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| GFA 220 - Introduction to GFA |
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| 3 credits. Stevens, Weiss, Roeder. Offered fall, spring. This sophomore core course is designed to help students explore their artistic vision and begin to plan the way they would like to construct their own version of the general fine arts major. New GFA majors are assisted in forging a personal approach to visual exploration and expression. Virtually all media are acceptable. This course is strong on personal attention via frequent one-on-one discussions. Corequisite: DR 252 or DR 298. Open to GFA majors only. |
| CSDR 252 - Life Drawing |
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| 16 sessions/3 credits $660 Tuesday, Thursday 5:45 - 10:30pm June 8 - JUly 29 Robert Salazar, Stacey Redford McKenna This class is an interview study of the human figure: form, structure, volume, movement, composition and expressive possibilities. Prerequisites: FF 198, FF 199 or equivalent (Introductory Drawing I and II). |
| DR 298 - Studio Drawing |
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| A general introduction to portrait drawing, this course covers skulls, planes and masses of the head, muscles of expression, age differentiation, characterization, adornment, lighting and the double portrait, among other subjects. There are models of all ages and some clay modeling. Prerequisites: FF 198 and FF 199. This course fulfills the studio drawing requirement. Recommended sophomore course. |
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| Senior Thesis I, II |
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| FA 498 - Senior Thesis I |
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| 3-6 credits. Staff. Offered Fall. Seniors are given assistance in developing personal directions as artists. Work is independent, either at home or in a designated studio. The senior independent or thesis program offers qualified students an opportunity to work on a continuing series of projects of their own choice in studio spaces provided in the Fox or Main building. Requirements: at least three individual critiques with a participating instructor, a final critique with a visiting artist, and a mid-term review by a panel of the program's instructors. In addition to the regular individual and class critiques in each student's studio art courses, progress is evaluated by visiting artists, critics, writers, philosophers, and filmakers, and by various faculty members from different departments, with reviews of student work twice each semester. |
| FA 499 - Senior Thesis II |
6-12 |
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| 3 credits. staff. Offered spring. A continuation of FA 498 into the spring semester. |
| Studio Electives-any department |
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| Graphic Design with Chair's Approval |
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| 6 - 12 credits. Larson. Offered fall. This course is a seminar-type discussion of issues, theories, and practices relevant to contemporary photography for first semester MFA students and includes visiting artists. Graduate photo students only. |
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| GFA 270 - Collage & Assemblage |
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| 3 credits. Staff. Offered fall. Collage has been described as the primary medium of the 20th century. The multi-layering of images and materials reflect the cultural and technological flux of the modern age. This mixed media course explores the 2- and 3-D possibilities of working with collage and assemblage. Course content will examine the formal narrative and conceptual issues of the collage process and form. Weekly slide lectures and materials will examine artists working within these mediums. Students will be encouraged to develop a personal direction. |
| GFA 275 - Imaging from Culture |
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| 3 credits. Roeder. Offered fall, spring. As artists we are part of an evolving world culture. This studio course will help the student see the common denominators as well as the differences in various cultures and apply those insights to their own work. By investigating certain patterns/aspects of human behavior (ie., death, marriage, celebrity, etc. )students will expand their thinking about their work and how it communicates in the larger context. Students may work in any media/genre and will complete four "pieces" over the semester. This course will be offered using a pass/fail grading basis. No prerequisite. |
| GFA 282 - High Touch Meets High Tech |
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| 3 credits. Villarrubia. Offered fall, spring. In this course students develop a body of work bridging the gap between traditional painting and drawing media and the digital image (especially the use of Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter). The similarities and differences in working by hand and on-screen will be explored. Typically, initial work will be hand drawn or painted; then images will be scanned and manipulated via the computer. The resulting digital prints are reworked by hand and possibly scanned again until the desired effects are achieved. Students will be asked to push the restrictions usually associated with the digital image. This course is designed for students with a background in painting and drawing and a basic knowledge of computer imaging. |
| GFA 310 - Imaging the Idea |
