93 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 1030Painting I4
This studio course examines painting as an exciting, expanded field where students learn both technical and conceptual approaches to painting using a variety of water-based media. Students can expect to study and practice color theory, experiment with paint media, learn strategies for painting from observation, and incorporate earth-friendly, sustainable studio practices into their artmaking. Students should plan to spend additional time working on their projects each week outside of scheduled class time. Course Fee.
The focus of this studio course is on sculptural and vessel concepts using hand-building techniques, emphasizing the development of construction skills and an understanding of form, surface and firing possibilities. Students should plan to spend additional time working on their projects each week outside of scheduled class time. Course Fee.
This studio course is an introductory survey of the printmaking processes of relief, intaglio, and silkscreen printing. Emphasis is on learning basic printmaking skills, tools, and processes while exploring possibilities of creating multiple images on paper, fabric, and on non-traditional materials. Students learn the skills needed to create prints in multiple methods, discuss aesthetic considerations, and learn the cultural and historical use of printmaking. Also included are the care and presentation of original prints and good print shop practices. GE: Artistic Expression
This studio course is an introduction to basic book structures used in traditional and artists' books. Students learn historical and contemporary bindings including the pamphlet stitch, stab bindings, accordions, multi-signature codices, and combinations thereof. Students should plan to spend additional time working on their projects each week outside of scheduled class time. Course Fee.
This studio course introduces the potter's wheel along with basic hand-building techniques. Particular emphasis is placed on experimentation with different techniques and learning about the use and place of ceramic artwork in history and in different cultures. Students should plan to spend additional time working on their projects each week outside of scheduled class time. Course Fee. GE: Artistic
This course is an introductory survey of letterpress printing, a method of creating prints using historic presses specifically made for printing wood and metal type. Emphasis is on learning the use of the tools, equipment, and techniques specific to this printing process while exploring personal artistic expression. Students learn the skills needed to create prints combining images with text, discuss aesthetic considerations, and learn the cultural and historical use of letterpress printing along with a selection of bookbinding techniques suitable for printed works. Students should plan to spend additional time working on their projects each week outside of scheduled class time. Course Fee.
This studio course is an introduction to hand papermaking using materials ranging from bark fibers, to partially processed plant fibers, to fully processed cotton rag. Students learn how to prepare and beat fibers as well as form, dry, and finish sheets. Along with learning the history and chemistry behind hand paper making, they gain control over several qualities of paper including color, surface, strength, and size/shape. Students should plan to spend additional time working on their projects each week outside of scheduled class time. Course Fee.
This studio course is an introduction to the basic functions of the camera, the technical processes of black and white photography, and the aesthetic considerations of design, composition, and presentation. Students must have a basic 35mm camera with manual controls and are required to purchase film and photo paper. Students should plan to spend additional time working on their projects each week outside of scheduled class time. Course Fee.
ART 1103Introduction to Craft and Material Studies4
In this hybrid studio/seminar course, students engage with the language of making while exploring the interpersonal and interdisciplinary dimensions of craft. Through hands-on work focused in Fibers, Blacksmithing, and/or Woodworking, along with guest speakers, readings and dialogue, students make their own connections to craft as an everyday affair in cultures past, present, and future and develop an understanding of craft materials, practices, and theories from a variety of perspectives. This is a foundations course for the Craft minor and an elective for the Art major and minor. Course Fee.
This course offers learners an immersive introduction to blacksmithing methods, vocabulary, and form. Emphasizing forging and material practice, students create functional and expressive objects while deepening their understanding of blacksmithing as both a technical discipline and a cultural practice. Problem-solving and critical thinking skills are developed within a framework of material-based inquiry and design. Course Fee.
This foundational studio course is an introduction to the visual elements and principles of design that are present in all 2D art. Emphasis in this course is on problem-solving, critical understanding of the basic visual elements, and communication in a visual language. Students will be introduced to a variety of materials and processes to develop effective construction methods and safe studio working habits. The course will cover concepts in line, shape, plane, volume, color, value, texture, spatial organization, and composition while applying these principles to 2D projects. Students should expect and plan to spend additional time working on their projects each week outside of scheduled class time. Course Fee.
