Category: Studio Art & Craft

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DFD-240 HOME DEC(ODE)

This course focuses on the creation of custom fabrics for home decor. Students will initially work on paper to create motifs and symbols that serve to carry meaning as contemporary cultural artifacts. These concepts will be refined and appropriated to suit its intended end use. Techniques may include weaving, knitting, printing, dyeing, embellishment, felting, and/or laser cutting. Basic sewing machine skills will be introduced and students will construct utilitarian objects with their fabrics.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites:

DGL-265 BEGINNING GLASS LIGHTING

This beginning class teaches students how to transform the glass objects that they make into functional lighting devices. Fabrication, assembly, and finishing techniques will be introduced. Students will learn how to safely make electrical connections and select the appropriate components for their designs. The skills learned will be applied to creative projects. Craftsmanship, problem-solving, and design will be emphasized.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DGL 142

DFA-345 ADVANCED PAINTING (CONTEMPORARY ISSUES)

This course addresses advanced painting problems, covering representational and nonrepresentational issues. Students have the opportunity to explore a broad range of materials and techniques and instruction is geared toward individual artistic concerns. Students in Advance Painting are exposed to issues and concerns relating to painting from a global perspective, inclusive of Western and non Western contemporary artists.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DAH 218, DFA 251

DFD-241 RESIST DYEING

The intensive workshop-style format of this class gives students a sampling of various resist-dyeing techniques. Shibori (Japanese bound resist), Batik (Indonesian wax resist), and starch based resist techniques will be explored. Techniques include immersion dyeing, painting with dyes, and extracting color from cloth with bleach solutions. Assignments stress creative uses of traditional resist dyeing techniques while exploring a diverse range of personal narratives. Slide lectures, field-trips, and class critiques support hands-on work.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites:

DGL-270 INTERMEDIATE HOT AND COLD GLASSWORK

This intermediate class teaches students how to combine coldworking and hot working processes. Students explore technical processes in-depth, including cutting, polishing, gluing, and surface embellishment. Students learn to safely and effectively utilize cold-working and hot working to solve fabrication problems and develop an expressive language with the material. Craftsmanship, problem-solving, and design are emphasized.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DGL 142, DGL 170

DME-275 INTERMEDIATE BLACKSMITHING

In this course, students explore blacksmithing techniques such as the forging of ferrous and non-ferrous metals. Topics include terms and vocabulary, related technology, toolmaking and a survey of this versatile process with a focus on its historical and contemporary relevance.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DME 175

DFA-346 ADVANCED FIGURE PAINTING

This class is designed to vigorously extend ideas explored in Introduction to Figure Painting, with an opportunity to engage in more complex figurative problems. Class discussions include relevant topics on contemporary figurative art. Emphasis is on larger format, longer studies and formal painting concerns.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DFA 120, DFA 220