Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts

 

 

Course Bulletin

 

 

 

 

 Fall Semester

&

Spring Semester

 

2008 – 2009

(updated June 17, 2008)

 

 

 

 

 


 

THE MISSION STATEMENT

 

The Mission of the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts is to provide the best education in drawing, painting, and sculpture through study of the history, traditions, and principles of the fine arts and the liberal arts, thereby establishing a comprehensive foundation for the development of the artist.

 

The curriculum reflects a deep respect for traditional forms of teaching which have produced master artists throughout the ages. 

 

The Studio curriculum is centered on the study of nature and the human figure.

 

The Liberal Arts curriculum provides a strong academic foundation necessary for advanced critical and creative thought.  Together the integrated program is designed to provide a practical foundation on which each student can develop his or her unique intellectual and visual articulation with confidence and integrity.

 

Therefore, the educational programs of the College develop:

·          Craftsmanship and technical skill in the use of materials and methods;

·          Discipline, as intuition and creativity are subjected to judgment and revision;

·          Knowledge of history of art, ideas and human experience;

·          Critical thinking about ideas, events, intentions and issues in contemporary culture;

·          Mastery of writing and oral skills;

·          Commitment to a relentless pursuit of excellence;

·          Inspiration to fuel the intention and direction of the work;

·          Respect and tolerance for authenticity and diversity in the search for intellectual and aesthetic integrity;

·          Integration of the subjective, rational and technical in artistic practice.

Based on these principles, the Lyme Academy College offers a strong, sequential program designed to develop intellect and imagination, intensity of observation, sound craftsmanship, quality of execution, individual initiative and creativity, as well as depth of interpretation of ideas through artistic expression.

 

Ultimately, the Lyme Academy College believes the Fine Arts are of unique importance as a defining, substantive element of society and life itself; further, that educated artists are individuals who not only articulate their culture but who give shape and substance to that culture.

 

NASAD SELF-STUDY

September, 2002


ACADEMIC PROGRAMS

 

BFA Degree

The Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting or Sculpture degree is designed to combine a solid, substantial foundation of technical and conceptual skills in the visual arts with the critical thinking and communication skills essential for success in today’s complex world of art. Four years, 132 credits.  Entering first-time freshmen for the academic year 2008-2009 will follow a 120 degree credit curriculum.

 

The College plans to inaugurate a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration and in Drawing commencing in the 2009-2010 academic year.

 

Certificate

Certificate in Painting or Sculpture is a program for students who do not wish to pursue a BFA degree. The Certificate program includes the same balanced  curriculum with fewer studio and liberal arts requirements.  Three years, 90 credits. See schedule of courses and credits.

 

Post-Baccalaureate Certificate

A program developed for the individual who has completed an undergraduate degree, and who wishes to strengthen conceptual abilities or studio skills, and/or develop a cohesive body of work to qualify for graduate school or other professional opportunity. The program is two semesters of study full-time. 30 credits.  May be enrolled for half-time, credits per semester, for four semesters.

 

ACCREDITATION

 

Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts is proud to be accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC), the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD) and the Connecticut Department of Higher Education.

 

 

EDUCATIONAL GOALS FOR BFA PROGRAMS

 

Educational Goals: BFA, Sculpture Major

 

The primary educational goals for the sculpture major are knowledge of and proficiency in sculptural practice based on the observation of nature including the human figure and supported by craftsmanship, individual initiative, creativity, and the ability to interpret ideas through artistic expression.

 

The program requires students to understand historical and contemporary examples of sculpture and to integrate that knowledge into studio practice. Informed by proficiency in life drawing, knowledge of anatomical structure, and an understanding of three-dimensional composition, students will demonstrate their ability to articulate forms, in the round and in relief, and to produce robust and convincing sculptures in such modes as the figure and the portrait.  Students will be competent in the use of sculptural materials and methods of casting.

 

Educational Goals: BFA, Painting Major

 

The primary educational goals for the painting major is knowledge of and proficiency in painting practice based on the observation of nature including the human figure and supported by craftsmanship, individual initiative, creativity, and the ability to interpret ideas through artistic expression.

