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Art 081
The following courses serve as classes for the bachelor of arts (B.A.) and the bachelor of fine arts (B.F.A.) curricula.
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07:081:105
Visual Arts Practice (VAP) (BA)
Involves supervised practical experience within the Department of Art & Design's studios, computer, media or photography labs, and galleries, or in artistic organizations or contexts across the University and in the larger community. Substantive projects outside of the department may qualify. 1 credit = 42 service hours; 2 credits = 84 service hours.
Three credits are required of all B.F.A. visual arts majors; 2 credits are required of all B.A. art majors. Design majors do not complete VAP. Students must register for the course to earn academic credit.
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07:081:121
Drawing Fundamentals (4)
This introductory course is designed to familiarize the
student with the basic principles of drawing. Students are taught to see the
three-dimensional world around them and to capture what they are perceiving in
two-dimensions. Projects are designed to increase the student's technical and
perceptual ability within a variety of drawing-based approaches. The first half of the
semester focuses on the use of line to address composition, creating space,
perspective, accuracy in "seeing," and mastery of materials such as pencil and
charcoal. The second half of the semester focuses on the use of value, gesture,
and mark-making to address similar formal and structural components with pen and
ink. Critiques and discussions address both the formal and conceptual
aspects of drawing such as ideation, subject, meaning, context, intentionality,
and alternate readings of the work, among others. Art historical and contemporary art
examples will be introduced throughout the course, and it is expected that students
make at least one trip to New York City during the semester to explore contemporary
galleries and attend three visiting artist lectures.
Offered fall and spring. Art minor requirement.
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4D Fundamentals: Time and Space (4)
Working with the computer and with everyday
technologies including smart phones, the internet, cameras, and audio recording
devices, students learn fundamentals of time- and screen-based contemporary art
practices. The class introduces students to a range of experimental techniques
and approaches, working with photomontage, image sequencing, video recording
and editing, and sound. The class includes screenings, demos, workshops, labs,
readings, group discussions, and critiques. Students will develop their own
creative and independent voices while working on a series of focused assignments.
The course will culminate in a public screening of student artwork produced
during the course.
Offered fall and spring. Art minor requirement.
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07:081:200-201
Seminar in Contemporary Art A and B (3,3)
An introduction to works of contemporary art from the mid 20th century to the present. Explores different approaches to the production and reception of contemporary art across painting, drawing, sculpture, performance, photography, video, and more. Considers how art disciplines cross-pollinate and some practices abandon the notion of a distinct medium altogether. Readings as well as podcasts, films, and museum visits will support the course lectures and discussions, which engage contemporary art critically and creatively.
Prerequisites: 01:082:105 and 01:082:106. 07:081:200 is a prerequisite for 07:081:201.
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Drawing I-A (4)
This course will explore the historical roots and contemporary application of the radical and conceptual process known as collage. Ideas of fracture, montage, image/object, process, and environment will all be explored as students develop their own vocabulary and studio practice. Historical models, relevant texts, and contemporary artists will be examined. Research, special projects, and group and individual critiques are an integral part of the course.
Prerequisite: 07:081:121.
May take Drawing I-A and Drawing II-A (07:081:321) together.
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Drawing I-B (4)
This course introduces the use of color into the drawing practice. While drawing is most often taught
as a series of value and/or mark-making relationships, this course will
introduce tools and materials that facilitate an approach to using color that
goes beyond the simple differentiation of form. Using a variety of methods and
materials to introduce color into the drawing process, students will experiment
with oil pastel, watercolor, colored pencil and found color material (collage)
to explore how color affects the meaning and reading of a work of art. Assignments,
readings, presentations, and screenings will all examine color from various
viewpoints including (but not limited to) historical, conceptual,
psychological, cultural, and ethnographic ideas related to color and its use in
the drawing practice.
Prerequisite: 07:081:121 or permission of instructor.
May take Drawing I-B with Drawing II-B (07:081:322) together.
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Visual Thinking A: Black and White (4)
This course provides an introduction to the basic principles of "visual thinking", or the basic formal and conceptual aspects of visual art and design which addresses issues related to visual culture, history, image/object, representation, and artistic intentionality. Projects are designed to increase the student's technical and conceptual ability within a variety of visual arts mediums and approaches. Critiques and discussions play a crucial role in the course in analyzing work, and art historical and contemporary art examples are introduced throughout. Students are expected to make at least one trip to NYC during the semester to tour contemporary galleries.
