Jim Peters was born in Syracuse, NY in 1945. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD in 1967 (BS, Atomic Physics) and from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA in 1969 (MS, Nuclear Engineering). He began painting while serving on the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy and, using the GI Bill, graduated from Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD in 1977 (MFA, Painting). A painter and constructionist, he has exhibited regularly in NYC at CDS Gallery (1986–2003) and ACA Galleries (2006–14), in Cambridge, MA at Pierre Menard Gallery (2005–10), and in Provincetown, MA at artSTRAND Gallery (2005–16). Awards include fellowships at Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown (1982–83 and 1983–84), Massachusetts Artists Grants (1985, 1988), Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Fellowship (1999) and Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship (2002, 2008). He has work in many collections worldwide including William Benton Museum, University of Connecticut, Flint Institute of Art and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC. Peters is a member of the Visual Arts Committee at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He teaches drawing at RISD and lives and works in North Adams, MA with his wife, the artist and writer Kathline Carr.
Courses
Fall 2023 Courses
FOUND 1001-06 - STUDIO:DRAWING
LevelUndergraduate
UnitExperimental and Foundation Studies
Subject Foundation Studies
Period Fall 2023
Credits 3
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
FOUND 1001-06
STUDIO:DRAWING
LevelUndergraduate
UnitExperimental and Foundation Studies
Subject Foundation Studies
PeriodFall 2023
Credits3
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2023-09-06 to 2023-12-13
Times: F | 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM; F | 8:30 AM - 12:00 PMInstructor(s): James PetersLocation(s): Waterman Building, Room 32Enrolled / Capacity: 20Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
Studio: Drawing is pursued in two directions: as a powerful way to investigate the world, and as an essential activity intrinsic to all artists and designers. As a primary mode of inquiry, drawing is a central means of forming questions and creating knowledge across disciplines. Through wide-ranging drawing approaches, students are prompted to work responsively and self-critically to embrace the unpredictable intersection of process, idea and media. To pursue these larger ideas, the studio becomes a laboratory of varied and challenging activities. Instructors introduce drawing as a dynamic two-dimensional record of sensory search, conceptual thought, or physical action. Students investigate materiality, imagined situations, idea generation, and the translation of the observable world. Formal and intellectual risks are encouraged during a sustained engagement with the possibilities of material, mark-making, perception, abstraction, performance, space and time. As students trust the drawing process, they become more informed about its uncharted potentials, and accept struggle as necessary and positive; they gain confidence in their own sensibilities.
Enrollment is limited to first-year Undergraduate Students.
Major Requirement | BFA
Spring 2024 Courses
FOUND 1002-15 - STUDIO:DRAWING
LevelUndergraduate
UnitExperimental and Foundation Studies
Subject Foundation Studies
Period Spring 2024
Credits 3
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
FOUND 1002-15
STUDIO:DRAWING
LevelUndergraduate
UnitExperimental and Foundation Studies
Subject Foundation Studies
PeriodSpring 2024
Credits3
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2024-02-15 to 2024-05-24
Times: F | 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM; F | 8:30 AM - 12:00 PMInstructor(s): James PetersLocation(s): Waterman Building, Room 32Enrolled / Capacity: 20Status: Closed
SECTION DESCRIPTION
Studio: Drawing is pursued in two directions: as a powerful way to investigate the world, and as an essential activity intrinsic to all artists and designers. As a primary mode of inquiry, drawing is a central means of forming questions and creating knowledge across disciplines. Through wide-ranging drawing approaches, students are prompted to work responsively and self-critically to embrace the unpredictable intersection of process, idea and media. To pursue these larger ideas, the studio becomes a laboratory of varied and challenging activities. Instructors introduce drawing as a dynamic two-dimensional record of sensory search, conceptual thought, or physical action. Students investigate materiality, imagined situations, idea generation, and the translation of the observable world. Formal and intellectual risks are encouraged during a sustained engagement with the possibilities of material, mark-making, perception, abstraction, performance, space and time. As students trust the drawing process, they become more informed about its uncharted potentials, and accept struggle as necessary and positive; they gain confidence in their own sensibilities.
Enrollment is limited to first-year undergraduate students.
