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Form and Process: Investigations in Painting — PAI2107.02, section 2

Fall 2018
Instructor: Josh Blackwell
Credits: 4
This course introduces a variety of materials, techniques and approaches to painting with oils. Emphasis is placed on developing and understanding of color, form and space as well as individual research and conceptual concerns. The daily experience of seeing, along with the history of art, provides a base from which investigations are made. Formal, poetic, and social
Visual Arts

Form and Process: Investigations in Painting — PAI2107.01; section 1

Fall 2016
Instructor: Ann Pibal
Credits: 4
This course introduces a variety of materials, techniques and approaches to painting. Emphasis is placed on developing and understanding of color, form and space as well as individual research and conceptual concerns. The daily experience of seeing, along with the history of art, provides a base from which investigations are made. Formal, poetic, and social implications within
Visual Arts

Form and Process: Investigations in Painting — PAI2107.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Ann Pibal
Credits: 4
This course introduces a variety of materials, techniques and approaches to painting. Emphasis is placed on developing and understanding of color, form and space as well as individual research and conceptual concerns. The daily experience of seeing, along with the history of art, provides a base from which investigations are made. Formal, poetic, and social implications within
Visual Arts

Form and Process: Investigations in Painting — PAI2107.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Ann Pibal
Credits: 4
This course introduces a variety of materials, techniques and approaches to painting. Emphasis is placed on developing and understanding of color, form and space as well as individual research and conceptual concerns. The daily experience of seeing, along with the history of art, provides a base from which investigations are made. Formal, poetic, and social implications within
Visual Arts

Form and Process: Investigations in Painting — PAI2107.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Joshua Blackwell
Credits: 4
This course introduces a variety of materials, techniques and approaches to painting. Emphasis is placed on developing and understanding of color, form and space as well as individual research and conceptual concerns. The daily experience of seeing, along with the history of art, provides a base from which investigations are made. Formal, poetic, and social implications within
Visual Arts

Form and Process: Investigations in Painting — Section 1 - PAI2107.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: joshua blackwell
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course introduces a variety of materials, techniques, and approaches to painting. Emphasis is placed on developing and understanding of color, form, and space as well as individual research and conceptual concerns. The daily experience of seeing, along with the history of art, provides a base from which investigations are made. Formal, poetic, and social implications
Visual Arts

Form and Process: Investigations in Painting — PAI2107.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Ann Pibal
Credits: 4
This course introduces a variety of materials, techniques and approaches to painting. Emphasis is placed on developing and understanding of color, form and space as well as individual research and conceptual concerns. The daily experience of seeing, along with the history of art, provides a base from which investigations are made. Formal, poetic, and social implications within
Visual Arts

Form and Process: Investigations in Painting — PAI2107.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Ann Pibal
Credits: 4
This course introduces a variety of materials, techniques and approaches to painting with oils. Emphasis is placed on developing and understanding of color, form and space as well as individual research and conceptual concerns. The daily experience of seeing, along with the history of art, provides a base from which investigations are made. Formal, poetic, and social
Visual Arts

Form and Process: Investigations in Painting — PAI2107.02, section 2

Fall 2019
Instructor: J Blackwell
Credits: 4
This course introduces a variety of materials, techniques and approaches to painting with oils. Emphasis is placed on developing and understanding of color, form and space as well as individual research and conceptual concerns. The daily experience of seeing, along with the history of art, provides a base from which investigations are made. Formal, poetic, and social
Visual Arts

Form and Process: Investigations in Painting — PAI2107.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Ann Pibal
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course introduces a variety of materials, techniques and approaches to painting. Emphasis is placed on developing and understanding of color, form and space as well as individual research and conceptual concerns. The daily experience of seeing, along with the history of art, provides a base from which investigations are made. Formal, poetic, and social implications within
Visual Arts

Form and Process: Investigations in Painting — PAI2107.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Josh Blackwell
Credits: 4
This course introduces a variety of materials, techniques and approaches to painting with oils. Emphasis is placed on developing and understanding of color, form and space as well as individual research and conceptual concerns. The daily experience of seeing, along with the history of art, provides a base from which investigations are made. Formal, poetic, and social
Visual Arts

Form and Process: Investigations in Painting — PAI2107.01, section 1

Fall 2019
Instructor: Ann Pibal
Credits: 4
This course introduces a variety of materials, techniques and approaches to painting with oils. Emphasis is placed on developing and understanding of color, form and space as well as individual research and conceptual concerns. The daily experience of seeing, along with the history of art, provides a base from which investigations are made. Formal, poetic, and social
Visual Arts

Form and Process: Investigations in Painting — Section 2 - PAI2107.02

Fall 2014
Instructor: colin brant
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course introduces a variety of materials, techniques, and approaches to painting. Emphasis is placed on developing and understanding of color, form, and space as well as individual research and conceptual concerns. The daily experience of seeing, along with the history of art, provides a base from which investigations are made. Formal, poetic, and social implications
Visual Arts

