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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
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Drawing is a Verb: Exploring Uncertainty — DRW2120.01

Fall 2026
Instructor: J Blackwell
Days & Time: TU 8:30am-12:10pm
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 personal expression in favor of developing an open-minded approach. Students will engage with various

Drawing

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
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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 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

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

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

Essays of Walter Benjamin — VA4235.02

Spring 2023
Instructor: Anne Thompson
Credits: 2
The works of German philosopher and cultural theorist Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) endure as sources of fascination, inspiration and critical reflection across disciplines. With a focus on his significance for artists and curators, this seminar looks at selections from Benjamin’s famous and lesser-known writing, from his seminal essay “The Work of Art in the Age of
Visual Arts Literature Society Culture and Thought

Europe and Islam: Art and Architecture of the Mediterranean — AH2114.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This introductory course explores, through the lens of cross-cultural exchange, artistic and architectural production from the late medieval period to the nineteenth century. It considers the Mediterranean and its related regions as dynamic settings where global contacts, prompted by trade, diplomacy, war and conquest, travel, and pilgrimage, strongly shaped material and visual
Visual Arts

Every Day Everyday Climate Change — APA2181.02

Spring 2020
Instructor: Marina Zurkow, MFA Teaching Fellow
Credits: 2
Daily practices connect makers over a duration of time to concepts, issues, and forms we care about. These practices are constrained by a set of guiding principles or frameworks, and are iterative by design. Because of the consistency of work (every day), a daily practice can change us and open us up to new ideas, techniques, and feelings. Daily practice as a concept is used in
CAPA Visual Arts

Examining Space — SCU2214.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This introductory course will investigate basic building techniques and principles behind making Sculpture through experiential learning. A few weeks into term we will participate in an Iron Pour, understanding the practices of shaping wax and preparing sand-molds for participation. The students will also be introduced and immersed within a community of artists off campus. This
Visual Arts

examining space — SCU2214.01

Fall 2026
Instructor: John Umphlett
Days & Time: TH 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 4

Are you interested in taking a closer look at the  immediate and collective spaces that we live in? What are some of the realities that exist around us and why/ how can we build work that pushes against these basic constructs.

This

Sculpture

Examining Space — SCU2214.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: John Umphlett
Credits: 4
This introductory course will investigate basic building techniques and principles behind making Sculpture through experiential learning. Within the first couple of weeks of term we will participate in an Iron Pour. The students will shape wax and prepare sand-molds for participation. The students will also be introduced and immersed within a community of artists off campus.
Visual Arts

examining space — SCU2214.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: John Umphlett
Days & Time: TH 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 4

Are you interested in taking a closer look at the  immediate and collective spaces that we live in? What are some of the realities that exist around us and why/ how can we build work that pushes against these basic constructs.

This

Sculpture