Courses

Editorial Illustration

Learn the nuts and bolts of editorial illustration and create images for editorial publications through hands-on projects. From conceptual financial articles to book reviews, you'll wear both the illustrator and art director hats. Understand how to navigate commission-based work while building a portfolio of beautiful editorial illustrations.

June 16, 2025 to July 23, 2025, Pratt Manhattan

Portrait Drawing

This course takes a detailed look into the interior and functional structures of the head, their forms and variations and how they affect the look of the head and face. Open up new creative and expressive possibilities to more effectively draw from life, invent, work from memory, and create strong, lifelike portraits.

June 16, 2025 to July 23, 2025, Online

Adobe InDesign

Adobe InDesign is the leading layout design software for print and digital media. Explore the vast capabilities of InDesign and develop portfolio pieces focused on composition, typography, and publication design.

June 17, 2025 to July 24, 2025, Online

Advanced Interiors: Function & Style

Learn how to identify popular styles in decor, customize and specify materials for a project, and formulate a budget. Go on a journey to discover how to develop an existing space by understanding human behavior, applying everyday function into a design, while using scale and proportion. Focus on basic color theory and the customization of furniture and decor.

June 16, 2025 to July 23, 2025, Hybrid/ Manhattan

Advertising What Matters: Building a Health and Wellness Campaign

Master the power of creating meaningful advertising, as you design a wellness campaign from concept to portfolio piece. Build brand identity from the bottom up. Explore and practice the art of visual branding through color, typography, graphics and imagery. See how human insights can fuel your ideas. Learn techniques for sparking creative thinking. Interact with guest experts. Bring your concept to life across multiple channels, including experiential and social media. Whether your personal experience is in graphic design, fine art, marketing or communications, this course will give you the ability to develop an award-worthy campaign that can change lives

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Book Illustration: Picture Book

Learn the art of illustrating a story idea and how to make your art work in the versatile picture book format. Concentrate on elements that can help you develop the tools you need. Learn about the business and the physical process of creating a picture book.

June 16, 2025 to July 24, 2025, Pratt Manhattan

Brand Design and Corporate Identity

Learn the craft of brand expression and how it flows from brand strategy and business objectives to perception in the minds of consumers and the public at large.

June 17, 2025 to July 24, 2025, Hybrid/ Manhattan

Design Ideation and Research

Explore the methods, process, and culture used to develop creative ideas while solving problems facing individuals, groups, businesses and society at large-primarily through a structured approach to product innovation.

June 17, 2025 to July 24, 2025, Pratt Manhattan

Digital Marketing

Gain the skills needed to excel in digital marketing. From social media marketing and content marketing to programmatic advertising and online press release distribution, this course covers it all. Explore essential areas such as display advertising, search engine marketing (SEM), search engine optimization (SEO), social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, YouTube), influencer marketing, and AI.

May 26, 2025 to August 11, 2025, Online

Figma for UX/UI

Figma is the industry-leading tool for UX and UI design-built for collaboration, speed, and innovation. Learn how to design user-centered experiences by creating essential deliverables like sitemaps, wireframes, high-fidelity mockups and clickable prototypes.

June 16, 2025 to July 23, 2025, Online

Find Your Artistic Path in a Creative Career

Discover the creative career landscape for visual artists, photographers, and designers. Learn how to find and do the work that you love. From staff roles to freelancing to launching an LLC, understand your career options, strategies, and how to protect your intellectual property.

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Graphic Design Portfolio

Apply the principles learned in Intro to Graphic Design to complex, real-world problems in a professional studio atmosphere. Build and refine your portfolio with multi-platform branding projects that require research, experimentation, and design problem-solving. Fill in portfolio gaps and emerge with a refined, job-search-ready, digital portfolio that champions ideation, process, and professional presentation. Participate and get inspired in a supportive community of peers. Refine your ability to give and receive constructive feedback.

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Interiors For The Beginner

Familiarize yourself with the skills, terminology, and techniques professional interior designers utilize to develop a space from initial idea to finished design. Learn how to present your designs to clients

June 17, 2025 to July 24, 2025, Online

Introduction to Drawing

Learning to see, perception, and the art of drawing. In this exciting course we will explore many media, methods and styles of drawing. This is an excellent foundation course for making art and will power-up your creativity.

May 27, 2025 to August 12, 2025, East Hall

Introduction to Photoshop

Learn the tools and develop techniques in Adobe Photoshop, the premier image-editing program used by professionals for image/photo color correction, retouching, compositing, and more. Gain the skills and confidence to work with this versatile program. Develop portfolio pieces.

May 27, 2025 to August 12, 2025, Online

Introduction to Revit

Start using the fundamental commands in Revit right away. Revit is the AEC industry's most popular parametric building modeler. With it, you can create not just 3D digital models of buildings, but also databases of the information required to construct them.

June 16, 2025 to July 22, 2025, Online

Introduction to Typography

Learn how to design typography for optimal reading, communication hierarchy, and graphic impact through a variety of real-world assignments and exercises.

June 16, 2025 to July 23, 2025, Hybrid/ Manhattan

Metalworking

Explore metalworking as an art form and examine the techniques of welding, brazing, soldering, bending, cutting, forging, and drilling. Create and construct a small sculpture by the culmination of class.

June 17, 2025 to July 25, 2025, Chemistry Building

Photographic Composition

Analyze the challenges and potential solutions involved in photographical composition. Investigate how photographers say what they say based primarily on ideas suggested in the seminal writing on photography, John Szarkowski's The Photographer's Eye.

June 30, 2025 to July 24, 2025, Online

Photoshop Advanced

Go beyond the basics and unleash the full potential of Adobe Photoshop. Produce seamless images for a multitude of industries with this versatile application.

May 28, 2025 to August 13, 2025, Online

Portfolio and Career Development

Your portfolio is critical to your success. Build a portfolio that emphasizes your specialty. Refine projects you have worked on during the semester with the aim of producing a cohesive body of work to market yourself/your brand.

May 28, 2025 to August 13, 2025, Online

RHINO: Computer Aided Design and 3-D

This course is designed for the computer-aided design (CAD) novice. Through a series of hands-on exercises and projects, students will experience fundamental digital tools suitable for the design, modeling, and production of small products. The assignments and projects will center around digital 3D design on a computer. All of the skills learned can be applied to many product categories and a wide range of industries

June 19, 2025 to July 25, 2025, Online

Urban Sketching

Immerse yourself in a hands-on drawing adventure that will bring the city to life on your sketchbook pages. Explore varied urban spaces, discovering new ways to see and capture the world around you with confidence and creativity. Through fun, on-location sessions, you'll sharpen your observation skills, strengthen your understanding of composition and perspective, and develop your unique artistic style. Draw from life and gain fresh inspiration whether you're a seasoned artist or just starting out.

June 17, 2025 to July 24, 2025, Pratt Manhattan

UX/UI Portfolio/Project Development

Build the confidence to take the next step in your design career. Your portfolio isn't just a showcase of your work: it's the key to landing your next opportunity. Learn how to craft compelling case studies, choose the right platform to host your portfolio, and optimize your entire job search package-including your resume, LinkedIn profile, and cover letter.

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Video Storytelling

Master the core production crafts of visual storytelling and independent filmmaking, using a personal, hands-on approach. Develop short-form projects on a weekly basis based on assigned exercises, emphasizing directorial choices, the cinematographic language, visual storytelling and directing actors. Self-generate your own films with actionable techniques of an independent filmaker.

June 17, 2025 to July 24, 2025, Hybrid/ Manhattan