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Adobe CC for the Moving Image Artist — CANCELLED

Fall 2015
Instructor: Colin Z. Brant
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
This seven-week course is designed for students of all skill levels who want to expand their understanding of video making from a technical vantage point. The focus will be on video editing in Premiere Pro, and the workflow of Adobe’s Dynamic Link between other applications like Photoshop and After Effects. Students will be asked to complete weekly assignments.
Visual Arts

Advanced techniques; welding and metal fabrication. — SCU4229.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: John Umphlett
Days & Time: MO 1:40pm-5:20pm
Credits: 2

In this course we will focus on cutting and welding non-ferrous metals. Hand cutting and CNC assisted plasma cutting will be the methods in which stock will be cut. The fabrication processes will begin through brazing methods (acetylene) for connecting non-similar metals. There will also be instruction on pinpoint forging as well as

Sculpture

Advanced Workshop for Painting and Drawing: The Contemporary Idiom — PAI4216.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: J Blackwell
Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

This course is for experienced student artists with a firm commitment to serious work in the studio. Students will work primarily on self-directed projects in an effort to refine individual concerns and subject matter. Students will present work regularly for critique in class as well as for individual studio meetings with the

Painting

(Re)Center: Reimagining a New Student Center — ARC4116.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Andrew Schlatter Donald Sherekfin
Credits: 4
This course presents an opportunity to participate in re-imagining the “next life” of the Student Center, as it transitions from its temporary function as a dining facility back to a home for student-centered programming. Students will work together collaboratively to generate program concepts and physical design ideas as a basis for envisioning a full interior renovation of
Visual Arts CAPA Environment Music

(Re)Presenting Culture — ANT4204.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Miroslava Prazak
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Anthropologists use ethnographic writing and films to present cultures to outsiders. Both inscribe/transcribe social life, but the portraits they create differ. Theoretical considerations as well as stylistic conventions influence both the shape and the content of the final product. In this course we examine closely a body of films to explore how each genre (e.g., observational
Society Culture and Thought Visual Arts

100 Drawings — ARC4118.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
Credits: 4
Using a fixed format of a 9″ x 9″ sheet, we will do a drawing each day of the term in a process which will parallel Georges Perec’s Life: A User’s Manual. Each drawing will have a set of constraints from which the student must extrapolate an image. A narrative will gradually be built through the accumulation of evidence. A variety of media, techniques and strategies will be
Visual Arts

100 Drawings — ARC4118.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
**Time Change** Using a fixed format of 9" x 9" paper, we will do a drawing each day of the term in a process which will parallel Georges Perec's Life: A User's Manual. Each drawing will have a set of constraints from which the student must extrapolate an image. A narrative will gradually be built through the accumulation of evidence. A variety of media, techniques and
Visual Arts

100 Drawings — ARC4118.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
Credits: 4
Using a fixed format of 9″ x 9″ paper, we will do a drawing each day of the term in a process which will parallel Georges Perec’s Life: A User’s Manual. Each drawing will have a set of constraints from which the student must extrapolate an image. A narrative will gradually be built through the accumulation of evidence. A variety of media, techniques and strategies will be
Visual Arts

100 Experiments — PHO4131.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
Credits: 4
This course is a hands-on exploration of the many photographic materials spanning the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Over the term, students will study ten specific processes and be asked to create ten 8x10 inch experiments utilizing each one. Processes include digital camera lucida drawings, pinhole images, cyanotypes, analog color negatives, Polaroid images, scanograms,
Visual Arts

100 Experiments — PHO4131.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
Credits: 4
This course is a hands-on exploration of the many photographic materials spanning the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Over the term, students will study ten specific processes and be asked to create ten 8x10 inch experiments utilizing each one. Processes include camera lucida drawings, pinhole images, cyanotypes, analog color negatives, Polaroid images, scanograms, digital
Visual Arts

100 Experiments — PHO4131.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Jonathan Kline
Credits: 4
This course is a hands-on exploration of the many photographic materials spanning the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Over the term, students will study ten specific processes and be asked to create ten experiments utilizing each one. Processes include digital camera lucida drawings, pinhole images, cyanotypes, analog color negatives, Polaroid images, scanograms, UV infrared
Visual Arts

13 Zines: Research, Drawing, Design — DRW2266.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Mary Lum
Credits: 4
This is a course for students who love to look into things. In it drawing is the means to communicate research, in the form of zines. We work closely with, in, and around the library to gather knowledge about a different topic each week. We then translate the research into handmade representations (words and images) that combined with empirical evidence and an organized design
Visual Arts

