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Art of Alterity: Representation and Otherness in American Visual Culture, 1839-1939 — AH2347.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Credits: 4
From the advent of photography to the start of the second World War, American art, the cultural product of a former British colony younger than many of its foreign-born citizens, had what many perceived as "otherness" to contend with. Immigrants, enslaved and later freed, blacks, women of all sorts, sexual “deviants,” religious outsiders, the disabled, among other and
Visual Arts

Art of Resistance: The Bennington College Poster Project (part 1) — VA2118.02

Fall 2018
Instructor: Ann Pibal
Credits: 2
This course will provide a collaborative site for the production of distributable protest and resistance imagery, as well as a shared investigation into the rich international history of political posters and related ephemera. Students will be provided structure both in which to work together on research, and on the design, production, and distribution of imagery. Discussion
Visual Arts

Art of Resistance: The Bennington College Poster Project (part 2) — VA2119.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Ann Pibal
Credits: 2
This course will provide a collaborative site for the production of distributable protest and resistance imagery, as well as a shared investigation into the rich international history of political posters and related ephemera. Students will be provided structure both in which to work together on research, and on the design, production, and distribution of imagery. Discussion of
CAPA Visual Arts

Art of the Islamic World — AH2123.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Razan Francis
Credits: 4
This course is an introduction to the art of the Islamic world from the late seventh century to the present, covering a geography that extends from Central and South Asia to North Africa and Spain. Focusing on objects of different materials (e.g., mosaics, textiles, metalwork, painting, sculpture, wood, ivory carvings, illuminated manuscripts, and glassware), we will pay
Visual Arts

Art on the Brink of Modernity in the 18th Century — AH4103.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Zirwat Chowdhury
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This seminar explores how art and visual culture in France, Britain, and South Asia catalyzed and were informed by an emerging culture of modernity in the 18th century. By situating the relationship between art and modernity within global networks of trade, diplomacy, and colonial power, the course also offers students an opportunity to asses the ways in which art instantiated
Visual Arts

Art, Visual Culture, and Empire in the Nineteenth Century — AH4104.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Zirwat Chowdhury
Credits: 4
This course will engage students with a critical history of nineteenth-century art and visual culture in Europe (primarily France, Britain, and Belgium) and its colonial domains in North and Central Africa, the Near and Middle East, and South Asia. It will thus explore how nineteenth-century art and visual culture instantiated the psychological, physical, and imaginative
Visual Arts

Artist's Portfolio — DAN4366.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Explaining artwork often goes against the grain, yet artists are regularly called upon to articulate their processes, tools, and dynamics of collaboration. To help secure any of the myriad forms of institutional support including funding, venues, and engagements, artists must develop--creatively and flexibly--essential skills. Finding a public language for what is the private
Dance Drama Music Visual Arts

Artist's Portfolio — DAN4366.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
Explaining artwork often goes against the grain, yet artists are regularly called upon to articulate their processes, tools, and dynamics of collaboration. To help secure any of the myriad forms of institutional support including funding, venues, and engagements, artists must develop–creatively and flexibly–essential skills. Finding a public language for what is the private
Dance Drama Music Visual Arts

Artist's Portfolio — DAN4366.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
Explaining artwork often goes against the grain, yet artists are regularly called upon to articulate their processes, tools, and dynamics of collaboration. To help secure any of the myriad forms of institutional support including funding, venues, and engagements, artists must develop–creatively and flexibly–essential skills. Finding a public language for what is the private
Dance Drama Music Visual Arts

Artist's Portfolio — DAN4366.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: dana reitz
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
Explaining art work often goes against the grain, yet artists are regularly called upon to articulate their processes, tools, and dynamics of collaboration. To help secure any of the myriad forms of institutional support including funding, venues, and engagements, artists must develop, creatively and flexibly, essential skills. Finding a public language for what is the private
Dance Drama Music Visual Arts

Artist's Portfolio — DAN4366.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
Explaining artwork often goes against the grain, yet artists are regularly called upon to articulate their processes, tools, and dynamics of collaboration. To help secure any of the myriad forms of institutional support including funding, venues, and engagements, artists must develop–creatively and flexibly–essential skills. Finding a public language for what is the private
Dance Drama Music Visual Arts

Artist's Portfolio — DAN4366.01) (cancelled

Fall 2021
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
Explaining artwork often goes against the grain, yet artists are regularly called upon to articulate their processes, tools, and dynamics of collaboration. To help secure any of the myriad forms of institutional support including funding, venues, and engagements, artists must develop essential skills, creatively and flexibly. Finding a public language for what is the private
Dance Drama Visual Arts

