This will be a continuation of directions established in Painting III. Student work will be evaluated through group and individual critiques. Visiting Artist lectures will be important to the issues of contemporary art emphasized at this level. The department will schedule an individual review with a Faculty Committee for each student during this course.

Major Requirement | BFA Painting

This is the second part of a two-class sequence, with Introductory Prehistory of Contemporary Art as a prerequisite. This class, required for painting majors in spring semester of their junior year, is devoted to the development of postmodern and contemporary art and culture from roughly 1989 to the present, introducing, contextualizing, and assessing how artists have addressed the discourses around medium, technology, globalization, colonialism, social justice, the environment in that time, how their work has been shaped by other spheres of cultural production, and how critics have responded to and theorized the art of the recent past and the present day. There will be a field-trip to Dia Beacon during the semester.

Enrollment is limited to Junior Painting Students.

Major Requirement | BFA Painting

An introductory level course for Painting majors. Students will develop drawing skills and insights and consider basic visual language issues. Syllabus is coordinated with Painting I.

Open to Sophomore Painting Students.

Major Requirement | BFA Painting

An introductory level course for Painting majors. Students will develop drawing skills and insights and consider basic visual language issues. Syllabus is coordinated with Painting I.

Open to Sophomore Painting Students.

Major Requirement | BFA Painting

An introductory level course for Painting majors. Students will develop drawing skills and insights and consider basic visual language issues. Syllabus is coordinated with Painting I.

Open to Sophomore Painting Students.

Major Requirement | BFA Painting

An introductory level course for Painting majors. Students will develop drawing skills and insights and consider basic visual language issues. Syllabus is coordinated with Painting I.

Open to Sophomore Painting Students.

Major Requirement | BFA Painting

This period is designed for the student to evaluate and analyze and pursue the directions he/she established in Grad Paint Studio Critique I. Group and individual critiques will occur by resident faculty and visiting artists and critics during the semester.

Open to Graduate Painting Students.

Major Requirement | MFA Painting

This course offers a more painterly approach to the intaglio process. The students will produce applications of intaglio, such as collagraphs, large color monotypes and collage. Growth of imagery and technique will be encouraged through medium. A portfolio of prints will be produced.

Open to Junior Painting Students.

Major Requirement | BFA Painting

This course offers a more painterly approach to the intaglio process. The students will produce applications of intaglio, such as collagraphs, large color monotypes and collage. Growth of imagery and technique will be encouraged through medium. A portfolio of prints will be produced.

Open to Junior Painting Students.

Major Requirement | BFA Painting

This course offers a more painterly approach to the intaglio process. The students will produce applications of intaglio, such as collagraphs, large color monotypes and collage. Growth of imagery and technique will be encouraged through medium. A portfolio of prints will be produced.

Major Requirement | BFA Painting

This is a hands-on, project-based introduction to computers and digital multimedia for artists. The course is designed to be an ongoing discussion on art, design and personal work informed by digital images, sound, video, animation, interactive multimedia, and the Internet.

Elective

A continued examination and development of drawing skills. This course is coordinated with Painting II.

Open to Sophomore Painting Students.

Major Requirement | BFA Painting

A continued examination and development of drawing skills. This course is coordinated with Painting II.

Open to Sophomore Painting Students.

Major Requirement | BFA Painting

A continued examination and development of drawing skills. This course is coordinated with Painting II.

Open to Sophomore Painting Students.

Major Requirement | BFA Painting

A continued examination and development of drawing skills. This course is coordinated with Painting II.

Open to Sophomore Painting Students.

Major Requirement | BFA Painting

A continued examination and development of drawing skills. This course is coordinated with Painting II.

Open to Sophomore Painting Students.

Major Requirement | BFA Painting

A continued examination and development of drawing skills. This course is coordinated with Painting II.

Open to Sophomore Painting Students.

Major Requirement | BFA Painting

This course presents the graduate student with a series of problems intended to develop drawing as a tool for inquiry into a terrain outside the well-known beaten paths of his/her past studio practice. Expanding the role for drawing in studio experimentation is a goal. Work will be done outside class. There are critiques each week.

Open to Graduate Painting Students.

Major Requirement | MFA Painting

Critical Curating will offer an in-depth and immersive introduction to curatorial practice, examining the art of exhibition-making from cultural and theoretical perspectives. The course looks at current and historical exhibitions that engage a range of public platforms, as well as artist practices invested in exhibition-making. The course also has a practical component, which will be an opportunity for students to develop and implement a public exhibition. 

The first half of the course will introduce students to the critical analysis of the curatorial field. We will experiment with writing for various curatorial activities including exhibition reviews, curatorial proposals, and research presentations; as well as conduct site visits to different exhibition platforms. The second half of the course will focus on the production of an exhibition collectively conceived and managed by the student cohort, which will take place in the President’s House and Memorial Hall’s gallery. Coursework will involve workshopping curatorial proposals, soliciting an on-campus open call for work, and overseeing the installation and design of the exhibition. Additionally, visiting curators and artists will give lectures throughout the course, as well as activities such as studio visits, screenings, and research.

Preference will be given to Painting Students.

Elective

This course is a discussion-based collaborative critique studio asking primarily painting / textiles / sculpture students to (re)consider their work as an intentioned dialogue within the history of image-making. Students are asked with great intention to expand the discussion around intersectionality and interdisciplinarity. The course centers collective engagement in a variety of ways through critique, readings in-class discussion, film screenings, lectures and presentations that exemplify the decolonial practices of writers/artists classic and current. Central to the class are Queerx, trans, and non-binary Black & Brown Folx, artists / writers / makers who intrinsically occupy interdisciplinary practices.

The course is intended to allow those working within medium-specific vocabularies to test how their work will make meaning in an art world in which a variety of disciplinary histories and conventions coexist, clash, and inform one another, as well as to provide an opportunity for students whose work bridges two or more disciplines (or involves performance/new genres/post-studio approaches) to learn from one another and from faculty capable of addressing all of these sorts of practices. This is a demanding critique course with additional seminar components (readings, screenings, discussions, slide presentations, etc.), and as such students can expect a workload equivalent to a core studio requirement within their major.

Interdisciplinary Critique Studio comprises multiple voices, ways of thinking through and being with oneselve and their practice in a way that does not bound ourselves to siloed ideas. Central to the course is risk-taking, question-asking and a vast ability to reimagine all aspects of one’s being as a part of your practice. Within we will center the voices and practices of seemingly marginalized artists and practitioners, who breach the boxes imposed on them with hopes of inspiring students to breach those boxes themselves. Within the Studio students will learn to ask themselves Why, and Why Not, Who and What For, When and How Come, in order to develop futurity for the communal being, for the dialogic, for our persons, and the other fol(x) we want to see at the finish line. Together we will meditate on the magics of migrations, celebrations, revolutions, interventions, bodily and otherwise.

The maximum enrollment is limited to seminar-size (c. 15 students) in order to provide sufficient attention to each student's work in group and individual critiques while still allowing for seminar-style discussions.

Elective