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Intermediate Painting: From Practice to Discovery — PAI4405.01

Instructor: J Blackwell
Credits: 4
This course is intended for the student who is looking specifically to build a robust studio practice as well as the capacity to work independently on self-directed projects.. Experimenting with materials, techniques, and styles in painting will be encouraged in order to develop an artistic sensibility while instituting regular work habits. Assigned projects and independent

Intermediate Painting: From Practice to Discovery — PAI4405.01

Instructor: J Blackwell
Credits: 4
This course is intended for the student who is looking to build a robust studio practice. Experimenting with materials, techniques, and styles in painting will be encouraged in order to develop an artistic sensibility while instituting regular work habits. Assigned projects and independent work are intended to develop problem-solving as well as problem-finding skills. Group

Intermediate Painting: From Practice to Discovery — PAI4405.01

Instructor: J Blackwell
Credits: 4
This course is intended for the student who is looking to build a robust studio practice. Experimenting with materials, techniques, and styles in painting will be encouraged in order to develop an artistic sensibility while instituting regular work habits. Assigned projects and independent work are intended to develop problem-solving as well as problem-finding skills. Group

Intermediate Painting: From Practice to Discovery — PAI4405.01

Instructor: J Blackwell
Credits: 4
This course is intended for the student who is looking specifically to build a robust studio practice as well as the capacity to work independently on self-directed projects.. Experimenting with materials, techniques, and styles in painting will be encouraged in order to develop an artistic sensibility while instituting regular work habits. Assigned projects and independent

Intermediate Painting: From Practice to Discovery — PAI4405.01

Instructor: J Blackwell
Credits: 4
This course is intended for the student who is looking specifically to build a robust studio practice as well as the capacity to work independently on self-directed projects.. Experimenting with materials, techniques, and styles in painting will be encouraged in order to develop an artistic sensibility while instituting regular work habits. Assigned projects and independent

Intermediate Painting: Ground to Surface — PAI4219.01

Instructor: Beverly Acha
Days & Time: TU 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

When you first learn how to paint, the focus is typically on gaining facility with the application and manipulation of paint to articulate the subject. In this intermediate course, we shift our attention to the often overlooked step that precedes painting: preparing the surface. 

Intermediate Painting: Scale, Process, and Presence — PAI4301.01

Instructor: Josh Blackwell
Credits: 4
This studio-seminar course will investigate painting through its history and practice at Bennington College. Using paintings in the permanent collection of the College as a starting point, we will think through the strategies deployed by artists such as Helen Frankenthaler, Paul Feeley, Jules Olitski, Ann Truitt, Ralph Humphrey, and Larry Poons among others. Additionally, we

Intermediate Painting: Scale, Process, and Presence — PAI4301.01

Instructor: J Blackwell
Credits: 4
This seminar-studio course will investigate painting from an historical perspective. Using the permanent collection of the College as a starting point, we will think through the strategies deployed by painters working in the context of Bennington from 1950-1980. We will study works by Helen Frankenthaler, Paul Feeley, Jules Olitski, Norman Bluhm, Ralph Humphrey, and Larry Poons

Intermediate Piano — MIN4236.01

Instructor: Yoshiko Sato
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2

This course is intended for students with some playing and reading experience.

Students will expand upon a repertoire of scales and chords.

They will study and learn to play selected compositions.

Intermediate Piano — MIN4236.01

Instructor: Yoshiko Sato
Credits: 2
This course is intended for students with some playing and reading experience, who have passed Piano Lab I or its equivalent. The goals of this course are to gain ease and dexterity at the keyboard, further developing a confident piano technique, musical expression, and the skill of reading musical notation. Students will expand upon a repertoire of scales and chords. They will

Intermediate Piano — MIN4236.01

Instructor: Yoshiko Sato
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2

This course is intended for students with some playing and reading experience, who have passed Piano Lab I or its equivalent. The goals of this course are to gain ease and dexterity at the keyboard, further developing a confident piano technique, musical expression, and the skill of reading musical notation. Students will expand upon a repertoire of scales and chords. They

Intermediate Playwriting: The Scene and Structure — DRA4140.01

Instructor: john walch
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
The scene is to the playwright as the chapter is to the novelist; it is the primary building block of the play. Working playwrights craft their plays by putting one scene in front of (or behind, or on top of) another. This course invites intermediate and advanced playwrights to enter their plays through scene work and will challenge writers to write in a number of different