Offered fall only. Visual Thinking A OR B is Art minor requirement.
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Visual Thinking B: Color (4)
Explores basic principles of color that address issues related to its physical properties, scientific principles, practical application, cultural implications, and concepts of color "theory."
Offered spring and summer only. Visual Thinking A OR B is Art minor requirement.
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07:081:231
Design I-A: Type and Typography (4)
Introduction to typography, the practice of making verbal language visual. Builds visual awareness of letterforms and their composition in space through studio projects that engage with type as a means for clear communication and visual expression. In addition to studio work, this course demands absorbing technical and historical knowledge in order to develop a visual sensitivity for typographic form.
The practice of typography gives verbal language a visual form, material, and method of distribution. This course introduces the fundamental concept and terminology of type, such as typefaces, type sizes, leading, kerning, grids, guides, composition, space, color, and motion. This studio course builds technical and practical skills towards a fluency in setting and manipulating type within a contemporary digital environment. Students will understand and us fonts and typesetting software to create and analyze typographic prototypes for both print and screen.
Offered fall only.
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07:081:232
Design I-B: Form and Meaning (4)
Introduction to a visual communication design process. Work with both hand methods and
digital technologies to develop original design solutions. Assignments
integrate conceptual thinking with formal experimentation. Students explore
problems dealing with visual metaphor, symbols, and the combination of type and
image for making meaning.
Prerequisite: 07:081:231.
Offered spring only.
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07:081:243
Media I-A: Introduction to Media Art: Screen/Image/Sound (4)
This introductory course focuses on the production and concepts of screen-based media artwork. Students learn about the interdisciplinary field of media art, which can include video
art, installation, and video sculpture; artists' cinema; experimental film and
video; participatory art; live media performance; and art for the internet. Students learn to navigate a landscape of continuously changing technologies and devices. The course includes lectures, workshops, technical demos, readings, critiques of student work, and screenings
of artists' works. Students create a series of group and individual media art
projects. No technical experience required.
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Media I-B: Experimental Practices and Techniques (4)
A course on experimental approaches to screen-based media art including experimental documentary and narrative, collage and montage, sampling, remixing, and abstraction. The course includes a series of technical workshops that may include 2-D animation, compositing, and other visual and digital tools and effects. Screening and discussions about media art in relation to art history and contemporary art. Includes lectures,
workshops, technical demos, readings, critiques of student work, and screenings of artists' works. Students create a series of short video and sound artworks.
Prerequisite: 07:081:243.
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07:081:251
Painting I-A (4)
Introduces a range of technical and experimental approaches to painting with oil and/or
acrylic in ways that relate to the history of Western Modernist painting. The course offers varied and dynamic approaches to the problems of structure, shape, materiality, and color, both in representation and abstraction. The development of formal coherence and imagery are guided and practiced through individual and group critiques, slide presentations of a rich cross-section of painters and painting practices, selected readings, and museum visits. This class also introduces students to the vocabulary and critical skills to be able to articulate what they are seeing and making.
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07:081:252
Painting I-B (4)
This course builds on the foundational skills,
techniques, and modes of perception in Painting I-A through the development of
Cubism and the post-Cubist figure in connection with developments in
representation, followed by explorations into models of abstraction.
Throughout, emphasis will be placed on the materiality of painting and how that
central condition of the medium affects perception and meaning. The course
consists of in-class exercises, out of class projects, individual mentoring and
group critiques and discussion, slide presentations, and visits to museums in
New York City. This class continues to introduce students to the vocabulary and
critical skills to be able to articulate what they are seeing and making.
Prerequisite: 07:081:251; offered in the spring only.
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07:081:261
Photography I-A: Introduction to Digital Photography (4)
A rigorous introduction to digital photography, featuring the digital camera, digital image file development including camera RAW, and the presentation of photographs on screen and in print. This studio-based course explores
photography by considering technical,
creative, historical, cultural, and critical issues of the multifaceted medium
of photography.
