Arts Program
The Arts Program at Olympic College offers courses in Art, Integrated Multimedia, Journalism, Music, and Video/Theatre Arts. Students work towards an Associate in Arts & Sciences (AAS) Degree in all these disciplines or a professional certificate in Art or an ATA Degree in Integrated Multimedia.
Associate in Technical Arts (ATA) Degree
This program has articulated with Evergreen State College for an Upside Down Degree and may require 25 credits of academic general education classes.
This program prepares students for careers in Web Design, Animation, Desktop Publishing, Digital Music, Composing and Arranging, Recording Engineering, Video Engineering and Editing, Lighting and Sound Design, Multimedia Presentation, Newspaper Production, Digital Photography, and many other areas.
Integrated Multimedia
We are a very unusual grouping of graphic and fine art, journalism, theatre art, video, web page design, animation, music, photography, animatronics, sculpture, computers, special effects, dance, puppetry and occasionally smoke and mirrors. The IMM program integrates into nearly every area of study. We are the presentations in boardrooms, the forensics in the courtroom, the cartoons and animated feature films seen in theatres, commercials, fashion shows, storyboards for communicating ideas and 3D models of creatures of the night and angels of light. We are actors who use the computer as a magic wand to paint starry skies and translucent rainbows across time and space swirling into sparkling waterfalls that cascade into pools of shimmering light.
Indeed, Integrated Multimedia is a very unique program in the state of Washington and perhaps the United States. We are proud of the way that different programs have dove-tailed into our program and how we are able to extend to all our students so much more in resources and basic artistic skills that enhance their worth with perspective employers. It is more work, but we try very hard to give attention to each student in our program rather than fit the student into a system that will not meet their needs. We also focus on "one student--one production" in the same manner that USC and UCLA do in their film schools. This way our students get a broad view of the scope of an entire production rather than just a part of it.
Art 113 Lab
Lab A113, where the equipment is housed, is used by graphic artists to create computer art and to make online portfolios and large format posters, by musicians to create digital music, by animators to plan and execute various forms of animation, and by video students to plan, create, and edit videos while learning how to do video productions.
The lab equipment is also used by students learning how to maneuver through big programs like Adobe PhotoShop (a graphic editing package) and Macromedia Flash MX (a computer multimedia program) so as to use them effectively and become competitive in the job market. Students use the equipment to create stunning artwork and graphics and investigate how to do storyboards, mind-maps, time-lines, presentations, and budgets. They learn how to behave legally and ethically with regard to copyright issues. Students learn teamwork and how to help each other by doing critiques and assisting each other with learning skills. Students learn how equipment works and how to work around systemic operations, as well as how to make use of traditionally taught art and music skills. They learn how to use design, color, and sound effectively.
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