Intermediate Potter's Wheel: Implementation for Form Development — CER4269.01

Instructor: Aysha Peltz
Credits: 2
This 2-credit course is for students who wish to continue to develop their wheel throwing skills. Student must have previously taken Beginning Wheel Throwing or receive permission from the instructor (this will be based on your previous wheel throwing experience). Assignments will include combining wheel throwing and hand building techniques to make multiple sectioned, large

Intermediate Recording: Capturing the Song — MSR4122.01

Instructor: Eli Crews
Credits: 4
This course will guide students through the entire process of recording a song, from pre-production through the final mix. We will team up with a few songwriters and give them the full support of the studio and our skills to help them realize their recording goals. Students will be expected to complete a mid-term project as well as a final project.

Intermediate Throwing — CER4104.01

Instructor: Aysha Peltz
Credits: 4
In this course students will continue to develop their throwing skills and begin to define their own approach to using the potter’s wheel as a tool for generating forms.  They will be asked to expand their form vocabulary on the wheel and further integrate form and fired surface.  Students interested in function will be asked to look closely at those associated

Intermediate Video — FV4143.01

Instructor: Kate Purdie
Credits: 4
Intermediate Video will build on technical skills introduced in Intro to Video. Students will be expected to produce in-class technical exercises, short projects assigned by the instructor, and one final project of their own design. Assigned projects and assignments will have both technical and conceptual constraints. This semester of Intermediate Video will give a broad

Intermediate Video Intensive — FV4309.02

Instructor: Jen Liu
Credits: 2
Intermediate Video Intensive will build on the technical skills introduced in Intro to Video, introducing a broad range of higher-level equipment and methods in both production and post-production editing. Students will complete multiple in-class technical exercises, and one project of their own design. This semester of Intermediate Video will be an abbreviated version of a

Intermediate Video Intensive — FV4309.03

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
Intermediate Video Intensive will build on the technical skills introduced in Intro to Video, introducing a broad range of higher-level equipment and methods in both production and post-production editing. Students will complete multiple in-class technical exercises, and one project of their own design. This semester of Intermediate Video will be an abbreviated version of a

Intermediate Video Intensive —

Instructor: Jen Liu
Credits: 2
Intermediate Video Intensive will build on the technical skills introduced in Intro to Video, introducing a broad range of higher-level equipment and methods in both production and post-production editing. Students will complete multiple in-class technical exercises, and one project of their own design. This semester of Intermediate Video will be an abbreviated version of a

Intermediate Video Production: Reversing the Eye and Ear — FV4308.01

Instructor: Jonathan Schwartz
Credits: 2
This intermediate moving image course begins with aural experiments before it moves into a film/video space. We will be attentive to sound as a force that conjures inner images and provokes cinematic/experiential feelings without the use of images. For the first couple of weeks we will make imageless films (or sound only projects) constructed with cinematic experiences in mind.

Intermediate Video: Amnesia and the Archive — FV4321.01

Instructor: Jen Liu
Credits: 4
Intermediate Video: Amnesia and the Archive is an in-person course with remote options, building on the technical skills introduced in Intro to Video.  Students will be expected to produce technical exercises, one short project assigned by the instructor, and one final project of their own design. Shorter assigned exercises will have specific technical constraints. These

Intermediate Video: Contemporary Approaches — FV4117.01

Instructor: Jen Liu
Credits: 4
Intermediate Video will build on technical skills introduced in Intro to Video. Students will be expected to produce in-class technical exercises, two short projects assigned by the instructor, and one final project of their own design. This semester of Intermediate Video will give a broad overview of contemporary approaches to pre-production, production, and editing, with an

Intermediate Video: Contrapuntal Contested Narratives — FV4109.01

Instructor: Mariam Ghani
Credits: 4
Intermediate Video will build on technical skills introduced in Intro to Video. Students will be expected to produce in-class technical exercises, two short projects assigned by the instructor, and one final project of their own design. This semester of Intermediate Video will be focused on the following thematic, conceptual and formal questions: How do we approach storytelling

Intermediate Video: Documentary Practices — FV4333.01

Instructor: Mariam Ghani
Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

Intermediate Video builds on the concepts and technical skills introduced in Intro to Video, and has a different theme each term. This semester of Intermediate Video will be focused on the following thematic, conceptual and formal questions. Documentary as a form or genre has expanded over the past century to encompass a wide range of