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Visual Arts Lecture Series Seminar — VA4218.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Credits: 2
This discussion-animated seminar provides art historical, cultural, and critical contexts for the Visual Arts Lecture Series (VALS): Ways of Seeing: Movements, Migrations, Diasporas. The course also provides opportunities for engagement with visiting artists, curators, critics, and historians. Consistent participation, independent research, writing assignments, and
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Visual Arts Lecture Series Seminar — VA4218.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Liz White
Credits: 2
This seminar complements the Visual Arts Lecture Series (VALS), providing opportunities for extended engagement with visiting artists, curators, and historians and offering additional context for their public lectures through related readings and discussions. Independent research, short writing assignments, and oral presentations may be required. Please note: Students
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Visual Arts Lecture Series Seminar — VA4218.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
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

Visual Arts Lecture Series Seminar — VA4218.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
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

Visual Cultures of the Americas, 1500-Now — AH4119.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: J Vanessa Lyon
Credits: 4
Recognizing the sheer impossibility of a survey of American art, properly conceived, this micro-historical intermediate course selectively explores the arts, architecture, material, and visual cultures of North and Latin America—from Canada to the continent of South America, dwelling at length in the U.S. Through close looking, field trips, and transdisciplinary reading and
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Walls — VA2236.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Farhad Mirza
Credits: 2
In this course we will study what the wall does literally and symbolically. In architecture, walls are expected to delimit space and to support the roof. The built wall is where two diverse areas meet—one might say that the wall expresses the relationship between them. Walls make the existential struggle between an exterior and an interior tangible. We will discuss work by
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War/Disaster: The Ethics of the Photographer — PHO2109.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
Credits: 4
This course will explore the role photography has played in representing recent conflicts, disasters, and social upheaval from around the world.  As a class, we will read and view essays and films that articulate a wide range of perspectives.  Students will be expected to use their smartphones/camera phones off campus and develop a visual inquiry into our surrounding
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War/Disaster: The Ethics of the Photographer — PHO2109.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
Credits: 4
This course will explore the role photography has played in representing recent conflicts, disasters, and social upheaval from around the world. As a class, we will read and view essays and films that articulate a wide range of perspectives. Students will be expected to use their smartphones/camera phones off campus and develop a visual inquiry into our surrounding community.
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Watchmen: Watch US now — AH2287.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Credits: 2
The first and only season of Watchmen, HBO’s “alternate history” (based on the graphic novel that posited a real-life global crisis that, what?, perversely unites humanity) drives a broadly-conceived visual culture/cultural studies course in which we identify and analyze various themes, tropes, genres, histories, prophecies, and allegories on screen and off; both inside and
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Waterways: Exploring the Landscape and Watershed with Artist Marie Lorenz — VA2204.03

Spring 2019
Instructor: Anne Thompson
Credits: 1
In this class, taught on the occasion of Lorenz’s exhibition in Usdan Gallery, students study the landscape from Bennington to Stillwater, following the course of the Walloomsac and Hoosic Rivers. The group will look at the history of land use in the watershed, examine current ecological issues, and think about ways that current actions might affect the land. Each session,
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Ways to Manipulate the Two-Dimensional World — MA4102.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Sue Rees
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The class will be concerned with creating short animations utilizing two dimensional imagery. The animations will be created using both software and a MultiPlane Camera;MultiPlane set ups have been used for animators from Lotte Reiniger to Norman McLaren, Disney to Martha Colburn. The software programs used will be primarily After Effects, DragonFrame and Photoshop. Additional
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Wearable Paper Prints Experiment — PRI4215.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
Credits: 4
This course will explore the potential of wearable paper prints. To start, we will learn and practice simple printing methods that allow us to make prints into “use objects” that can be worn on the body. We will begin by looking at simple examples of paper dresses, party favors, disposable protection gear, and halloween costumes, as well as historical examples ranging from Dada
Dance Music Visual Arts

Wearable Paper Prints Experiment — PRI4215.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Thorsten Dennerline
Credits: 4
This course will explore the potential of wearable paper prints. To start, we will learn and practice simple printing methods that allow us to make prints into “use objects” that can be worn on the body. We will begin by looking at simple examples of paper dresses, party favors, disposable protection gear, and halloween costumes, as well as historical examples ranging from Dada
Visual Arts

