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Drawing Everywhere — DRW4239.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Mary Lum
Credits: 4
Interior and exterior, observed and imagined, expansive and intimate, this course revolves around drawings of place. In class we examine natural, architectural, and narrative spaces through readings and visual references that push the definition of drawing in many different directions. Students complete work weekly building a body of drawings that begins with assigned problems
Visual Arts

Drawing Excess: Gesamtkunstwerk — DRW4403.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: J Blackwell
Credits: 4
The German term Gesamtkunstwerk roughly translates as a "total work of art" and refers to an artistic endeavor wherein various art forms are melded together to form a unified whole. Through the amalgamation of art, craft, music, and performance, Gesamtkunstwerk evokes a realm distinct from our everyday experience. In this course, we will explore the concept of Gesamtkunstwerk
Visual Arts

Drawing Excess: the Low Pleasures of Decoration — DRW4260.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Josh Blackwell
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
“The modern man who tattoos himself is either a criminal or a degenerate.” —Adolf Loos, Ornament and Crime To decorate is to adorn, embellish, ornament, trim, garnish, furnish, enhance, grace, brighten, festoon, burnish, gild, bedazzle or prettify. This studio course will consider the charged relationship between modernism and ornament, exploring decoration as a formal,
Visual Arts

Drawing Excess: the Low Pleasures of Decoration — DRW4260.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Josh Blackwell
Credits: 4
“The modern man who tattoos himself is either a criminal or a degenerate.” —Adolf Loos, Ornament and Crime To decorate is to adorn, embellish, ornament, trim, garnish, furnish, enhance, grace, brighten, festoon, burnish, gild, bedazzle or prettify. Western culture has tended to regard decoration with suspicion, classifying it as “excess.” This studio course will consider the
Visual Arts

Drawing In Color — DRW4281.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Mary Lum
Credits: 4
From Kandinskyʹs teaching of color and analytical drawing at the Bauhaus, through modernism and minimalism to the invented worlds of many contemporary artists, ideas about color continually push drawing to its limits. This course provides an opportunity for students to develop a set of interests and impulses connected to translating and intermingling the languages of color and
Visual Arts

Drawing In Pieces: Collage, Décollage, Assemblage — DRW4111.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Mary Lum
Credits: 4
Since the beginning of the 20th century, collage has existed as a vehicle for the most diverse ideas and political concerns of the times. Collage is not simply a method of assembly, a way to bring unrelated fragments into new contexts, but a way of thinking that reflects revolution of all kinds. From Victorian women’s photo albums, to Picasso, to Hannah Hoch and more recently
Visual Arts

Drawing Intensive Rome - FWT 2014 — AH4309.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Donald Sherefkin; Dan Hofstadter
Credits: 4
Dan Hofstadter and Donald Sherefkin will be offering a three week drawing intensive in Rome, Italy for FWT 2014. The focus of the studio will be the art and architecture of Rome. Mornings will be spent doing on-site sketching, and afternoon studio sessions will be organized around specific workshops. The cost of the class is still being calculated, but will be around $2,726.
Visual Arts

Drawing Intensive: Conditions for Visual Inquiry — DRW4238.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Ann Pibal
Credits: 4
What strategies do artists use to efficiently develop an initial idea? How does one sustain a meaningful, vital, creative inquiry? How can a direct connection be made between daily life and making images, and between the personal, and public or political worlds? This intermediate level course will address these questions through an intensive immersion in drawing and
Visual Arts

Drawing Intensive: Conditions for Visual Inquiry — DRW4238.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Ann Pibal
Credits: 4
What strategies do artists use to efficiently develop an initial idea? How does one sustain a meaningful, vital, creative inquiry? How can a direct connection be made between daily life and making images, and between the personal, and public or political worlds? This intermediate level course will address these questions through an intensive immersion in drawing and
Visual Arts

Drawing Is a Verb — DRW2119.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: J Blackwell
Credits: 4
Shying away from the static, resolved, or finished image, this course will explore drawing as a process of ongoing inquiry. It is intended to foster an experimental and experiential approach to artmaking, generally eschewing representation. Students will engage with various techniques and processes to make drawings that document experience as well as create an image. Topics to
Visual Arts

Dress Up, Drag, and Fashion — VA4219.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Josh Blackwell
Credits: 4
Dress up parties, masquerade balls, nightclubs, fashion shows, and parades have offered artists the opportunity to go against the grain of dominant culture. As outsiders, radicals, and nonconformists, artists used their marginal status to subvert expectations, challenge authority, and thwart convention. This course will examine the ways costume has been deployed to interrogate
Visual Arts

