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Life Drawing Lab — DRW2118.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Ann Pibal
Credits: 2
Drawing Lab provides an opportunity for student artists of all experience levels to further develop their skills with observational-based drawing. Working primarily with the human figure, students build an increased understanding of the poetic, dynamic, and inherently abstract nature of drawing, while paying close attention to the potential of formal elements such as shape,
Visual Arts

Life Drawing Lab — DRW2118.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Colin Brant
Credits: 2
Drawing Lab provides an opportunity for student artists of all experience levels to further develop their skills with observational-based drawing. Working primarily with the human figure, students build increased understanding of the poetic, dynamic, and inherently abstract nature of drawing, while paying close attention to the potential of formal elements such as shape, line,
Visual Arts

Life Drawing Lab — DRW2118.02; section 2

Fall 2015
Instructor: Colin Brant
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Drawing Lab provides an opportunity for student artists of all experience levels to further develop their skills with observationally-based drawing. Working primarily with the human figure, students build increased understanding of the poetic, dynamic, and inherently abstract nature of drawing, while paying close attention to the potential of
Visual Arts

Life Drawing Lab — DRW2118.01, section 1

Fall 2023
Instructor: Colin Brant
Credits: 2
Drawing Lab provides an opportunity for student artists of all experience levels to further develop their skills with observational-based drawing. Working primarily with the human figure, students build an increased understanding of the poetic, dynamic, and inherently abstract nature of drawing, while paying close attention to the potential of formal elements such as shape,
Visual Arts

Life Drawing Lab — DRW2118.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: J Blackwell
Credits: 2
Drawing Lab provides an opportunity for student artists of all experience levels to further develop their skills with observational-based drawing. Working primarily with the human figure, students build increased understanding of the poetic, dynamic, and inherently abstract nature of drawing, while paying close attention to the potential of formal elements such as shape, line,
Visual Arts

Light Lighting — PHO4252.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
Credits: 4
This intermediate course will explore the way light conveys emotional, narrative, and psychological meaning. The goal is to increase students’ experience in recognizing and shaping these effects. Lectures will be drawn from the history of photography, as well as cinema and contemporary art. Workshops and demos will involve small collaborative teams in a variety of studio and on
Visual Arts

Light & Lighting — PHO4252.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
Credits: 2
This intermediate course will explore the way in which light conveys emotional, narrative, and psychological meaning. The goal is to increase students' experience in recognizing and shaping these effects. Lectures will draw from the history or photography, as well as cinema and contemporary art. Workshops will involve small collaborative teams in a variety of studio and on
Visual Arts

Light and Lighting — PHO4238.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
Credits: 4
This photography course will explore the way light conveys emotional, narrative, and psychological meaning. The goal is to increase students’ experience in recognizing and shaping these effects. Each week books by noted photographers will be assigned for study and discussion. Workshops and demos will involve small collaborative teams in a variety of studio and on-location
Visual Arts

Light and Lighting: Vocabulary and Tools — Canceled

Spring 2015
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
Credits: 4
The course will investigate the way in which light conveys emotional, narrative, and psychological meaning. The goal is to increase students' experience in recognizing and shaping these effects. Lectures will draw from the history of photography, as well as cinema and contemporary art. Workshops will involve small collaborative teams in a variety of studio and on-location
Visual Arts

Lighting for Portraits — PHO2137.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Jonathan Barber
Credits: 2
Created for students who have done previous course-work in basic photographic tools and technique, this hands-on lab will provide instruction and practice in continuous and strobe lighting equipment and provide an overview of lighting techniques for portraiture. Class work will include demonstrations and small group assignments in and out of the studio. The instructor will also
Visual Arts

Looking closer; making work — SCU4122.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This course asks each student to work in a self-directed way among a community of critical thinkers. Finding one’s voice, as a maker, requires researching sources of influence and inspiration. Students are expected to undertake a significant amount of work outside of regular class meetings. At this point in your Visual Arts Education, you must be able to represent serious
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Looking closer; making work — SCU4122.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: John Umphlett
Credits: 4
This course asks each student to work in a self-directed way among a community of critical thinkers. Finding one’s voice, as a maker, requires researching sources of influence and inspiration. Students are expected to undertake a significant amount of work outside of regular class meetings. At this point in your Visual Arts Education you must be able to represent serious
Visual Arts

Low Fire Clay and Glazes, History Application — CER4328.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Barry Bartlett
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This class will explore the use of low temperature clay and glazes. A large part of ceramic history is based in these materials. All early civilizations moving into the 14-century and many contemporary styles depend on low temperature material in terms of both technical and artistic style. Students will be asked to do research into different styles and types of low fire clay
Visual Arts

Low Tech Relief Printmaking — PRI2118.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Sarah Amos
Credits: 4
This class will explore the many varied techniques within the Relief family. We will be working with the following materials: linoleum, soft cut rubber, Mat board for Collagraphs and plastic plates for Carborundum Relief prints. We will also be looking at Monoprinting and Stencils to be used in collaboration with one or two of the other techniques. All of these techniques in
Visual Arts

Mail Art — VA2229.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Anne Thompson
Credits: 4
This course examines the history, politics and ephemeral nature of mail art, a format seeing a renaissance with COVID-19 social distancing. Activities consider how artists and art movements have used the mail to subvert institutional structures, restrictive conditions and oppressive regimes, often leading to new forms of art making and distribution. Parallel to looking at mail
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Main Meanings — ARC4383.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
“…fictions focused on buildings often seem to use them as a code by which to bury their main meanings.” – Robert Harbison, Eccentric Spaces In her lecture How We Narrate Our Yesterday Determines How We Imagine The Future, Mariam Kamara describes the loss of our capacity to read architecture when we subscribe, uncritically, to totalizing histories that are disproportionately
Visual Arts

Making It Personal — SCU4114.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: John Umphlett
Credits: 4
The question that animates this advanced sculpture course is: what do you want to say? As we develop our interests in sculpture it becomes more and more imperative to find our own voice. The role of the artist is to interpret personal conditions and experiences and find the most effective expression for them. Paradoxically, however, the artist finds out what they have to say by
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Manga Into Art: After Super Flat — VA2207.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Japanese comic book images have become integrated into our contemporary art context. While investigating the social systems that can be found in the various genres of manga and within the cultural specificities of the post World War II era, this course explores the relationship of Manga and fine art. This is a research based studio art class and requirements include weekly
Visual Arts

Manipulating the Projected Image — Canceled

Spring 2014
Instructor: Joshua Higgason
Credits: 2
***This course has been combined with Motion Capture: Interactivity (DRA4208.01).*** This workshop for faculty and students is concerned with investigating the interaction of projected manipulated imagery with performers, motion, and space using Pandoras Box and Widget Designer. Investigation will center on how projections alter the reality of what they are projected on
Dance Drama Visual Arts

Markmaking and Representation — DRW2149; section 2

Fall 2016
Instructor: Colin Brant
Credits:
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
Visual Arts

Markmaking and Representation — DRW2149.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Colin Brant
Days & Time: TBA
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
Visual Arts

Markmaking and Representation — DRW2149; section 1

Fall 2016
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 are complemented by independent, outside of class work and
Visual Arts

Markmaking and Representation — DRW2149.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Mary Lum
Days & Time: TBA
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
Visual Arts