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Our Curated World: Seeing a Trend through the Lens of Tradition — VA2243.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Anne Thompson
Credits: 4
From art biennials to restaurant menus, a widening swath of contemporary culture seems to involve, even require, the hand of a curator. So what exactly does it mean to BE a curator? How and why did this activity develop into a profession and from a profession into a trend? Where did the role of curator originate and how has it evolved over time? To answer these questions, this
Visual Arts

Our Curated World: Seeing a Trend Through the Lens of Tradition — VA2243.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Anne Thompson
Credits: 4
From bookstore shelves to restaurant menus, a widening swath of contemporary life seems to involve, even require, the hand of a curator. So what exactly does it mean to BE a curator? Where did the profession of curator originate and how has it evolved? This introductory class considers historical examples of acquisition and display from the sixteenth century to today;
Visual Arts

Our Monsters, Ourselves — SPA4715.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Sarah Harris
Credits: 4
"We live in a time of monsters," writes Jeffrey Jerome Cohen in Monster Theory. By mixing categories or defying categorization altogether, monsters may be apt emblems for a postmodern age, yet it would be a mistake to imply that monsters are a creation of postmodernity. The monstrous figures that dominate popular contemporary culture come from a long artistic tradition,
Languages

Our Monsters, Ourselves — SPA4715.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Sarah Harris
Credits: 4
"We live in a time of monsters," writes Jeffrey Jerome Cohen in Monster Theory. As beings who mix categories or defy categorization altogether, monsters may be apt emblems for a postmodern age, yet it would be a mistake to imply that monsters are a creation of postmodernity. The monstrous figures that dominate popular contemporary culture come from a long artistic tradition,
Languages

Our Monsters, Ourselves — SPA4715.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Sarah Harris
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
'We live in a time of monsters,' writes Jeffrey Jerome Cohen in Monster Theory. As beings who mix categories or defy categorization altogether, monsters may be apt emblems for a postmodern age, yet it would be a mistake to imply that monsters are a creation of postmodernity. The monstrous figures that dominate popular contemporary culture come from a long artistic tradition,
Languages

Out of Dark Noise: The History of Black Documentary Poetics — LIT4357.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
“Dark noise,” as Black video artist Lawrence Andrews calls it, is an alternate truth-building system. The idea of dark noise indicates a sort of failed consensual reality, or in Audre Lorde’s terminology, a “chaos of knowledge.” Dark noise is the area outside of the state-sanctioned truth that the justice system, for instance, relies upon. As such, we will use the phrase “dark
Literature

Out of the Ordinary: Costume Design for Fantasy — DRA4126.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Charles Schoonmaker
Credits: 4
How do you design clothes for a world that that does not exist? In this class we will be doing that with a series of projects. Worlds may be extraterrestrial, riffs on human history in the manner of Game of Thrones, or purely an invention of the author. We will explore methodology to find inspiration in the worlds of art, science, costume history, and our own imaginations.
Drama

Out of the Ordinary: Costume Design for Fantasy — DRA4256.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Charles Schoonmaker
Credits: 4
How do you design clothes for a world that that does not exist? In this class we will be doing that with a series of projects. Worlds may be extraterrestrial, riffs on human history in the manner of Game of Thrones, or purely an invention of the author. We will explore methodology to find inspiration in the worlds of art, science, costume history, and our own imaginations.
Dance Drama

Out of the Woods: Advanced Reading in Conservation and Ecology — BIO4191.01

Fall 2026
Instructor: Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie
Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 2

The idea of old growth forests evokes romantic notions of "wild" and "natural" landscapes, especially in Vermont where our settler-colonial history includes rapid and widespread deforestation for logging and agriculture. How do ecologists identify "old growth" and what lessons about ecological structure, function, and processes can we learn from these

Environment Biology

Outsiders Within: Pariahs, Parasites, and Other Others — POL4208.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Eileen Scully
Credits: 4
Who counts--and who does not count--as a rights-bearing member of a community? What criteria do communities rely upon to determine membership? These questions about inclusion, exclusion, and membership are familiar to students of the social sciences. In this course, we will move beyond the familiar categories of insiders and outsiders to investigate the “outsiders within,”
Society Culture and Thought

Packaging the Body: The History of Fashion — DRA2223.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Charles Schoonmaker
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This class will examine the history of fashion, primarily but not exclusively in the western world. The class will be oriented towards the use of historic costume by costume designers. Students will explore art works illustrative of the period styles and the interpretation of those styles by designers. Corequisites: Dance or Drama lab assignment.
Drama

