Courses

The Contemporary Portrait

Course No. FVPA228/328/428  Credits: 3
Faculty Nancy McEntee

This course is an exploration of contemporary approaches to portraiture and it's relation to the historical photographic portrait. Analysis of both simple and complex photographic identities and real and invented realities are investigated. Photographic assignments, readings and discussions lead to a better understanding of the student's individual approach to the portrait and their unique relationship with the subject. Students are expected to keep a portrait journal and to produce a portfolio of finished prints. Open Elective.

The Extended Body

Course No. FIB320.1  Credits: 3
Faculty Christina Cassara

This class will address the amplification and expansion of the body into space and the role of the senses in perception. Studio work will begin with a consideration of how we understand the world though touch, sight, smell/taste, the sense of hearing, and kinesthetic perception supplied by muscles of the body. Costume, object-generated performance and social sculpture are examples of the directions taken by students. Media, processes and techniques are open and will be based on individual interests, knowledge and skill sets. Open elective. Required Junior year FMS Majors. 3 credits.

The Extended Body

Course No. FIB420.1  Credits: 3

This class will address the amplification and expansion of the body into space and the role of the senses in perception. Studio work will begin with a consideration of how we understand the world though touch, sight, smell/taste, the sense of hearing, and kinesthetic perception supplied by muscles of the body. Costume, object-generated performance and social sculpture are examples of the directions taken by students. Media, processes and techniques are open and will be based on individual interests, knowledge and skill sets. Open elective. Required Junior year FMS Majors. 3 credits.

The Fine Art Silver Print

Course No. FVPA270/370/470  Credits: 3
Faculty Nancy McEntee

This is an advanced level black and white silver printing class. We will investigate advanced archival printing techniques, fine art printing papers, advanced film exposure techniques, developer combinations and toning procedures to produce full tonal range darkroom prints. Medium and large format cameras will be demonstrated and utilized. Projects for this class include an in-depth self-assignment finalized in a portfolio of prints. We will also view master fine art prints at local galleries, museums and collections. Required of Sophomore Photography majors. Open Elective.

The History of Art History & Its Philosophy

Course No. ACD479.1  Credits: 3

The History of Art History and its Philosophy Art history is the academic study of art in its historical development. As a discipline, art history is distinguished from art criticism, which is concerned with establishing the relative artistic value of works and art theory which is concerned with the fundamental nature of art. This course will trace the historical development of these discipline both ideologically and methodologically: formal analysis, semiotics, psychoanalysis and iconography beginning with the late 19th Century works of Alois Riegl, Franz Wickhoff, and the Vienna School through to Rosiland Krauss, Mieke Bal and the post-Structuralist. Special attention will be given to the correspondence between the changing methodologies and their philosophical sources in Kant, Hegel, Marx, Freud, etc. Visual Culture Emphasis course. 3 credits.

The Liberated Print: Investigation of Altern Meth

Course No. PRI277.1  Credits: 3

This course creates a context for students to negotiate the challenging and complex issues embedded in the making of contemporary printed images. Projects and techniques complement and extend methods of traditional processes, allowing students room to invent, arrange, analyze and create connections through more immediate printmaking methods to their major fields of study. This class will concentrate on the intuitive, spontaneous and fluid approaches in printmaking such as; monoprint, collagraph, transfer drawing, Xerox litho, and wood intaglio, instigating the dialog between the limited edition vs. singular print, and the original vs. a copy. We will consider formats that bridge other disciplines working with color, installation and three-dimensional/sculptural constructions with considerations to work on paper. The course will offer experiences that provide the tools to understand print media within a contemporary framework. Note: Open elective. Encouraged for third and fourth year students with a painting and drawing emphasis as an Elective Studio. Required for Third Year Print Majors. 3 credits.

The Liberated Print:Investigation of Alt Methods

Course No. PRI377.1  Credits: 3
Faculty Liz Maugans

This course creates a context for students to negotiate the challenging and complex issues embedded in the making of contemporary printed images. Projects and techniques complement and extend methods of traditional processes, allowing students room to invent, arrange, analyze and create connections through more immediate printmaking methods to their major fields of study. This class will concentrate on the intuitive, spontaneous and fluid approaches in printmaking such as; monoprint, collagraph, transfer drawing, Xerox litho, and wood intaglio, instigating the dialog between the limited edition vs. singular print, and the original vs. a copy. We will consider formats that bridge other disciplines working with color, installation and three-dimensional/sculptural constructions with considerations to work on paper. The course will offer experiences that provide the tools to understand print media within a contemporary framework. Note: Open elective. Encouraged for third and fourth year students with a painting and drawing emphasis as an Elective Studio. Required for Third Year Print Majors. 3 credits.

The Liberated Print:Investigation of Alt Methods

Course No. PRI477.1  Credits: 3

This course creates a context for students to negotiate the challenging and complex issues embedded in the making of contemporary printed images. Projects and techniques complement and extend methods of traditional processes, allowing students room to invent, arrange, analyze and create connections through more immediate printmaking methods to their major fields of study. This class will concentrate on the intuitive, spontaneous and fluid approaches in printmaking such as; monoprint, collagraph, transfer drawing, Xerox litho, and wood intaglio, instigating the dialog between the limited edition vs. singular print, and the original vs. a copy. We will consider formats that bridge other disciplines working with color, installation and three-dimensional/sculptural constructions with considerations to work on paper. The course will offer experiences that provide the tools to understand print media within a contemporary framework. Note: Open elective. Encouraged for third and fourth year students with a painting and drawing emphasis as an Elective Studio. Required for Third Year Print Majors. 3 credits.