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Varied Vessels — CER4226.01

Instructor: Aysha Peltz
Credits: 4
This intermediate to advanced-level course is for students interested in continuing their studies in ceramics with a focus on the vessel. Students who are on campus may work in the ceramics studio and can choose any ceramic building technique they would like to continue exploring: hand-building, slip casting, throwing, digital printing. Students who are studying remotely will

Varied Vessels: from Useful to Fanciful — CER4154.01

Instructor: Aysha Peltz
Credits: 4
In this course, students will continue to develop their ceramic skills with a focus on the vessel. Readings, discussions, and research will support student’s individual search for personal expression through the making of vessel forms. The Usdan Gallery will be hosting a ceramic vessel exhibition during the second half of the term. This show will provide students with the

Varied Vessels: The Composition of Parts — CER4253.01

Instructor: Aysha Peltz
Days & Time: MO 8:30am-12:10pm
Credits: 4

This intermediate to advanced-level course is for students who are interested in exploring more complex vessel forms. Using various building techniques, students will make vessels with multiple elements. Forms this class may explore include cups with handles, covered jars, baskets, and pouring pots. Students will be asked to expand their form

Verbing sCULpTURE — SCU4121.01

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
The word ‘sculpture’ contains the word ‘culture’ reminding us that in making objects, we not only make our world, but we also encode it with our own personal values and ways of seeing. Our choices in material, process, and idea are linked to personal sensibilities or affinities, aptitudes, tendencies of thinking and making. These choices encode the work being

Video Design for Dance — FV4104.01

Instructor: jeff larson
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This workshop is concerned with investigating the integration of digital video in dance performance. Using a program called Isadora, basic control modules can be programmed, allowing dance and video students and faculty to create, manipulate, and present video content as an meaningfully integrated element of live performance. The technology will also be explored in tandem with

Video/Performance — FV2140.01

Instructor: Warren Cockerham
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
The basic goals of this class are to familiarize students with the practices and possibilities of collaboration between performance and video. Its aim is to encourage the camera to become more embedded in the world of the performer by allowing experimentation to lead to innovative fusions of multiple disciplines and styles. This class will rely on a mix of historical,

Visible Language: Word And/As Image — DRW4401.01

Instructor: Mary Lum
Credits: 4
The observed world is covered with words, both visible and invisible. This advanced drawing course aims to underline the tensions and comforts of the relationship between words and images in visual art. Through assigned drawing problems that call upon students to complete and present visual work regularly, topics will include, sign and structure, letter formation and typography

Visible Language: Word And/As Image — DRW4401.01

Instructor: Mary Lum
Credits: 4
The observed world is covered with words, both visible and invisible. This advanced drawing course aims to underline the tensions and comforts of the relationship between words and images in visual art. Through assigned drawing problems that call upon students to complete and present visual work regularly, topics will include, sign and structure, juxtaposition, concrete poetry,

Visible Language: Word And/As Image — DRW4401.01

Instructor: Mary Lum
Credits: 4
The observed world is covered with words, both visible and invisible. This advanced drawing course aims to underline the tensions and comforts of the relationship between words and images in visual art. Through assigned drawing problems that call upon students to complete and present visual work regularly, topics will include, sign and structure, asemic writing, typography,

Visible Language: Word and/as Image — DRW4401.01

Instructor: Mary Lum
Credits: 4
The observed world is covered with words, both visible and invisible. This advanced drawing course aims to underline the tensions and comforts of the relationship between words and images in visual art. Through assigned drawing problems that call upon students to complete and present visual work regularly, topics will include, sign and structure, juxtaposition, concrete poetry,

Visionary Architecture — ARC4123.01

Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
Credits: 4
All architectural propositions begin as images that postulate new worlds. Some projects begin from a point of view that is expressly experimental. This studio will explore the history of visionary architecture as expressed through texts and images, ranging from Piranesi and Raymond Roussel, to Lebbeus Woods and Italo Calvino. Students will develop a series of projects that will

Visionary Architecture — ARC4123.01

Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
All architectural propositions begin as images that postulate new worlds. Some projects begin from a point of view that is expressly experimental. This studio will explore the history of visionary architecture as expressed through texts and images, ranging from Piranesi and Raymond Roussel, to Lebbeus Woods and Italo Calvino. Students will develop a series of projects that will

Visionary Architecture — ARC4123.01

Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
Credits: 4
Architectural propositions consist of images and models that postulate a reimagined reality. Sometimes these go so far as to posit new worlds. These often operate in an expressly experimental mode. This studio will explore the history of visionary architecture as expressed through texts and images, ranging from Piranesi and Raymond Roussel, to Lebbeus Woods and Italo Calvino.

