25 courses with the subject PN, 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.
PN 200Painting I: Painting, Color & Light3
Students investigate and apply color theory through exploration and practice using paint media with supporting digital strategies. The seven major color contrasts are explored through various formats, organized palettes, the mechanics of color mixing and sustained painting from direct observation. Subject matter includes the still life, interior, portrait and landscape as well as non-objective designs. This course prepares students in various disciplines for upper level studies while cultivating their personal sense of color. Critique, readings, research and slide presentations that focus on the relationships underlying historic and contemporary artworks, complement this studio focused course Fulfills: Painting I Requirement (Illustration and Painting Students) or Studio Elective; Prerequisite for all 200-level
This course introduces the historical and contemporary use of nature as a source for abstraction. Students will develop painting ideas based on observation and interpretation of natural phenomena. Issues of scale, color, form, space, surface tension, and paint quality will be stressed. Fulfills: 200-Level Painting Elective (Painting students) or Studio Elective
Working from observation of clothed and life models, students create paintings of figures that explore a range of expressive options. Formal and material issues of painting are emphasized in tandem with a focus on composition and content. Students investigate gesture and human expression through in-class and homework assignments. A wide variety of traditional and contemporary figurative work is introduced to discuss related issues for each painting project. Fulfills: 200-Level Painting Elective (Painting students) or Studio Elective Page 71 of 91
Painting I: Painting, Color and Light and Life Drawing I
PN 215Painting II: Mixed Media3
A variety of new materials is used in contemporary painting. Students create personal aesthetic statements through the inherent nature of alternative materials, including mark-making in acrylic and oil; wall constructions and assemblage; and other alternative materials. At the end of the semester, students develop a coherent series of independent works in mixed media. Fulfills: 200-Level Painting Elective (Painting students) or Studio Elective
Painting I: Painting, Color and Light, and one 200-Level Drawing Elective
PN 220Painting II: Abstract Painting and the Figure3
This course explores the relationship between figuration and abstraction. Students work with the conceptual contributions of such twentieth-century modernists as Matisse, Picasso, DeKooning, Johns, and the New Image Painters. Subject matter is discovered through imagination and contact with real and photographed objects, figures, and space. Traditional and nontraditional painting materials are employed. Fulfills: 200-Level Painting Elective (Painting students) or Studio Elective
A course expanding further on color issues in painting. Some of these are luminosity, iridescence, color assimilation, space, color as form, color as content, and color palettes of historic and contemporary painters. Although past and present views on the use of color in art are investigated, emphasis is placed on the student's personal interpretation and the use of color principles. Fulfills: 200-Level Painting Elective (Painting students) or Studio Elective
This course explores the broad range of landscape and cityscape painting. Elements of color, structure, viewpoint, and paint handling common to both contemporary and historical landscape painting will be stressed. Both outdoor and studio methods will be introduced, with special emphasis on personal interpretation. Fulfills: 200-Level Painting Elective (Painting students) or Studio Elective
This course addresses the potential of painting as pure abstraction independent from representation. Students extend their understanding of artistic intention, design, and materials through the exploration of a variety of media and strategies. Students are challenged to explore form, line, color and scale as elements of a powerful and unlimited visual language. Among the artists who will be discussed are Malevich, Kandinsky, Mondrian, Delaunay, Pollock, Louis, Martin, Riley, Marden, and Kusama. Fulfills: 200-Level Painting Elective (Painting students) or Studio Elective
This course is a survey of contemporary painting practice that introduces a student to a variety of methods, mediums and materials. The topics may include the construction and presentation of painting supports and grounds, the specific properties of pigments and mediums, and the unique advantages of acrylics, oils. This course cites modern and contemporary painters, both figurative and abstract. Throughout the semester, students explore the various methods and materials enabling them to better access the expressive powers of painting. Fulfills: 200-Level Painting Elective (Painting students) or Studio Elective Page 72 of 91
This course is designed to investigate the intersection of technology, traditional collage and mixed media approaches. Researching historical and contemporary practice, students develop a series of work using photo compositing techniques, traditional collage and mixed media approaches. In addition to using computer imaging programs, students explore collage using a variety of materials, including paper, scanned images and element, paint cloth and objects. Working in turn from objective sources and imagination, or by setting up formal and expressive objective to be 'solved', students research and develop their work in a series format. There is an emphasis on the formal and expressive issue related to each collage, and to resolving relationships and structure key to each work. Fulfills: 200-Level Painting Elective (Painting students) or Studio Elective
This course builds understanding of color theory, abstraction and composition with observational painting and drawing referencing still life, figure and interior space. Students work with traditional and water based oil as well as oil sticks and other drawing materials, make their own painting panels, learn to use indirect and direct painting techniques. Color theory and the practice of picture making, based on rigorous observation, is further supported by digital tools and strategies to strengthen and expand the potential of work in each project’s series as the semester progresses. Students begin with studying the methods of the painters in the Renaissance and proceed, through image presentations, research and studio projects, examining strategies relevant to painting and illustration in the present era. Fulfills: 200-Level Painting Elective (Painting students) or Adv. Drawing/Obj. Painting Elective Option (Illustration students) or Studio Elective
This course explores contemporary painting approaches and color theory in relation to the spatial implications of value, color and abstraction using interior and exterior space as the point of departure. Working in a series format, 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 Painting Elective Painting Students) or Studio Elective
This course provides an in-depth study of a topic in Painting. 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 Painting Elective (Painting Students) or Studio Elective
Prerequisites will be developed in conjunction with the course description for each topic.
