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Curatorial Choices: Multiple Narratives in the Bennington Collections — VA2227.01

Instructor: Anne Thompson
Credits: 2
How does augmenting and rearranging an exhibition change the meaning it communicates? This course explores this question via the raw material of an art show in Usdan Gallery. Term starts with the opening of “Unpacking the Vault,” curated by fall term students who researched objects from the college collection and constructed narrative strains about Bennington’s history. Spring

Cut/Copy: Masking and Compositing Digital Images — PHO4125.01

Instructor: Elizabeth White
Credits: 2
Designed for students who have completed Foundations of Photography, this 2-credit course teaches advanced, non-destructive Photoshop techniques for adding and removing content, and invites the remaking of existing images. Working with a range of tools for selections and masking, multiple adjustment layers, and blending modes, students will learn to make bold modifications,

Dance on Film to TikTok Culture: Framing the Rendered Body — DAN2353.01

Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Credits: 4
This hands-on course co-taught by dance faculty Elena Demyanenko and guest video-artist Tori Lawrence will utilize camera/iPhone exercises, selected film screenings (to understand a range of perspectives), and improvisational games to give students an opportunity to expand and refine their own visual sensibilities with the goal of creating collaborative dance and camera

Data Social Justice — DA2135.01

Instructor: Dan Phiffer
Credits: 4
Digital technologies have fundamentally shifted how social justice movements operate. "Organizing without organizations" and "laptop activism" are no longer novel or fringe activities. The social media tools we rely on to gather in public can also be antagonistic toward individual participants. This course explores the digital tools and data archives that inform modern

Deco Depression: Representing Race, Gender, and Sexuality between the Wars — AH2111.01) (new course code 2/14/2024

Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Credits: 2
The raucous and repressive but also radical and recalcitrantly white supremacist period c. 1918-1941 has many names. In the U.S. this generation-long span between the two World Wars encompasses or overlaps, e.g. The Harlem Renaissance, The Jazz Age, The Depression, Prohibition, The Dust Bowl, The Progressive Era, and Jim Crow. In this visual studies course, we’ll investigate

Decolonial Approaches to Settler Colonialism in American Visual Arts — AH4124.01

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
In this upper-level seminar, we will study the history of American art and visual culture in light of decolonial thought produced by Indigenous peoples in their ongoing resistance to the colonization of so-called North America. This approach will teach us to see the arts’ entanglements in the operations of colonial power and sustain our goal to decolonize the practice

Decolonizing Art Methods — FV4327.01

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
In the last few years, decolonizing contemporary art has been a rallying cry, as a means of criticizing the cultural perspectives that established institutions promote, and which ones they put on mute. In this course we will unpack what this has meant for artists, looking at artistic bodies of work, institutional case studies, and readings to shape an ongoing conversation as

Deep Fakes: An Introduction to Oil Painting — PAI2109.01

Instructor: J Blackwell
Credits: 4
Fake news, reality television, “IRL” - asserting the veracity of our perceptions is a constant preoccupation in contemporary culture. What is real? Realism is a widely used term with multiple connotations: verisimilitude, authenticity, objectivity, truth, fact. In this course we will consider how painting reflects and/or perverts “reality” by making imitations of historical

Deep Looking: An Introduction to Drawing — DRW2267.01

Instructor: Beverly Acha
Days & Time: TH 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 4

Learning to draw is as much about learning how to use your hand as it is learning how to see. The focus of this course is learning to draw from observation and developing close looking skills; to that end this course will expand your capacity to see and represent what you see by inviting you to explore an array of methods, materials, and techniques. 

Drawing

Deep Looking: An Introduction to Drawing — DRW2267.01

Instructor: Beverly Acha
Credits: 4
Learning to draw is as much about learning how to use your hand as it is learning how to see. In this course, students will practice and develop observational and representational drawing skills by looking closely at our subjects from life and using a variety of physical drawing materials. We will explore various approaches to drawing what we see and experience and discuss the

Deep Looking: An Introduction to Drawing — DRW2267.01

Instructor: Beverly Acha
Days & Time: WE 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 4

Learning to draw is as much about learning how to use your hand as it is about learning how to see. The focus of this course is on learning to draw from observation and developing close looking skills. Drawing from observation fundamentally alters our day-to-day experience by heightening our attention to details and the specificity of our surroundings. In this course, you

Deep Looking: An Introduction to Drawing — DRW2267.01

Instructor: Beverly Acha
Days & Time: WE 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 4

Learning to draw is as much about learning how to use your hand as it is learning how to see. The focus of this course is learning to draw from observation and developing close looking skills; to that end this course will expand your capacity to see and represent what you see by inviting you to explore an array of methods, materials, and techniques. 

Drawing

Deep Looking: An Introduction to Drawing — DRW2267.01

Instructor: Beverly Acha
Credits: 4
Learning to draw is as much about learning how to use your hand as it is learning how to see. Drawing from observation fundamentally alters our experience of the everyday while also teaching us about ourselves: what we notice and overlook, what we find pleasure in and what we don’t, and so much more. In this course, students will practice and develop their observational drawing

Deep Looking: An Introduction to Drawing — DRW2267.01

Instructor: Beverly Acha
Days & Time: TH 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 4

Learning to draw is as much about learning how to use your hand as it is learning how to see. The focus of this course is learning to draw from observation and developing close looking skills; to that end this course will expand your capacity to see and represent what you see by inviting you to explore an array of methods, materials, and techniques. 

Drawing

Deep Looking: An Introduction to Drawing — DRW2267.01

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Learning to draw is as much about learning how to use your hand as it is learning how to see. Drawing from observation fundamentally alters our experience of the everyday while also teaching us about ourselves: what we notice and overlook, what we find pleasure in and what we don’t, and so much more. In this course, students will practice and develop observational drawing

Delights of Ephemera — VA4128.01

Instructor: Anne Thompson
Credits: 4
This course invites students to consider the pleasure and significance of ephemera—cards, posters, invitations, and other written or printed materials—in the context of art exhibitions and events. Readings, lectures and field trips cover topics including traditional and experimental forms of ephemera; the collection of ephemera; and the function of ephemera as historical

Delights of Ephemera — VA4313.01

Instructor: Anne Thompson
Credits: 4
Delights of Ephemera considers the significance of mass-produced materials in the context of art exhibitions and events. Readings, lectures, assignments and other activities cover topics including traditional and experimental forms of ephemera; ephemera collections; and the function of ephemera as historical document and work of art. The goal is for students to develop a

Delights of Ephemera — VA4313.01

Instructor: Anne Thompson
Credits: 4
Delights of Ephemera explores the significance of mass-produced materials in the context of art movements and exhibitions. Contrary to its definition, ephemera can have power and permanence, giving agency to marginal and marginalized groups and providing a record of actions outside institutional structures. A poster for an exhibition can be as important—or more important—as the

Delights of Ephemera — CUR2227.01

Instructor: Anne Thompson
Days & Time: MO,TH 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 4

Delights of Ephemera explores the significance of mass-produced materials in the context of art movements and exhibitions. Contrary to its definition, ephemera can have power and permanence, giving agency to marginal and marginalized groups and providing a record of actions outside institutional structures. A poster for an exhibition can be as important—or, in terms of its

Democracy on Film — FV2307.01

Instructor: Kate Purdie and Erika Mijlin
Credits: 2
How do various forms of nonfiction media represent or challenge the notions of democratic ideals as we currently understand them? From filmed explanations of civic process, to behind-the-scenes footage of presidential campaigns, to election advertising itself - what does the idea of democracy look like on film? This 7-week course will consist of screenings and discussion of