This foundational studio course is an introduction to the visual elements and principles of design that are present in all 3D art. Emphasis in this course is on problem-solving, critical understanding of the basic visual elements, and communication in a visual language. Students will be introduced to a variety of materials and processes to develop effective construction methods and safe studio working habits. The course will cover concepts in line, shape, plane, volume, color, value, texture, spatial organization, and composition while applying these principles to 3D projects. Students should expect and plan to spend additional time working on their projects each week outside of scheduled class time. Course Fee.
This studio course provides an overview of basic skills used to create three-dimensional art and explores traditional and contemporary sculpture materials. It introduces the role of sculpture in different times and cultures, placing emphasis on the creative use of tools and materials. Particular emphasis is placed on mold making, metal work, and woodworking. Students should expect and plan to spend additional time working on their projects each week outside of scheduled class time. Course Fee. May be repeated up to a maximum of 8 credits. GE: Artistic Expression
This studio course examines the figure and utilizes the human form as a motif in the creation of sculpture. By exploring a variety of materials, processes, and concepts, the course provides multiple avenues for creative solutions. Students realize an idea from start to finish with emphasis on craftsmanship, aesthetics, and conceptual development. The course also considers works of historical and contemporary figurative sculptors for context. Students are expected to spend additional time working on their projects each week outside of scheduled class time. Course Fee. May be repeated up to a maximum of 8 credits.
Covering selected works and artists from prehistory to the nineteenth century, this course introduces the social and cultural practices that defined traditions of art and the methods used by art historians to interpret art objects. Particular attention is paid to gender and representation, the meanings of materials and techniques, patronage and the art market, and the global dimensions of European artistic production. Course Fee.
This studio course is an introduction to the basic techniques of painting with the medium of watercolor. Exercises reveal the nature of watercolor and some of the more predictable "accidents" that occur. Students complete a series of paintings that explore a thematic idea. Students should plan to spend additional time working on their projects each week outside of scheduled class time. Course Fee.
In this studio course, students explore alternative darkroom processes to create one-of-a-kind moving images and still photographs that play with light. Students explore the material potential of visual media with an expansive view of photography and filmmaking. We experiment with eco-friendly, plant-based silver techniques; play with photochemical methods of image creation; build Super 8 and still photography pinhole cameras; and explore cyanotypes and other expansive forms of light-based image development. No prior film, photography, or darkroom experience necessary. Course Fee. GE: Artistic
ART 1800Woodturning: Tools, Skills, and Mindfulness2
Viewing craft as a meditative process, students will learn the skills to operate saws and lathes, as well as the sequential process of planning a project. During this course, students complete multiple finished handcrafted objects like candle stands, bowls, rolling pins, vases, and other decorative or utilitarian objects. Projects in this course are conducted as both learning and mindfulness exercises. Course Fee.
This course exposes students to methods of making within the medium of fiber arts such as weaving, dyeing, felting, and sewing. With a focus on material study, students are introduced to a variety of construction methods and understanding of fiber qualities. Looking at historical context and
This course combines creative exploration of animation techniques with playful experimentation in time-based media. Students expand their unique artistic voices and explore the radical potential of artisanal animation to interrupt the dominant hierarchy of the media industry by watching, discussing, and making short videos using a wide range of animation styles, from stop motion and silhouette, to rotoscope and direct 16mm film animation. GE: Artistic Expression
Topics courses are 2- or 4-credit, in-depth thematic courses, that may be repeated for credit under a different theme. May be repeated up to a maximum of 12 credits.
Subject
ART
Credits (min)
4
Credits (max)
4
Credit unit
cr
Type
course
Repeatable
may be repeated for credit under a different theme.
Topics courses are 2- or 4-credit, in-depth thematic courses, that may be repeated for credit under a different theme. May be repeated up to a maximum of 8 credits.
Subject
ART
Credits (min)
2
Credits (max)
2
Credit unit
cr
Type
course
Repeatable
may be repeated for credit under a different theme.