 

The program requires students to understand historical and contemporary examples of painting and to integrate that knowledge into studio practice. Students will demonstrate a thorough understanding of value, color, composition and expression through the study of anatomy, life drawing, perspective and design and the role these elements play in conveying meaning and vivacity. Students will be competent in the use of media such as oil, watercolor, egg tempera, and pastel and will demonstrate through robust and substantial works proficiency in a range of painting modes including the figure, landscape, portrait and still life.

 

 

BFA Supporting Curriculum: Drawing Program

         

 

The Drawing program supports the B.F.A. degree as a whole by offering all L.A.C.F.A. students the opportunity to develop their intellectual and artistic faculties through work in a variety of drawing-based artistic forms.  The drawing program is comprised of a sequenced series of courses that is intended as a cumulative progression through sets of intelligences and proficiencies that are associated with drawing.  These intelligences and proficiencies in some respects overlap and contribute to those being concomitantly developed in either painting or sculpture; in other respects they are unique to drawing and pertain to the practice of drawing as an art form in its own right.   Both as a contributory tool in the service of painting and sculpture and illustration and as an independent art form, then, students’ involvement in drawing is meant to expand the scope of their responses to the world, thereby expanding their capacity for learning in ways in keeping with the broader goals of undergraduate education in art.

 

The sequence of major courses in the B.F.A. in Drawing includes and follows upon students’ successful completion of Drawing I or equivalent approved foundation drawing transfer credits.  All three Sophomore Drawing courses are required; a total of 12 drawing credits (including those earned by completing the Sophomore Drawing credits) is required for both Painting and Sculpture majors.

 

The three-year drawing progression flexibly corresponds to students’ undergraduate years as follows:

 

·        Sophomore Drawing (sophomore year)

·        Advanced Drawing (junior year)

·        Topics in Drawing (senior year)

 

Sophomore Drawing

 

Three required 1½-credit studio courses comprise Sophomore Drawing which separately focuses on one of three key areas of consideration that are basic to classically-oriented drawing.  Observational Drawing addresses operations pertaining to the eye; Constructional Drawing addresses operations pertaining to the mind; and Calligraphic Drawing addresses operations pertaining to the hand in drawing.

 

Advanced Drawing

 

Advanced Drawing courses provide opportunities for students to deploy the proficiencies that were separately targeted in Sophomore Drawing in specified combinations.  For example, Extended-Pose Figure Drawing develops and deploys observational and constructional strategies; Rapid-Pose Figure Drawing deploys constructional and calligraphic strategies in tandem; and Scenic Drawing develops both observational and calligraphic modes.  An additional course, Chiaroscuro Drawing, addresses more deeply observational considerations relating to the representation of light (either as contrast or as value) through applications of various drawing media.  The Junior-level Drawing Projects encourages each student to begin integrating drawing knowledge into independent projects which will be developed more substantially in the final year’s Senior Project.

 

Topics in Drawing

 

Topics in Drawing courses are intended to build further upon gains made in previous drawing courses by affording students the opportunity of exploring further artistic uses to which they can be put.  In courses such as Narrative Drawing and Dynamic Drawing, stress is placed on ways the study of historical examples and the development and application of students’ own idioms of judgment can yield drawings in which the dramatization of the human figure is both expressive and novel.

 

 

 

BFA Supporting Curriculum: Liberal Arts Program

 

The Liberal Arts program supports the Painting and Sculpture majors by developing in students a rich understanding of the cultural, social, historical, and scientific context of the world they will enter as arts practitioners. Courses in Liberal Arts are taught in a logical and effective sequence that supports each student’s intellectual development. They are designed to meet the General Education requirements of NEASC and other relevant accreditation agencies and to be pertinent and intellectually engaging to the developing artist. The Liberal Arts curriculum emphasizes competency in communication skills through assignments that encompass both written work and oral presentations.

 

The Liberal Arts program also offers an opportunity for students to acquire further art historical knowledge by taking additional courses to fulfill the Art History Minor.

