Fine Arts Foundations II Practicum (ATS/CMC 354)
This internship/practicum provides individual study, personal development of skills, and opportunities for sharing one’s faith and ministering to others through the arts. The students refine skills learned during the previous quarters and continue their spiritual disciplines, while creating and marketing their artwork on location.
Arts Practicum (ATS 319)
Arts practicums are designed to give serious students a deeper experience and training in their area of arts specialty (music, dance, fine arts, etc.) with an emphasis on practical application – usually through performance or teaching. This will usually be a position with a specific project within YWAM that requires further development of their skills.
Performance and Production Practicum (ATS 322)
Students will apply the learning of the lecture phase as part of a team bringing creating a performing arts production. The practicum begins with a research phase begins. The school will travel to other cities with strong artistic movements to study the cultural riches of said places to acquire and apply them in the creative process. This is followed by the production phase where they will study different aspects of production such as wardrobe, makeup, set design, illumination and sound, script study, choreographic and musical composition etc. Students will work together with their peers and teachers to create a final piece. The school will end with a tour of the final production.
Advanced Production and Performance Practicum (ATS 314)
During this practicum, students will apply principles and skills learned in ATS 313 through creating art festivals and other forums for artistic expression from a biblically-based perspective.
School of Illustration Practicum I (ATS/CMC 256)
The practicum will provide a working experience tailored to the student’s area of interest. They will learn multiple media techniques as well as the business and ministry aspects of multiple fields of illustration. Students will be able to create Illustrations from basics of drawings to concept to presentation of Artwork, working with clients.
School of Circus Art and Field Assignment (ATS 235 / ATS 236)
Students will be introduced to circus art from a biblical perspective. Among the topics covered are: history of the circus and its role in society, the artist’s heart, calling and legacy, and biblical worldview of art. In the same way, they will gain experience in creation and presentation of spectacle, juggling techniques, acrobatics and aerial (aerial silk, aerial hoop and trapeze); in the same way they will learn the assembly, disassembly and locomotion of the circus.
During the Field Assignment students will have opportunity to creatively apply principles and techniques learned in the lecture phase of this course, in the context of live performances.
School of Acting for the Screen Practicum (ATS/CMC 232)
During the School of Acting for the Screen Practicum, students gain practical experience in a professional environment while also continuing with development through physical and acting exercises.