This studio course engages students in an in-depth study of specific concepts and processes in ceramics. It encourages the development and articulation of individual concepts in ceramic design, including techniques in glazing. Experience in glaze composition and firing theory is initiated in this course. Students are required to help load and unload kilns, make glazes, and clean kiln shelves, as well as other important activities in the studio. Students should plan to spend additional time working on their projects each week outside of scheduled class time. Course Fee.
Building upon the skills learned in ART 1030 Painting I, students continue to experiment with paint media while exploring concepts, embracing process, and expanding technical skillsets. Students can expect studio prompts, exercises and discussions to help contextualize the direction of their projects. Technical demonstrations may include, but are not limited to, oil and acrylic painting, egg tempera painting, encaustic painting, and expanded forms including installation and social practice formats. Students should plan to spend additional time working on their projects each week outside of scheduled class time. Course Fee.
This studio course offers a further exploration in the processes of printmaking and may include relief printing, letterpress, intaglio, lithography, and silkscreen. Students are encouraged to go in depth with a chosen medium or combine various printmaking media in their work and produce a portfolio of prints that includes a series of conceptually related pieces. The course includes independent research on print artists, techniques, and historical context. Students should plan to spend additional time working on their projects each week outside of scheduled class time. Course Fee.
This studio course engages students in an in-depth study of specific concepts and processes in sculpture. It encourages the development and articulation of individual concepts in sculptural design. Students should plan to spend additional time working on their projects each week outside of scheduled class time. Course Fee.
This studio course expands the ART 1160 Drawing I toolkit. Students learn additional technical skills that allow for deeper development of expressive and concept-driven artmaking. Students can anticipate drawing from topics in abstraction and representational art. Compositional organization is stressed as well, giving students a wide range of pictorial possibilities. A variety of materials are used in this course. Students should plan to spend additional time working on their projects each week outside of scheduled class time. Course Fee.
This art history course examines the impact that Black Mountain College has on modern art and the experimental approaches to creative thinking that are still utilized today. BMC was a leader in innovative thought, design, art, music, and dance. Students explore artists such as Josef and Annie Albers, Robert Rauschenberg, Ruth Asawa, John Cage, and Ray Johnson. This course includes art history lectures, small group discussions, art creation, research, and field trips. Course Fee.
This course surveys visual art produced by people of African descent in the United States, with an emphasis on the 20th century. Students cover a wide range of artistic production, including material culture (baskets, quilts, and pottery), painting, sculpture, photography, mixed media, and decorative arts. Through readings and discussions, students create a socio-historical framework for the interpretation and analysis of works of art. Although the voices of visual artists take the foreground, students also pay close attention to the thinkers who have helped shape the complexity, diversity, and contradictions of African American art. The underlying goal is to gain an understanding of the variety of art that is categorized under the heading African American and consider how race is constructed through visual art.
ART 2260Harlem Renaissance: Art & Politics in the Jazz Age4
This course explores the artistic, social, and political goals of the African American arts and culture movement known as the Harlem Renaissance during a period roughly encompassing the years between the World Wars. Some of the contextual themes of the movement studied include New Negro identity, modernism, primitivism, the uses of the folk, urban life, religion, and music. The Harlem Renaissance's legacy in art of the 1960s and 1970s is also explored.
Each time this course is offered, it focuses on topics, subfields, and processes in darkroom film and photography. Students are encouraged to experiment with technique and content, to deeply explore particular modalities in the darkroom, and to engage with the possibilities of analog lens-based artisanal practices. This course embraces a playful sense of discovery and centers radical access and sustainability rooted in an immersed pursuit of still and moving image research in the darkroom. Course Fee. May be repeated up to a maximum of 8 credits.
This video editing course explores the hidden potential for critique, parody, and commentary using pre-existing media. Students mash up, remix, juxtapose, combine, collage, and re-edit educational media, commercials, news, and fiction films to create a short film and video edits. This experimental studio art course cuts rhythms with post-production techniques built on a foundation of media analysis and film editing theory. Students are encouraged to unsettle the cishet, patriarchal, white supremacist lenses of Western media, to celebrate unlikely and humorous combinations of footage, to use media to connect to themselves and each other, and to fiercely embrace radical joy through moving image collage. Course Fee. GE: Artistic Expression
Each time it is offered, this course focuses on topics, subfields, and techniques in animation. Students are encouraged to experiment with form and content, to deeply explore particular modalities in animation, and to engage with the possibilities of artisanal animation practices. This course embraces a playful sense of discovery and centers radical access and sustainability rooted in an immersed pursuit of movement and meaning through animation. Course Fee. May be repeated up to a maximum of 8 credits.
