Department Head
A welcome from Jordon Schranz, Fine Arts Certificate program department head
Jordon Schranz is a visual artist, curator, musician, and educator with a BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art. He serves as the Fine Arts Certificate program department head and is an instructor of drawing and painting in the program. His introduction to prospective certificate students explores how to turn creativity into art and how to build your art skills. Read his bio of professional experience.
A Message to Students from Jordon Schranz
Art is a language with both meaning and syntax. It can be taught and it can be learned just as any language can. At its heart is an understanding of how we see and the ways we think about the things we see.
I believe the primary focus of a foundation art program is to offer training in a series of fundamental techniques and methods as well as an introduction into art history and visual theory. The purpose is to give students insight into the language of art and how it can be used. It is the goal of this program to encourage students to enter into the dialog of contemporary art making, sharing their own voice, fitted with the necessary technical and theoretical skills to do so.
The Sessions Fine Arts program is built to address the needs of fine arts students worldwide with courses offered in drawing, painting, digital photography, and digital video. This program is unique in that it combines practical teaching methods and techniques originating back to antiquity while simultaneously taking advantage of contemporary digital media—all within the online classroom of the Internet.
Students have the convenience of working in their home or private studio while interacting with instructors and classmates from all over the world. In addition, each course is taught by professional artists who offer their insight and experience with the art making process through personal mentoring via lectures, critiques, and email. When it comes to being creative, the sky is the limit (but we have air traffic controllers for a reason).
If you want to learn traditional and contemporary techniques for art making, and want the flexibility and personalized attention of online learning, then this is the program you have been looking for.
– Jordon Schranz, Fine Arts Certificate program department head
Fine Arts Certificate program department head 
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