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Reveries — ARC4124.01

Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
Credits: 4
Students will develop solitary retreats for a writer/reader/dreamer. We will explore the links between poetics and architecture through the close study of texts and images. The structures will be inspired by poetry and conducive to reverie. There are aspects of poetry that share qualities with architecture: structure, rhythm, repetition, shape, etc. Particular to architecture

Reveries — ARC4124.01

Instructor: Don Sherefkin and Farhad Mirza
Credits: 4
Students will develop solitary retreats for a writer/reader/dreamer. We will explore the links between poetics and architecture through the close study of texts and images. The structures will be inspired by poetry and conducive to reverie. There are aspects of poetry that share qualities with architecture: structure, rhythm, repetition, shape, etc. Particular to architecture

Riso Printing: Photographs — PHO2209.01

Instructor: Veronica Melendez
Credits: 2
A Risograph is a digital duplicator designed for high volume print jobs. Using technology that plays off of screen printing and color copiers, Riso prints retain a unique handmade aesthetic while having the convenience of digital editing and reproduction. In this class students will learn how to print photographs using a Risograph Duplicator. The first 7 weeks of this course

Rubens + Rauschenberg: Racing and Revisioning Genealogies of Modern Art — AH4126.01

Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 2

The seventeenth-century Flemish painter-diplomat Peter Paul Rubens is at the heart of a course that proposes the intrinsic baroqueness of diverse strains of high modernism. Our transdisciplinary project crosses entrenched nationalistic and chronological borders between modern and early modern art and artists including Bacon, Guston, Manet, Newman, Picasso, Bearden, and

Rubens and Rauschenberg: Racing and Re/visioning Genealogies of Modern Art — AH4123.01

Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Credits: 4
The seventeenth-century Flemish painter-diplomat Peter Paul Rubens anchors a course proposing the residual baroqueness in diverse strains of high modernism. Our transdisciplinary project crosses entrenched nationalistic and chronological borders between modern and early modern art and artists including Bacon, Guston, Manet, Newman, Picasso, Reinhardt, and Titian in addition to

Rules of Engagement: Art Curatorial Practices that Animate the Public Realm — VA4122.01

Instructor: Carol Stakenas
Credits: 4
This seminar investigates the creation and curation of contemporary art in the public realm from the 1960s to present day through the work of a range of artists from Allan Kaprow, Border Arts Workshop, Adrian Piper, Group Material, Suzanne Lacy and Mel Chin to Wafaa Bilal, Blast Theory, Andrea Fraser, Jeanne van Heeswijk, Pablo Helguera, Ultra-red and more. The class will

Sacred Spaces — ARC4160.01

Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
Credits: 4
The history of architecture is replete with marvelous constructions that were built to establish a sacred ‘center’ - to give meaning to the world. This studio will look at examples from history of the variety of ways that sacred spaces have been created. Students will develop a series of projects to explore the possibilities of creating ineffable, numinous spaces that may

Salts of Silver, Salts of Iron — PHO4123.01

Instructor: Jonathan Kline
Credits: 4
This class will be centered on making light sensitive emulsions on paper and glass, re-creating some of the earliest photographic processes from the 19th century. We will also be researching the scientific journals and notebooks of William Henry Fox Talbot, Sir John Herschel, Gustave LeGray, in addition to reading Geoffrey Batchen's recent book, "Burning With Desire/The

Sankofa & memoria: Archiving - Finding your history in order to go forward — DAN4381.01

Instructor: Kaolack Ndiaye
Days & Time: WE 10:00am-11:50am & WE 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 4

In this course, we will be uncovering, re-positioning, and affirming historical legacies and traditions that stand the risk of being lost forever, and explore how to use them to fight discrimination, racism and hate today. We will do so using Sankofa, a quest for knowledge through critical examination, patient investigation, and learning

Scene Painting — DRA2168.01

Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Credits: 2
This class will introduce students to the fundamentals of scenic art, including terminology, commonly used tools and techniques. Students will learn to create processes that will guide them from a rendering or scenic finish to a completed project. Skills we will develop include color mixing, surface preparation for soft goods and hard scenery, translating small renderings to

