14 courses with the subject DR, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
DR 204Life Drawing I3
Studying the human figure is an effective way to engage with and understand visual dynamic. Through involvement with gesture, structure, proportion, anatomy, the effects of light in relation to form and composition, students explore both formal and expressive issues as they work from the model. Slides and other sources of historic and contemporary figurative art are presented throughout the semester. Fulfills: Life Drawing I Requirement (Animation, Illustration, Painting and Sculpture students) or 200-level Drawing Elective or Studio Elective; Art Education Recommendation
A continuation in the study of the human form, with an emphasis on an interpretive and expressive approach to the figure. Fulfills: Life Drawing II Requirement (Illustration students) or 200-Level Drawing Elective or Studio Elective
Perspectives in Anatomy develops students' working knowledge of the human figure through the exploration of its structure, form, and function. Students investigate the figure from simple planar and mass conceptions to more detailed studies of the skeletal and muscular systems. Through an examination of the whole and parts, students explore proportion, balance, locomotion, and the relationship between underlying structure and the surface form. Studio work includes observation and drawing from the model, slides, and illustrated lectures, visualization exercises and the construction of a 24" anatomical figure in clay. Fulfills: Perspectives in Anatomy Requirement (Illustration students) or 200-Level Drawing Elective or Studio Elective
This course explores contemporary drawing approaches with a wide range of media. Using a series format with the interior to exterior as the point(s) of departure, students explore formal issues in tandem with contrasting objective and subjective realities. Composition, abstraction, structure, viewpoint, and archival use of materials are stressed in critique, and in discussion of contemporary and historical artworks. Throughout the term, there is emphasis on form and personal interpretation. Fulfills: 200-Level Drawing Elective or Studio Elective
This course provides an in-depth study of a topic in Drawing. The topic may be selected to take advantage of special events, to allow further exploration of a subject covered in a preliminary way in other courses, or to explore areas not sufficiently covered by the regular class rotation. Fulfills: 200-Level Drawing Elective or Studio Elective Page 69 of 91
Prerequisites will be developed in conjunction with the course description for each topic.
DR 300Advanced Figure Drawing3
Using the figure as the major element, students work in a variety of media, size, and scale. Various themes are explored, such as figures in landscape, figures in conflict, figure groups, and figure distortion. Students communicate a personal point of view through their drawings according to their own experience and vision. Contemporary and historical references help students examine the use of narrative or symbolic figuration. Fulfills: Advanced Drawing Elective or 300-Level Studio Elective or Studio Elective
An investigation of several approaches to abstract drawing that derive from contemporary and early abstract artists. Students work in a variety of media and on both large and small works. Tension, shape, frontality, marks, geometry, and space are some of the issues that are addressed. Fulfills: Advanced Drawing Elective or 300-Level Studio Elective or Studio Elective
This course is an opportunity to explore the realms of contemporary objective drawing. Students are asked to infuse drawings with a personal point of view, searching for a sense of originality through use of specific perceptual subjects that may include objects, animals, landscape forms, plants, figures, and maps. The work of contemporary artists who use objective images in unusual ways is discussed. This course requires considerable online image research. Fulfills: Advanced Drawing Elective or 300-Level Studio Elective or Studio Elective
Throughout history artist’s notebooks have played an important role in the development of visual imagery. They have allowed us, as viewers, to better understand artists’ processes, thoughts and imagination. Notebooks have provided artists another “place” for exploration and self-reflection. What is an artist notebook? What form can it take? What creative role can it play? Through the use of notebooks students will explore these questions, developing their chosen methods and materials. Fulfills: Advanced Drawing Elective or 300-Level Studio Elective or Studio Elective
This course introduces the historical and contemporary use of nature as a source for abstraction. Students develop drawing ideas based on observation and interpretation of natural phenomena. Through a series of specific subject units (the human body, macro/micro worlds, geological and botanical subjects, landscape forms and weather) students learn to integrate abstract forms and content in drawing. Issues of scale, form, space, surface tension and mark making will be stressed. Fulfills: Advanced Drawing Elective or 300-Level Studio Elective or Studio Elective
This course assumes that all drawings, abstract or representational, idea-based or expressionistic, must deal in some way with the organization of space. Students explore the use of formal structural elements in painting from Giotto to the present day. Working from still-life motifs and from the model, students discover how spatial relationships seen in nature can be expressed in drawing through the use of shifting, interacting planes, opposing movements of spatial forces, and the creation of large volumes which contain and lend coherence to smaller forms. Fulfills: Advanced Drawing Elective or 300-Level Studio Elective or Studio Elective Page 70 of 91
This course is an overview of visual systems used by artists, both past and present, to organize a two-dimensional surface. Student projects examine traditional and non-traditional methods such as flat and deep space, scale, color, and contemporary mathematical and language systems. Comprehension and practice in the fundamentals of visual organization increase the student's ability to make effective expressive statements. Fulfills: Advanced Drawing Elective or 300-Level Studio Elective or Studio Elective
Painting I: Painting, Color and Light and one 200-Level Painting Elective
DR 395398 Topics in Drawing3
This course provides an in-depth study of a topic in Drawing. The topic may be selected to take advantage of special events, to allow further exploration of a subject covered in a preliminary way in other courses, or to explore areas not sufficiently covered by the regular class rotation. Fulfills: Advanced Drawing Elective or 300-Level Elective or Studio Elective