 

 

BFA Supporting Curriculum: Foundation Program

 

The Foundation program supports the Painting and Sculpture majors by providing all entering students with a common first year experience that prepares them for a successful transition to their sophomore year and choice of major. The program develops fundamental artistic proficiencies in drawing, painting, sculpture, color, and design based on the observation of nature including the human figure. Students successfully completing the Foundation curriculum are able to demonstrate a consistent level of basic competencies including an understanding of visual arts principles and the ability to translate the observed environment into drawn, painted, and sculpted form with a reasonable degree of technical skill and vivacity.

 

 


ACADEMIC CALENDAR

 

FALL SEMESTER, 2008

SPRING SEMESTER, 2009

 

FALL SEMESTER DATES: Wednesday, August 27 through Monday, December 15

NEW STUDENT ORIENTATION: Monday and Tuesday, August 25 & 26

ALL SCHOOL WELCOME BACK BARBECUE:  Tuesday, August 26, 12 noon to 1:45 p.m.

RETURNING STUDENT ORIENTATION: Tuesday, August 26, 1:45 to 3:00 p.m.

FACULTY RETREAT: Tuesday, August 26

FIRST DAY OF CLASSES: Wednesday, August 27

WELCOME BACK LUNCH: Wednesday, August 27, 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

LABOR DAY HOLIDAY: Monday, September 1 (no classes)

LAST DAY to DROP/ADD CLASSES: Tuesday, September 10 (except for Monday classes

which have until September 15)

SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS DINNER: Sept.12- Sophomore & Junior Scholarship students

TEN WEEK, NON-CREDIT CLASSES BEGIN: September 15 (through November 21)

MATRICULATED ADVISING FOR SPRING '09: October 20- November 7

MATRICULATED REGISTRATION FOR SPRING '09: October 27- November 18

ALL SCHOOL THANKSGIVING POT LUCK LUNCH – November 25

THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY: Wednesday - Sunday, November 26-30

PART-TIME STUDIES REGISTRATION BEGINS FOR SPRING '09: November 24

FALL SEMESTER ENDS: Monday, Dec. 15th Saturday and Sunday classes go through the14th 

STUDIOS ARE CLOSED: December 22 through January 5

Selected Studios for student use will be open during the balance of the break

 

SPRING, 2009 SEMESTER DATES: Tuesday, January 20 through Monday, May 11

 

FIRST DAY OF CLASSES: Tuesday, January 20

LAST DAY to DROP/ADD CLASSES: Monday, February 2

TEN WEEK, NON-CREDIT CLASSES BEGIN: February 9 (through April 25)

DEADLINE to SUBMIT WORK for ALL-STUDENT EXHIBITION: Friday,

February 27, 4:30 p.m.

ALL-STUDENT EXHIBITION: Opening Reception Friday, March 6

SPRING BREAK: Monday, March 16 - Friday, March 20

FRESHMAN REVIEW: April 1

MATRICULATED ADVISING FOR FALL '09: April 6-April 24

SPRING WEEKEND:  April 11 and 12 (Sat/Sun classes will not run)

MATRICULATED REGISTRATION FOR FALL '09: April 13-May 1

SENIOR PROJECT EXHIBITION: Opening Reception-Friday, April 17

5:00-7:00 p.m.

PART-TIME STUDIES REGISTRATION BEGINS FOR FALL '09: May 4

LAST DAY OF CLASSES:  Monday, May 11

CLASS MAKEUP DAYS-May 12-13

GRADUATION: Saturday, May 16, 3:00 p.m.

 

DISCLAIMER:

 

The Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts reserves the right to make changes to the courses and schedule contained in this bulletin due to enrollment, faculty availability and budgetary considerations.

 

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS    See Schedule for days, class hours and studios.

 
FOUNDATION PROGRAM for BFA DEGREE STUDENTS

 

DR150-5 DRAWING I  (core bfa; cert) 3 credits.(Fall and Spring: Total 6 credits.)

