The Digital Art Certificate program offers artists at different levels the opportunity to evolve their art work through the exploration of digital media. The emerging digital art discipline has led TSA to design a program that is interdisciplinary in nature.  The program merges fine art with digital media and fosters an innovative dialogue within interdisciplinary studies. Our digital arts program offers students an exciting and challenging opportunity to develop their artistic practice with traditional and contemporary visual arts integrated with technological innovation and broad interdisciplinary engagement.  Students are encouraged to combine the practical and creative discourse of digital media and visual arts with strong technical sophistication and the ability to articulately express themselves as artists.
The Digital Art Certificate Program at Toronto School of Art seeks students who are committed to making art and encourages artists who work traditionally to incorporate digital media into their practice and allows digital media artists the opportunity to expand into such areas as video, installation and interactive art forms.

Courses focus on the Adobe industry standard program Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign as well as other art making software. Other digital courses include web media and production, video filming, and editing with Final Cut Pro, Drawing & Painting in Painter X and learning new techniques in digital photography, portraiture lighting and other applications of the digital camera.

Students must complete two consecutive terms of five digital courses and two fine art courses.  They can study either full or part time.  A key feature to this program is individual classroom attention with a class size limited to twelve students. Admission is based upon a portfolio review. A number of the digital classes are split between the digital lab and the studio.
The Digital Art Lab includes 13 MAC OS 10 x. computers with an overhead digital projector that assists student in following tutorials while the instructor demonstrates examples. Students are required to have some basic knowledge of the Mac computer and its operating system or extensive knowledge of Microsoft Windows using a personal computer. Basic knowledge includes the ability to launch programs, find and create folders, use Finder, save files, copy files to storage media, and manage the desktop. Students enrolled in digital art courses that are first-time users of the Mac computer system are required to take the Mac Computer Basics workshop (for a reduced fee of $50).

The Digital Art Certificate Program Provides:
•    Students with a range of technical applications utilized in the production of Digital Art;
•    Students the opportunity to broaden their knowledge of and develop competency working in Digital Art;
•    Students with access and specialized instruction in the usage of state-of-the-art hardware and software;
•    Students with an integrated approach that synthesizes contemporary fine arts with possibilities of new methods and practices offered by technological innovation and broad interdisciplinary engagement.
Curriculum
Choose 5 digital courses from the following curriculum (please follow course descriptions for prerequisite information):

Photoshop 1
Illustrator /Photoshop 1
Digital Photo 1
Digital Photo 2/Photoshop
InDesign
Web Design for the Absolute Beginner
Introduction to Final Cut Pro
Final Cut Pro Projects
Digital Images in Painting
Digital Drawing and Painting for Painter X

In addition, students in the Digital Art Certificate Program must take 2 studio courses from the Fine Art Program
(Please refer to course descriptions in each discipline area for more information):

Painting
Drawing
Sculpture
Printmaking
Photography
Art History and Theory.

Admission is based upon a portfolio review.

Fees:
Full Time Digital Art Lab Certificate - $3800

This does not include material, model or student services fees.

All students must undergo a Portfolio Review to enter a program
Portfolio review Information