Form and Process: Investigations in Painting — PAI2107.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Ann Pibal
Credits: 4
This course introduces a variety of materials, techniques and approaches to painting. Emphasis is placed on developing and understanding of color, form and space as well as individual research and conceptual concerns. The daily experience of seeing, along with the history of art, provides a base from which investigations are made. Formal, poetic, and social implications within
Visual Arts

Form and Process: Investigations in Painting — PAI2107.02; section 2

Fall 2016
Instructor: J Blackwell
Credits: 4
This course introduces a variety of materials, techniques and approaches to painting. Emphasis is placed on developing and understanding of color, form and space as well as individual research and conceptual concerns. The daily experience of seeing, along with the history of art, provides a base from which investigations are made. Formal, poetic, and social implications within
Visual Arts

Form and Process: Investigations in Painting — PAI2107.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: J Blackwell
Credits: 4
This course introduces a variety of materials, techniques and approaches to painting with oils. Emphasis is placed on developing and understanding of color, form and space as well as individual research and conceptual concerns. The daily experience of seeing, along with the history of art, provides a base from which investigations are made. Formal, poetic, and social
Visual Arts

Form Finding Fiction — ARC2131.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Sophie Nichols (new faculty as of 8/26/2021)
Credits: 4
This studio will serve as an introduction to the discipline of architectural exploration through drawing, model making and form-finding. We will begin with a series of abstract exercises which will explore the ways in which we see and express tactility of objects and the material world. We will endeavour to uncover ways in which meaning is embedded, form is developed, and
Visual Arts

Form to Function — SCU2124.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Jon Isherwood
Credits: 4
The practice of functional object making is undergoing an intense transition into digital production. Additive manufacturing has been posed as the next trillion dollar business; in your lifetime you will be able to download objects, tables, chairs, clocks and manufacture them in your own home. Designers, architects, and artists are finding digital design and fabrication
Visual Arts

Form to Function Part Two — VA4112.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Jon Isherwood, Farhad Mirza John Umphlett
Credits: 4
Designers, architects, and artists continue to find digital design and fabrication processes to be common ground for communication and collaboration, in large part because many new projects necessitate multidimensional thinking about form and making. This self-directed studio course offers the opportunity for students to work at an advanced level to explore, research, and
Visual Arts

Form to Function/ Digital Design to Analog Build — SCU2124.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Jon Isherwood
Credits: 4
The practice of functional object making is undergoing an intense transition into digital production. Additive manufacturing has been posed as the next trillion dollar business; in your lifetime you will be able to download objects, tables, chairs, clocks and manufacture them in your own home. Designers, architects, and artists are finding digital design and fabrication
Visual Arts

Form to Function/Digital Design to Analog Build — SCU2124.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Jon Isherwood
Credits: 4
The practice of functional object making is undergoing an intense transition into digital production. Additive manufacturing has been posed as the next trillion dollar business; in your lifetime you will be able to download objects, tables, chairs, clocks and manufacture them in your own home. Designers, architects, and artists are finding digital design and fabrication
Visual Arts

Form to Function/Spatial Skin — SCU2110.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Jon Isherwood
Credits: 4
Sections, tessellations, folding, contouring and forming are all considerations when imagining the mantle that divides or establishes a “skin”. We will investigate the qualities that surfaces need to possess to develop new spatial paradigms, leading to sculptural responses to these conditions. Through a series of discrete exercises coupling digital fabrication and design
Visual Arts

Form to Function: The Chair — SCU2303.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: jisherwood@bennington.edu
Credits: 4
Think of all the chairs you have used in your life, from the high chair you sat in as a baby to the one you are probably using right now. How many of those chairs truly provided support for the actions you were attempting in those moments? How many of them were useful, comfortable, and even beautiful as they fulfilled their purpose? Is there a chair you could never live without
Visual Arts

Foundations in Ceramics: Roots of Form —

Spring 2016
Instructor: Barry Bartlett
Credits: 4
Exploring the unique, material nature of clay as a medium for personal and visual expression will be the focus of this course. All ceramic forms, whether sculptural or utilitarian, require a basic knowledge of the ceramic medium. A variety of construction methods will be introduced, employing both hand building and wheel techniques to achieve this goal. Emphasis will be placed
Visual Arts

Foundations in Ceramics: Roots of Form — CER2112.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Barry Bartlett
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Exploring the unique, material nature of clay as a medium for personal and visual expression will be the focus of this course. All ceramic forms, whether sculptural or utilitarian, require a basic knowledge of the ceramic medium. A variety of construction methods will be introduced, employing both hand building and wheel techniques to achieve this goal. Emphasis will be placed
Visual Arts