Drawing I is a two-semester course that presents drawing as the visually accurate representation of three-dimensional forms in space on a two-dimensional surface.  Students are taught to see proportions and confirm their observations with measurements.  Spatial relationships are checked horizontally and vertically, and negative shapes are sought out and used to define and confirm positives.  Still-life objects are utilized as subject matter, progressing from simple geometric forms to the more complex.  Students should leave Drawing I with a systematic and effective approach to the construction of an accurate drawing through line and value.   2 sections: Monday 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.  or Tuesday 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Foundation Studio.  Instructors: Nancy Gladwell; Susan Stephenson

 

PT100-5 PAINTING I (core bfa; cert) 3 credits. (Fall and Spring: Total 6 credits.)   

This two-semester foundation course provides students with the skills necessary to paint convincing forms in space.  Using oil paint, students proceed through a series of sequential assignments designed to promote a thorough understanding of value, temperature, and color and introduce them to other formal conventions employed by painters.  Students develop an intelligent, reliable approach to painting, a familiarity with basic materials and techniques, and an understanding of composition and color theory. 2 Sections: Thursday 9:00 - 4:00 p.m.; Friday 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Foundation Studio. 

Instructors: Roland Becerra; Susan Stephenson;

 

PT160 2-D AND 3-D DESIGN (core bfa; cert) 1.5 credits - Fall semester.

This course introduces students to the fundamental elements and principles of design in both two-dimensional and three-dimensional applications. Students learn to analyze compositions, identify their components, and apply the various principles to their own work. Students will develop an intellectual and practical understanding of the construction of a work of art, acquire knowledge of various media, and become familiar with the terms used in the discussion of art.  2 Sections: Wednesday or Friday 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.  Studio V. Fall semester.  Instructors: Nancy Gladwell; Shira Avidor

 

PT 165 COLOR AND DESIGN (core bfa; cert) 1.5 credits - Spring semester.

This course provides a thorough examination of color theory. Students are introduced to various color contrasts through a series of exercises, which allow them to use color more coherently. 

2 Sections: Wednesday or Friday 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.  Studio V.  Spring semester.  

Instructors: Nancy Gladwell; Shira Avidor

 

SC150-5 SCULPTURE I (core bfa; cert) 3 credits. (Fall and Spring: Total 6 credits.)  

This two semester introductory course explores three dimensional form and composition.  First semester projects include modeling the skull, planes of the head, and a portrait from the live model. The second semester focuses on the total human figure with reference to bone structure, proportion, and balance. Each student constructs a half life-size skeleton and models the major muscle groups on their skeleton. In addition, each student creates a full figure sculpture from the live model, allowing integration of his/her knowledge of the human form.                    

22 Sections: Tuesday 8:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m. or Thursday 9:00 -4:00 p.m. Southwick-Keller Studio.   Instructors: Randolph McIver, Sharon Gregric-Gale

 

AHS170-5 SURVEY OF WESTERN ART HISTORY (core bfa; cert) 3 credits.  (Fall and Spring: Total 6 credits.)  

A two-semester required course examining major periods, styles, and themes in Western Art. The first semester will examine works from the Prehistoric to the Gothic eras, continued in the second semester by the study of works from the Renaissance through the early twentieth century. Lectures and readings are devoted to presenting students with a repertoire of significant painting, sculpture, and architecture, and an understanding of the meanings of these works within their original cultural contexts. Students are also challenged to expand their observation and vocabulary skills through close formal analysis of the visual properties of art. Exam essays and writing assignments develop research skills and promote development of analytic and critical thinking. Requirements each semester: purchase of textbook, assigned readings, museum visit, two quizzes, two exams, one formal analysis paper based on an object studied in a museum. Monday & Wednesday 4:30 -5:45 p.m. Lecture Hall

Instructor: Matthew Landrus, Ph. D.

 

ENG100 ENGLISH COMPOSITION (core bfa; cert) 3 credits - Fall semester.

English Composition is designed to develop and hone those writing and critical reading skills basic to any Humanities course. Careful seeing leads to effective writing— only by devoting our scrupulous, passionate attention to the texts and images we encounter, will we be able to evaluate them in writing. In weekly assignments students will work on organizational and structural strategies; analytical writing skills; and methods of revision. Over the course of the semester students will undertake a variety of writing assignments of increasing length and complexity. Several of these projects will involve multiple drafts and constructive peer review.

