Color + Pattern (project designed by Emily Sullivan Smith at the University of Dayton)

Ritual - Students develop a ritual, collect information and create an object, installation or performance based on their research (project designed by Emily Sullivan Smith, Ashley Jonas, & Zachary Goetz at the University of Dayton)

Color Studies - Students apply various color schemes while maintaining spatial relationships and depth (project designed by Emily Sullivan Smith at the University of Dayton)

Realism - Students replicate shoes using only newspaper and masking tape (project designed by Kyle Phelps at the University of Dayton)

Student Work


These works were completed at the University of Dayton by students in the Foundations Program

between 2015 - 2017


Instructor: Zachary Goetz

Foundations 2D/3D/Color & Design


(Projects designed by  Emily Sullivan Smith, Kyle Phelps, and Zachary Goetz)


Color Theory Projects: Hue Inventory/Saturation Inventory/Color Relativity/Anomaly & Bridge Tones/Illusions of 3D Space/Illusions of Transparency - (projects developed by Emily Sullivan Smith at the University of Dayton)

2D to 3D Plane Progression / Volumetric Cube - Students study the development of volume through planar analysis and volumetric composition

(project designed by Kyle Phelps at the University of Dayton)

Make - Students explore multiples through the development and arrangement of paper modules (project designed by Emily Sullivan Smith at the University of Dayton)

Appropriation/Recreation: Students appropriate color & visual/conceptual content to update the original work (project designed by Emily Sullivan Smith at the University of Dayton)

Constructed Image - Students create miniature 3D spaces / constructed environments & photographed - final format is a 2D photographic image (Project designed by Emily Sullivan Smith at the University of Dayton)

Going Rogue - students explore the principles and elements of design through volumetric form (project designed by Zachary Goetz at the University of Dayton)

Narrative - Students explore visual storytelling; imagery and themes selected at random which are combined to create a narrative (project designed by Emily Sullivan Smith at the University of Dayton)

Unity and Variety - Students create visual order and balance, unifying dissimilar parts; explore hand-made and digital processes  (project designed by Emily Sullivan Smith at the University of Dayton)

Found Gestalt/Human Element - Students explore the Gestalt Principals through digital and photographic processes (projects designed by Emily Sullivan Smith at the University of  Dayton)

Real - Students recreate objects & construct installations using paper (project designed by Emily Sullivan Smith, Ashley Jonas, & Zachary Goetz at the University of Dayton)

ACTION - Students explore composition through the arrangement of space & visual/implied motion (project designed by Emily Sullivan Smith at the University of Dayton)