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Photography I-B: Darkroom Photography (4)
Explores the
foundations of film photography with an emphasis on technique and aesthetic
concerns, coupled with an introduction to the history of photography.
Emphasizes mastery of the 35mm and large format film camera techniques,
lighting, black-and-white film development, gelatin silver printing, visual
literacy, editing, and presentation methods.
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Print I-A: Silkscreen (4)
In-depth exploration of silkscreen including
hand-drawn, computer-generated positives, and production. The course encourages
the combination of other print media and will include a short segment on
print as a 3-D structure. Artistic development concerning composition, content,
and conceptual ideas will be addressed through individual and group critiques.
Offered both fall and spring.
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Print I-B: Relief (4)
In-depth exploration of woodcut, linocut,
reduction print; work will be in both black and white and printing of
multicolored blocks including reduction block printing. The course encourages
the combination of other print media. Artistic development concerning
composition, content, and conceptual ideas will be addressed through individual
and group critiques.
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07:081:281
Sculpture I-A (4)
Sculpture 1-A is the one of two introductory courses
on the fundamentals of sculpture, utilizing traditional and nontraditional
techniques. Students will develop an understanding of three-dimensional form
through material processes and presentation and become technically and
conceptually informed makers. By the end of the semester, students will become
confident in the sculpture studio and making the three-dimensional forms they
envision with fabrication processes including metal and mold-making in
combination with various materials and tools. Projects are designed for
students to develop their sculptural practice through making, group discussions,
critiques and, most importantly, spending time in a safe and creative studio
environment. The studio-based curriculum includes lectures, screenings and
assigned readings to support historical and contemporary language around making
sculpture. There is no prerequisite for this course.
Sculpture I-A is offered in the fall.
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Scultpure I-B (4)
Sculpture I-B is a continued introduction to the
fundamentals of sculpture, utilizing traditional and nontraditional techniques.
Assignments are designed to develop students¿ sculpture practice through
making, group discussions, sketchbooks, models, and, most importantly, spending
time in the safe and creative studio environment. Slide presentations and
readings will be used to improve general understanding of historical and
contemporary language around sculpture and installation. This class is an extension
of Sculpture 1-A in that it will focus on material process and expand on an
engagement and understanding of how technical craft, formal design, and
conceptual underpinning are all integral to the creation of sculptures and
installations.
Offered in the spring only.
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07:081:303
Seminar in Media (3)
A survey of contemporary media art including
video art and installation, expanded and artists' cinema, experimental film and video, sound art, and art for the internet. Students are introduced to a range of media art practices that may include experimental narratives and
documentaries, radical and activist media, multimedia installations, found
footage collage and remix work, online art interventions, and live media
performance. The course explores histories,
theories, and critical writing on avant-garde media from the 20th century to the present.
Offered in Spring only. Open to all Visual Arts and Design majors.
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07:081:306
Public Art: Place and Process (4)
This course will center on contemporary practices of public art, introducing brief history, methods of fabrication, field visits to site and with stakeholders, administration, proposal development, readings, writings, presentations, discussions and critiques. Students will explore the process of creating a public work of art while developing a deeper understanding of their own artwork, methods, context and intention, ultimately producing a work in the public realm.
Prerequisites and Corequisites: 07:081:281 and 07:081:282.
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07:081:310
Seminar in Photography (3)
This course examines historical and contemporary discourse in photography. The course will include detailed discussions of major theoretical approaches to photography. Students encounter aspects of the history of photography and its interaction with other cultural forms through the development of historical, cultural, and political
factors and their relationships to the present through key readings, lectures, screenings, and guest speakers.
No prerequisites.
Offered fall only.
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07:081:313
Ceramics/Sculpture (3)
This course provides an introduction to ceramic sculpture with an emphasis on hand-building methods. Students will learn methods of building ceramic sculptures by techniques of pinch building, slab, coil, press hump mold construction, wheel, and slip casting. The history and theories of ceramics and related sculptural practices will be introduced alongside various methods of construction, surface treatment, glaze chemistry, and firing methodology. Students will also engage in presentations, critiques, discussions, field trips, and visiting lectures.
No prerequisites.
Studio elective course.
