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Image Weaving: Unorthodox Practices in Contemporary Printmaking — PRI4207.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Sarah Amos
Credits: 4
This energetic class will be part project based and part experimental lab that fosters a critical and analytical viewpoint toward the Collagraph, Lithograph and Monoprint techniques while disrupting their traditional values and appearances. These printmaking techniques will then be used as a building platform for exploring new ideas by interweaving them together. Traditional
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In conversation with the exhibit Connected Diaspora: Central American Visuality in the Age of Social Media — VA2238.01) (cancelled 5/30/2023

Fall 2023
Instructor: Veronica Melendez
Credits: 2
This course will provide time and space for students to engage with the art and artists from the exhibit Connected Diaspora (on view in Usdan Gallery Fall 2023). Through lectures, workshops, and readings students will gain knowledge of established, mid career, and emerging artists from the Central American diaspora. Coursework will consist of creatively and critically
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Inquiry in the Visual Arts — VA4160.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Liz Deschenes
Credits: 4
This class welcomes students from all of the Visual Arts disciplines who are interested in working and discussing work in an interdisciplinary environment. The course will have two main components that will interspersed throughout the course. Students will learn about how to research for the visual artist. Simultaneously, we will look at how to embark upon inquiry through a
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Inquiry in the Visual Arts: Outside the Frame — VA4160.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Liz Deschenes
Credits: 4
This class welcomes students from all of the Visual Arts disciplines who are interested in working and discussing work in an interdisciplinary environment. The course will have two main components that will interspersed throughout the course. Students will learn about how to research for the visual artist. Simultaneously, we will look at how to embark upon inquiry through a
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InSights: Digitally Fabricated Site-Specific Installations — VA4217.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Karolina Kawiaka
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Site-specific sculpture and installations transform a place according to the sculptor's vision. Sculptors such as Robert Smithson, Christo Jeanne-Claude, Andy Goldsworthy and James Turrell use the inspiration from a specific site to make an intervention. A new generation of this type of work is emerging using digital tools. In this course students will collaborate in teams to
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Installation and Projection Design — FV2308.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Katie Soule
Credits: 1
The purpose of this course will be to go through the practical, material, and aesthetic concerns of installations involving moving image. Whether through the use of live feed for performance, or a static multichannel flatscreen display in a gallery, the curriculum will aim to prepare students with the skills to plan and improvise on their own installations. We will work
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Intaglio: The Incised Line — PRI2116.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Jesse Connor
Credits: 4
Intaglio is among the richest artistic processes for drawing and generating expressive markmaking. The course will focus on the basic intaglio techniques of copper plate preparation, application of grounds, biting of plates using acids, rosin resists, printing of etched plates and paper handling. Themes in the class will reflect the students individual interest, sketchbooks and
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Interdisciplinary Projects in EMusic and Sound — MPF4701.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Nicholas Brooke
Credits: 2
This advanced course focuses on the creation of interdisciplinary projects that include electronic music/sound as a primary component. Students will work in collaborative pairs or individually to develop a substantial semester-long compositional, installation, performance or intermedia project. Projects will be informed by students' ongoing  interdisciplinary research,
Dance Music Visual Arts

Interdisciplinary Seminar: Time — VA2120.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Mariam Ghani
Credits: 4
A semester-length exploration of time – first as a phenomenological experience; second as a scientific, social and fictional construct, e.g. clock time, atomic time, machine time, entropic time, queer time, and time travel; third as broken into the fundamental elements of time-based practices - duration and repetition, simultaneity and succession, break and flow, narrative arcs
Dance Visual Arts

Intermedia Performance — MPF4225.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Senem Pirler
Credits: 4
In this course, we will focus on hybrid practices and explore various forms of intermedia art such as video/audio mashups, audiovisual performance and installation, movement for the camera, and sound and video for movement. The readings and discussions will give an introduction to the intermedia art practice as well as the history of early audiovisual tools, theories on
Dance Music Visual Arts

