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Two fun activities on campus during the summer are drawing in the studio and being outdoors. In this Arts Intensive Drawing class students will do both. The course will revolve around composition and layout, expressive mark-making, and basic drawing techniques. Mainly using pencil and charcoal as our primary medium, this class will explore dynamic compositions found in nature, gestural figure drawing, and portraiture. Students will also have the opportunity to work on quick and in-depth drawings, gaining a more excellent working knowledge of line, shape, perspective, proportion, volume, and composition. On-campus drawing-based visits will include the Anderson Collection and Cactus Garden. An off-campus docent-led tour at the San Jose Museum of Modern Art will provide students the historical awareness of artists who have worked in this manner. The whole class is meant to be an experimental lab while allowing students to gain a rigorous foundation in drawing. Honing individual style is encouraged!

Painting and Acrylics is an introductory studio art course open to all students. In this class you will be exposed to a range of strategies and subject matter for painting with acrylics. Each week students will be shown new techniques and asked to put them into practice with class projects e.g., cloud painting, self-portraits, and making your own masterpiece. At the end of this course students will understand how to use acrylic paint to render any and all representational subject matter.

In this course, we turn to the practice of copying as a form of study, appreciation, and inspiration. Using the Cantor Museum collection, the Bowes Art Library, and the internet, we will curate personal archives of images which we will draw from ¿ literally and figuratively¿ to explore a range of techniques and approaches to image making. An emphasis will be placed on drawing as routine and the keeping of a sketchbook/journal. Students will train in ways of seeing that will allow them to employ skills and iconography learned from studying other images towards the development of their own unique visual language.

This course explores the potential of your cell phone in working in various photography art practices, ranging from experimental to documentary-style photography. We will leverage the potential of the cell phone by delving into different genres through hands-on assignments, demo lessons, and discussions about artists working with this photography. We will merge a critical analysis of contemporary photography with a study of early forms of popular photography, examining the democratization of this medium. By completing our weekly assignments and lessons, you will learn to better articulate and convey ideas through photography, expand your technical and conceptual approach, and understand how we communicate through images.

This introductory class explores how we arrange objects and understand their meaning. Using personal props, students will experiment creating still life photographs while thinking about object placement, scale, lighting, and perspective. Together we will analyze their photo compositions using concepts like hierarchy, alignment, and metaphor. Students will be given weekly assignments to develop their visual storytelling skills as well as their ability to read object arrangements. Weekly slide lectures will explore historical and cultural depictions of objects in still life. Students will be asked to participate by bringing in examples of still life imagery they find inspiring to share with the group. The purpose of this course is to help students learn the ways in which object arrangements communicate.

A dynamic mix of guided writing and drawing assignments, and self-driven studio time. We will get dirty with the ABCs of drawing while playing with freeing constraints and looking closely into the visual dimension of words. Through a spirited, daily practice students will learn how to trust and blast open the art that they uniquely make. Students will create their own semiotic games, word-shapes and poem-pictures. Investigating cross-pollinations, intersections and possibilities as points of departure, we will experiment with inventive tensions between visual and written images. We will look at (and write about) art history as artists.

CPT course required for international students completing degree.