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Studio Projects and Practices in Ceramics — CER4375.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Barry Bartlett
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The process of making art work will be the major focus of the class. This studio class is designed to support the development of the creative process in ceramics with an understanding lending itself to all forms of art making. Projects will be conceptually based, requiring investigation on an individual level. Issues to be raised in this class will include functional and
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Studying Place: Projects — ENV4216.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Kerry Woods, Donald Sherefkin
Credits: 4
***New description*** How have interactions between culture and biological/physical environment shaped the history and current nature of the Bennington community and its surroundings? How does their interplay constrain and enable its future? How might planning for Bennington’s future best recognize this history and build on the landscape presented by it? Students will
Visual Arts Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

Subject and Meaning in Painting — PAI4202.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Andrew Spence
Credits: 4
Since the 1960s, art styles and trends have become increasingly diverse. This may make it easier for more artists to find acceptable venues of expression, but as the options increase, it may be more difficult for artists who are still in their formative stage of development to find their own way of expression. This course is designed for students who are starting to develop
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Subject and Meaning in Painting — PAI4202.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Andrew Spence
Credits: 4
Since the 1960s, art styles and trends have become increasingly diverse. This may make it easier for more artists to find acceptable venues of expression, but as the options increase, it may be more difficult for artists who are still in their formative stage of development to find their own way of expression. This course is designed for students who are starting to develop
Visual Arts

Surrealism in French Cinema — FV4316.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly
Credits: 4
In this course, students will examine what Michael Richardson calls "practices of surrealism" in French cinema. Theoretical readings will help students explore surrealism, the first literary and artistic movement to become seriously associated with cinema. This course will also invite students to reflect upon traces of surrealism in French cinema at the end of the 20th and
Visual Arts

Systemic Generative Visual Investigations — CS4160.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Andrew Cencini; Guy Snover
Credits: 4
What is possible when the work of art is a computational system and the means of production are robotic? This advanced computation course will lead students from abstract computational structures to physical two and three dimensional forms. The conceptual artist Sol Lewitt stated, "The system is the work of art; the visual work of art is the proof of the System." Our platform
Science Mathematics and Computing Visual Arts

Tablescape: Production Lab — CER4109.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Credits: 2
This class is structured for students who have knowledge, experience and skills in Architecture, Sculpture, and 3D design technology and wish to explore production of ceramics functional ware by developing mold making skills and applying slip casting methods to their projects. Students who are enrolled in the advanced level of slip casting class, Tablescape: Slip Casting
Visual Arts

Tablescape: Slip Casting Project for Communal Kitchen — CER4265.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Credits: 4
Tablescape project considers ceramic tableware through the lens of architecture (space) and table design (place). For the occasion of the implementation of a communal kitchen, in the new Students Center, that aims to foster community building, students will design and produce a series of functional ware by utilizing slip casting method. We will focus on creating a work
Visual Arts

Technical Topics: Moving Image Equipment — FV2128.02

Fall 2019
Instructor: Colleen Murphy
Credits: 2
This seven-week course is an opportunity to gain hands-on experience with the entire video and animation equipment inventory. In class we will use a wide variety of cameras, set up audio and lighting equipment, learn about camera stabilization, capture drone footage, and experiment with projectors. Throughout the course students will be asked to give live demonstrations and
Visual Arts

Technical Topics: Video and Animation Post-Production — FV2143.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Colleen Murphy
Credits: 2
This 2 credit course will be focused on developing post-production editing skills within Adobe Premiere and Adobe After Effects. The topics covered are applicable to any video based project within any discipline and include color correction, text and graphics, masking, compositing, key framing, and the visual language of editing. Students will be working independently at their
Visual Arts

Technical Topics: Virtual Reality — MA4107.02

Spring 2019
Instructor: Colleen Murphy
Credits: 2
This seven-week course is designed to demonstrate the emerging connection between film and virtual reality within the context of installation art. The focus will be split between experimentation with virtual reality equipment and advanced software workflows using Premiere and After Effects. Students are encouraged to apply their other areas of interest, such as animation, sound
Visual Arts