Intermediate Drawing: Beyond Representation — DRW4103.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Beverly Acha
Credits: 4
In this intermediate drawing course you will expand on basic drawing skills and be invited to investigate the ways drawing is interdisciplinary, intersecting with painting, sculpture, printmaking, and performance. Together we will explore diverse processes and conceptual frameworks for art making. This course invites you to investigate how drawing might influence, support, and
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Intermediate Drawing: Beyond Representation — DRW4103.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Beverly Acha
Credits: 4
In this intermediate drawing course students will expand on basic representational drawing skills through the investigation of the ways drawing is interdisciplinary, intersecting with painting, sculpture, printmaking, and performance. For inspiration along the way we will study artists who work in interdisciplinary ways including: Ana Mendieta, Mirtha Dermisache, David
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Intermediate Painting: Beyond the Easel — PAI4218.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: J Blackwell
Credits: 4
In the summer of 1943, Peggy Guggenheim commissioned Jackson Pollock to create a monumental painting. Marcel Duchamp suggested that Pollock use a canvas instead of painting directly on a wall, ensuring the work could be moved. Pollock later wrote of the project, "I’ve had to tear out the partition between the front and middle room [of my apartment] to get the damned thing up. I
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Intermediate Painting: Facture — PAI4106.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: J Blackwell
Credits: 4
“Facture refers to the manner in which a painting, drawing, or object is made. It is the combination of brushstrokes, marks, material, and the texture of the surface. Facture is critical to the success of any object. Much of the fascination that accrues to all manual media comes from what can be observed at close range. That distance reveals the foundation, the touch, the
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Intermediate Painting: Facture — PAI4106.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: J Blackwell
Credits: 4
“Facture refers to the manner in which a painting, drawing, or object is made. It is the combination of brushstrokes, marks, material, and the texture of the surface. Facture is critical to the success of any object. Much of the fascination that accrues to all manual media comes from what can be observed at close range. That distance reveals the foundation, the touch, the
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Intermediate Painting: Facture — PAI4106.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: J Blackwell
Credits: 4
fac·ture - ˈfakCHər/ = noun the quality of the execution of a painting; an artist's characteristic handling of the paint. Behind the impulse to put paint on canvas is a search for meaning. As an artwork comes into being, its meaning(s) evolve concurrently. Concentrating on the establishment of a rigorous artistic practice, this course will focus on the relationship
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Intermediate Painting: Facture — PAI4207.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: joshua blackwell
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Behind the impulse to put paint on canvas is a search for meaning. As an artwork comes into being, so too does its meaning evolve concurrently. This course will focus on the relationship between facture and meaning in painting. Sharpening practical and critical skills, assignments will investigate the processes and methods of painting from practical and theoretical perspectives
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Intermediate Painting: Facture — PAI4106.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Josh Blackwell
Credits: 4
Behind the impulse to put paint on canvas is a search for meaning. As an artwork comes into being, its meaning(s) evolve concurrently. Concentrating on the establishment of a rigorous artistic practice, this course will focus on the relationship between facture and meaning in painting. Sharpening practical and critical skills, assignments will investigate the processes and
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Intermediate Painting: From Practice to Discovery — PAI4405.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: J Blackwell
Credits: 4
This course is intended for the student who is looking specifically to build a robust studio practice as well as the capacity to work independently on self-directed projects.. Experimenting with materials, techniques, and styles in painting will be encouraged in order to develop an artistic sensibility while instituting regular work habits. Assigned projects and independent
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Intermediate Painting: From Practice to Discovery — PAI4405.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: J Blackwell
Credits: 4
This course is intended for the student who is looking specifically to build a robust studio practice as well as the capacity to work independently on self-directed projects.. Experimenting with materials, techniques, and styles in painting will be encouraged in order to develop an artistic sensibility while instituting regular work habits. Assigned projects and independent
Visual Arts

Intermediate Painting: From Practice to Discovery — PAI4405.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: J Blackwell
Credits: 4
This course is intended for the student who is looking to build a robust studio practice. Experimenting with materials, techniques, and styles in painting will be encouraged in order to develop an artistic sensibility while instituting regular work habits. Assigned projects and independent work are intended to develop problem-solving as well as problem-finding skills. Group
Visual Arts

Intermediate Painting: From Practice to Discovery — PAI4405.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: J Blackwell
Credits: 4
This course is intended for the student who is looking specifically to build a robust studio practice as well as the capacity to work independently on self-directed projects.. Experimenting with materials, techniques, and styles in painting will be encouraged in order to develop an artistic sensibility while instituting regular work habits. Assigned projects and independent
Visual Arts

Intermediate Painting: From Practice to Discovery — PAI4405.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: J Blackwell
Credits: 4
This course is intended for the student who is looking to build a robust studio practice. Experimenting with materials, techniques, and styles in painting will be encouraged in order to develop an artistic sensibility while instituting regular work habits. Assigned projects and independent work are intended to develop problem-solving as well as problem-finding skills. Group
Visual Arts