This course explores experimental video as a way to radicalize artistic practices and expand the possibilities of the tools, technologies, and spaces of cinema. Students experiment with interruption, disruption, and reappropriation as ways of queering the moving image and investigate taking, breaking, and making video as ways of rejecting assumptions and limitations and reimagining the landscape of the cinematic future. This course centers on experimentation as the key to discovery while simultaneously investigating historical modalities of the avant-garde and connecting with contemporary makers who embrace experimental film as a way of communicating their own lived experiences and creating a more just world. Course Fee. GE: Artistic Expression
ART 2280Take Back the Screen: Queer Youth-Led Social Change & Film4
This course explores the possibilities of a youth-led movement for social change through media making. Students work with a local nonprofit organization that uses filmmaking as a space for trans, nonbinary, queer, and femme youth visions to take back the screen, both on and behind the camera. Students research trends in youth-led and queer-centered creative media, film, and music projects–from camps to after school programs. They also collaboratively make a film and work with a nonprofit organization to develop and implement an event during the semester. Course Fee. GE: Artistic Expression
This course explores documentary and non-fiction filmmaking as an artistic practice overflowing with possibilities for representation and expression. Through creative exercises, readings, and screenings, students will explore different modalities of experimental documentary and examine both contemporary practice and historical intersections among traditions in experimental and documentary film including poetic doc, observational doc, non-fiction essay film, and performative documentary. These exercises and discussions will culminate in experimental documentaries that tackle questions of representation and engage with critical dialogues around the relationships between the maker, subject, and audience. Course Fee. GE: Artistic Expression
Horror film has a long pedigree reaching back to the earliest narrative films (Thomas Edison's Frankenstein in 1910, for example), and the explosion of "monster" movies in the 1930s began a tradition that has continued unabated to present creators such as Jordan Peele, Ari Aster, and James Wan. Recent research suggests that an individual’s deliberate encounter with scary literature and film alleviates stress and fosters resilience. The genre also has deep political implications and makes important comments on gender, race, sexuality, capitalism, and society. This class focuses on key works throughout the history of horror film, exploring various subgenres in terms of both cultural context, commentary, and craft. Students analyze existing films and even make their own films. Course Fee. Cross-listed with ENG 2295 Horror Film. GE: Artistic Expression, Oral and Written
This is a course in the exploration of sound design for film and video, from recording and Foley to editing and mixing. Students create audio and video projects that experiment with sound design to build space, develop character, and create meaning. The course introduces students to contemporary practices and historical breakthroughs in sound for film and video while encouraging students to build their own sound library and explore the possibilities of sound creation and combination in moving image media. Course Fee.
This studio course covers 16mm filmmaking basics, including designing composition over time through the moving image camera lens, and editing with both analog and digital processes. Through a series of short film projects, students explore the material of 16mm film as a means of creating radical joy and telling stories that need to be told. This introductory course has no prerequisites, and embraces a playful sense of discovery. Students should expect to spend time out of class filming and editing their projects. Course Fee. GE: Artistic Expression
This experimental film studies course explores topics in radical and avant-garde moving image media. Students engage in experiential approaches to film analysis - watching, researching, responding to, and recreating experimental films. The course culminates in an in-depth film analysis project in which students create an analytical essay informed by radical, queer, and feminist film theory, in the form of a paper or media project. Course Fee. May be repeated up to a maximum of 8 credits. GE: Humanities - Literary Analysis, Oral and Written Communication
ART 2350Craft Histories: Cultures of Skill, Labor, & Material4
Moving beyond canonical narratives such as the Arts and Crafts Movement and studio craft, this seminar expands students' understanding of craft's global significance and explores histories of craft as dynamic cultural practices shaped by labor, skill, and material. Engaging with a diverse range of scholarship and applied research methods, students interrogate how current ideas of craft have emerged and changed from the mid-19th century to today. GE: Oral and Written Communication
This course concentrates on the concept of art furniture through the design and building of functional objects. Students utilize steel fabrication and basic wood joinery to develop furniture concepts. Working
This studio course deals with the structure, anatomy, design, and expression of the human form. Students gain competency in drawing the figure as they explore various drawing media and develop an understanding of underlying skeletal and muscle anatomy. Students make use of the visual elements, as well as consider basics of composition and the expressive qualities of good drawing. Students should plan to spend additional time working on their projects each week outside of scheduled class time. Course Fee.
