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Drama Faculty Production: Backstage — DRA4179.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Credits: 1
Working back stage on the Drama Faculty production provides an opportunity to learn what is involved in putting on a performance, and to observe the creative process of the director, designers and actors first hand. Students will fill a role through the week of technical rehearsals and performances, either as general run crew, light or sound board operator, or wardrobe crew,
Drama

Dramatic Underscore Sound Design — MSR4102.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: David Baron
Credits: 2
This is a hands-on course on making dramatic soundtracks for media and/or live performances.  We will learn to create soundtracks by careful analysis of scenes from dramas, science fiction, and horror. We will explore the materials used: acoustic, electronic, found sounds, and field-captured sounds. Pacing, tempo, and density.  How silence is used.  What makes
Music

Dramaturgies of Care — APA4169.02

Fall 2024
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 1
We all need more care. That much is clear. As it pertains to modern social justice and public action projects, the imperative to incorporate systems of care and healing into the greater conversation has increased dynamically. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and increased environmental issues due to climate change, it has become even more vital to consider holistic care
CAPA Dance Drama

Draw/Read/Write Sound I — MSR2213.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Cristian Amigo
Days & Time: MO 3:40pm-5:30pm
Credits: 2

In this course, we will draw/write/read ways to consider and make music and sound. This is a class for all artists (music, theater, visual arts, film & video, dance, animation, critical studies) who are interested in making and notating their own sounds, but might not have experience (or limited experience) with formal music studies or

Sound Design and Recording

Drawing As A Verb: Exploring Uncertainty — DRW2120.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: J Blackwell
Credits: 4
Conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach. Rational judgements repeat rational judgements. Irrational judgements lead to new experience. Formal art is essentially rational. Irrational thoughts should be followed absolutely and logically. -Sol LeWitt, “Sentences on Conceptual Art” 1969 Shying away from the
Visual Arts

Drawing As A Verb: Exploring Uncertainty — DRW2120.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: J Blackwell
Credits: 4
Conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach. Rational judgements repeat rational judgements. Irrational judgements lead to new experience. Formal art is essentially rational. Irrational thoughts should be followed absolutely and logically. -Sol LeWitt, “Sentences on Conceptual Art” 1969 Shying away from
Visual Arts

Drawing As A Verb: Exploring Uncertainty — DRW2120.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Josh Blackwell
Credits: 4
Shying away from the static, resolved, or finished image, this course will explore drawing as a process of ongoing inquiry. It is intended to foster an experimental and experiential approach to making art, generally eschewing representation. Students will engage with various techniques and processes to make drawings that document experience as well as create an image. Topics to
Visual Arts

Drawing As A Verb: Exploring Uncertainty — DRW2120.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: J Blackwell
Credits: 4
1. Conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach. 2. Rational judgements repeat rational judgements. 3. Irrational judgements lead to new experience. 4. Formal art is essentially rational. 5. Irrational thoughts should be followed absolutely and logically. -Sol LeWitt, “Sentences on Conceptual Art” 1969 Shying away
Visual Arts

Drawing As A Verb: Exploring Uncertainty — DRW2120.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: J Blackwell
Credits: 4
Shying away from the static, resolved, or finished image, this course will explore drawing as a process of ongoing inquiry. It is intended to foster an experimental and experiential approach to making art, generally eschewing representation. Students will engage with various techniques and processes to make drawings that document experience as well as create an image. Topics to
Visual Arts

Drawing As A Verb: Exploring Uncertainty — DRW2120.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: J Blackwell
Credits: 4
Conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach. Rational judgements repeat rational judgements. Irrational judgements lead to new experience. Formal art is essentially rational. Irrational thoughts should be followed absolutely and logically. -Sol LeWitt, “Sentences on Conceptual Art” 1969 Shying away from
Visual Arts

Drawing As Record — DRW2121.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Annette Lawrence
Credits: 4
The fundamentals of drawing are the basic tools for this investigation into seeing and translation. Using simple methods and means, the practice of drawing is approached from both traditional and experimental directions. The focus of this inquiry is on drawing from observation, broadly defined. In class drawing sessions and discussions are complemented by independent, outside
Visual Arts

