November 6, 2011
Art Programs Build Models for Online Instruction
Robert Yee for the Chronicle
Barbara Posuniak, who teaches ceramics at Eastern New Mexico U., is pursuing a bachelor's degree in drawing and painting offered online by the Academy of Art U. Without the online option, she says, she would have to travel at least 200 miles from home to attend classes in a similar degree program.
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Robert Yee for the Chronicle
Barbara Posuniak, who teaches ceramics at Eastern New Mexico U., is pursuing a bachelor's degree in drawing and painting offered online by the Academy of Art U. Without the online option, she says, she would have to travel at least 200 miles from home to attend classes in a similar degree program.
Using a diamond-tipped needle, Barbara Posuniak etches a design on a copper plate and dips it in an acid bath that bites away at the surface exposed by the scratches. She then runs the plate through a printing press located 1,300 miles away from the university she attends, while working out of a spare bedroom in Roswell, N.M.
Ms. Posuniak is one of a growing number of students who are studying art online. She's enrolled at the San Francisco-based Academy of Art University, a
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