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Form and Process: Investigations in Painting — PAI2107.01

Fall 2013

Instructor: Ann Pibal

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

This course introduces a variety of materials, techniques and approaches to painting. Emphasis is placed on developing and understanding of color, form and space as well as individual research and conceptual concerns. The daily experience of seeing, along with the history of art, provides a base from which investigations are made. Formal, poetic, and social implications within

Visual Arts

Form and Process: Investigations in Painting — PAI2107.01, section 1

Fall 2019

Instructor: Ann Pibal

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

This course introduces a variety of materials, techniques and approaches to painting with oils. Emphasis is placed on developing and understanding of color, form and space as well as individual research and conceptual concerns. The daily experience of seeing, along with the history of art, provides a base from which investigations are made. Formal, poetic, and social

Visual Arts

Form and Process: Painting Intensive — PAI2107.01, section 1

Fall 2026

Instructor: Ann Pibal

Days & Time: MO 1:40pm-5:20pm

Credits: 4

This course introduces a variety of materials, techniques and approaches to working with oil paint. Emphasis is placed on developing and understanding of color, form and space as well as individual research and conceptual concerns. The daily experience of seeing, along with examples from art history and contemporary art, provide a base from which investigations are made.

Painting

Form and Process: Painting Intensive — PAI2107.02, section 2

Fall 2026

Instructor: Ann Pibal

Days & Time: TU 2:10pm-5:50pm

Credits: 4

Painting

Form Finding Fiction — ARC2131.01

Fall 2021

Instructor: Sophie Nichols (new faculty as of 8/26/2021)

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

This studio will serve as an introduction to the discipline of architectural exploration through drawing, model making and form-finding. We will begin with a series of abstract exercises which will explore the ways in which we see and express tactility of objects and the material world. We will endeavour to uncover ways in which meaning is embedded, form is developed, and

Visual Arts

Form to Function — SCU2124.01

Spring 2018

Instructor: Jon Isherwood

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

The practice of functional object making is undergoing an intense transition into digital production. Additive manufacturing has been posed as the next trillion dollar business; in your lifetime you will be able to download objects, tables, chairs, clocks and manufacture them in your own home. Designers, architects, and artists are finding digital design and fabrication

Visual Arts

Form to Function Part Two — VA4112.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Jon Isherwood, Farhad Mirza John Umphlett

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Credits: 4

Designers, architects, and artists continue to find digital design and fabrication processes to be common ground for communication and collaboration, in large part because many new projects necessitate multidimensional thinking about form and making. This self-directed studio course offers the opportunity for students to work at an advanced level to explore, research, and

Visual Arts

Form to Function/ Digital Design to Analog Build — SCU2124.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Jon Isherwood

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

Visual Arts

Form to Function/Digital Design to Analog Build — SCU2124.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: Jon Isherwood

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

Visual Arts

Form to Function/Spatial Skin — SCU2110.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Jon Isherwood

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

Sections, tessellations, folding, contouring and forming are all considerations when imagining the mantle that divides or establishes a “skin”. We will investigate the qualities that surfaces need to possess to develop new spatial paradigms, leading to sculptural responses to these conditions. Through a series of discrete exercises coupling digital fabrication and design

Visual Arts

Form to Function: The Chair — SCU2303.01

Fall 2020

Instructor: jisherwood@bennington.edu

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Credits: 4

Think of all the chairs you have used in your life, from the high chair you sat in as a baby to the one you are probably using right now. How many of those chairs truly provided support for the actions you were attempting in those moments? How many of them were useful, comfortable, and even beautiful as they fulfilled their purpose? Is there a chair you could never live without

Visual Arts

Foundation of Software Design and Data Structure — CS2153.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Meltem Ballan

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

This is the second course after CS 2127: Elements of Computers and Programming. I assume that you know a programming language (Python). The emphasis of this course will be on software development using object-oriented methodology. This course will not cover basic Python syntax in this course. We will learn how to analyze and design software. We will learn how to create

Science and Mathematics

Foundations in Ceramics: Roots of Form — CER2112.01

Fall 2015

Instructor: Barry Bartlett

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

Exploring the unique, material nature of clay as a medium for personal and visual expression will be the focus of this course. All ceramic forms, whether sculptural or utilitarian, require a basic knowledge of the ceramic medium. A variety of construction methods will be introduced, employing both hand building and wheel techniques to achieve this goal. Emphasis will be placed

Visual Arts

Foundations in Ceramics: Roots of Form —

Spring 2016

Instructor: Barry Bartlett

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

Visual Arts

Foundations in Ceramics: The Hand as a Tool — CER2105.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Barry Bartlett

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

Exploring the unique, material nature of clay as a medium for personal and visual expression will be the focus of this course. All ceramic forms, whether sculptural or utilitarian require a knowledge of the basic skills and an understanding of clay. A variety of construction methods will be introduced employing hand building techniques. Emphasis will be placed on developing a

Visual Arts

Foundations in Ceramics: The Hand as a Tool — CER2105.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Barry Bartlett

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

Exploring the unique, material nature of clay as a medium for personal and visual expression will be the focus of this course. All ceramic forms, whether sculptural or utilitarian require a knowledge of the basic skills and an understanding of clay. A variety of construction methods will be introduced employing handbuilding techniques. Emphasis will be placed on developing a

Visual Arts

Foundations in Ceramics: The Hand as a Tool — CER2105.01

Fall 2013

Instructor: Barry Bartlett

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

Exploring the unique, material nature of clay as a medium for personal and visual expression will be the focus of this course. All ceramic forms, whether sculptural or utilitarian require a knowledge of the basic skills and an understanding of clay. A variety of construction methods will be introduced employing hand building techniques. Emphasis will be placed on developing a

Visual Arts

Foundations in Ceramics: The Hand as a Tool — CER2105.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Barry Bartlett

Days & Time:

Credits: 4

Exploring the unique, material nature of clay as a medium for personal and visual expression will be the focus of this course. All ceramic forms, whether sculptural or utilitarian require a knowledge of the basic skills and an understanding of clay. A variety of construction methods will be introduced employing handbuilding techniques. Emphasis will be placed on developing a

Visual Arts

Foundations in Kiln Technologies — CER2147.01

Fall 2017

Instructor: Jack Yu

Days & Time:

Credits: 2

As a student of ceramics, kiln technology is one of the most important tools towards attaining comprehensive form and surface unity This course is an opportunity for the ceramic students to research a variety of traditional and experimental ceramic firing techniques. The course includes basic thermodynamics/kiln atmospheres, problem-solving specific firing needs, kiln building,

Visual Arts

Foundations of Community Mental Health — CMC5001.01

Summer 2026

Instructor: Faculty TBA

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 3

This course introduces students to the historical, philosophical, and systemic foundations of community mental health. Students examine the evolution of the community mental health movement, including the impact of deinstitutionalization on mental health policy, service delivery, and access to care. The course explores the structure and

Clinical Mental Health Counseling (MA) Community Mental Health Counseling

Foundations of Global Politics — POL2103.01

Fall 2025

Instructor: Rotimi Suberu

Days & Time: TU,FR 8:30am-10:20am

Credits: 4

In this wide-ranging introduction to the study of international politics, we will be exploring how states and non-state actors negotiate their interactions in an increasingly interconnected, interdependent and globalized world. Core themes will include: contending theoretical approaches to international relations (realism, liberalism/idealism, constructivism,

CAPA Environment Politics