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| Introduction to Fiber FB 200 |
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| 3 credits. Shepard, Couwenberg, Grendze. Offered fall, spring. This course presents students with the opportunity to understand 3-dimensional ideas and become exposed to the potential of fiber as an expressive medium. Technical processes and historical precedents serve as points of departure, so individuals can pursue diverse working formats. Prerequisite: FF 101. |
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| Introduction to Ceramics CE 200 |
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| 3 credits. Baldwin, Lang. Offered summer (as required), fall, spring. This course presents the student with an overview of the possibilities of working with clay. A feel for the material develops through exercises using various forming and construction methods. Tools and techniques are introduced: slab roller, extruder and potters wheel. Students are oriented to the overall processes of ceramics and get a basic understanding of clay and glaze principals and finishing and firing techniques. Historic and contemporary issues are presented through slide lectures. Prerequisite: FF 101. |
| SC 200 - Introduction to Sculpture |
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| 3 credits. Parsons. Offered fall, spring. This course introduces students to the 3-D format and exposes students to an overview of processes, tools, and materials used in sculpture. Students explore the relationship of ideas to materials and construction techniques. Prerequisite: FF 101. |
| WD 200 - Introduction to Wood |
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| 3 credits. Martin. Offered summer, fall, spring. This course presents an opportunity to manipulate wood as a sculptural material. Slides, photographs, and books of contemporary wood sculpture are presented and discussed. Exercises in scale drawings and models help to understand and realize projects. Quick fastening and building construction techniques are covered as well as experiments with shaping, laminating, and finishing wood. The goal is to further individual creativity. Prerequisite: FF 101. |
| Loom/Off Loom |
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| Surface Design |
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| IM 380 - Junior IM Seminar |
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| 3 credits. Staff. Offered occasionally. Junior Seminar will enable the student to cultivate a personal point of view and working methodology within Interactive Media; the ability to articulate and develop that point of view through dialogue, critique, writing and projects will be essential to their personal development. Students will work to locate their specific interests within the medium and explore the necessary resources to realize their intentions. Recognizing and developing a personal studio practice that supports their creative efforts will be covered as well as realizing the integration of that methodology with specific career goals. Pre-requisite: IM majors |
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| FB 400 - Senior Fiber Independent I |
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| 3-6 credits. Couwenberg. Offered fall. Students develop a coherent body of work completed during the senior year for final presentation to a jury selected from sculptural studies faculty. Periodic critiques to discuss progress, content, and process are conducted by faculty and invited critics. Open to fiber majors only. |
| FB 401 - Senior Fiber Independent II |
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| 3-6 credits. Couwenberg. Offered spring. This course is a continuation of FB 400. Open to fiber majors only. |
| 3D Electives |
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| Drawing Elective |
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| Studio Electives-any department |
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| Total Credits In Major |
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| Garment Design and Production:Draping and Drafting |
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| Garment Design and Production: Realizing Designs |
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| SS 209 - Prof Pract: Grant Writing Wkp |
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| 1.5 credits. Staff. Offered occasionally. This class will guide students through the application process for grants available to graduating MICA seniors. Students will address the specific application guidelines and forms; set up a work schedule for completing the application, select and label slides, write a grant narrative, write a resume with an exhibition history; and assemble the final grant package. The class will emphasize a concrete, "how-to" approach, however wider issues and techniques in grant writing will also be discussed. |
| FB 322 - Costume |
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| 3 credits. Couwenberg. Offered spring. This course is an exploration of the world of costume and personal adornment through demonstrations, technical and conceptual information, and the use of historical and contemporary examples. Course work and critiques emphasize development of the idea, personal expression, and technical proficiency. Students are exposed to a broad visual vocabulary and an array of the following materials and techniques: pattern-making and alteration, draping and fitting on a dress form; armatures and coverings, surface embellishment on pliable/flexible planes, and found objects. Prerequisite: 200-level 3-d course. |
| FB 327 - Material Construction |
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| 3 credits. Staff. Offered fall. Material Constructions, flexible structures, lightweight structures, and the architectectonic nature of cloth will be explored. Course entails developing constructions line by line, exploring methods of netting, tatting and other building structures. These are flexible structures, which can be purposeful in form building. The armature and lightweight structures will be addressed as support systems for pliable, flexible materials. Also, we will consider cloth as environment and its capacity in target scale constructions. |
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| Fashion Communication: Branding (graphic design) |
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| Fashion Illustration (illustration) |
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| Fashion in Culture (LL&C) |
