17 courses with the subject ART, 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.
ART 110• Foundations: The Elements and Principles of Art & Design4
An exploration of material expression in two and three-dimensional form, including the elements and principles of design, diverse materials and media, color theory, experimentation, and critique. Developmental approaches to formal and expressive forms of artmaking are explored in both solo and collaborative projects. Offered: Fall, Spring.
Development of visual perception through observation, drawing, and a study of structural form and space relationships. Experiences in line, value, texture, basic perspective, and composition using various materials and techniques. Offered: Fall, Spring.
Screen printing as a means of creating hand-printed multi-color fine art prints. Methods include handmade and photo emulsion stenciling and studio art practice. Offered: January.
Sculptural concepts, processes, and materials are used within a guided studio experience that includes an introduction to public art. Offered: Fall, Occasionally spring. Special Notes: Specific fabrication skills are not required.
An introduction to the fundamentals of painting and personal painting practices. Students develop subject matter as well as the ability to organize pictorial space and compositional ideas. Offered: Fall, Occasionally January, Occasionally spring.
Hand-printing processes with an emphasis on drawing and composition. Experience in such media as etching, lithography, woodcut, linocut, collagraphy, monotype and color printing. Offered: Occasionally fall, Spring.
Exploration of creative processes that moves past introductory ways of generating visual ideas to developing self-sustaining and self-directed investigation and enriching techniques for the artist. Corequisites: Another 200-level or above ART or DES course, recommended course be taken sophomore year. Offered: Spring.
Photography as a means of aesthetic and conceptual ideas within the fine arts, rather than for family and vacation snapshots, through both digital and analog forms. Includes technical instruction in camera operation, black and white film developing, printing, and basic Adobe Photoshop. Introduction to photo history and contemporary theory. Offered: Fall, Spring.
Self-directed studio projects pursued with particular focus on individual growth and development. Art for public spaces is more fully engaged, with students making works for specific audiences and locations. Prerequisites: ART 204A or ART 206A. Offered: Fall. Special Notes: This course is repeatable for credit.
A continued exploration of painting, including various material experiments and exposure to new processes. Emphasis on the development of visual vocabulary and understanding of contemporary issues in painting. Invention and investigation are stressed. Prerequisites: ART 210A. Offered: Spring. Special Notes: This course is repeatable for credit.
Advanced work in selected media with emphasis on individual research and development. Prerequisites: ART 202A or ART 211A. Offered: Fall. Special Notes: This course is repeatable for credit.
Individual aesthetic and conceptual development within the photographic medium, advanced skills in digital or black and white wet photography processes, and investigation of photo history and critical theory (as it relates to photography). Prerequisites: ART 250A. Offered: Spring. Special Notes: This course is repeatable for credit.
ART 340AZ• Art, Food, and Culture in Europe and Morocco4
Explore modern and contemporary art through an immersive, place-based experience that connects creativity with culture, history, and delicious cuisine. Through a mix of artmaking, cooking lessons, and city tours you’ll discover how creatives respond to their surroundings and how factors like history, religion, and political context shape what they create. Offered: January, odd # years.
Educational and practical experience in applying understanding and skill in an off-campus, professional setting. An internship can be arranged in advertising studios, agencies, printmaking studios, artists’ studios, and art museums. Supervised by an art faculty member. Prerequisites: Five studio art courses; Major in art; Consent of department. Offered: Fall or Spring.
Development of creative independence, culminating in an individual thesis defense. Prerequisites: ART 240; One 300-level course in Art or Design; Major in the Art and Design department or Major in visual arts education, k-12; Completion of Mid-program Review; Consent of department. Offered: Fall.
ART 498• Professional Practices: Making Art Your Career2-4
Prepares students to continue their own studio practice after graduation and graduate school, exhibitions, grants, and residencies. Teaches students the skills for presenting their work in a professional and compelling manner within the forms and procedures expected from the art world. Prerequisites: ART 240; Consent of department. Offered: Spring.