Visual Arts Lecture Seminar — VA4218.01

Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Days & Time: TU 4:10pm-6:00pm
Credits: 2

This discussion-animated, readings-based seminar provides art historical, cultural, and critical contexts for the Visual Arts Lecture Series (VALS). In addition to our ongoing interrogation of the public lecture as such, students present their own work (in any field) and analyze the technical and stylistic aspects of structuring an effective and engaging ‘talk.’ The course

Visual Arts Lecture Seminar — VA4218.01

Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Days & Time: TU 4:10pm-6:00pm
Credits: 2

This discussion-animated, readings-based seminar provides art historical, cultural, and critical contexts for the Visual Arts Lecture Series (VALS). In addition to our ongoing interrogation of the public lecture as such, students present their own work (in any field) and analyze the technical and stylistic aspects of structuring an effective and engaging ‘talk.’ The course

Visual Arts Lecture Series — VA2999.01

Instructor: Visual Arts Faculty
Credits: 1
This is a series of lectures given by visiting artists and critics invited by the Visual Arts faculty. You will attend lectures on Tuesday evenings at 7:30 pm as well as gallery exhibitions. The number of lectures and exhibitions you must attend will vary according to how many are scheduled in any term. You are required to take notes during the lectures and exhibitions and

Visual Arts Lecture Series — VA2999.01

Instructor: Visual Arts Faculty
Credits: 1
Each term, Bennington offers a program of five lectures by visiting arts professionals: artists, curators, historians and critics, selected to showcase the diversity of contemporary art practices. Designed to enhance classroom activities of various disciplines in the Visual Arts and to stimulate campus dialogue around topical issues of contemporary art, these thematically

Visual Arts Lecture Series — VA2999.01

Instructor: visual arts faculty
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
This is a series of lectures given by visiting artists and critics invited by the Visual Arts faculty. You will attend lectures on Tuesday evenings at 7:30 pm as well as gallery exhibitions. The number of lectures and exhibitions you must attend will vary according to how many are scheduled in any term. You are required to take notes during the lectures and exhibitions and

Visual Arts Lecture Series — VA2999.01

Instructor: Visual Arts Faculty
Credits: 1
This is a series of lectures given by visiting artists and critics invited by the Visual Arts faculty. You will attend lectures on Tuesday evenings at 7:30 pm as well as gallery exhibitions. The number of lectures and exhibitions you must attend will vary according to how many are scheduled in any term. You are required to take notes during the lectures and exhibitions and

Visual Arts Lecture Series — VA2999.01

Instructor: Liz White
Credits: 1
Each term, Bennington offers a program of five lectures by visiting arts professionals: artists, curators, historians and critics, selected to showcase the diversity of contemporary art practices.  Designed to enhance classroom activities of various disciplines in the Visual Arts and to stimulate campus dialogue around topical issues of contemporary art, these thematically

Visual Arts Lecture Series — VA2999.01

Instructor: VA Faculty
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
This is a series of lectures given by visiting artists and critics invited by the Visual Arts faculty. You will attend lectures on Tuesday evenings at 7:30 pm as well as gallery exhibitions. The number of lectures and exhibitions you must attend will vary according to how many are scheduled in any term. You are required to take notes during the lectures and exhibitions and

Visual Arts Lecture Series — VA2999.01

Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Credits: 1
Each term, Bennington offers a program of five-six lectures by visiting arts professionals: artists, curators, historians and critics, selected to showcase the diversity of contemporary art practices. Designed to enhance a broader and deeper knowledge of various disciplines in the Visual Arts and to stimulate campus dialogue around topical issues of contemporary art and culture

Visual Arts Lecture Series — VA2999.01

Instructor: Visual Arts Faculty
Credits: 1
Each term, Bennington offers a program of five-six lectures by visiting arts professionals: artists, curators, historians and critics, selected to showcase the diversity of contemporary art practices. Designed to enhance a broader and deeper knowledge of various disciplines in the Visual Arts and to stimulate campus dialogue around topical issues of contemporary art and

Visual Arts Lecture Series — VA2999.01

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 1
Each term, Bennington offers a program of five-six lectures by visiting arts professionals: artists, curators, historians and critics, selected to showcase the diversity of contemporary art practices. Designed to enhance a broader and deeper knowledge of various disciplines in the Visual Arts and to stimulate campus dialogue around topical issues of contemporary art and culture

Visual Arts Lecture Series — VA2999.01

Instructor: J Blackwell
Credits: 1
Each term, Bennington offers a program of five-six lectures by visiting arts professionals: artists, curators, historians and critics, selected to showcase the diversity of contemporary art practices. Designed to enhance a broader and deeper knowledge of various disciplines in the Visual Arts and to stimulate campus dialogue around topical issues of contemporary art and culture