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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!

In this introductory course, we explore painting with and on unconventional materials. This process allows students to explore techniques that add dimension and tactility to traditional 2D painting. Materials such as sugar, bleach, rice, sand, leaves, tissue paper, and textiles will serve as surfaces or the painting material, alongside gouache paints.

In this introduction to painting en Plein Air (painting in the field), we will practice painting on site focusing on landscape, buildings, foliage, water, birds, figures etc. We will study historic and contemporary painters working from life and discuss the relevance or plein air within contemporary life. In class projects students will work from observation to train a working knowledge or color, value, chroma, and texture in order to make paintings which reflect their individual experiences of being present in the world. (Request to use mcmurtry french easels)

This course introduces students to the dynamic field of Media Art, where technology, environmental concerns, and cultural critique intersect. Students will explore media-based practices through theory, experimentation, and critical discussion, with special attention to video art, digital identities, and networked culture. The course emphasizes both historical context and contemporary issues, including play, environmental crisis, Black digital culture, and the non-human perspective. Students will engage with video, sound, collage, and photography to produce original artworks.

In this intro-level painting course, students will work with tempera paint and Bristol board as material constraints to create a body of work based on observational still-life scenes. Starting with flat color in the tradition of Cezanne, these static, momentary reflections will increase in complexity in both their visual as well as psychological depth. Individuals will build skills to add to not only their visual language tool box, but their observational and reflective understanding as a whole.

Beyond Punch and Judy, hand puppets are born in artist's studios from Paul Klee to Bread and Puppet Theater. This course will study how puppets are not just objects of performance but a tools for art and politics. Students will learn basic hand puppet construction with a melange of materials to create their own shows.

CPT course required for international students completing degree.