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07:081:321
Drawing II-A (4)
This course examines the relationship of drawing to time and media-based practices, specifically through the history and techniques of animation. Exploring traditional and experimental animation, we will examine how drawing can mark space and movement to create an illusion of time. Starting from precinematic animation techniques through the realm of the digital, we will examine the impact of technology both technically and conceptually. We will develop a critical understanding of animation and "the animated" as it relates to personal iconography/biography and social/political circumstances through the lens of the current zeitgeist.
Prerequisite: 07:081:121.
Corequisite: 07:081:221
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Drawing II-B (4)
This course examines how to visually tell a story through the medium of drawing. Using techniques associated with graphic novels, comix, storyboarding, and other sequential art, students will learn how to develop their own visual and literary narratives that carry personal, political, social, and/or global themes.
Prerequisite: 07:081:121 and 07:081:221.
Corequisite: 07:081:222.
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Figure Drawing (3)
Working from a live, nude model, students explore how to accurately draw the figure. Observational accuracy, quality of line and tone, technique, and expression are all stressed as students become familiar with all aspects of drawing from the figure in pencil, ink, and charcoal.
Prerequisite: 07:081:121.
Art minor requirement. Studio elective course. Offered spring only.
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Seminar in Print (3)
This
seminar considers the history of print, paper, and collaboration from
Guttenberg to the internet. The course focuses on the dissemination of
printmaking and on the multiple in installation, paper, photography, sculpture,
and book forms. Readings, lectures, slides, and film presentations familiarize
students with current ideas, history, criticism, practices, and artists who
deal with the multiple. The history of the relationship between the
collaborative studio and the artist is explored through the Rutgers Print
Collaborative, a working model for the collaborative shop housed adjacent to
the print studios.
Offered every other year.
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07:081:328
Design Seminar A: Histories (3)
Exploration of historical and contemporary critical debates in graphic design.
Through readings, lectures, research, and presentations, students investigate the ways historical, cultural, political, and economic factors
have shaped design. Students situate their practice within the design discourse of today through an
examination of the development of the discipline.
Prerequisites and Corequisites: 07:081:121.
Open to both 081 (visual arts) and 208 (design) majors.
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07:081:329
Seminar in Painting (3)
This course consists of readings, presentations, and studio assignments pertaining to
current painting practice and the precedents that created it. Through discussions in museums and galleries in the presence of painting, students practice looking and situating what we see with the help of the texts, and learn to
engage painting discourse from within.
Offered fall only.
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07:081:330
Seminar in Sculpture: Interdisciplinary Practices (3)
This seminar is for students interested in contemporary sculpture particularly as it relates to interdisciplinary practices. Sculpture has become a broad range of practices with its door open to many possibilities. Examining contemporary sculpture within the context of its history and traditions and as an expanded discipline, we will explore different historic and topical areas from the mid-20th century to the contemporary moment. As a means of developing their studio practice, students will explore aesthetic, historical, cultural, and theoretical issues in relation to expanded sculpture. The course will map these analyses onto their own research interests through written assignments, readings, presentations, and lectures, as well as studio visits of practicing artists and theorists, connecting histories of sculpture to current studio practices.
Typically offered spring only.
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07:081:331
Design II-A: Systems (4)
Explores complex multi-part design systems such as visual identities and books. Develops skills in research, visual experimentation, using digital and analog tools for print and screen. Consists of studio work, critiques, technical demonstrations, lectures, readings and class discussion.
Prerequisites: 07:081:231-232.
Offered fall only.
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07:081:332
Design II-B: Experimental Computation (4)
Explores complex multi-part design systems such as visual identities and books. Develops skills in research, visual experimentation, and using digital and analog tools for print and screen. Consists of studio work, critiques, technical demonstrations, lectures, readings, and class discussions.
Prerequisites: 07:081:331.
Offered spring only.
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07:081:343
Media II-A: Media Art Installation and Expanded Cinema (4)
This course focuses on making and displaying screen- and time-based media in galleries and other architectural environments. Students learn about sequencing in space as well as
principles and practices of sound and exhibition design. The course explores how different spaces affect moving images, sound, and projections, and how moving images, sound, and projections can construct and alter space. Students learn about historical precedents and current practices, from pre-cinematic magic lantern shows to expanded
cinema, and from video sculpture and site-specific installation art to multichannel video installations, urban screens, and artists' cinema. The course includes technical workshops on syncing multiple channels of video and surround sound. Students create their own media installations and environments.