Artist's Portfolio: Parts I (the verbal) Part II (the visual) — DAN4150.01 (cancelled

Fall 2021
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 4
This is for advanced students (juniors and seniors) of the performing arts and visual arts disciplines who wish to find the language, both verbally and visually, that is reflective of their true creative processes, helps clarify and further their own investigations, and is readily available to present to others. Finding a public language for what is the private process of
Dance Drama Music Visual Arts

Arts of Asia — AH2406.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
This course is an introductory survey of major artistic and cultural traditions of Asia. Selected works of art of India, China, and Japan from the prehistoric period to the twenty-first century in various medias including architecture, sculptures, bronzes, ceramics, paintings, calligraphy, and woodblock prints will be discussed. The course invites students to understand and
Visual Arts

Basic Visual Programming and Parametric Modeling — DA2115.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
**** New day/time as of 2/8/2022 **** Parametric modeling can be used to create generative art, repetitive architectural elements, structural models, and statistical data among many other uses. A visual programming language (VPL) is one that uses graphic elements within an interface rather than textual code. This course is an introduction to creating visual material through
Visual Arts

Beckett (19x19) — MA4103.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Sue Rees
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The class will use a variety of texts of Samuel Beckett as the basis for the class. These will include the short stories, plays and radio plays.  We will watch a selection of the Beckett on Film (19 films x 19 directors) series produced by Michael Colgan and Alan Moloney.  The series includes a number of interpretations for the plays from the directors. This approach
Drama Visual Arts

Beginning Potter's Wheel — CER2107.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Aysha Peltz
Credits: 4
This class is an introduction to using the potter’s wheel as a tool for generating clay forms with an emphasis on pottery making. While focusing on the development of throwing skills, students will explore various possibilities for assembling wheel-thrown elements and will experiment with both functional and non-functional formats. Students will be introduced to the whole
Visual Arts

Beginning Potter's Wheel — CER2107.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Aysha Peltz
Credits: 4
This class is an introduction to using the potter's wheel as a tool for generating clay forms with an emphasis on pottery making. While focusing on the development of throwing skills, students will explore various possibilities for assembling wheel-thrown elements and will experiment with both functional and non-functional formats. Students will be introduced to the whole
Visual Arts

Beginning Potter's Wheel — CER2107.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Aysha Peltz
Credits: 4
This class is an introduction to using the potter’s wheel as a tool for generating clay forms with an emphasis on pottery making. While focusing on the development of throwing skills, students will explore various possibilities for assembling wheel-thrown elements and will experiment with both functional and non-functional formats. Students will be introduced to the whole
Visual Arts

Beginning Potters Wheel — CER2107.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Aysha Peltz
Credits: 4
This class is an introduction to using the potters wheel as a tool for generating clay forms with an emphasis on pottery making. While focusing on the development of throwing skills, students will explore various possibilities for assembling wheel-thrown elements and will experiment with both functional and non-functional formats. Students will be introduced to the whole
Visual Arts

Beginning Potters Wheel — CER2107.02

Spring 2014
Instructor: Aysha Peltz
Credits: 4
This class is an introduction to using the potters wheel as a tool for generating clay forms with an emphasis on pottery making. While focusing on the development of throwing skills, students will explore various possibilities for assembling wheel-thrown elements and will experiment with both functional and non-functional formats. Students will be introduced to the whole
Visual Arts

Beginning Potters Wheel — CER2107.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Aysha Peltz
Credits: 4
This class is an introduction to using the potters wheel as a tool for generating clay forms with an emphasis on pottery making. While focusing on the development of throwing skills, students will explore various possibilities for assembling wheel-thrown elements and will experiment with both functional and non-functional formats. Students will be introduced to the whole
Visual Arts

Beginning Potters Wheel — CER2107.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: aysha peltz
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This class is an introduction to using the potters wheel as a tool for generating clay forms with an emphasis on pottery making. While focusing on the development of throwing skills, students will explore various possibilities for assembling wheel-thrown elements and will experiment with both functional and non-functional formats. Students will be introduced to the whole
Visual Arts

Beginning Potter’s Wheel — CER2107.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Aysha Peltz
Credits: 4
This class is an introduction to using the potter’s wheel as a tool for generating clay forms with an emphasis on pottery making. While focusing on the development of throwing skills, students will explore various possibilities for assembling wheel-thrown elements and will experiment with both functional and non-functional formats. Students will be introduced to the whole
Visual Arts