printer friendly pageARTSTUDI 142A: A Deep Dive in Artmaking During the Time of Covid-19
In this hands-on course, we produce a body of work that responds to key concepts examined in contemporary art with a specific emphasis on the impact of artmaking due to Covid-19. During this historical moment, we explore alternative possibilities of the artmaking process, geared to adjust to implementations of shelter in place, social distancing, and the reduction of resources. This course provides the opportunity to experiment with unconventional art media and develop new methods of engaging with each other and the community.
Last offered: Autumn 2020
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
ARTSTUDI 144: PRINTMAKING AND ACTIVISM
Hands-on studio course that introduces students to a variety of printmaking techniques, while exploring printed matter's role in activism in both history and in current events. This course introduces students to printmaking and graphic art techniques as tools for political activism, and explores how students can print as a tool in dialogue towards social change. Prior printmaking experience is helpful not necessary for this course.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 8 units total)
Instructors:
Wilson, M. (PI)
ARTSTUDI 145: Painting I
Introduction to techniques, materials, and vocabulary in oil painting. Still life, landscape, and figure used as subject matter. Emphasis is on painting and drawing from life. (lower level)
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
ARTSTUDI 145A: Painting as Storytelling
This is a special class taught by Holt visiting artist John Bankston. Coulter Gallery will provide a unique classroom space, where student work will be displayed in an ongoing exhibition that will grow over time for the public to observe.Using the fundamentals of painting, this class will explore paintings narrative potential through several painting projects. The project themes will be memory, emotion, the self and the painting process. The class will culminate in a group mural that incorporates ideas from class projects.
Last offered: Autumn 2021
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
ARTSTUDI 145B: Painting: The Expanded Field
This painting class is presented by Holt Resident artist, Kim Anno and builds on two ideas: The first is that the history of painting is intrinsically linked to the lion's share of contemporary art. The second is that the world is upside down in climate change. Students will explore interdisciplinary approaches to painting, including the use of recycled materials, to celebrate its nexus and expand its materiality. We will analyze tyranny, sublime, and irony in the construction of new works. Everyone will have the opportunity to exhibit their work in the Coulter gallery.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Anno, K. (PI)
;
Savunov, O. (TA)
ARTSTUDI 145M: Mural Painting
This rare class explores making a mural in the context of mural history. We will engage the history of mural painting from ancient to contemporary times for an informed production of murals on canvas in one of the painting studios at school. The social, the political and the cultural roles mural painting has played will be discusses while students will be engaged in making their own.
Last offered: Winter 2022
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
ARTSTUDI 145S: Painting and Collage
In this introductory class painting and collage techniques are explored and combined in order to expand visual language. Paint as a traditional medium is unified with the prefabricated nature of collage in order to create aesthetic harmony and produce sensations of volume, space, movement, and light on a flat surface. Various collage materials are pulled from magazines, newspapers, old books, cloth and found materials that interplay with acrylic paint applications.
Terms: Sum
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Tut, P. (PI)
ARTSTUDI 146: Photoshop and Painting
This is a focused introduction to still life painting and Photoshop. Students will learn to indicate simple form with a single light source and then learn to paint form lights, various forms, and cast shadows. Students will also gain an understanding of warm and cool colors. Emphasis is on composition, cropping, overlapping and placement in the picture plane. Students will also learn the basics of photoshop and how it can be used as an aesthetic tool to benefit students work.
Last offered: Autumn 2019
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
ARTSTUDI 146M: Painting Off the Wall
This course introduces a range of alternative processes in painting! Using a variety of paints, surfaces, and additives, you will create works which challenge the traditional boundaries of the painted image. We will cover the fundamentals mediums and paint additives, while centering projects around experimentation. The course offers a different entry point into painting, expanding the medium of painting far beyond oil on stretched canvas. This course is open to students new to and experienced in painting.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2
Instructors:
Catanese, A. (PI)
ARTSTUDI 147: Art Book Object (ARTSTUDI 247A)
This mixed introductory and upper level studio course explores contemporary aesthetic interpretations of the book as an art object. Students learn to use both traditional and digital tools and techniques for creating artists' books, and integrate those into final works of art. The course familiarizes students with basic bookbinding processes and forms, as well as various modes of printing and production that facilitate limited artist editions. In addition to making books, we view numerous artists' books in the Bowes Art & Architecture Library collection as well as the collection of the instructor, and meet with practicing artists and book makers. Students create a number of small books, each focused on a particular process but using content of their choice. Upper level students propose and create a more fully evolved final project involving at least one bookbinding process independently researched in consultation with the instructor.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
Instructors:
Wight, G. (PI)
;
Wilson, M. (PI)
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