Prerequisites: 07:081:243-244 or permission of instructor.
Offered fall only.
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07:081:344
Media II-B: Media and Performance (4)
A course on various intersections between media and performance art. Topics may include performance for the camera, online performances and interventions, participatory art works,
autobiography and video diaries,the filmed body as medium, and live video and cinema performance and events. Students create their own recorded or live media art projects.
Prerequisite: 07:081:343.
Offered spring only.
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07:081:351
Painting II-A (4)
This course nurtures individual growth as a painter in technical mastery and conceptual understanding. Emphasis is placed on working in increasingly self-directed series. Selected readings and visits to exhibitions are required, as
are group discussions and critiques.
Prerequisites: 07:081:251-252 or permission of the department.
Painting II-A offered fall.
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07:081:352
Painting II-B (4)
This course nurtures individual growth as a painter in
technical mastery and conceptual understanding, while drawing on and deepening
the fundamentals of painting. Moving beyond historical and perceptual models
discovered in I-A and I-B, Painting II-B explores different modes of play,
experimentation, subject matter, painting histories, and processes. This course
contains a combination of structured and self-initiated projects as students
learn to listen to, activate and direct their creatives voices through
painting. The semester will partake of working in series, thinking about
painting in relation to its history and other art, while increasingly working
independently towards an ambitious and complex final project. The course will
also consist of selected readings, presentations, demos, visits to exhibitions,
as well as group discussions and critiques.
Prerequisites: 07:081:251-252;
Painting II-B offered spring.
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Seminar in Drawing (3)
Designed for students in the drawing concentration, this seminar examines contemporary drawing within the context of its history and traditions
and as a discipline where boundaries are fluid enough to explore drawing
through the use of diverse media with nonspecific temporal and spatial
boundaries. Drawing is considered in its relationship to a broad range of other
disciplines including painting, sculpture, performance, installation,
choreography, design, music, and architecture, among others. As a way of supporting the development of their studio
practice, students will explore aesthetic, historical, cultural, and theoretical
issues in relation to drawing as a medium, method, and practice through written
assignments, readings, presentations, lectures, studio visits to practicing
artists, and visits to galleries and museums.
Offered every year.
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07:081:361
Photography II-A: Digital Image and Print (4)
Features the refinement of digital photography with an emphasis on making exhibition-quality prints and building print portfolios. Through creative assignments, this studio-based course
explores photography with particular focus on expressive, historical, and theoretical aspects of the ubiquitous medium.
Prerequisites: 07:081:261, or all students with Photoshop experience and permission of the instructor.
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Photography II-B: Books (4)
A course focused on refining your photographic images or images of your artwork for a
book or catalog made in InDesign and printed on-demand; a slide presentation of
the work; and a website or blog. Your project will be self-directed.
Prerequisite: 07:081:361.
Offered spring only.
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07:081:371
Print II-A: Intaglio (4)
In-depth focus on intaglio, including
engraving, drypoint, etching, aquatint, and spit bite. The course encourages
the combination of other print media and will include a segment on photo
polymer plates. Artistic development concerning composition, content, and
conceptual ideas will be addressed through individual and group critiques.
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07:081:372
Print II-B: Lithography (4)
In-depth focus on lithography, including
stones, aluminum plates, photo-litho plates, and color lithography. The course
encourages the combination of other print media. Artistic development
concerning composition, content, and conceptual ideas will be addressed through
individual and group critiques.
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07:081:381
Sculpture II-A (4)
In this course, students will continue to explore
concept and context through the materials and methods of traditional and
non-traditional sculpture. Building on Sculpture I-A/B, this course will
introduce digital fabrication skills and further build the connections between
ideas and making. Emphasis will be on working directly in the studio to develop
personal expression and skill. Slide presentations, readings and informal
discussions will be used throughout the semester to unpack the fundamental conceptual
and practical underpinnings of sculpture.
Prerequisites: 07:081:281-282.
Sculpture II-A offered fall.
