Prerequisite(s): ARST 301. This project-based course develops the creative processes associated with artistic production, with emphasis on research, design and presentation. Four projects over the semester are crafted to introduce practical and theoretical systems from which each student builds a strong foundational methodology for an advanced creative art and design practice. Each successive project enables the development of practical and theoretical skills, which include resourcing and interpreting information, creative problem solving, application and execution of a work and finally a critical presentation. The assignments focus on the formation of ideas and formal strategies of two-dimensional and three-dimensional form through techniques and media. Supplemental lectures, readings, and exercises expose students to various methods of inquiry that explore visual hierarchy, compositional strategy and other fundamental aspects of two-dimensional form.