ARTS

In this course students will combine two forms of creative practice: installation art and machine art. In doing so we will learn to construct environments that transform the spaces we inhabit and make site-specific artworks that reimagine the way we interact with our world. We will develop a creative practice of machine art--where we design and interact with technology to create dynamic and interactive installations. We will learn how to program and control physical systems such as lights, motors, sensors, and computer-numerical control (CNC) machines.

This scheduled weekly interdisciplinary seminar provides the context to reflect on concrete experiences at an off-campus internship site and to link these experiences to academic study relating to the political, psychological, social, economic and intellectual forces that shape our views on work and its meaning. The aim is to integrate study in the liberal arts with issues and themes surrounding the pursuit of a creative, productive, and satisfying professional life. Students receive 1.0 unit of academic credit for the academic work that augments their concurrent internship fieldwork.

Independent study is available to those students who wish to continue their learning in an area after completing the regularly offered courses in that area.

Independent study is available to those students who wish to continue their learning in an area after completing the regularly offered courses in that area.

This advanced studio course in 3D studies is designed to help students develop a coherent body of work.

This advanced studio course is designed to help students develop a coherent body of artwork, and culminates in an exhibition in the Kittredge Gallery.

Students develop independent projects with print media, furthering their critical thinking and artistic growth. Students engage in a concentrated study and studio practice. Print matrices and substrates may be examined as tools for editing, variation, accumulation, distribution or other means. Students investigate scale and format with their projects and have the opportunity to explore relationships between printmaking and other media such as installation, digital media, and textiles.

This advanced course provides the structure enabling each student to develop an individualized program of studio practice. This practice will consist of creating a consistent, coherent, body of work where individual students galvanize their formal and conceptual concerns.

This course promotes the exploration of personal artistic motivations and independent relationships to processes and materials. Students are encouraged to work from the figure, pushing issues of scale and experimentation with materials for 4 - 5 weeks of the semester. Additionally, students expand upon their understandings of process, media, and conceptual issues, generating an independent, advanced series of work. Students also examine and interrogate contemporary artistic issues and trends in written and oral forms of communication.

In this upper-level studio course, students engage in art practices that explore distinct forms of research, reflection, and making to address overarching themes and concepts. Student art making will be informed by shared readings, discussion, and explorations of familiar and new forms and formats. Students will explore a range of criteria for making, critiquing, and sharing artwork with audiences in different settings. Students will also document, reflect, and present their own artistic practices using autoethnographic research methods.