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Sculpture II-B (4)
In this course students will continue to explore
concept and context through the material and methods of traditional and
non-traditional sculpture. Emphasis will be on working directly in the studio
to develop a personal expression and skill. This course will be an exploration
of prescribing meaning to objecthood and becoming more aware of how it is we
arrive at our intentions through making. We will be looking at references, in
and outside of art, and discussing traditional and non-traditional sculptural methods
to help us better understand what sculpture is and can be. Many of the projects
throughout the semester will act as games to help us extract meaning from
movies, readings, media and the everyday to apply to our personal practices in
the studio. This course intends to develop a deeper look into the things around
us to develop a better understanding of how we, as individual artists, make
sense of the world through our studio practice.
Prerequisites and Corequisites: 07:081:281, 282, 381.
Sculpture II-B offered spring only.
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Design Seminar B: Contemporary Practice (3)
Proposes diverse models for contemporary design
practice through a series of lectures by guest designers and by related
readings. Class discussions, assigned texts, and writing responses address the
pragmatics of design, the designer's role as a social agent, and design and
politics. Helps students to situate their own research and develop a critical
design language to analyze their own and others' work. The course is intended
to help students develop a personal philosophy of design and a sense of how they
might practice as designers.
Open only to 208 (design) majors.
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Design Practicum (3)
This course provides practical design experience where students undertake
appropriate real-world assignments in a noncommercial environment. This is an advanced production studio for students interested in collaborating with academics from other fields, university administrators, NGO representatives, and other designers. Students will engage in research, concept development, design, production, and presentation. Students are expected to work in close contact with peers and outside collaborators to produce visual projects that meet mutually agreed upon parameters. This class should be taken in the junior or
senior year when students have sufficient technical and conceptual experience
to benefit from the class.
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07:081:391,392
Independent Study (2) (B.F.A.,B.A.)
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Internships (4) (B.F.A.,B.A.)
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Advanced Ceramics Sculpture (4,4)
Students will continue to practice approaches to
building basic three-dimensional forms with clay. The course will focus on
experimental ways of working with clay to play and explore various approaches,
materials, and methods of making. We will briefly cover the history of ceramics
and begin to learn about contemporary artists working in the medium. My
objective as an instructor is that by the end of the course each student will
be confident in building with clay, will have explored the many ways of using the
material and will have grown in their ability to articulate their ideas and
discuss their work. I am committed to supporting your work with clay into your
larger creative practice. We will go over different techniques, discuss
readings, meet with visiting artists, look at ceramic work together and
critique your work. In addition to all of that you will have studio time during
each class.
Prerequisites: 07:081:313/314.
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07:081:421,422
Drawing III-A, III-B (4,4)
Through practice, experimentation, research, and use of a variety of media and methodologies, students will explore more complex approaches to their drawing practice. These may include: the use of image and text; time, sequence, and narrative in drawing; and drawing as a performance practice, among others. Self-directed work in the studio and research and reading of critical texts are required.
Prerequisites: 01:081:221 and 222 (Drawing I-A and I-B) or corequisite 07:081:321 and 322 (Drawing II-A and II-B) or corequisite 07:081:451-454 (Painting III-A and III-B or Advanced Painting A or B) or by permission of the instructor.
Drawing III-A offered fall; Drawing III-B offered spring only.
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07:081:431
Design III-A: Design for the Digital Realm (4)
This course trains students to research, analyze, prototype,
and develop design concepts for dynamic digital media such as online, tablets, and mobile
apps, for three distinct social and cultural contexts. The focus is on practice and
experimentation to master UI/UX design. This course consists of three projects
addressing experience design and its presentation. Today interaction online focuses on information through living, social platforms. We will go beyond an average user's perspective to critically examine the web through historical, political, and social lenses. This course encourages students to holistically approach the web and its constituent code as a living kit of parts waiting to be harnessed in novel and innovative ways. As digital technology industries rapidly alter ways of doing and thinking, design can amplify, shift, comment on, and/or criticize these changes. The role of designers today is not only to style content but to shape it, extracting information from abstract datasets, writing scenarios, and creating systems, all with a critical eye.
Prerequisites and Corequisites: 07:081:231, 232, 331, 332.
Offered fall only.
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07:081:432
Design III-B: Portfolio (4)
Development of a diverse, refined body of work and
format for its presentation. Lectures and readings survey current issues in design practice. Critiques and discussions underpin the process of defining and articulating the student's interests and approach to design.