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| Material Culture (environmental design) |
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| FB 329 - Uniformity |
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| 3 credits. Couwenberg. Offered occasionally. Uniformity, serialization, modes of production, fashion, repetition, difference, originality...this is the beginning of a glossary of terms for course FB 329 Uniformity. These terms come from the vernacular of both the marketplace and the production of culture. Recognizing that it can be scorned or embraced to effect different ends, artists ranging from Sid Vicious to Andy Warhol to Leni Riefenstahl have instrumentalized uniformity and repetition in their work. Modernist Architects built urban landscapes in the thrall of industrialization¹s mandate for efficiency and progress while tract housing homogenized the look of suburbia. This course will use the tools of studio practice and seminar to investigate fashion, uniforms, architecture, media, and DIY trends. Readings, including Walter Benjamin, Craig Owens, Gilles Deleuze and Gertrude Stein, will support multi-faceted semester-long expanded projects. Prerequisite: 3 credits of 200-level 3D. . |
| FB 331 - Silkscreening on Fabric |
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| 3 credits. Shepard. Offered spring. This course is an introduction to methods of silk-screen printing on textiles with emphasis on the single compositional work and development of repeat pattern designs. Processes include paper and cut stencils, hand-drawing, drawing fluid and screen filler, and photo silk-screen. Dyes and pigments are used. Students examine effects and usage of single and multiple image and pattern through using a number of silk-screens and manipulating image and cloth. A combination of direct painting, material considerations, and printing is explored. Prerequisite: 200-level 3-d course. |
| L 314-TH - Body Discourses |
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| Whether we experience our bodies as the site and center of our being, or we feel we are the proprietors of a shell called "the body", whether we are at one with it or feel alienated from it, our bodies are always with us, we are in our bodies, and we desire to know it. To understand and define it, fix it, liberate it, expose, invent and imagine "truths" that are inscribed in the flesh, however, we turn, necessarily, to symbolization and language. When studying the body, we therefore recognize the somatic players in the drama: skin and bones, hair, organs, ova, semen, blood - but we will be amazed at the stories woven into intricate plots by theorists from a variety of disciplines that offer often strange, often profound, and often literal insights into the body. This course serves as an introduction to the complex and extensive field of body theory. We will study texts that narrate the sexed body, the gendered body, the orgasmic body, the ascetic body, the tortured body, the uncanny body, the raced body, the foreign body, the body in images and film, and the body and technology through a variety of discourses, ranging from religious to scientific discourses, discourses on aesthetics, political activism, cultural theory and psychoanalysis. |
| FB 434 - Surface:Resist Dyeing II |
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| Applying image, pattern, and surface manipulation to cloth using contemporary and traditional resist methods will be explored. Processes from Japan, Central America, West Africa, and Europe are shibori (knotted resist) arashi (wrapped resist), starch and paste resists. New directions in altering surface color, structure, and texture are cloque (shrinking), devore (eroding), chemical resists, and discharge printing and painting (removing color from cloth.) Collage, piecing, two and three dimensional ideas are encouraged. |
| FB 5338 - Woven Imagery |
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| Explores weaving as drawing medium utilizing supplemental weft, warp, double cloth pickup, damask and tapestry, paralleling the direct encounter with material and weaving systems at the loom. Each student will make a hand-bound notebook/journal which will include drawings, writings, bibliography, vocabulary, and personal evaluation, all relevant to the student's individual explorations and research throughout the course. No previous weaving experience necessary. |
| FB 342 - Accumulation and Metaphor |
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| 3 credits. Brandt. Offered fall. This course combines the mining of material resources with the exploration of additive processes to discover form and meaning in textiles. Traditional surface embellishment, basketry and feltmaking techniques will be demonstrated as means of discussing metaphors of entanglement, sedimentation and rhizomatous (network). Various methods of material procurement will be presented. Both individual and collaborative work will be encouraged. Prerequisite: Any 200 level course in Fiber, Ceramics, Wood or Sculpture. |
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| FB 354 - Weaving:Color and Pattern |
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| 3 credits. Hluch. Offered spring. Emphasis in this course is on principles of color and pattern as applied to the making of hand-woven cloth. A variety of dye processes, weaving techniques, and finishing procedures is introduced, enabling student to create woven fabric that reflects their personal aesthetic and artistic and conceptual interests. Demonstrations, slide presentations, readings, and discussions inform students and encourage a thoughtful and committed working practice. Prerequisite: 200-level 3-d course. |
| FB 368 - Collage and Sculptural Surface |
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| 3 credits. Shepard. Offered spring. This course focuses on the consideration of the constructed, pieced, and sculpted surface. Students explore the interpretation and invention of cloth construction, layering, sculptural surfaces, pieced and collaged surfaces, and the multiple as possibilities. Collecting, salvaging, and mixing materials will be involved. Students respond to and attend numerous exhibitions and lectures taking place during the spring semester involving historical and contemporary textiles. These lead to discussion on the issues and ideas that have made pieced, cloth construction a relevant and vital history. Prerequisite: 200-level 3-d course. |
| Fashioning Culture/Readdressing Clothing |
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