Tell the World: Graphic Design for Creative Practice — DA2112.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Nancy Nowacek
Credits: 4
The goal of this course is to provide students who are new to the principles of visual design with the practical knowledge, critical skills and confidence to effectively express their ideas graphically. This course will supply an overview of the fundamentals used to convey an idea, communicate a message and influence an experience. Topics covered in the course include:
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Ten Decades, Ten Exhibitions: Art Narratives of the Twentieth Century — CUR2226.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Anne Thompson
Credits: 4
This introductory course considers exhibitions that have shaped scholarly and popular conceptions of twentieth-century Western art history. Readings, films, discussions and interactive lectures address styles and ideas within the context of the art spectacle or “show.” Starting with the Armory Show of 1913, we examine art-world machinations as part of economic, political and
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Ten Decades, Ten Exhibitions: Popular Art Narratives of the Twentieth Century — VA2226.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Anne Thompson
Credits: 4
This introductory course considers modernism and postmodernism through a close examination of exhibitions that shaped scholarly and popular conceptions of twentieth-century art. Starting with the Last Futurist Exhibition of Painting in 1915, readings, films, discussions and interactive lectures will address styles and ideas within the context of the art spectacle or “show.”
Visual Arts

Tessellation — DRW2265.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Farhad Mirza
Credits: 4
This drawing and modeling course is an introduction to tessellation, also known as space filling, or packing. Through drawing exercises on various grids (which also happen to be tessellations) we will learn about edges and vertices, moving to regular, semi-regular, and edge tessellation among others, eventually proceeding from planar tiling to packing in three dimensions.
Visual Arts

Tessellation — DRW2265.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This drawing and modeling course is an introduction to tessellation, also known as space filling, or packing. Through drawing exercises on various grids (which also happen to be tessellations), we will learn about edges and vertices, moving to regular and semi-regular tessellation, and edge tessellation among others, eventually proceeding from planar tiling to packing in three
Visual Arts

Tessellation — DES2102.01) (cancelled 5/2/2024

Fall 2024
Instructor: Farhad Mirza
Credits: 4
This course is an introduction to tessellation, also known as space filling, or packing. Through drawing exercises on various grids (which also happen to be tessellations) we will learn about edges and vertices, moving to regular, semi-regular, and edge tessellation among others, eventually proceeding from planar tiling to packing in three dimensions. Tessellation is a spatial
Visual Arts

Tessellation — DES2105.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Farhad Mirza
Credits: 4
This course is an introduction to tessellation, also known as space filling, or packing. Through drawing exercises on various grids (which also happen to be tessellations) we will learn about edges and vertices, moving to regular, semi-regular, and edge tessellation among others, eventually proceeding from planar tiling to packing in three dimensions. Tessellation is a spatial
Visual Arts

The Albumen Print — PHO4114.02

Spring 2018
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
Credits: 2
In this 7-week session, students will explore the most widely used process of making photographic prints in the 19th century, the albumen process. Ideally suited for contact printing either glass or paper negatives in sunlight, the albumen print has a glossy surface and rich tonal scale that became very popular for photographers exhibiting their work in the 19th century.
Visual Arts

The Archive in Art — VA4216.02

Spring 2019
Instructor: Liz Deschenes
Credits: 2
This seven-week course is an introduction to the archive and how it has been central to artistic production of the 20th and 21st centuries. We will read Walter Benjamin’s Archive, Archive Fever: Uses of The Document in Contemporary Art, and conclude with The Big Archive. There will be lectures on how the archive exists in specific artists works. Students will be given short
Visual Arts

The Archive in Art — VA4216.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Liz Deschenes
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This seven-week course is an introduction to the archive and how it has been central to artistic production of the 20th and 21st centuries. We will read Walter Benjamins Archive, Archive Fever: Uses of The Document in Contemporary Art, and conclude with The Big Archive. There will be lectures on how the archive exists in specific artists works. Students will be given short
Visual Arts

The Archive in Art — VA2209.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Liz Deschenes
Credits: 2
This seven-week course is an introduction to the archive and how it has been central to artistic production of the 20th and 21st centuries. Though the course is only a brief introduction, there will be an emphasis on how the archive has been utilized by artists to subvert and question conventional notions of the archive and related power structures. Students will be given short
Visual Arts