Tuesday 6:30 – 9:30 p.m. Lecture Hall.  Fall Semester

 Instructor: Jennifer M. Burke

 

ENG105 ENGLISH LITERATURE & COMPOSITION (core bfa; cert) 3 credits Spring Semester.

This is an introductory literature course, with an emphasis on twentieth-century modernism, and its roots in certain foundational works by Goethe, Shakespeare, and Sophocles. We will read and discuss nine works of fiction and drama in terms of their historical context and continuing cultural relevance. Students will be introduced to traditional scholarly views and encouraged to explore their own personal responses to these works. Each student will give an oral presentation elucidating aspects of the work discovered through additional research.  Requirements will include formal essays expressing original ideas and following the conventions of literary analysis, as explained in the class.

Tuesday 6:30 – 9:30 p.m. Lecture Hall.  Spring semester

Instructor: Jennifer M. Burke

 

DRAWING

Drawing Requirements-

  • Students completing the 132 credit BFA (juniors and seniors) are required to complete 18 drawing credits in addition to 6 credits of Foundation Drawing.
  • Students completing the 120 credit BFA (freshmen and sophomores) are required to complete 18 drawing credits which include the 6 credits of Foundation Drawing

 

100 LEVEL (FOUNDATION DRAWING)

 

DR150/155 DRAWING I      (core bfa; cert) 6 credits

Drawing I is a two-semester course that presents drawing as the visually accurate representation of three-dimensional forms in space on a two-dimensional surface.  Students are taught to see proportions and confirm their observations with measurements.  Spatial relationships are checked horizontally and vertically, and negative shapes are sought out and used to define and confirm positives.  Still-life objects are utilized as subject matter, progressing from simple geometric forms to the more complex.  Students should develop a systematic and effective approach to constructing an accurate drawing through line and value.   2 sections: Monday 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.  or Tuesday 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Foundation Studio. 

Instructors: Nancy Gladwell; Susan Stephenson

 

200 LEVEL (SOPHOMORE DRAWING)

 

DR210  OBSERVATIONAL DRAWING      (core bfa; cert) 1.5 credits      Fall semester

An introduction to figure drawing as an act of observation from a fixed position.  Basic modalities of vision such as luminance differentials (brightness values) and discontinuities (edges) are transcribed through line and tone. Skills necessary for such perceptual calibrations as those involving size comparisons, relation to eye level/horizon and depth cues are developed. Organizing strategies such as selection and emphasis and grouping are highlighted.

Prerequisite Drawing I  Monday 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. Weir Studio or Wednesday 8:30 – 11:30 a.m. in Studio IV.   Instructors: Randy Melick; Peter Zallinger

 

DR220 CONSTRUCTIONAL DRAWING  (core bfa; cert) 1.5 credits       Fall Semester

An introduction to figure drawing as an act of analytic demonstration.  Both general and specific constructional strategies are established.  Students learn to draw and modify Euclidean-type solids that are related to the figure to establish mass and trajectory and to vivify planar contrasts.  Prerequisite Drawing I   Monday or Tuesday 6:30 – 9:30 p.m. Weir Studio.

Instructors: Randy Melick, Randy McIver

 

DR215   CALLIGRAPHIC DRAWING   (core bfa; cert) 1.5 credits  - Spring semester

An introduction to drawing as representation through graphic symbols.  Ways that the hand and its cursive habits determine modes of representational conveyance are established.  Through the in-depth study of a variety of precedents, the role that shape, pattern and cursive rhythms play in drawing as a stimulant to observation is established.  Students’ own cursive habits are buoyed through free-hand copying and internalization of examples, and by applying them to the live model (in the studio) and to landscape, still life or other objects (in sketchbooks).   Students learn to recognize graphic verve as the ability of an artist to draw just those features that can be presented as examples of his or her cursive habits.  Prerequisite Drawing I. Monday 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. or 6:30 – 9:30 p.m.  StudioV. 

