Gothic architecture in the United States. In Virginia, Nevada, teachers and students of the Department of Historical Protection participated in a project to analyze the paint color of the exterior walls of ancient buildings, and their scheme was finally implemented and won the prize. In the process of engaging in these public welfare undertakings, students not only learned knowledge, but also accumulated experience. Most importantly, they learned how to contribute to society. Compared with industrial design, metal and jewelry design is also an art that needs to combine craftsmanship and rich imagination perfectly.
The Department of Metal and Jewelry Design of Savannah College of Art and Design provides excellent equipment for students, from welding and lamp blowing to polishing machines, from inlay equipment to grinding machines, from pouring facilities to vacuum casters. These advanced instruments provide a solid material foundation for students' progress.
In the daily meticulous work, polishing and forging, students step by step turn their dreams into reality with dexterous hands and bravely accept new challenges.
From jewelry to metal jewelry, from concave utensils to silverware making, from dressing up princes and nobles to decorating rock musicians, students here are trying to explore how to better decorate people's bodies and lives with their own artistic creations every day.
Various galleries all over the streets are another charming scenery in Savannah. In the bright sunshine and colorful buildings, it seems that everyone's chest will be filled with the impulse to draw. The curriculum of painting department of Savannah College of Art and Design is very unique. Some courses are based on intermediate or advanced painting level, while others are based on certain pigments, such as ink and wash pigments and oil painting pigments. Other courses are based on a certain theme, such as life painting and landscape painting.
The college not only attaches importance to cultivating talented students into artists, but also attaches importance to protecting artists' creative environment and helping them step into society smoothly.
The Fashion Design Department of Savannah College of Art and Design has two sewing laboratories and a fashion model museum, which is a course focusing on fashion design skills. The purpose is to make students become professional designers after graduation and have the ability to participate in practical work immediately.
Here, all creation and design innovation will be encouraged. When designing their own works, each student will maximize their rich associations and expect their works to shine in the school's excellent fashion exhibition. Although many works are time-consuming and labor-intensive, all the hard work will be rewarded when students see their works get attention, especially when they see models walking on the runway. In Savannah College of Art and Design, there is a unique major, which is both familiar and unfamiliar to the audience in China, and that is comic art department.
If you have the opportunity to visit the classroom of the Comic Art Department, you will find that most students are sitting at the drawing table, making the most traditional creations with pencils and drawing paper. In addition, students can also create with the help of high-tech modern means such as scanners and computer software programs, and finally color and mark the words by hand.
Regardless of the traditional way or the modern way, the teaching philosophy of the Department of Comic Art is to teach students how to tell stories first.
The Department of Comic Art often invites professional artists and students to hold seminars, and invites professional editors to comment on students' works. Not long ago, a student of comic art department was hired as a pencil action cartoonist. He will mainly engage in drawing the famous cartoon character "Superman" with a pencil.
Those colleagues who have rich social experience and professional experience will tell students how they think and how to draw; Not only that, they will also talk about a wider range of topics such as how to apply for a job and how to solve problems at work. All these help students to have a broader understanding of the professional animation industry and get more professional information and employment opportunities.
Besides abundant human resources, public facilities are also outstanding. The College's Jayne Library is one of the largest art libraries in the United States.
The "skeat" Theater of the College is a multifunctional theater. Many famous artists have performed in theaters and communicated with students. Every year, the star-studded Savannah Film Festival is also held here.
The door of Savannah College of Art and Design is open to students all over the world.
As many international students have gained some professional education or experience in their own countries, the college encourages them to do more creative work freely while studying for postgraduate courses, and explore and cultivate their artistic ideals in a flexible way.
In the well-equipped studio provided by the college, students can easily find the materials and inspiration they need, and can establish relationships and friendships for their future life and work through mutual cooperation.
Although in today's art design field, high technology and digitalization have become indispensable means, and some students can complete all the designs on computers, professors still emphasize that students must start with the most basic manual production and cultivate their ideas. They think that design is not just about pressing a button, not just getting some quick results; The most important thing in design is a thinking process, a production process and an artistic creation.
Every year, the college holds an exhibition called "Away from Home" to provide opportunities for international students to show their works. From painting to sculpture, from photography to installation art, from film and television works to jewelry design, the works exhibited are diverse and colorful, but all the works have one thing in common, that is, they are all created by international students studying at Savannah College of Art and Design.
Of course, there are also many foreign students who, like local American students, had no artistic experience and creative foundation before coming to Savannah College of Art and Design. They can study minor courses such as sculpture, sketch, printing, two-dimensional design, three-dimensional design and color theory in the basic department set up by the college. The teachers of the basic department come from all over the world. They love education very much and care about the future development of students. No matter what major students choose to pursue in the future. Teachers hope that through the basic courses here, they can have a precise understanding of visual language and learn to use artistic methods to create.
The course of the basic department consists of a series of practical and creative courses, from which all students can choose. Because there are always many parallel things between the courses of art majors, there are always overlaps between the courses of different majors. Therefore, the college has compiled a series of courses for students from the beginning, aiming at giving students a comprehensive understanding and understanding of visual art, not just a general visual education.
In addition, Savannah College of Art and Design has set up a liberal arts department to teach English, history, mathematics, psychology and other courses.
The liberal arts department is considered to be a very active and thought-provoking part of Savannah College of Art and Design. Its existence always reminds students to think about what qualities and accomplishments a real artist needs; The existence of liberal arts departments provides students with a better understanding of the world they live in and their own opportunities; The existence of liberal arts department enriches students' experience and accelerates their journey into the art world.
Savannah College of Art and Design holds a grand festival for international students in the best season every year-International Food Culture Festival. In this festival, students from all over the world have the opportunity to perform and sing folk songs.
In this grand program for international students. Teams of students from different countries and nationalities showed their talents. They carefully designed their own booths, prepared ethnic food with unique flavor and designed ingenious games. I hope that through our own efforts, more people can understand the customs of our country and more compatriots can be proud of their own culture.
This is a magical city, a palace of art, a holy place for designers to learn, a cradle for artists to grow up, and Savannah College of Art and Design.