This course introduces conceptual, formal, and practical approaches to mural painting in the service learning context. From fresco to graffiti, students study early to contemporary techniques used to produce large-scale interior and exterior paintings. In class and on site, students learn to use various painting techniques and applications. As a service learning course, students develop an understanding of some of the social roles art has taken and the community impact of public art. Professional interaction and effective communication with community partners, making attainable goals, meeting deadlines and painting as a group endeavor are some of the hands-on experiences students gain from this course. Course Fee.
This course concentrates on constructing molds and producing multiples. A variety of mold-making techniques are explored, including open-face, two-part molds, block and brush on rubber molds. Students are able to realize their ideas utilizing a variety of materials, including plaster, plastics, concrete, and slip casting clay. Students cultivate reflective and critical thinking skills in regard to studio production by utilizing discussions, presentations, research, and writing. Course Fee. May be repeated up to a maximum of 8 credits.
This studio course is designed to introduce students to creating sculpture in metal. The processes of metal fabrication are utilized as students create a series of sculptures expressing a theme. Students learn how to cut, bend and weld metal in the creation of sculptural forms. Processes such as MIG welding, TIG welding, oxygen/Acetylene applications and brazing are covered. Students should plan to spend additional time working on their projects each week outside of scheduled class time. Course Fee. May be repeated up to a maximum of 8 credits.
This metals course positions ferrous metal (iron and steel) as a conceptual and practical focal point for jewelry. With a special focus on combining ferrous alloys with different carbon percentages to form and fabricate novel pattern-welded source materials, students explore the potential and limits of iron as an expressive material in dialogue with adornment, function, and the body. Course Fee. May be repeated up to a maximum of 8 credits.
The Art Department offers a Community Artist course each fall and spring semester. This semester-length, studio course is typically taught by an artist living and working in the region. The purpose of Community Artist courses is to give students the opportunity to experience different perspectives and new artistic processes that are not offered in the regular curriculum. Examples of previous topics include Mixed Media: From Collage to Assemblage, Glassblowing, Non-traditional Papermaking, and Materiality and Meaning in Fibers. Course Fee. May be repeated up to a maximum of
The Art Department offers a Community Artist course each fall and spring semester. This semester-length, studio course is typically taught by an artist living and working in the region. The purpose of Community Artist courses is to give students the opportunity to experience different perspectives and new artistic processes that are not offered in the regular curriculum. Examples of previous topics include Mixed Media: From Collage to Assemblage, Glassblowing, Non-traditional Papermaking, and Materiality and Meaning in Fibers. Course Fee. May be repeated up to a maximum of
This art history elective course examines when, why and where landscape art has been a major focus of aesthetic effort. Diverse definitions of "landscape" are explored through discussions of specific themes, schools, and styles. The course draws on examples varied in date, from ancient to contemporary times, and from sources reflecting many visual art traditions.
This studio course is an introduction to book structures used in historic and proto-book bindings from around the world. Students learn bindings that include Japanese stab bindings, Mesoamerican folded books, and North African Coptic binding along with proto-book structures such as Egyptian papyrus scroll and Southeast Asian palm leaf manuscripts. Structural techniques of making these books are covered along with their historic, cultural, and artistic contexts. Students should expect and plan to spend additional time working on their projects each week outside of scheduled class time. Course Fee.
Students learn hand tool operations by completing several joinery exercises and a project using their new skills. The course covers sharpening techniques and explores cutting traditional wood joints. Students learn to use a marking gauge, hand saw, chisel, mallet, hand plane, and finishing for wooden objects. Course Fee.