Spring semester

Instructor:  Randy Melick

 

300 LEVEL (ADVANCED DRAWING) These courses are designed primarily for students who have completed the Sophomore Drawing requirement (or by permission of the instructor). 

 

DR350 EXTENDED POSE LIFE DRAWING (core elective)          1.5 credits       

Poses of longer duration provide an opportunity to address key figure drawing objectives, including organization of effects of light, clarification of figure/ground, planar, axial and other spatial relationships, resolution of detail-mass relationships, figure completeness, and aptness of selection and emphasis.  The clear organization of perceptual material, rather than optical copying, is presented as an effective means of realization in representations of the human form.

Fall semester Friday 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon or 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.  Studio IV. 

Instructor: Justin Wiest

 

DR345 CHIAROSCURO DRAWING         (core elective) 1.5 credits          Spring semester          

The exploration of two approaches to the representation of light in drawings.  The first approach is based on brightness values, calibrated according to a global scale.  The second approach is based on local, rather than over-all, contrasts, and provides opportunities for the representation of light through linear, rather than tonal, means.

 

DR360 LARGE SCALE LIFE DRAWING   (core elective)   1.5 credits     

Key figure drawing objectives are set in relation to the representation of the human figure on a large scale.  Practical considerations regarding uses of media in large-scale presentations as well as artistic considerations related to the achievement of figural presence through life-size scale are addressed.   Means by which the large-scale figure’s powerfully direct appeal to the viewer are conveyed, including frontality, orthogonal “address” and the continuity of real and fictive dimensions, are established and developed.   Wednessday 8:30 – 11:30 a.m. or 6:30 – 9:30 p.m.  Weir Studio. 

Instructor: Jerry Weiss

 

DR370 RAPID-POSE LIFE DRAWING     (core elective) 1.5 credits          Fall semester  

Key figure drawing objectives are set in relation to the representation of a live model in briefly-held poses.  Pre-set figural templates, cursive and geometrical patterning as well as graphic symbols denoting plane, mass and trajectory are deployed in rapid-response drawings.  Wednesday 8:30 - 11:30 a.m.  Stobart Studio.   Fall semester. 

Instructor: Don Gale

 

DR375 SCENIC DRAWING  (core elective) 3.0 credits        Spring semester

Drawing strategies are established and applied to challenges of creating whole pictures.  In a variety of formats, including studio set-ups, on-site landscape and imaginative composition, successful over-all pictorialization is pursued as an effect of artistic completeness and unity to which each pictorial element and part has contributed. Attendance at a three hour printmaking session, to be scheduled in consultation with the printmaking staff, is required.  This course is available only for students who have previously taken printmaking. 


400 LEVEL (TOPICS IN DRAWING)  These courses are designed for students who have completed the Sophomore Drawing requirement and who have previously completed work in Advanced Drawing courses (or by permission of the instructor).

 

DR480 NARRATIVE DRAWING   (core elective)   3.0 credits        Fall semester  

The study and application of drawing ideas and approaches pertaining to narration, both singly and sequentially, from Renaissance Cycles to the modern graphic novel.   Compositional ideas/approaches for bringing pictorial elements into dynamic, mutually-reactive relationships are explored.  Ways that narrative in drawing can be seen as a direct expression of the artist’s graphic style are considered.  Through their own contributions students have the opportunity to enlarge the scope of the topic areas.  Attendance at a three hour printmaking session, to be scheduled in consultation with the printmaking staff, is required.  This course is available only for seniors who have previously taken printmaking.  Tuesday 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. Weir Studio. 

Instructor: Randy Melick

 

DR485 DYNAMIC DRAWING (core elective)  3.0 credits     Spring semester                   

The application and study of ideas pertaining to the representation of bodily movement.  The fusion of multiple poses/views and addition of imaginative elements is achieved. The orchestration/exaggeration of visual forms, including re-calibration of proportions and calligraphic indulgences is also explored.  Attendance at a three hour printmaking session, to be scheduled in consultation with the printmaking staff, is required.  This course is available only for seniors who have previously taken printmaking. 