Prerequisite: 07:081:431.
Offered spring only.
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Media III-A (4)
Students work under the direction of faculty and in discussion with the class on producing self-directed, independently conceived media artworks that reflect their own
interests and ideas. Students will proceed through
all stages to fully realize their work--from research, proposal, production, postproduction
to installation, screening, or other form of display. Ongoing group discussions, critiques, readings, and screenings related to students' creative projects.
Prerequisites: 07:081:343-344 or permission of instructor.
Media III-A offered fall.
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Media III-B (4)
This is a class for
intermediate-level and advanced students working in media. Students work under
the direction of faculty and in dialogue with classmates on self-directed,
independently conceived time-based media artworks that reflect your own
interests and ideas. The class will give you support and structure as you
continue to develop your independent creative voice and vision as an artist.
You will be challenged to take risks by working in ways you don't usually work,
trying new things, and pushing yourself beyond your habitual ways of making.
You will work collaboratively with your peers on skill, concept, and idea
sharing in order to develop and nurture peer-to-peer networks, peer-to-peer
learning, collaboration, and mutual support. Students will also learn about and
develop professional practice skills as you prepare for life and work after art
school, including job search
preparation, writing cover letters, resumes, artist statements, applying for
art residencies, and more. The class will include individual and group
discussions, peer-to-peer workshops, individual and group projects, critiques,
readings, writing, and screenings, shaped around students' creative work and
interests.
Prerequisites: 07:081:341-344 or permission of instructor.
Media III-B offered spring only.
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Advanced Media A (4)
Students work under the direction of faculty and in discussion with the class on producing self-directed, independently conceived media artworks that reflect their own
interests and ideas. Ongoing group discussions,
critiques, readings, and screenings in media art.
Prerequisites: 07:081:441-442 or permission of instructor.
Offered fall only.
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07:081:447
Advanced Media B (4)
This is a class for intermediate-level and advanced
students working in media. Students work under the direction of faculty and in
dialogue with classmates on self-directed, independently conceived time-based
media artworks that reflect your own interests and ideas. The class will give
you support and structure as you continue to develop your independent creative
voice and vision as an artist. You will be challenged to take risks by working
in ways you don¿t usually work, trying new things, and pushing yourself beyond
your habitual ways of making. You will work collaboratively with your peers on
skill, concept, and idea sharing in order to develop and nurture peer-to-peer
networks, peer-to-peer learning, collaboration, and mutual support. Students
will also learn about and develop professional practice skills as you prepare
for life and work after art school, including job search preparation, writing
cover letters, resumes, artist statements, applying for art residencies, and
more. The class will include individual and group discussions, peer-to-peer
workshops, individual and group projects, critiques, readings, writing, and
screenings, shaped around students¿ creative work and interests.
Prerequisites: 07:081:446.
Offered spring only.
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07:081:451-452
Painting III-A and III-B (4,4)
In this course, students will work in individual studios on self-directed projects, developing subject matter, content, and methodology through directed research. Selected readings and visits to exhibitions and lectures are required, as is participation in group discussions, presentations, critiques, and reviews.
Prerequisites: 07:081:351-352 or by permission of the area. Primarily for students who have concentrated in this area.
Painting III-A offered fall; Painting III-B offered spring only. (This course is cross-listed with Advanced Painting A).
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07:081:453-454
Advanced Painting A and B (4,4)
Students in this course are engaged in mentored individual work toward their thesis and explore how to sharpen and sustain the questions that will carry their work beyond it. These are identified and tested through individual studio visits with the instructor, group critiques; discussions of lectures, texts, and exhibitions; instructor and student presentations; peer curation, and review assignments.
Pre or Corequisites: 07:081:451-452.
Advanced Painting A offered fall; Advanced Painting B offered spring only.
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07:081:455-456
Advanced Drawing A and B (4,4)
Students in this course work on self-directed exploratory-based drawing projects under the mentoring of the instructor and within the engaged, critical dialogue of their peers.
Pre- or corequisites: 07:081:321 or 322 (Drawing III-A or III-B); or 07:081:451-452 (Painting III-A or III-B).
