Students in this course will gain the basic skills and insights necessary to create art that are both acurate and expressive. Students will explore graffiti as a voice and form of expression, painting, sketching and collages. Students will gain confidence in their own vision and their ability to draw what they see.

The Beat Making/ production course mission is to inspire and teach students skills in music production. Students will practice the translation of musical ideas through processes of improvisation and refinement and introduce them to the fundamentals of melody, rhythm and harmony, while also acclimating them to the hardware and software interfaces used in producing digital music (keyboard/pad controllers and computer programs) bringing absolute beginners to a degree of understanding and tactility so they are able produce music independently.