Cara Hicks 
Cara Hicks
Introduction to the course
If you are keen to develop your creative skills, explore a wide range of specialist areas, learn new techniques, and challenge your imagination to discover where your creative talents lie? The Foundation Diploma course provides a year of practical study, enabling you to make informed decisions about your future prospects as an artist or designer, as well as possible applications to degree courses.
This course is the established route to an Art and Design Degree programme from A Level, Extended Diploma and AVCE Art and Design courses, preparing you for the demands of specialist programmes in Higher Education. It will enable you to make an informed application to a specialist art or design degree course.
What will I do?
Explore the visual world through drawing, 3D and image making while experimenting with a variety of media. Study art and design, discuss contemporary visual practice and investigate popular culture. Plan and make creative designs, models, photographs, drawings, paintings, prints and sculptures. Participate in technical workshops, projects and regular life drawing classes. Use study trips to galleries and artists’ studios to inform individual creative practice and broaden awareness of art and design approaches.
Arlo Tinson. Course Lead. Foundation Diploma in Art, Design & Media. Truro College of Art and Design
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