Advanced Drawing A offered fall; Advanced Drawing B offered spring only.
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07:081:461-462
Photography III-A and III-B: Exhibition and Portfolio (4,4)
In this course, students concentrate on individual artistic development by which they can develop an awareness and understanding of experimental and creative approaches to conceptual projects within the framework of contemporary photographic art practice. Advanced theoretical studies and individual practical investigations are used to support an emerging independent work process culminating in a final body of work.
Prerequisites: 07:081:361-362.
Photography III-A offered fall; Photography III-B offered spring only.
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07:081:463-464
Advanced Photography A and B (4,4)
Projects in this special topics class concentrate on the approach to specialized development in photography areas such as artists books, multimedia approaches, performance, installation, and photography-based public art. Individual and
group work includes research and short- and long-term project development.
Prerequisites: 07:081:461-462.
Advanced Photography A offered fall; Advanced Photography B offered spring only.
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07:081:471
Print III-A: Letterpress (4)
In-depth focus on letterpress including hand
typesetting and polymer plates on the Vandercook press. The course will cover
broadsides, artists' books, and chap books. Artistic development concerning composition, content, and conceptual
ideas will be addressed through individual and group critiques.
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07:081:472
Print III-B: Papermaking (4)
In-depth focus on papermaking including Western style formation, working with Japanese fibers, three-dimensional pulp
casting, coloring of pulps, stencils, watermarking, sizing, pressing, and
drying. Artistic development concerning composition, content, and conceptual
ideas will be addressed through individual and group critiques.
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07:081:473
Advanced Print A: Graphic Impulse (4)
This course makes the
argument that the most suitable container for interdisciplinary language and
process is printmaking. We will take under consideration the premise that
printmaking constitutes a broad range of approaches that have the capacity to
yield new form and new language when combined with other traditional
techniques. We¿ll study and examine both historical and contemporary examples
of artists output that have encouraged a necessary expansion of the medium of
print beyond works on paper. Course lectures and demos will focus on five
central themes: Print as Moving Image, Print as 3-Dimensional Form, Print as
Substrate, Print as Picture, and Print as Architecture and Design. Assignments
will describe conceptual and material conditions that participants must adhere
to but will also allow ample rooms for experimentation and encourage a
poly-medial process of arriving at the completed work.
Prerequisites: A minimum of one upper level print course.
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07:081:474
Advanced Print B: Artists' Books (4)
In-depth focus on handmade artists'
books including Japanese stab binding, accordion structures, single and
multiple signatures, Coptic, and alternative books. Artistic development
concerning composition, content, and conceptual ideas will be addressed through
individual and group critiques.
No prerequisites.
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07:081:481-482
Sculpture III-A and III-B (4,4)
In this advanced studio course, students will explore, define, and develop their creative work and research in expanded sculptural practices through studio assignments and prompts, writing, instructor and student presentations, professional material development, readings, and independent projects. Students will continue the development of their studio practice in an increasingly independent framework while being asked to define their decisions in group and individual discussions while most likely developing and presenting their work in a Thesis exhibition. Students gain understanding of how their work is situated historically and discursively in the field through lectures, readings, and group and individual critiques.
Prerequisites: 07:081:381-382.
Sculpture III-A offered fall; Sculpture III-B offered spring only.
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07:081:483-484
Advanced Sculpture A and B (4,4)
Students in this course will work on independently conceived sculpture projects which are developed in consultation with the instructor. Independent research and creative work are supported by group critiques, individual meetings with the instructors, lectures, readings, and class discussions.
Pre- or corequisites: 07:081:481-482.
Advanced Sculpture A offered fall; Advanced Sculpture B offered spring only.
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07:081:491,492
Independent Study (2) (B.F.A.,B.A.)
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07:081:493,494
Internships (4) (B.F.A.,B.A.)
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07:081:497-498
Thesis and Exhibition A and B (3,3)
The culmination of undergraduate Art & Design creative research and practice, this year-long course provides methodologies, structure, and community to pursue advanced independent studio work and critique, leading to a group exhibition in the second semester. This year-long course is required for the B.F.A. in Visual Art and B.F.A. in Design degrees.
Open only to B.F.A. seniors.
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Mason Gross School of the Arts 