16mm Experimental Filmmaking — FV4238.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Warren Cockerham
Credits: 4
This intermediate studio course centers on experimentation with form in moving image making. Students will complete a series of 16mm film projects exploring approaches and techniques including but not limited to non-narrative, lyrical, abstract, structural, and materialist forms. The course will contextualize contemporary practice within the history of avant-garde and
Visual Arts

24 Hours, 4 Seasons, 77.8 Years — ARC4404.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Donald Sherefkin
Credits: 4
This studio course will develop plans for three distinct dwellings. Each project will focus on a specific time scale. The individual designs may choose to use the time constraints as the determinant of the life span of the structure, or simply as an ordering device.
Visual Arts

2D-3D-2D – Animation in a Created World — MA4203.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Sue Rees
Credits: 4
The class will be concerned with manipulating two dimensional imagery, creating three dimensional forms and models by utilizing the laser cutter and Illustrator, and finally animating forms, drawings, objects combined with the three dimensional world using tracking cameras and a green screen. We will be moving backwards and forwards between creating worlds and manipulating
Visual Arts

2D-3D-2D – Animation in a Created World — MA4203.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Sue Rees
Credits: 4
The class will be concerned with manipulating two dimensional imagery, creating three dimensional forms and models by utilizing the laser cutter, and finally animating forms, drawings, objects combined with the three dimensional world using tracking cameras and a green screen. We will be moving backwards and forwards between creating worlds and manipulating these worlds,
Visual Arts

2D-3D-2D – Animation in a Created World — MA4203.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Sue Rees
Credits: 4
The class will be concerned with manipulating two dimensional imagery, creating three dimensional forms and models by utilizing the laser cutter and Illustrator, and finally animating forms, drawings, objects combined with the three dimensional world using tracking cameras and a green screen. We will be moving backwards and forwards between creating worlds and manipulating
Visual Arts

3 Houses, 3 Sites — ARC4150.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: donald sherefkin
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Using the constraints of a minimal house, students will design three dwellings for three distinct sites: A single, detached house in rural Vermont; a two-family in town; and a six story walk-up in New York City. In each project, the site analysis and mapping will provide the fundamental tools for developing spatial organization, form, materials, and orientation. Each proposal
Visual Arts

3D Modeling for Painting, Drawing, and Printmaking — DA2379.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Farhad Mirza
Credits: 4
This course is about folding digital fabrication into an ongoing art-making practice. We will learn how to use basic 3D fabrication equipment to assist our work in the studio, and as a means to realize our ideas. Basic techniques involving 3D Modeling, laser-cutting, CNC milling, and 3D printing will be covered. The first half of the course will comprise of a series of
Visual Arts

3D Modeling for Painting, Drawing, and Printmaking — VA2225.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Farhad Mirza
Credits: 2
3D Modeling for Painting, Drawing, and Printmaking This seven week course will provide students with an opportunity to explore ways that they might fold digital fabrication into an ongoing studio // art-making practice. Laser-cutters, a CNC mill, 3D printers, and a 3D scanner will all be available for students to use toward individually developed investigations. Students will
Visual Arts

A Material World — SCU2113.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: John Umphlett
Credits: 2
This course is directed at the student who is interested in furthering a visual vocabulary and conceptual enhancement through material introductions and demonstrations. The class will be based primarily on mastering methods of working with both thermo forming and thermo setting plastics. Often I have students come to me and ask how they can find some solution to the way a
Visual Arts

A Material World — SCU2113.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: John Umphlett
Credits: 2
This course is directed at the student who is interested in furthering a visual vocabulary and conceptual enhancement through material introductions and demonstrations.  The class will be based primarily on mastering methods of working with both thermo forming and thermo setting plastics. Often I have students come to me and ask how they can find some solution to the way a
Visual Arts

A Philosophy of Data — DA2132.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Mimi Onuoha
Credits: 4
We live in a world where more data has been and is being collected than ever before. But what does that mean? What information can we glean from the data? How do we represent what is being collected, and more importantly, what is missed? This intro-level course examines the emergent fields of data collection, analysis, and visualization from an art perspective, asking how the
Visual Arts

A Survey of Avant-Garde Exhibitions — VA2109.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Carol Stakenas
Credits: 4
*** New faculty and updated description *** This course will examine a selection of art exhibitions in Europe and the United States from the middle of the 19th century to the early 2000s. The course will focus on controversial exhibitions associated with individuals and movements such as Gustave Courbet, Edouard Manet, Impressionism, Fauvism, the Armory Show, Alfred Stieglitz,
Visual Arts