Foundations
The Foundations program at the New Hampshire Institute of Art embraces the necessary experiences critical to building language and skills for the upper-level classes. The program builds the skills that heighten visual perception imperative for aesthetic problem resolution. Foundations serves as a preface to concepts that function as underpinnings for skills later developed in other concentrations. Classes in the Foundations department split into two distinct categories: those that build analytical skills by using theory to solve creative problems and those that enhance technical skills and teach practical application. Students learn to analytically assess the art-making process using formal art theory and then apply those analytical skills to the art-making process, as they proceed through to their concentrations.