This studio course introduces students to a variety of loom and off-loom weaving techniques. We explore the structure of woven cloth, weaving drafts and patterns, histories, and contemporary weaving practices. Projects are made using both a floor loom and frame loom, explore conventional as well as unconventional materials, and push the boundaries of what a loom is. Making focuses on how weaving can be artistic expression and a process for creating functional cloth. Course Fee.
With a special focus on toolmaking, this intermediate blacksmithing course explores conceptual frameworks and applied techniques for practicing metallurgy. Through direct instruction, assigned readings, and collaborative dialogue, students produce a small collection of instruments and artifacts and consider the connections between material practice and material culture. Course Fee. May be repeated up to a maximum of 8 credits.
This course will explore ways that histories and action are told through cloth, from mythology to contemporary craft practices. What narratives exist within the stitched thread? How does text and textile connect? Students will learn how to tell their own stories through cloth through hands-on making in the techniques of sewing and stitching, through embroideries, story quilts and other fiber construction. Course Fee.
Topics courses are 2- or 4-credit, in-depth thematic courses, that may be repeated for credit under a different theme. May be repeated up to a maximum of 8 credits.
Subject
ART
Credits (min)
2
Credits (max)
2
Credit unit
cr
Type
course
Repeatable
may be repeated for credit under a different theme.
Topics courses are 2- or 4-credit, in-depth thematic courses, that may be repeated for credit under a different theme. May be repeated up to a maximum of 12 credits.
Subject
ART
Credits (min)
4
Credits (max)
4
Credit unit
cr
Type
course
Repeatable
may be repeated for credit under a different theme.
A continuation of ART 2000 Ceramics II, this studio course introduces students to advanced concepts and processes in ceramics. Students should plan to spend additional time working on their projects each week outside of scheduled class time. Course Fee.
This is a Study Away course that will focus on a special topic within the discipline, and will include two to three weeks of travel to a domestic or international destination at the culmination of the semester. The topic will be approached through an intercultural lens, and will achieve the following learning outcomes: 1. Students will demonstrate the ability to understand and respect diverse cultural and historical traditions. 2. Students will engage with voices, writings, scholarship, and perspectives from other cultures. For details on the course topic and destination, see the course schedule. May be repeated up to a maximum 12 credits.
A continuation of ART 2030 Painting II, this studio course emphasizes experimentation with materials and concepts as students learn how to develop and nurture a studio practice. Students propose and create an original body of work that is meaningful and relevant to their lives and interests. Students learn how to write about their practice in the form of a proposal and an artist statement. Students should plan to spend additional time working on their projects each week outside of scheduled class time. Course Fee.
A continuation of ART 2040 Printmaking II, this studio course offers a further exploration in the processes of printmaking and may include relief printing, letterpress, intaglio, lithography, and silkscreen. Students are encouraged to go in depth with a chosen medium or combine various printmaking media in their work and produce a portfolio of prints that includes a series of conceptually related pieces. The course includes independent research on print artists, techniques, and historical context. Students
A continuation of ART 2131 Sculpture II, this studio course introduces students to advanced concepts and processes in Sculpture. Students should plan to spend additional time working on their projects each week outside of scheduled class time. Course Fee.
This studio course expands the ART 2160 Drawing II toolkit. Students learn to develop a cohesive body of work that is meaningful and relevant to their creative practice. Students are expected to bring research and related source material to build context around their thoughts and drawings. A variety of materials may be used in this course. Students should plan to spend additional time working on their projects each week outside of scheduled class time. Course Fee. May be repeated up to a maximum of 8 credits.
This course examines painting, sculpture, photography, and architecture produced in the U.S. from the colonial period through the present day. Using a contextual and case study approach, students learn to read images and objects as products of visual, social, cultural, and political history. In addition to well-known artists, students consider the diverse and often overlooked contributions of women, Native Americans, and folk artists. Course Fee.
ART 3200Art Now: Contemporary Art in a Global Context4
This course examines artistic production since 1945 in the United States, Europe, and emerging global centers of art. Beginning with Abstract Expressionism and ending with present day forms of new art media and formats, this course highlights recent shifts in art-making practices and their relation to changing social, cultural, and historical circumstances.
