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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 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 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

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 In Color — DRW4281.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Mary Lum
Credits: 4
From Kandinskyʹs teaching of color and analytical drawing at the Bauhaus, through modernism and minimalism to the invented worlds of many contemporary artists, ideas about color continually push drawing to its limits. This course provides an opportunity for students to develop a set of interests and impulses connected to translating and intermingling the languages of color and
Visual Arts

Drawing In Pieces: Collage, Décollage, Assemblage — DRW4111.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Mary Lum
Credits: 4
Since the beginning of the 20th century, collage has existed as a vehicle for the most diverse ideas and political concerns of the times. Collage is not simply a method of assembly, a way to bring unrelated fragments into new contexts, but a way of thinking that reflects revolution of all kinds. From Victorian women’s photo albums, to Picasso, to Hannah Hoch and more recently
Visual Arts

Drawing Intensive Rome - FWT 2014 — AH4309.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Donald Sherefkin; Dan Hofstadter
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Dan Hofstadter and Donald Sherefkin will be offering a three week drawing intensive in Rome, Italy for FWT 2014.  The focus of the studio will be the art and architecture of Rome. Mornings will be spent doing on-site sketching, and afternoon studio sessions will be organized around specific workshops. The cost of the class is still being
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Drawing Intensive Rome - FWT 2014 — AH4309.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Donald Sherefkin; Dan Hofstadter
Credits: 4
Dan Hofstadter and Donald Sherefkin will be offering a three week drawing intensive in Rome, Italy for FWT 2014. The focus of the studio will be the art and architecture of Rome. Mornings will be spent doing on-site sketching, and afternoon studio sessions will be organized around specific workshops. The cost of the class is still being calculated, but will be around $2,726.
Visual Arts

Drawing Intensive: Conditions for Visual Inquiry — DRW4238.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Ann Pibal
Credits: 4
What strategies do artists use to efficiently develop an initial idea? How does one sustain a meaningful, vital, creative inquiry? How can a direct connection be made between daily life and making images, and between the personal, and public or political worlds? This intermediate level course will address these questions through an intensive immersion in drawing and
Visual Arts

Drawing Intensive: Conditions for Visual Inquiry — DRW4238.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Ann Pibal
Credits: 4
What strategies do artists use to efficiently develop an initial idea? How does one sustain a meaningful, vital, creative inquiry? How can a direct connection be made between daily life and making images, and between the personal, and public or political worlds? This intermediate level course will address these questions through an intensive immersion in drawing and
Visual Arts

Drawing Is a Verb — DRW2119.01

Spring 2016
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 artmaking, 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

Dress Up, Drag, and Fashion — VA4219.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Josh Blackwell
Credits: 4
Dress up parties, masquerade balls, nightclubs, fashion shows, and parades have offered artists the opportunity to go against the grain of dominant culture. As outsiders, radicals, and nonconformists, artists used their marginal status to subvert expectations, challenge authority, and thwart convention. This course will examine the ways costume has been deployed to interrogate
Visual Arts

Droughts Floods - an Economic Analysis of Natural Disasters — PEC2107.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Lopamudra Banerjee
Credits: 4
Extreme fluctuations in rainfall and temperature may bring about drought and flood conditions in a region, but, the experiences of these natural extremes are not similar for all regions of the world. Neither are their effects similar for all people living in an affected region. Why are the disaster experiences spatially different? Why are the disaster exposure effects unequal
CAPA Environment Society Culture and Thought

Drum Set Fundamentals — MIN2261.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
This course is for students who have moderate experience in playing drum set, but also for novice. Students who have some background in playing drum set will have an opportunity to fine-tune their fundamentals by working on rudimentary stick control and overall drum set technique, which includes grooves (beats) and drum fills. Students who are new to the drum set will begin
Music

Drum Set Fundamentals — MIN2261.01) (cancelled 5/8/2024

Spring 2025
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 2
This course is for students who have moderate experience in playing drum set, but also for novice. Students who have some background in playing drum set will have an opportunity to fine-tune their fundamentals by working on rudimentary stick control and overall drum set technique, which includes grooves (beats) and drum fills. Students who are new to the drum set will begin

Drumming: An Extension of Language — MIN2120.02, section 2

Spring 2024
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 2
This course serves as an introduction to rhythms, chants, and musical practices from Africa, Brazil, Cuba, Haiti, and the African Diaspora. Using indigenous percussion instruments from these territories, students will use their hands, mallets, and sticks to learn and play traditional folkloric rhythms and melodies. Additional conversations reveal history, culture, language, and
Music

Drumming: An Extension of Language — MIN2120.01, section 1

Spring 2023
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 2
This course serves as an introduction to rhythms, chants, and musical practices from Africa, Brazil, Cuba, Haiti, and the African Diaspora. Using indigenous percussion instruments from these territories, students will use their hands, mallets, and sticks to learn and play traditional folkloric rhythms and melodies. Additional conversations reveal history, culture, language, and
Music

Drumming: An Extension of Language — MIN2120.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 2
This course serves as an introduction to rhythms, chants and songs from Africa, Brazil, Cuba, Haiti, and the African Diaspora. Using indigenous percussion instruments, students will experience basic hand and stick drumming patterns along with techniques associated with rhythms from these regions. Performances will be presented at music workshop, as well as with Bennington’s
Music

Drumming: An Extension of Language — MIN2120.02, section 2

Spring 2023
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 2
This course serves as an introduction to rhythms, chants, and musical practices from Africa, Brazil, Cuba, Haiti, and the African Diaspora. Using indigenous percussion instruments from these territories, students will use their hands, mallets, and sticks to learn and play traditional folkloric rhythms and melodies. Additional conversations reveal history, culture, language, and
Music

Drumming: An Extension of Language — MIN2120.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 4
This course serves as an introduction to rhythms and musical practices from Africa, Brazil, and the Caribbean. Using indigenous percussion instruments from these territories, students will learn to play traditional and hybrid rhythms. There will be discussions and scheduled response papers on readings, podcast, and films pertaining to global issues from these territories, as
CAPA Music

Drumming: An Extension of Language — MIN2120.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
This course serves as an introduction to rhythms and musical practices from Africa, Brazil, and the Caribbean. Using indigenous percussion instruments from these regions, students will learn to play traditional and hybrid rhythms. There will be discussions and scheduled response papers on readings, podcast, and films pertaining to global issues from these regions, as well as an
CAPA Music

Drumming: An Extension of Language — MIN2120.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 4
This course serves as an introduction to rhythms, chants, and songs from Africa, Brazil, Cuba, Haiti, and the African Diaspora. Using indigenous percussion instruments such as congas, timbales, surdos, pandeiro, caixa, djembe, dunumba, cajon, balafon, and chekere, students will experience basic hand and stick drumming patterns associated with folkloric rhythms from these
Music

Drumming: An Extension of Language — MIN2120.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Michael Wimberly
Credits: 2
This course serves as an introduction to rhythms, chants and songs from Africa, Brazil, Cuba, Haiti, and the African Diaspora. Using indigenous percussion instruments, students will learn basic hand and stick drumming patterns and techniques associated with traditional rhythms from these regions. In the second half of the term the class will present the music they have learned
Music