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Drawing As A Verb: Exploring Uncertainty — DRW2120.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: J Blackwell
Credits: 4
1. Conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach. 2. Rational judgements repeat rational judgements. 3. Irrational judgements lead to new experience. 4. Formal art is essentially rational. 5. Irrational thoughts should be followed absolutely and logically. -Sol LeWitt, “Sentences on Conceptual Art” 1969 Shying away
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Drawing As A Verb: Exploring Uncertainty — DRW2120.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: J Blackwell
Credits: 4
Conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach. Rational judgements repeat rational judgements. Irrational judgements lead to new experience. Formal art is essentially rational. Irrational thoughts should be followed absolutely and logically. -Sol LeWitt, “Sentences on Conceptual Art” 1969 Shying away from the
Visual Arts

Drawing As A Verb: Exploring Uncertainty — DRW2120.01

Spring 2017
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 making art, 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
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Drawing As A Verb: Exploring Uncertainty — DRW2120.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: J Blackwell
Credits: 4
Conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach. Rational judgements repeat rational judgements. Irrational judgements lead to new experience. Formal art is essentially rational. Irrational thoughts should be followed absolutely and logically. -Sol LeWitt, “Sentences on Conceptual Art” 1969 Shying away from
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Drawing As A Verb: Exploring Uncertainty — DRW2120.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: J Blackwell
Credits: 4
Conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach. Rational judgements repeat rational judgements. Irrational judgements lead to new experience. Formal art is essentially rational. Irrational thoughts should be followed absolutely and logically. -Sol LeWitt, “Sentences on Conceptual Art” 1969 Shying away from
Visual Arts

Drawing As A Verb: Exploring Uncertainty — DRW2120.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Josh 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 making art, 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
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Drawing As Record — DRW2121.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Colin Brant
Credits: 4
The fundamentals of drawing are the basic tools for this investigation into seeing and translation. Using simple methods and means, the practice of drawing is approached from both traditional and experimental directions. The focus of this inquiry is on drawing from observation, broadly defined. In class drawing sessions and discussions are complemented by independent, outside
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Drawing As Record — DRW2121.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Mary Lum
Credits: 4
The fundamentals of drawing are the basic tools for this investigation into seeing and translation. Using simple methods and means, the practice of drawing is approached from both traditional and experimental directions. The focus of this inquiry is on drawing from observation, broadly defined. In class drawing sessions are complemented by independent, outside of class work and
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Drawing As Record — DRW2121.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Annette Lawrence
Credits: 4
The fundamentals of drawing are the basic tools for this investigation into seeing and translation. Using simple methods and means, the practice of drawing is approached from both traditional and experimental directions. The focus of this inquiry is on drawing from observation, broadly defined. In class drawing sessions and discussions are complemented by independent, outside
Visual Arts

Drawing as Record — DRW2121.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: J Blackwell
Credits: 4
The fundamentals of drawing are the basic tools for this investigation into seeing and translation. Using simple methods and means, the practice of drawing is approached from both traditional and experimental directions. The focus of this inquiry is on drawing from observation, broadly defined. In class drawing sessions and discussions are complemented by independent, outside
Visual Arts

Drawing as Record — DRW2121.02

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
The fundamentals of drawing are the basic tools for this investigation into seeing and translation. Using simple methods and means, the practice of drawing is approached from both traditional and experimental directions. The focus of this inquiry is on drawing from observation, broadly defined. In class drawing sessions and discussions are complemented by independent, outside
Visual Arts

Drawing As Record — DRW2121.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Annette Lawrence
Credits: 4
The fundamentals of drawing are the basic tools for this investigation into seeing and translation. Using simple methods and means, the practice of drawing is approached from both traditional and experimental directions. The focus of this inquiry is on drawing from observation, broadly defined. In class drawing sessions and discussions are complemented by independent, outside
Visual Arts

Drawing Everywhere — DRW4239.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Mary Lum
Credits: 4
Interior and exterior, observed and imagined, expansive and intimate, this course revolves around drawings of all sorts of spaces. In class we examine historical, narrative, architectural, and natural spaces through work that pushes the definition of drawing in many different directions, including drawing installation. Students complete work weekly building a body of drawings
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Drawing Everywhere — DRW4239.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Mary Lum
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Interior and exterior, observed and imagined, expansive and intimate, this course revolves around drawings of all kinds of spaces. In class we examine various historical, narrative, architectural, and natural spaces through work that pushes the definition of drawing in many different directions, including drawing installation. Students complete work weekly, building a body of
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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.
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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