Course Descriptions

ART 2500C Painting: Investigations in Black and White
This course focuses on assignments and projects in painting that rely on the use of dark and light. Students deal with figure-ground shape interaction, chiaroscuro modeling in light and shadow, as well as experimentation with painterly media. Students are encouraged to develop their own approaches to the problems presented.

ART 2501C Painting: Investigations in Color
This course focuses on assignments and projects in color as it applies to painting. The course covers the general concepts of color theory and how it relates to visual perception. Students are versed in the language of color and learn to recognize the various visual phenomena associated with color mastery.

ART 2510C Painting from Observation
This course focuses on exercises and projects in seeing and painting. Emphasis is on depicting of form, space, and light.

ART 3504C Painting: Structure and Transformation
This course focuses on exercises and projects in advanced compositional theories with emphasis on spatial plasticity in painting. The course encourages improvisation and innovative in terms of pictorial decision-making. Much of the course is perceptually based and uses the life model. Discussion sessions center on the analysis of formal relationships.

ART 3522C Painting: Exploring the Series
This course introduces the painting student to the possibilities of working in a series format. The course examines connections between improvisational skills and concentrated research. The objective is to create relationships between artworks and ideas through the production of a cohesive body of works stressing the development of a personal vocabulary of form and content.

ART 3560C Figure Painting
This course involves investigations of descriptive painting from the human form, via the live model. Issues of light, space and color interaction are stressed. The objective is reach competency in descriptive painting of the human form in space through ala prima as well as fully staged paintings.

ART 3561C Experimental Painting
This course is intended to question the limits and boundaries of painting as a creative medium stressing sophisticated investigations in media and technique. Issues of the tradition as well as non traditional aspects of painting are brought into light in the context of a contemporary theoretical discourse. The objective is to encourage experimentation in concept as well as media.

ART 3807C Interdisciplinary Studio
This course involves a semester-long project intended to connect various studio areas.

ART 4505C Advanced Painting Studio
This course allows the student to explore in depth traditional and/or experimental approaches to painting. The course attempts to foster observation and interpretation skills through the writing and speaking about painting. Issues of relevant theoretical concerns and the cultural significance of the painting media are addressed. The course also attempts to develop an awareness of and understanding of professional practices. The objective is for the student to develop, through research and practice a personal vocabulary of imagery and ideas regarding painting.

ART 4955C Senior Project
This course requires that students to locate a site, prepare, mount and promote an exhibition surrounding their work as a senior painting student. The objective is to prepare the student for professional art practice.