2015-2016 College Catalog | Mount Aloysius College AR 125 Body Adornment: Transforming the Human Figure............................................... 2 Lecture/2 Studio/3 Credits This course examines how the human body has been physically altered and adorned throughout history and in different cultures for the purpose of beauty, status, and/or identity. Various forms of body adornment will be discussed through lectures, research assignments, and hands-on projects. Using the body as subject matter, students will focus on creating works that transform the human figure to express and confront modern society’s ideals and beliefs. AR 202 Ceramics I....................................................................................................................2 lecture/2 studio/3 Credits Clay as a creative medium emphasizing the aesthetic and personal solution of ceramic design from hand-built pieces to throwing on the potter’s wheel. Technical knowledge concerning clays, glazes, kilns, and firing is included. AR 205 Fabric/actions: Artistic Expressions in Cloth & Fiber............................................. 2 Lecture/2 Studio/3 Credits Through lectures, research, and a series of hands-on projects, which may include tapestry weaving, appliquè, surface design techniques, dyeing, spinning, papermaking, embroidery, and basket making, students will learn about cultures around the world for whom fabric-making and fabric-weaving is essential to their social status and spiritual well-being. AR 230 Painting..................................................................................................................... 2 Lecture/2 Studio/3 Credits The principles of painting techniques using oil media are introduced through assigned and individual problems. Color harmony, pictorial composition, and the preparation of supports and grounds are stressed.. AR 240 Expressive Arts for Healing I.................................................................................... 2 Lecture/2 Studio/3 Credits This course introduces participants to the personal and medical applications of the expressive arts. As a multi-modal and multi-process course, participants learn how drawing, movement, sound, and writing/journaling can be utilized to complement and enhance the healing process. Expressive Arts for Healing is an experiential course requiring active student participation in all the modalities and processes explored. AR 241 Expressive Arts for Healing II................................................................................... 2 Lecture/2 Studio/3 Credits This course expands upon the expressive arts modalities studied in Expressive Arts for Healing I (drawing, movement, sound, and expressive writing) and introduces participants to additional modalities (drama/play, masking, and poetry therapy) and their personal and medical applications. Other topics that complement and enhance the healing process, such as designing healing spaces and color vibrational healing, are examined. Students in Expressive Arts for Healing II complete a five-week clinical practicum at an off-campus site currently utilizing art as part of the healing process. Prerequisite: AR240 AR 242 Expressive Arts for Healing III...........................................................................2 Lecture/1 Practicum/3 Credits This course prepares a student to assume the role of Expressive Arts artist-in residence. During the first five weeks, course participants will learn about strategies and expressive arts modalities that can be employed when working with various client populations in an assortment of field settings. How communities around the country have adapted expressive arts modalities to their community’s special needs will be discussed. Students will develop lesson plans, gather resources in preparation for their ten-week residency, and will develop and employ a post-residency assessment tool to determine agency/client satisfaction and overall success of modalities employed during the residency. Prerequisite: AR241 AR 245 Drawing on Her Imagination: A Survey of Women and Their Art..........................................................3 Credits This course, which is organized chronologically and thematically, will focus on women as creators, collectors and the subjects of art. This historical survey of women artists and their artistic contributions will include an examination of the religious, mythological and secular images of women in art. Extensive attention will be given to the creation, modification and persistence of these images throughout history due to various social, economic, psychological and intellectual conditions. AR 250 Native American Pottery........................................................................................... 2 Lecture/2 Studio/3 Credits Information on Native American culture and landscape will be covered with an emphasis on the study of historic and contemporary clay pieces. This course will also include digging and processing local clay, forming clay vessels and storytellers in traditional southwest pueblo coil method, including scraping, slip layering, stone polishing, and slip-decorating with a yucca brush inspired by but not limited to Native American designs. Clay vessels will be oxidation fired (red) and reduction fired (black) using traditional materials. AR 281 Special Topics in Art.............................................................................................................................. 1-3 Credits Designates new or occasional lower division courses that may or may not become part of the department’s permanent offerings. Specific topics will be listed as course title on the student’s transcript. Consult the current course schedule for available topic(s). Given that this course is a variable credit course (1-3 credits) it may be repeated up to six (6) credits without repeating a given topic.
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