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Hybrids: Alternative Photographic Methods — PHO4215.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Terry Boddie
Credits: 4
Students in this interdisciplinary course will focus on combining photographic media with other materials and artistic disciplines.  They will explore the techniques that directly manipulate the image before, during and after recording photograph. Experimentation and creative risk taking throughout the various assignments will be stressed. Through this process of
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I am a Material — SCU4112.02

Spring 2020
Instructor: John Umphlett
Credits: 2
What is a more valuable piece of matter? Could it be something that will degrade in this art world and be okay? String, cotton-balls and rubber bands may be what should be affixed to your unique prosthetic to complete a task given. This course will cover information and techniques related to body casting, wire rope rigging, fabricating, building processes and encourage
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I am a Material — SCU4112.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: John Umphlett
Credits: 2
What is a more valuable piece of matter? String, cotton-balls and rubber bands may be what should be affixed to your unique prosthetic to complete a given task… This course will cover information and techniques related to body casting, wire rope rigging, fabrication, and other building processes.The students will be asked to keep a journal which will be the most important
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I am a Material — SCU4112.02

Spring 2017
Instructor: John Umphlett
Credits: 2
What is a more valuable piece of matter?  Could it be something that will degrade in this art world and be okay? String, cotton-balls and rubber bands may be what should be affixed to your unique prosthetic to complete a task given. This course will cover information and techniques related to body casting, wire rope rigging, fabricating, building processes and encourage
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Idiosyncratic Tools — SCU2205.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: John Umphlett
Credits: 2
Use a hammer to hit a nail into a chunk of wood. Anyone may smash a cube of ice, carve a toy car or with strong encouragement, allow the hammer to sign its initials on your thumb - VBS (violet burning sunset.) Idiosyncratic devices enhance one's own senses. Once we completely understand the specific functions for which a tool is designed, we begin to tune 
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Idiosyncratic Tools — SCU4216.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: John Umphlett
Credits: 2
Use a hammer to hit a nail into a chunk of wood. Anyone may smash a cube office , carve a toy car or with strong encouragement, allow the hammer to sign its initials on your thumb - VBS (violet burning sunset.) Idiosyncratic devices enhance one's own senses. Once we completely understand the specific functions for which a tool is designed, we begin to tune senses back to the
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Image Objects — PHO4103.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Liz White
Credits: 4
As exhibitions and publications such as What is a Photograph? (The International Center of Photography, 2014), A Matter of Memory: The Photograph as Object in the Digital Age (George Eastman Museum, 2016), and Photography is Magic (Charlotte Cotton, Aperture, 2015) attest, there are many contemporary artists whose work with photography draws increased focus to material and
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Image Objects — PHO4103.02

Spring 2018
Instructor: Elizabeth White
Credits: 2
This course meets the second seven weeks of the term, and through group critiques, assignments, artist slideshows, and readings, explores the broad range of physical forms that photographic works can take. As recent exhibitions and publications such as What is a Photograph? (The International Center of Photography, 2014), A Matter of Memory: The Photograph as Object in the
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Image Objects — PHO4103.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Elizabeth White
Credits: 4
As recent exhibitions and publications such as What is a Photograph? (The International Center of Photography, 2014), A Matter of Memory: The Photograph as Object in the Digital Age (George Eastman Museum, 2016), and Photography is Magic (Charlotte Cotton, Aperture, 2015) attest, there are many contemporary artists whose work with photography draws increased focus to material
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Image Projection — MA2138.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Sue Rees
Credits: 2
The class will be concerned with investigating the interaction of projected imagery (video, animation, still imagery) with a location, an object, a stage, a viewer. Investigation will center on how projections can be integrated into, and bring further information to a location, a set, a text. Various examples will be looked at and researched. Sites and texts will be used as a
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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,
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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
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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
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Intermediate Design Studio: Graphic Skills — DES4113.01

Fall 2026
Instructor: Farhad Mirza
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2

In this course, students will arrange 2 hours per week of instruction time individually or in groups with the instructor in order to gain the specific graphic skills necessary for the intermediate studio course. Students will have the opportunity to discuss problems, worksheets, and design assignments prior to studio. This portion of the course is

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Intermediate Design Studio: Manual and Digital Representation — ARC4136.01

Fall 2026
Instructor: Farhad Mirza
Days & Time: WE 10:00am-11:50am & WE 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 4

This course starts with a series of directed assignments through which you will practice a variety of manual and digital drawing and modeling skills. As the group becomes familiar with a common representational language, we will segue into a term-long architectural design project employing digital and handmade drawings and models. You will work individually

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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 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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