Drawing as Record — DRW2121.02

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
The fundamentals of drawing are the basic tools for this investigation into seeing and translation. Using simple methods and means, the practice of drawing is approached from both traditional and experimental directions. The focus of this inquiry is on drawing from observation, broadly defined. In class drawing sessions and discussions are complemented by independent, outside
Visual Arts

Drawing As Record — DRW2121.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Mary Lum
Credits: 4
The fundamentals of drawing are the basic tools for this investigation into seeing and translation. Using simple methods and means, the practice of drawing is approached from both traditional and experimental directions. The focus of this inquiry is on drawing from observation, broadly defined. In class drawing sessions are complemented by independent, outside of class work and
Visual Arts

Drawing as Record — DRW2121.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: J Blackwell
Credits: 4
The fundamentals of drawing are the basic tools for this investigation into seeing and translation. Using simple methods and means, the practice of drawing is approached from both traditional and experimental directions. The focus of this inquiry is on drawing from observation, broadly defined. In class drawing sessions and discussions are complemented by independent, outside
Visual Arts

Drawing As Record — DRW2121.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Annette Lawrence
Credits: 4
The fundamentals of drawing are the basic tools for this investigation into seeing and translation. Using simple methods and means, the practice of drawing is approached from both traditional and experimental directions. The focus of this inquiry is on drawing from observation, broadly defined. In class drawing sessions and discussions are complemented by independent, outside
Visual Arts

Drawing As Record — DRW2121.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Colin Brant
Credits: 4
The fundamentals of drawing are the basic tools for this investigation into seeing and translation. Using simple methods and means, the practice of drawing is approached from both traditional and experimental directions. The focus of this inquiry is on drawing from observation, broadly defined. In class drawing sessions and discussions are complemented by independent, outside
Visual Arts

Drawing Everywhere — DRW4239.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Mary Lum
Credits: 4
Interior and exterior, observed and imagined, expansive and intimate, this course revolves around drawings of place. In class we examine natural, architectural, and narrative spaces through readings and visual references that push the definition of drawing in many different directions. Students complete work weekly building a body of drawings that begins with assigned problems
Visual Arts

Drawing Everywhere — DRW4239.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Mary Lum
Credits: 4
Interior and exterior, observed and imagined, expansive and intimate, this course revolves around drawings of all sorts of spaces. In class we examine historical, narrative, architectural, and natural spaces through work that pushes the definition of drawing in many different directions, including drawing installation. Students complete work weekly building a body of drawings
Visual Arts

Drawing Everywhere — DRW4239.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Mary Lum
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Interior and exterior, observed and imagined, expansive and intimate, this course revolves around drawings of all kinds of spaces. In class we examine various historical, narrative, architectural, and natural spaces through work that pushes the definition of drawing in many different directions, including drawing installation. Students complete work weekly, building a body of
Visual Arts

Drawing Excess: Gesamtkunstwerk — DRW4403.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: J Blackwell
Credits: 4
The German term Gesamtkunstwerk roughly translates as a "total work of art" and refers to an artistic endeavor wherein various art forms are melded together to form a unified whole. Through the amalgamation of art, craft, music, and performance, Gesamtkunstwerk evokes a realm distinct from our everyday experience. In this course, we will explore the concept of Gesamtkunstwerk
Visual Arts

Drawing Excess: the Low Pleasures of Decoration — DRW4260.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Josh Blackwell
Credits: 4
“The modern man who tattoos himself is either a criminal or a degenerate.” —Adolf Loos, Ornament and Crime To decorate is to adorn, embellish, ornament, trim, garnish, furnish, enhance, grace, brighten, festoon, burnish, gild, bedazzle or prettify. Western culture has tended to regard decoration with suspicion, classifying it as “excess.” This studio course will consider the
Visual Arts

Drawing Excess: the Low Pleasures of Decoration — DRW4260.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Josh Blackwell
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
“The modern man who tattoos himself is either a criminal or a degenerate.” —Adolf Loos, Ornament and Crime To decorate is to adorn, embellish, ornament, trim, garnish, furnish, enhance, grace, brighten, festoon, burnish, gild, bedazzle or prettify. This studio course will consider the charged relationship between modernism and ornament, exploring decoration as a formal,
Visual Arts