This upper-level studio course explores advanced concepts in small-gauge cinematography and darkroom practices. This course emphasizes experimentation with technique and content and encourages students to deeply engage with the power and possibility of image design through the lens, while simultaneously exploring analog motion picture artistic processes in the darkroom. Projects emphasize the development of a personalized aesthetic and individual body of work. This advanced media arts course embraces a playful sense of discovery rooted in an immersed pursuit of darkroom and moving image research. Course Fee. Photography, or ART 2261 Darkroom Practices.
This course explores the intersection of documentary and animation as an emerging practice overflowing with possibilities for representation and expression. Through creative exercises, readings, and screenings, students learn animation techniques and examine both contemporary practice and historical intersections among traditions in animation and documentary film. These exercises and discussions culminate in animated documentaries that tackle questions of representation and engage with critical dialogues around the relationships between the maker, subject, and audience. Course Fee. Documentary, ART 2275 Experimental Video, ART 2268 Animation Methods, ART 2265 Remix, Reuse, Recycle Media, ART 2315 16mm Filmmaking, COM 3810 Documenting Appalachia, COM 2200 Media Production, or ART 3600 Film Genre.
One of the following - ART 1911 Introduction to Animation, ART 2285 Experimental
ART 3310Research Methods in Art4
In this art history course, students learn the research skills essential to any creative practice. Students engage with a wide variety of research methodologies for studio art and art history including: factual research in museums, libraries, and special collections; critical, analytical, and expository writing; sketching, drawing, and other forms of graphically recording and organizing their ideas. This is a college composition course that requires critical writing and oral presentations.
What is a body? What does it mean to inhabit a body? What happens in the absence of bodies? This course is designed for students to discover the beauty and complexity of bodies through painting, drawing, and expanded media. Students may create studies from direct observation of humans, animals, plants, microorganisms, and more. Students are asked to create a culminating project that represents their insights and perspectives about the topics at hand. A variety of drawing, painting, and mixed media materials are used in this course. Students should plan to spend additional time working on their projects each week outside of scheduled class time. Course Fee. May be repeated up to a maximum of 8 credits.
ART 1030 Painting I, ART 1110 2D Design, or ART 1160 Drawing I.
ART 3600Film Genre2
Film has deep political implications, and makes important comments on gender, race, sexuality, capitalism, and everything else that shapes or is shaped by society. This course will focus on key works throughout the history of a specific film genre, exploring various subgenres in terms of both cultural context/commentary and craft. Students will make their own film in the genre of study. This course requires a corequisite of ENG 3600 Film Genre. All students must enroll in both courses simultaneously. May be repeated up to a maximum of 6 credits. Course Fee. Introduction to Animation or ART 2270 Animation 2 or ART 2280 Take Back the Screen: Queer Youth-Led Social Change & Film or ART 2315 16mm Filmmaking or other Media Arts course.
ENG 1070 Introduction to Film Studies or ART 1790 Alternative Processes or ART 1911
Corequisite
ENG 3600 Film Genre.
ART 3810Advanced Fibers4
A course designed to go deeper into refining fibers construction skills and craftsmanship in the various learning pathways of student interests. Whether through weaving, felting, or stitching, or a combination of construction methods, this course explores fiber as an art practice and materials study. Projects are guided by personal interests and blend historical and contemporary inspirations of sculpture, wearables, and installation. Students should expect and plan to spend additional time working on their projects each week outside of scheduled class time. Course Fee. Storytelling Through Cloth.
ART 1810 Introduction to Fibers, or ART 2908 Explorations in Weaving, or ART 2913
ART 3952Expanded Cinema and Installation4
In this studio course, students experiment with film and video performance, video mapping, and time-based media installation. This course centers on exploration and play as the key to discovery, while simultaneously integrating student-led research on the historical and contemporary practices of expanded cinema and moving image installation into a deeper understanding of one’s own artistic practice. Students are encouraged to push the bounds of how film/video can be experienced, breaking out of the rectangular screen of traditional cinematic exhibition and entering into the world of the unknown. Course Fee.
Artists construct installation art with the intent to shift the perception of space and time. In this interdisciplinary course, students are introduced to handmade and digital strategies for building installations and/or performances. Each time it is offered, this course will cover a different topic within the study of installation and performance. May be repeated up to a maximum of 16 credits.