 

PAINTING

 

100 LEVEL  (FOUNDATION PAINTING)

 

PT100-5 PAINTING I (core bfa; cert) 3 credits

This two-semester foundation course provides students with the skills necessary to paint convincing forms in space.  Using oil paint, students proceed through a series of sequential assignments designed to promote a thorough understanding of value, temperature, and color and introduce them to other formal conventions employed by painters.  Students develop an intelligent, reliable approach to painting, a familiarity with basic materials and techniques, and an understanding of composition and color theory. 2 Sections: Thursday 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.; Friday 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Foundation Studio.  Instructors:  Roland  Becerra; Susan Stephenson

 

PT160 2-D AND 3-D DESIGN (core bfa; cert) 1.5 credits - Fall semester.

This course introduces students to the fundamental elements and principles of design in both two-dimensional and three-dimensional applications. Students learn to analyze compositions, identify their components, and apply the various principles to their own work. Students will develop an intellectual and practical understanding of the construction of a work of art, acquire knowledge of various media, and become familiar with the terms used in the discussion of art. 

2 Sections: Wednesday or Friday 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.  Studio V. Fall semester.                  

Instructors: Nancy Gladwell; Shira Avidor

 

PT 165 COLOR AND DESIGN (core bfa; cert) 1.5 credits - Spring semester.

This course provides a thorough examination of color theory. Students are introduced to various color contrasts through a series of exercises, which allow them to use color more coherently. 

2 Sections: Wednesday or Friday 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.  Studio V. Spring semester.                   

Instructors: Nancy Gladwell; Shira Avidor

 

200 LEVEL PAINTING (SOPHOMORE)  

Core painting courses for sophomore level are labeled as 200 level. These courses assimilate disciplines introduced in the Foundation Program. Painting methods and techniques share the stage with spatial and design concepts. Many electives such as Printmaking, Portrait, Watercolor and Pastel bridge 200 level studio courses with upper level, more advanced courses.

 

PT260 PAINTING II (SOPHOMORE) (core bfa; cert) 3 credits, Fall semester.

This required course for Painting majors takes the student through a series of more advanced color and spatial problems building on the concepts introduced in the Foundation Program. Students will work from direct observation while achieving higher levels of realization in design, color manipulation and technique. Subject matter and compositional demands will increase in complexity as the course progresses, challenging and developing student’s painting competency.

2 Sections: Tuesday 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Stobart Studio or Studio IV.                                                                                     Instructors: Nancy Gladwell; Debra Goertz

 

PT265 PAINTING II (SOPHOMORE) (core bfa; cert) 3 credits, Spring semester.

The Spring semester focuses on the figure. Students articulate the volume of the human form first in monochrome and then through color. The objective is to create a viable and credible interpretation of the figure using anatomical and relational drawing skills as well as subtle gradations of color/value to turn the form. An active critique component provides valuable feedback to help students to assess compositional skills as they begin to develop deeper meaning and content.  Prerequisite: successful completion of the foundation program.   

2 Sections: Tuesday 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Stobart Studio or Studio IV.                                                                                 Instructors: Nancy Gladwell; Debra Goertz

 

PT270  FIGURE PAINTING I (core bfa; cert) 1.5 credits (intermediate) Fall semester.

This course addresses the fundamentals of creating a figure painting through the formal elements of value, color, shape and texture.  Painting techniques of modeling form and creating space are addressed along with basic compositional conventions.

Prerequisite: successful completion of the foundation program or permission of the instructor.

Thursday 9:00 a.m.-12:00 noon. Weir Studio.

Instructor: Shira Avidor

 

PT275   FIGURE PAINTING I (core bfa; cert) 1.5 credits (intermediate) Spring semester.

Building on the Fall semester this course focuses on various palettes from monochrome to extended primary and beyond. Various technical methods such as glazing, scumbling, and building surface variations will be examined. Communication of form, space and context is studied through color palettes and paint handling. Prerequisite: Figure Painting 270  Thursday