Eat, Drink and Be Merry: Designing Pots for Utility and Serving — CER4316.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Aysha Peltz
Credits: 4
Previously titled Set the Table: Tableware Design; Eat, Drink and Be Merry: Designing Pots for Utility and Serving is a new course. In this class, we will explore similar pottery forms while broadening our understanding of where these pots function beyond the Western cultural idea of the “table.” Throughout history, pots for utility and serving have expressed a specific time
Visual Arts

Edible Matters: Cartography and the Cultural Biography of Food — APA4149.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Credits: 4
Food, place and politics. This course investigates food in the globalized world considering political economy, history of colonialism and cultural identity. Focusing on various geographical locales, we examine the economic factors, socio-political structures and cultural implications behind what determines a crop’s value based on power relationships and global trade strategies.
CAPA Visual Arts

Editing for Moving Image — FV2305.02

Fall 2016
Instructor: Katie Soule
Credits: 1
This course is a 1-credit, seven-week course focused on providing video and animation students with the skills to edit in Premiere Pro CC 2015. The first third of the course will provide the essential training of capturing, editing, audio mixing, and performing special effects, as well as review methods of best practice when organizing footage and exporting finished
Visual Arts

Editing for Moving Image — FV2305.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Katie Soule
Credits: 1
This course is a 1-credit, seven-week course focused on providing video and animation students with the skills to edit in Premiere Pro CC 2015. The first third of the course will provide the essential training of capturing, editing, audio mixing, and performing special effects, as well as review methods of best practice when organizing footage and exporting finished
Visual Arts

Electroacoustic Band Workshop — MPF4122.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Senem Pirler
Credits: 4
This course is an open forum for research and development of live performance methodologies and compositions involving electroacoustic sounds through collaborations. In this workshop, we will explore text scores, graphic scores, improvisation techniques using both acoustic and electronic sources. The research and practice areas include but are not limited to electroacoustic and
Advancement of Public Action Dance Music Visual Arts

Elements in Film/Video: Straight to Video — FV2137.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Chelsea Knight
Days & Time: TU 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

This production course is designed to get students producing video immediately: we will look at basic techniques with an emphasis on simple and self-devised methods of media production, efficient approaches to lighting and sound, and emphasize quick turnover time to create a great amount of work in a relatively short period of time. The course will address hybrid methods

Film and Video

Elements in Video: Simplicity of Method — FV2314.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Jen Liu
Credits: 4
This production course is designed to get students producing video immediately: we will look at basic techniques with an emphasis on simple and self-devised methods of media production, efficient approaches to lighting and sound, and emphasize quick turnover time to create a great amount of work in a relatively short period of time. The course will address hybrid methods such
Visual Arts

Elements of Architecture — ARC2121.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Don Sherefkin
Credits: 4
Introduction to the discipline of architectural exploration through direct experience, drawing and modeling. We begin with a series of abstract exercises which explore ways in which meaning is embedded in form, space, and movement. These exercises gradually build into more complex architectural compositions organized around particular problems. Workshops will focus on a range
Visual Arts

Elements of Architecture — ARC2121.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
Credits: 4
An introduction to the discipline of architectural exploration through direct experience, drawing and modeling. We begin with a series of abstract exercises which explore ways in which meaning is embedded in form, space, and movement. These exercises gradually build into more complex architectural compositions organized around particular problems. Workshops will focus on a
Visual Arts

Elements of Architecture — ARC2121.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
Credits: 4
An introduction to the discipline of architectural exploration through direct experience, drawing and modeling. We begin with a series of abstract exercises which explore ways in which meaning is embedded in form, space, and movement. These exercises gradually build into more complex architectural compositions organized around particular problems. Workshops will focus on a
Visual Arts

Encounters: Drawing On-Site — DRW4119.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
In course we will engage drawing’s portability, flexibility, and expressive potential by primarily working outside of the studio art classroom. Students will be invited to engage and question what is prioritized in their representation of an experience or encounter in the world, outside the set conditions of the studio classroom. At its core this course asks: How can drawing
Visual Arts

Encounters: Drawing On-Site — DRW4119.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Beverly Acha
Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

In this course we will engage drawing’s portable and responsive nature by working outside of the studio art classroom, opening the possibility of encounters that influence your subject matter and approaches to drawing. Students will practice and expand their skills of drawing from direct observation (not from photographs or other images) by working on-site in different

Drawing

Environment Awareness: Combining Fiction and Non-Fiction Elements in Moving-Image Making — FV4107.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Fern Silva
Credits: 4
A video production course for students interested in social and environmental issues, reportage, travelogues and other forms of non-fiction art making. Starting with the basics, students will be working in teams and individually; they will utilize the greater Bennington area and beyond as their set and travel to a variety of locations to cover particular events, landscape,
Environment Visual Arts