Westworld Their World (Season 2) — AH4318.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Days & Time: TH 1:40pm-5:20pm
Credits: 4

Westworld (Season 2) HBO’s “science fiction western thriller” television series, drives a broadly-conceived visual culture/cultural studies course in which we identify and analyze various aesthetics and genres, histories and visions, typologies, theologies, and allegories on screen and off—both inside and outside the show’s narrative. Possibilities

Art History

Westworld/Our World — AH4115.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: J. Vanessa Lyon
Credits: 2
Season Two of Westworld, HBO’s “science fiction western thriller” television series, drives a broadly-conceived visual culture/cultural studies course in which we identify and analyze various themes, tropes, and genres, histories and visions, typologies and allegories on screen and off; both inside and outside the show’s narrative. Possibilities include: feminism, sexploitation
Visual Arts

Westworld/Our World — AH4115.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Credits: 2
Westworld, HBO's "science fiction western thriller" television series, drives a broadly-conceived visual culture/cultural studies course in which we identify and analyze various aesthetics and genres, histories and visions, typologies and allegories on screen and off; both inside and outside the show's narrative. Possibilities include: feminism, sexploitation, and the
Visual Arts

Westworld/^/Whose World? — AH4115.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Credits: 2
Season One of Westworld, HBO’s “science fiction western thriller” series, drives a broadly-conceived visual studies/cultural theory course in which we identify and analyze various themes, tropes, and genres, histories and visions, typologies and allegories on screen and off; both inside and outside the show’s narrative. Possibilities include: feminism, sexploitation, artificial
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What is Sculpture — SCU2106.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: John Umphlett (new faculty as of 8/24/2021)
Credits: 4
How do we make it? How do we talk about it? And what does it mean? How do we make objects in space? Is gravity our friend or foe? This course invites students to investigate the fundamental principles of sculpture while encouraging exploration of classical and contemporary approaches. Sessions are intensive explorations into a variety of techniques and materials including
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What is Sculpture? — SCU2106.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Jon Isherwood
Credits: 4
How do we make it? How do we talk about it? And what does it mean? This course invites students to investigate the fundamental principals of sculpture while encouraging exploration of classical and contemporary approaches. Sessions are intensive explorations into a variety of techniques and materials including plaster, wood, cardboard, Styrofoam and metal. Regular slide
Visual Arts

What is Sculpture? — SCU2106.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Jon Isherwood
Credits: 4
How do we make it? How do we talk about it? And what does it mean? This course invites students to investigate the fundamental principals of sculpture while encouraging exploration of classical and contemporary approaches. Sessions are intensive explorations into a variety of techniques and materials including plaster, wood, cardboard, Styrofoam and metal. Regular slide
Visual Arts

What is Sculpture? — SCU2106.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: jon isherwood
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
How do we make it? How do we talk about it? And what does it mean? How do we make objects in space? Is gravity our friend or foe? This course invites students to investigate the fundamental principles of sculpture while encouraging exploration of classical and contemporary approaches. Sessions are intensive explorations into a variety of techniques and materials including
Visual Arts

When Technology and the Human Body become Partners, Who Leads? — DAN4294.02

Spring 2024
Instructor: Levi Gonzalez
Credits: 1
This hands-on intensive course is taught by visiting artist Cathy Weis, who will be showing videos she shot in the studios and on the streets of New York City from 1983 to today. Examining these archival videos will serve as a launching pad for students to begin their own collaborative projects. Through these collaborative projects, students will have an opportunity to expand
Dance Visual Arts

Women and Moving Image Arts — FV2106.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Kate Purdie
Credits: 2
A look at women’s roles in the history of the moving image—as subject, object, maker, viewer, consumer, and critic. What influence has feminism had on how we make and watch moving images today? We’ll study typically female roles within the film industry and notable women who occupied them, as well women who broke barriers to penetrate traditionally male realms. We’ll look at
Visual Arts

Women and Moving Image Arts — FV2106.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Kate Purdie
Credits: 2
A look at women’s roles in the history of the moving image—as subject, object, maker, viewer, consumer, and critic. What influence has feminism had on how we make and watch moving images today? We’ll study typically female roles within the film industry and notable women who occupied them, as well women who broke barriers to penetrate traditionally male realms. We’ll look at
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