This course is a comprehensive investigation of contemporary and traditional three-dimensional concepts and processes. Students develop a working understanding of the visual and conceptual vocabulary needed for making and critically assessing three-dimensional form. Projects are designed to provide each student the opportunity to fully develop an understanding and envisioning of space, the autonomous object, the effects of scale, and the relationship of the body to the built environment.

This course introduces two-dimensional art making approaches and concepts through drawing and painting. Color, form, distinct processes, and attuned engagement with materials will drive this course's focus on formal, expressive, and conceptual understandings of two-dimensional drawing and design. This course will focus on enhancing perceptual awareness, analytical thinking, and relational understandings that underlie composition, spatial illusion, and expressive content. Students will explore and develop facility with a range of drawing materials and water-based pigments.

The Department of Art and Art History explores the wonder and complexity of visual art in theory and practice, offering programs in both studio art and art history.