Science Fiction as Agent of Change — FV4223.01

Instructor: Jen Liu
Credits: 2
This is a seminar, screening and production half-semester course, based on themes within Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction as means to imagine a different future.  In the first half we will be viewing films, from big budget to experimental and performance-based video art, while also listening to music, audio plays, and reading experimental and theoretical texts to

Sculptural Equilibrium: Containers for Ikebana — CER4206.01

Instructor: yoko inoue
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Understanding the form of a container is an integral part of the aesthetic reconfiguration of nature in Ikebana. The concept of activating an interior architectural space with collected cut plants and their arrangement stems from ancient Japanese animism. The container is considered a mysterious receptacle for the sustainability of life and acts as a symbolic focal point in its

Sculptural Equilibrium: Contemporary Context of Ikebana — CER4206.01

Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Credits: 4
Understanding the form of a container is an integral part of the aesthetic reconfiguration of nature in Ikebana. The concept of activating an interior architectural space with collected cut plants and their arrangement stems from ancient Japanese animism. The container is considered a mysterious receptacle for the sustainability of life and acts as a symbolic focal point in its

Sculptural Equilibrium: Contemporary Context of Ikebana — CER4206.01

Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Days & Time: TH 1:40pm-5:20pm
Credits: 4

Understanding the form of a container is an integral part of the aesthetic reconfiguration of nature in Ikebana. The concept of activating an interior architectural space with collected cut plants and their arrangement stems from ancient Japanese animism. The container is considered a mysterious receptacle for the sustainability of

Sculptural Equilibrium: Contemporary Context of Ikebana — CER4206.01

Instructor: Yoko Inoue
Credits: 4
Understanding the form of a container is an integral part of the aesthetic reconfiguration of nature in Ikebana. The concept of activating an interior architectural space with collected cut plants and their arrangement stems from ancient Japanese animism. The container is considered a mysterious receptacle for the sustainability of life and acts as a symbolic focal point in its

Sculpture Studio/ advanced practice — SCU4217.01

Instructor: John Umphlett
Days & Time: TU 8:30am-12:10pm
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 research 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

Sculpture Studio/ advanced practice — SCU4217.01

Instructor: John Umphlett
Days & Time: TU 8:30am-12:10pm
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 research 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

Sculpture Studio/Advanced practice — SCU4217.01

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 research 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 attention

Sculpture Studio/Advanced practice — SCU4217.01

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 research 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 attention

Senior Projects — ARC4109.01

Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This is an advanced studio class for students who have a proficient understanding of architectural concepts, history and theory.  Each student will develop a personal project. Students must submit a detailed proposal as an attachment by May 6th, to dsherefkin@bennington.edu Weekly readings will be assigned.  

Senior Projects — ARC4109.01

Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
Credits: 4
This is an advanced studio class for students who have a proficient understanding of architectural concepts, history and theory. Each student will develop a personal project. Students must submit a detailed proposal. Weekly readings will be assigned. Registration: Begins November 29th in VAPA D-200 Mon 12:30-2, Tue, 2:00-4:00, Wed, 12:30-2:00

Senior Projects — ARC4109.01

Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
Credits: 4
This is an advanced studio class for students who have a proficient understanding of architectural concepts, history and theory.  Each student will develop a personal project. Students must submit a detailed proposal. Weekly readings will be assigned.

Senior Projects — ARC4109.01

Instructor:
Credits: 4
This is an advanced studio class for students who have a proficient understanding of architectural concepts, history and theory.  Each student will develop a personal project. Students must submit a detailed proposal. Weekly readings will be assigned.

Senior Projects — ARC4109.01

Instructor: Don Sherefkin
Credits: 4
This is an advanced studio class for seniors who have a proficient understanding of architectural concepts, history and theory. Each student will develop a personal project. Students must submit a detailed proposal for their project in advance.