The Art Institute of Washington is an educational branch of the original Art Institute of Atlanta which is again a sub-division of the long chain of 30 art institutes that are operational in the various cities of USA. Located in the Arlington region in Virginia, near the Rosslyn metro station, it overlooks the Potomac river that envelops the city of Washington D.C. Located in the heart of the city and spanning across a total area of 26 square miles, this institute is the perfect place in the city to learn practical skills in fields like media arts, fashion, culinary arts and designing. There is no better place to initiate a career in these fields in the US, except these schools.
The Art Institute of Washington offers programs in fields like:-
- Advertising
- Advertising Design
- Audio Production
- Commercial Photography
- Culinary Arts
- Culinary Arts – Baking & Pastry
- Culinary Arts – Culinary Skills
- Culinary Arts Management
- Digital Film making & Video Production
- Digital Design
- Fashion & Retail Management
- Game Art & Design
- Graphic Design
- Interactive Media Design
- Interior Design
- Media Arts & Animation
- Photographic Imaging
- Video Production
- Video Skills
- Visual & Game Programming
- Web Design
The art Institute again offers financial aid to those who qualify with excellent scores to gain admission into any course that is taught here.
The art Institute faculty is reputed to be extremely committed to their duty and education is of one of the highest standards here. Besides the art institute is also reputed to provide excellent career guidance to students who undertake any of the courses here. The faculty encourages students to take up part-time jobs and also tries to assist graduates on the anvil in finding worthwhile jobs. Individual care and attention is provided to all students.
The course on advertising includes hands-on experience in fields like art direction, copywriting and account supervision. Care is taken to impart to students not just the educational side of a course but the student is also taught how to apply it for commercial purposes in order to make a profession out of it.
Advertising Design allows a student to learn about design, typography and also color-theory.
In the field of Audio Production students can learn about audio recording, live sound reproduction, broadcast production and also gain knowledge in the sphere of audio for video.
Commercial Photography enables one to learn about things like darkroom techniques composition, color and equipment use.
One of the school's major courses is in Culinary Arts where besides the art of cooking one also has to learn about cost control, sanitation, safety, nutrition, menu management and also kitchen management.
The Culinary Arts in Baking and Pastry is a separate course dedicated only to teaching the basics of pastry and bread baking, dessert baking, cake decoration and also pastry arts.
The Culinary Arts course basically aims at making culinary professionals out of students. Culinary arts management is again related to culinary arts.
In the field of digital design and digital film making students learn to produce digital audio, video and motion graphics. The fundamentals of digital design is taught in the digital design course. Besides these main fields there are a lot of other interesting areas where one can pursue ones interests like in fashion and retail management, in game and art design, graphic design, in interactive media design, interior designing, in media arts and animation and video production.
The 4 year graduation courses offered by this art institute enables graduates from these institutes to become professionals in the field they graduate in and its reputation of being a good educational institution remains intact over the years.