Topics courses are 2- or 4-credit, in-depth thematic courses, that may be repeated for credit under a different theme. May be repeated up to a maximum of 8 credits.
Subject
ART
Credits (min)
2
Credits (max)
2
Credit unit
cr
Type
course
Repeatable
may be repeated for credit under a different theme.
Topics courses are 2- or 4-credit, in-depth thematic courses, that may be repeated for credit under a different theme. May be repeated up to a maximum of 12 credits.
Subject
ART
Credits (min)
4
Credits (max)
4
Credit unit
cr
Type
course
Repeatable
may be repeated for credit under a different theme.
A continuation of ART 3000 Ceramics III, this studio course engages students in the in-depth, advanced study of concepts and processes in ceramics. Students should plan to spend additional time working on their projects each week outside of scheduled class time. Course Fee. May be repeated up to a maximum of 8 credits.
A continuation of ART 3030 Painting III, this studio course emphasizes experimentation with materials and concepts. Students work on a series of paintings with a strong understanding of composition and color. Work is developed from direct observation. Students should plan to spend additional time working on their projects each week outside of scheduled class time. Course Fee. May be repeated up to a maximum of 8 credits.
A continuation of ART 3040 Printmaking III, this studio course offers a further exploration in the processes of printmaking and may include relief printing, letterpress, intaglio, lithography, and silkscreen. Students are encouraged to go in depth with a chosen medium or combine various printmaking media in their work and produce a portfolio of prints that includes a series of conceptually related pieces. The course includes independent research on print artists, techniques, and historical context. Students should plan to spend additional time working on their projects each week outside of scheduled class time. Course Fee. May be repeated one time for a maximum of 8 credits.
Subject
ART
Credits (min)
4
Credits (max)
4
Credit unit
cr
Type
course
Repeatable
May be repeated one time for a maximum of 8 credits.
In this studio course, students concentrate on completing the cohesive body of artwork initiated in ART 4120 Senior Project I. The completed work must be of exhibition quality to culminate in an exhibition in the Elizabeth Holden Gallery. Students should plan to spend additional time working on their projects each week outside of scheduled class time. Successful completion of this course is required for graduation of all art majors. Course Fee.
Successful completion of ART 4120 Senior Project I.
ART 4132Sculpture IV4
A continuation of ART 3131 Sculpture III, this studio course engages students in the in-depth advanced study of concepts and processes in Sculpture. Students should plan to spend additional time working on their projects each week outside of scheduled class time. Course Fee. May be repeated up to a maximum of 8 credits.
This studio course expands the ART 3160 Drawing III toolkit. Students continue developing a studio practice and cohesive body of work that is meaningful and relevant to their creative practice. Students are expected to bring research and related source material to build context around their thoughts and drawings. Students gain professional practice skills in the form of artist statements, biographies, and exhibition preparation. A variety of materials may be used in this course. Students should plan to spend additional time working on their projects each week outside of scheduled class time. Course Fee. May be repeated up to a maximum of 8 credits.
This course supports upper-level students interested in pursuing original research in fine arts. The research is self-directed academic work by an individual student, or team of students, that addresses a research question with the expectation of a scholarly or creative product intended for publication or presentation on or off campus. Students undertake this work with a faculty mentor during the course of an academic year and receive credit during spring semester. This course is an opportunity for student artists to pursue a research topic that underlies or informs their creative production. Such a project draws mainly on library and/or field research but it may also include experimental studio research.
Topics courses are 2- or 4-credit, in-depth, thematic courses that may be repeated for credit under a different theme. May be repeated up to a maximum of 8 credits.
Subject
ART
Credits (min)
2
Credits (max)
2
Credit unit
cr
Type
course
Repeatable
may be repeated for credit under a different theme.
Topics courses are 2- or 4-credit, in-depth, thematic courses that may be repeated for credit under a different theme. May be repeated up to a maximum of 12 credits.
Subject
ART
Credits (min)
4
Credits (max)
4
Credit unit
cr
Type
course
Repeatable
may be repeated for credit under a different theme.