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| 3 credits. Waters-Eller. Offered occasionally. This course aims at developing conceptual philosophical ideas in each individual's work. Ideas range from science to religion to literature and are discussed in order to provoke a deeper exploration into individual points of view. Students work in any media. In-class work facilitates exploration of the day's topic. Group critiques are used to review work done out of class with a focus on content. Prerequisites: GFA 220 and PT 200. |
| GFA 322 - Costumed Character |
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| 3 credits. Salazar. Offered occasionally. This course involves working each week from a model, masked and costumed as a figure from the history of the commedia dell'arte: Harlequin, Pierrot, Pulcinella, Scaramouche, and others. The models take poses found in some of the great masters who dealt with this theme in their art: Watteau, Gillot, Lancret, Cezanne, and Picasso. The course also involves lectures on the evolution of these figures as well as the problems unique to the clothed figure. Slides dealing with these representations and one or two brief films are shown. Students work in media of their choice: drawing, painting, photography, digital imaging, and so forth. For the final project, students don a costume to do a self-portrait in the persona of a character from the commedia. Prerequisites: DR 252 and 298. |
| GFA 327 - Bodies and their Coverings |
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| 3 credits. Sangiamo. Offered occasionally. War paint. Eyeliner. Tattoos. Scars. Piercing. Thin body. Broad body. Expressive face. Poker Face. Fashion. Costume. Plain. Beautiful. Loose and open body language. Tight and closed body language. All and many more inventions and behaviors have contributed to the vastly varied human visage. All have triggered far-flung creative imaginations and will continue to do so. In this course students select their own projects and are free to work in any 2-D or 3-D medium (video, painting, drawing, photography, digital, animation, fiber, printmaking, ceramics, etc.). Instruction is via slide lectures and movies. Individual and group critiques. Model is provided on request. Prerequisite: A strong previous interest in the course's subject and the ability to work independently on a consistent basis. |
| GFA 334 - Toys: A Studio Experience |
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| 3 credits. Weiss. Offered occasionally. This studio course explores the use of both art-related and non art-related toys as a means of expression. The course begins with classic art-related toys such as Etch-a-Sketch, Lego, Tinker Toys, Spirograph, Play Doh, Crayola, finger paints, pipe cleaners, and coloring books. Using these classic toys as artist's materials, students address issues such as scale, concept, eccentricity, subject matter, and ingenuity. The traditional and non-traditional use of these elements are also be of key importance. Time permitting, attention will focus on non-art-related toys, both manufactured toys as well as toys of students' own invention. Towards the end of the semester, students plan a major project based on class content, showing how serious artists can revisit the toys of their youth. The course consists of weekly homework, work in class (required), student presentations, brainstorming, discussions, and critiques. Prerequisites: DR 252 and 298. |
| GFA 336 - Inventions and Visions |
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| 3 credits. Weiss. Offered fall. This course allows students to test their creativity through a variety of exciting challenges. Students play inventor, artist, or visionary as they create unconventional solutions to the commonplace. New problems are introduced in class on a two or three week interval. There are demonstrations and critiques of the results each day the solutions are due. This is a good course for those who like variety. Problems can be approached in two- or three-dimensional solutions. Some problems might include: designing a better mouse trap, building a bird house, inventing a machine for making art, making a kite, making plans for a robot, and so on. No prerequisites. |
| GFA 390 - Imaging from Cinema |
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| 3 credits. Sangiamo. Offered fall. From its start cinema has influenced and been influenced by the imagery of other art forms, from literature, painting, photography, illustration and the comics through costume design, fashion design, stage set design, graphic design and erformance art. The Imaging from Cinema course invites students from all disciplines to come together and participate in this relationship via independent works in media of their own choosing. Open to all majors. Prerequisite: 2.8 or higher GPA For inspiration movie imagery is studied via movie clips in tightly structured class meetings. Among the subjects covered: the imagery of cities; water imagery as metaphor; varieties of erotic imagery; costume as persona; varieties of horror; the aesthetics of Film Noir; selected foreign directors; movie scenes directly influenced by scenes in earlier movies; image sequencing; cinematography. Students work at home on projects of their own choosing. Group and individual critiques. |
| GFA 393 - Watercolor Technique |
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| 3 credits. LaPerriere. Offered minimester. In this course students are introduced to basic and advanced techniques of watercolor as applied in a variety of disciplines. Emphasis is given to: the handling of wash area and brush strokes in experimental and traditional way, color mixing and uses and representation of volume spaces. Students select final projects in painting, drawing, illustration or interior design to be completed independently during the summer and critiqued the first week of September. |
| Kingston: Discovering Caribbean Cultural Identity in Jamaica's Capital |
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