This course explores organic materials, including wood and fibers, as avenues for critical engagement with conceptual concerns and contemporary sculpture. Technical skills in woodworking , textiles, and mold-making are developed along side artistic research and ideation.

An exploration of form, mass, structure, surface and scale using steel as the primary medium. Welding construction, forging and shaping are introduced and put into practice through problem solving assignments.

This course explores identity and cultural values through landscape painting and drawing. Technical skills are fused with conceptual inquiries and critical analysis, emphasizing the interplay between conceptual, expressive, and material aspects of the creative process. Course content critically engages with landscape traditions as well as contemporary artists. Environmental concerns, visualizing ecological and place based thinking inform considerations of landscape. This course fulfills the ENVR elective.

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

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.

Multimedia Design & Installation explores the intersection of installation art and interactive media, focusing on how digital and physical elements can transform spaces and shape experiences. Students will create site-specific installations that engage with their surroundings while integrating technology to produce dynamic, responsive environments.

This course explores the use of computer code as a form of creative practice and artmaking. Students discuss the history, practice, and current trends in computational art through a blend of theoretical and project-based learning. Through weekly examples and projects, students learn core concepts of computer science and apply them to the creation of digital artworks. Creative coding, the practice of writing computer programs for creative purposes, is practiced in many different domains of art and design.