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This course allows students who have progressed,beyond the beginning level screen printing,course, and engage with a more extensive and,expansive approach as it relates to their own art,practice, all while presenting important visual,and conceptual problems relevant to the screen,printing medium that challenges previous set,boundaries of the serigraphy and its,methodologies.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: SAC 105 (formerly DFA 105) and DPM-260 (formerly DFA 260)
This course explores the theory and practice of,creative site activation through material,,technological and performance-based interventions.,Students will have the opportunity to work in,extended relationships to site and space, via,light, sound, time based technologies like video,,and performance. Students will investigate,installation as active experience between artist,and site, and site and the question of audience.,Open to non-majors with departmental approval.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DFA 105, DFA 130, DFA 253
Through the College’s affiliation with the,Association of Independent Colleges of Art and,Design, junior or first semester senior students,in good standing have the opportunity to spend a,semester (fall or winter) or full year studying at,another member institution in the United States or,abroad. Application information is available in,the Academic Advising and Registration Office.
Credits: 12
Prerequisites:
In this course, the diverse possibilities of,lithography, intaglio and papermaking serve as a,focal point for augmenting the extensive primary,skills already acquired. As the scope of artistic,development and sensibility matures, instruction,becomes increasingly individualized.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DFA 240, DFA 243, DFA 255
The Special Project class is offered on an,occasional basis, with course content specific to,the area being explored.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites:
Junior or first-semester senior students in good,academic standing have the opportunity to spend a,semester (fall or winter) or a full year of study,at an accredited institution abroad. Information,is available from International Student Services.
Credits: 12
Prerequisites:
An interdisciplinary approach: printmaking is a, unique way to make images and to think about the, construction of images. It emphasizes thinking in, layers and processes that value indirect and, highly mediated production.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DFN 101, DFA 105, DFA 115, DFA 215
The Survey and Methods course sequence provides an,introduction to six of the major studios in Art,Practice and Crafts/Material Studies. In this,dynamic course, students rotate in three 5-week,sessions through the areas of Metals, Print, and,Fibers/Textiles. Each five-week session provides,students with an understanding of materials,,processes, and protocols that are specific to the,context of each studio. Hands-on projects will,cultivate basic visual and technical skills as,students examine how material exploration can,drive innovation and shape individual processes of,making. Students will be guided to explore,critique methodologies while building vocabulary,to articulate their own creative intent and,analyze the work of others. Survey and Methods is,a two-part course taken during the Freshman year. ,Survey and Methods I takes place the fall,semester, followed by Survey and Methods ll during,winter semester. The courses can be taken in,either sequence.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites:
Students research and explore sculptural methods,and materials through the exploration of both,non-representational and figurative approaches.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DFN 116 DFN 121 SAC106 (formely DFA-106)
The Survey and Methods course sequence provides an,introduction to six of the major studios in Art,Practice and Crafts/Material Studies. In this,dynamic course, students rotate in three 5-week,sessions through the areas of Ceramics, Glass,,and Sculpture, Each five-week session provides,students with an understanding of materials,,processes, and protocols that are specific to the,context of each studio. Hands-on projects will,cultivate basic visual and technical skills as,students examine how material exploration can,drive innovation and shape individual processes of,making. Students will be guided to explore,critique methodologies while building vocabulary,to articulate their own creative intent and,analyze the work of others. Survey and Methods is,a two-part course taken during the Freshman year. ,Survey and Methods I takes place the fall,semester, followed by Survey and Methods ll during,winter semester. The courses can be taken in,either sequence.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: