ARTS & DESIGN PROFESSOR ERNIE McMULLEN TEACHING PROBLEMS IN PAINTING
IN PAINTING: █ PROBLEMS TECHNIQUES, SKILLS & VISION Ernie McMullen Course limit: 12 Cost: $160 This course deals with problems encountered in the development of the student’s personal voice in painting. Emphasis is placed on encouraging students to develop the techniques, compositional and color sense, and thematic consistency necessary to the development of self assured artistic sensibility. Evaluations are based on the student’s artistic output as well as his or her devotion to the learning process. Prerequisites: 2D Design Studio or other drawing course or a portfolio review. Offered every other year.
EFFECT: █ REALITY ART & TRUTH IN THE 19TH CENTURY Catherine Clinger Course limit: 16 Cost: $30 There are myriad realities described by artists and authors. This course concerns itself specifically with the development of visual realism from 1800–1945 in Europe and America. We examine the origin of artist methodologies of production as they relate to modernity. Our concerns include the relation of art to significant political, sociological, and psychological programs of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The new realities created through revolutions in political and social structures, and in our understanding of the physical composition of the world itself are made evident in art that pictures social class, large historical moments, and a specific instant of time in a way that changes how we visualize reality and challenges our understanding of actuality. Students are evaluated based on class participation, class discussion, reading notes, and written papers.
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STUDIO: INTRODUCTION █ THREE-DIMENSIONAL TO THREE-DIMENSIONAL ART & DESIGN Dru Colbert Course limit: 15 Cost: $75 This course is an introduction to three-dimensional design and sculpture. Through a variety of projects students analyze and apply the classic organizing principles of three-dimensional design work. Elements of form, space, line, texture, light, color, scale and time (including sound, sensory perceptions, movement, and natural processes) are explored — with attention paid to how a work functions, involves viewers, activates space, or impacts an environment, physically, psychically, or socially. Projects in the class progress from the creation of objects, to investigations of the sensory, and objective aspects of space. Students experiment with subtractive and constructive processes using traditional as well as contemporary materials such as found, recycled, and natural objects. A diverse range of materials and techniques are introduced and demonstrated. Discussion of historic and contemporary artists’ work to augment the course. Students are evaluated based on completion of projects, participation, and individual/ group critiques.
█ TWO-DIMENSIONAL DESIGN I Ernie McMullen Course limit: 20 Cost: $50 This course is designed to give a basic working knowledge of visual language. Areas covered include: point, line, plane, volume, shape, size, texture, direction, space, and representation. Pencil, charcoal, ink, and collage are used extensively. The class period is divided into critique and work sessions with the major emphasis being placed on the group learning aspects of the critique. Twenty problems are assigned during the term with three to four days to complete each assignment. This course or its equivalent is a prerequisite for future work in arts and design. Offered every winter.