Packaging the Body: The History of Fashion — DRA2223.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Charles Schoonmaker
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This class will examine the history of fashion, primarily in the western world, from ancient to modern. The class will be oriented towards the use of historic costume by costume designers. Students will explore art works illustrative of the period styles and the interpretation of those styles by designers, often in films. We will also contextualize clothing as a part of social
Drama

Paganism — HIS4107.02

Fall 2015
Instructor: Stephen Higa
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
When the Roman Empire became Christian early in the 4th century, traditional Greco-Roman religions as well as the various local and indigenous religions of Europe and the Mediterranean were all lumped into one new category of difference and otherness:  the pagan.  In this seven-week course, we will examine the creation of "paganism" by the early medieval Christian
Society Culture and Thought

Paint to Motions — MA2108.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Sue Rees
Credits: 4
Paint to motions an introductory course that explores animation with as little digital, technical involvement as possible. It is catered to those who are curious about the medium but put off by the technicalities. Working with the most immediate methods of giving movement to still images. We will focus mostly on traditional animation, namely hand-drawn animation, stop motion
Visual Arts

Painterly Painters Portraiture — AH4122.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Credits: 2
According to art historical tradition, “painterly painters” are those whose work exhibits a gestural, often loose, facture that makes the viewer conscious of its painted quality through visible brushwork, inchoate, haptic, blotches and sometimes, heavy impasto. Portraits, like painterly painting, are thought to be largely concerned with fixing or situating individuality,
Visual Arts

Painters and Fashion — DRA2261.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
This is a fashion history class inspired by the exhibition “Fashioned by Sargent” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. We will be examining the works of various artists and how they were inspired by and influenced the world of fashionable dress. Some of the questions we may explore include: How did the artist alter the original garment? How did the artist’s work influence the
Drama

Painting in Context — PAI2110.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Andrew Spence
Credits: 4
There are many reasons Painting continues to be relevant over the long course of its history. This history and its consequential styles are the focus for art making and discussion in this class. Students develop their own visual thinking in the context of specific periods in Painting. Weekly projects and reading assignments, group critiques and other art related discussions
Visual Arts

Painting Practice — PAI4214.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Ann Pibal
Credits: 4
This course will provide the student a broad platform from which to continue investigations in painting. Emphasis will be placed on cultivating research and conceptual concerns as well as the continued development of an understanding of materials, color, form, and space. Students will look to examples of twentieth and twenty-first century artists and their studio practices to
Visual Arts

Painting Studio — PAI4204.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Ann Pibal
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course will provide the student a broad platform from which to continue investigations in painting. Emphasis will be placed on cultivating individual research and conceptual concerns as well as the continued development of an understanding of color, form, and space. The daily experience of looking, along with the history of art will provide a base from which investigations
Visual Arts

Painting Studio — PAI4204.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Ann Pibal
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course will provide the student a broad platform from which to continue investigations in painting. Emphasis will be placed on cultivating individual research and conceptual concerns as well as the continued development of an understanding of color, form, and space. The daily experience of looking, along with the history of art will provide a base from which investigations
Visual Arts

Painting Studio: Visual Inquiry in Context — PAI4220.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Ann Pibal
Days & Time: TU 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

This intermediate level painting course will take as its platform the investigation of writing by artists about art and artists. While developing their own self-defined studio practices, students will engage with primary documents of art history - artists' essays, letters and sketchbooks. Students will work to establish a sense

Painting

Painting the Extended Field — PAI4303.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Melissa Thorne
Credits: 4
This course takes its name from a pivotal painting exhibition held in Sweden in 1997.  In this show, the curators attempted to question the parameters of Painting, and to track “Painterly” qualities in other media.  Since at least the mid-20th Century, artists have experimented with an elastic definition of painting -- as a form that can be sculptural,
Visual Arts

Pakistani Fiction — LIT4269.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Brooke Allen
Credits: 4
The literature of the Indian subcontinent has a rich and ancient history. The violent partition of India in 1947 and the birth of the new nation of Pakistan saw a new national consciousness and literature emerge. In this class we will read the work of a variety of Pakistani writers. Authors considered will probably include, but might not be limited to, Jamil Ahmad, Fatima
Literature

Papermaking with Plants — SCU2304.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
Papermaking is an ancient, traditional craft with a history that reflects our fundamental humanity. It is a process that simultaneously relies on and reveals the nature of plants and place. Papermaking With Plants engages with the materiality of both paper and plants through observation, hands-on making, inquiry, research, and design. Through this exploration, we will acquire
Visual Arts