PN 316Painting III: Alternative Materials3
In this continuation of Painting II: Mixed Media, students explore a variety of alternative grounds and supports, including shaped canvases, assemblage, and industrial materials. Through a sequence of assignments, students create independent works incorporating a range of alternative materials that relate to a particular theme or reflect a personal direction. Contemporary artists who employ nontraditional materials and mixed media are discussed. Fulfills: 300-Level Painting Elective (Painting Students) or 300-Level Studio Elective or Studio Elective Page 73 of 91
Painting I: Painting, Color and Light and Painting II: Mixed Media or Permission of Instructor
PN 318Painting III: Abstract Painting3
This course examines formal, psychological and spiritual concerns of abstract painting that originate from the work of modern and contemporary abstractionists. The focus of this course is on finding and organizing sources for abstract imagery. Fulfills: 300-Level Painting Elective (Painting Students) or 300-Level Studio Elective or Studio Elective
Painting I: Painting, Color and Light and one 200-Level Painting Elective
PN 320Painting III: Plasticity and Space3
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: 300-Level Painting Elective (Painting Students) or 300-Level Studio Elective or Studio Elective
This course is structured to allow students the opportunity to develop a group of related works. A wide range of figurative and abstract approaches is encouraged. Slide presentations, discussions, and critiques provide a basis for critical judgment. This course is recommended for all third year painting students. Fulfills: Painting Workshop Elective Option (Painting Students) or 300-Level Painting Elective (Painting Students) or 300-Level Studio Elective or Studio Elective
Painting I: Painting, Color and Light and one 200-Level Painting Elective
PN 340Painting III: Contemporary Approaches to Landscape3
Contemporary Approaches to Landscape offers students the opportunity to develop their understanding of color theory/formal elements and expressive ambitions with spatial orchestration as point of departure. Through research, analysis and observation students employ strategies of mentor artists such as Diebenkorn, Bischoff, Hoffman, Celmins, and progressing to contemporary artists. Media exploration for further development will be integrated in to each project, research, communication and critical thinking. Fulfills: 300-Level Painting Elective (Painting Students) or 300-Level Studio Elective or Studio Elective
Painting I: Painting, Color and Light and one 200-Level Painting Elective
PN 345Painting III: Visual Systems3
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: 300-Level Painting Elective (Painting Students) or 300-Level Studio Elective or Studio Elective
Painting I: Painting, Color and Light and one 200-Level Painting Elective
PN 350Painting III: Advanced Collage3
This course builds on the core experiences of Painting II: Collage Projects. This studio workshop provides an opportunity for students to develop their studio work through assignments with a deeper immersion into composition, color theory, and abstraction in 2-dimensional collage, assemblage, and small-scale constructions utilizing a wide range of conventional and non-conventional materials and approaches. The class also discusses the relevance of historical collage methods to contemporary studio practice. Students are encouraged to examine the unique process of fracturing and reconstructing through a personal, sociocultural, political, and environmental lens. Modern and contemporary artists working in collage and assemblage are introduced throughout the semester; critique is conducted as a part of each class. Fulfills: 300-Level Painting Elective (Painting Students) or 300-Level Studio Elective or Studio Elective Page 74 of 91
Painting I: Painting, Color and Light and one 200-Level Painting Elective
PN 355Painting III: Advanced Color Workshop3
Students explore and apply issues and concepts relating to the use of color as a driving force in the making of art in this advanced multi-media workshop. The course will focus on the integration of color, form, and content, and the uses of color in formal and emotive content. Emphasis will be placed on helping the student develop a cohesive body of work to present for admission to Senior Seminar. Fulfills: Painting Workshop Elective Option (Painting Students) or 300-Level Painting Elective (Painting Students) or 300-Level Studio Elective or Studio Elective
Painting I: Painting, Color and Light and one 200-Level Painting Elective
PN 365Painting III: Life Painting Workshop3
Various means of painting the human form are studied, using under- and over-painting, alla prima, impasto, glazing, etc. Composition, mood, color, and scale are stressed. Each student is expected to produce a body of independent related work. Fulfills: Painting Workshop Elective Option (Painting Students) or 300-Level Painting Elective (Painting Students) or 300-Level Studio Elective or Studio Elective
Life Drawing II and Painting I: Painting, Color and Light and one 200-Level Painting Elective
PN 370Painting III: Inside/Out3
Using interior and exterior space as the point of departure, students generate proposals, develop artist statements and digital portfolios for each body of work in this 300-level workshop class. Emphasis is placed on preparatory work, the integrity of the formal infrastructure of each composition and its’ color hierarchy. Formal issues such as composition, structure, viewpoint, color theory, archival paint handling and use of mixed media are discussed in relation to contemporary and historical painting and critique. Fulfills: 300-Level Painting Elective (Painting Students) or 300-Level Studio Elective or Studio Elective
Two (2) 200-Level Painting Electives and Foundation Program
PN 395398 Topics in Painting3
This course provides an in-depth study of a topic in Painting. 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: 300-Level Painting Elective (Painting Students) or 300-Level Studio Elective or Studio Elective
Prerequisites will be developed in conjunction with the course description for each topic.
PN 399Independent Study in Painting3
Advanced work in the student's major field of study, supervised by a designated faculty member. Fulfills: To be determined by faculty approval Page 75 of 91
