Maestría en Bellas Artes (MFA) en Diseño de Vestuario

Graduate students will meet the following student performance criteria:

Tesis de diseño de vestuario

• Crear un conjunto de trabajos que se incorporarán a un portafolio, que represente un nivel avanzado de logros, dirigido a la industria cinematográfica u otras producciones de artes escénicas.
• Realizar investigaciones para desarrollar conceptos creativos y construir una historia visual.
• Demostrar un nivel constante de calidad de diseño desde la preproducción hasta el rodaje de la película o el proceso de ensayo de una producción en vivo.
• Realizar una investigación específica basada en un guión determinado que muestre una comprensión clara de las necesidades de vestuario para la historia.
• Diseñar vestuario que apoye las necesidades de la historia y los personajes.
• Comunicar ideas de diseño en dos dimensiones utilizando medios tradicionales y digitales.
• Desarrollar un concepto de diseño 2D en trajes 3D completamente realizados para una producción.
• Apply advanced 3D design techniques to create clothing to a professional standard

Collaboration

• Collaborate effectively to produce creative projects

Professional Readiness

• Create a relevant and original portfolio and collateral materials that can be used to market themselves to the industry

Academy of Art University Learning Outcomes

Graduates of the Academy of Art University will demonstrate the ability to:

• Produce a body of work suitable for seeking professional opportunities in their chosen field of art and design.
• Solve creative problems within their field of art and design, including research and synthesis of technical, aesthetic, and conceptual knowledge.
• Communicate their ideas professionally and connect with their intended audience using visual, oral, and written presentation skills relevant to their field.
• Execute technical, aesthetic, and conceptual decisions based on an understanding of art and design principles.
• Evaluate work in their field, including their own work, using professional terminology.
• Recognize the influence of major cultural and aesthetic trends, both historical and contemporary, on art and design products.
• Learn the professional skills and behaviors necessary to compete in the global marketplace for art and design.

Academy of Art University offers some of the best training and hands-on experience to help accelerate your career. We pride ourselves in doing an exceptional job preparing you to excel in your future fashion careers. Our degree programs are designed to equip aspiring fashion professionals with a comprehensive toolbox of marketable skills that lead to success in the fashion industry.

Fashion Designer

Based on your conceptual vision, your grasp of fashion direction, and your ability to anticipate designs that will appeal to consumers, you will transform your fashion inspirations into original collections of clothing. Sketch, select colors and fabrics, and give direction to make the products you design.

Design Director

Oversee trends, color, and fabric direction for upcoming seasons across all product lines as a design director for a fashion label. You will manage design teams, oversee manufacturing and marketing, and set the direction for a brand voice to create the future of fashion.

Knitwear Designer

You will create ideas for a range of products including sweaters, cardigans, knit jackets and coats, knit dresses, and knit accessories. A wide variety of environments will be open to you - from retail brands to boutiques, to freelancing and will work with apparel manufacturers to create men's, women's, and children's fashions for the mass market.

Textile Designer

You will research, draw, and design seasonal prints for fashion, interiors, and other surfaces using both hand-drawing and computer skills. Design repeat patterns and graphic prints for the home and apparel. Create and inspire the next wave of textile designs.

Unit Requirements

Degree Requirements

• Successful completion of Final Thesis Project
• A minimum grade of C in all required 63 units
• Minimum 2.0 cumulative GPA and the following Academic Study requirements:
• 1 Art Historical Awareness & Aesthetic course
• 1 Cross-Cultural Understanding course
  • 1 Art Historical Awareness & Aesthetic course
  • 1 Cross-Cultural Understanding course

Curriculum

Semester 1

• FSH 640: Fashion Drawing (Major)
• FSH 651: Construcción de Moda (Optativa)
• FSH 661: Costume Design 1 (Major)

Semester 2

• FSH 601: 3D Design 1 (Major)
• FSH 662: Costume Design 2 (Major)
• GLA 605: Teoría y estilo cinematográfico (Graduado en Artes Liberales)
  Recomendado para el verano
• GLA 613: Moda, Artes e Influencia (Graduado en Artes Liberales)
  Recomendado para el verano
• IXD 622: Captura Digital (Electiva)

Semester 3

• FSH 629: Estilismo de moda (especialidad)
• FSH 663: Costume Design 3 (Major)
• FSH 676: Costume Crafts (Major)
• GLA 619: Cultura e identidad en el teatro estadounidense moderno (Graduado en Artes Liberales)

Semester 4

• FSH: Estudio Dirigido (Estudios Dirigidos)
• FSH 664: Costume Design 4 (Major)
• FSH 665: Costume Design Production (Major)
• FSH 800: Estudio Dirigido (Estudios Dirigidos)

Semester 5

• FSH 740: Portfolio for Costume Design (Major)
• FSH 800: Estudio Dirigido (Estudios Dirigidos)

Semester 6

• FSH 800: Estudio Dirigido (Estudios Dirigidos)
• FSH 801: MS: estudio dirigido en grupo (estudios dirigidos)