Tag: 2024-2025

SAC-515 STUDY ABROAD

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:

SAC-105 SURVEY & METHODS I

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:

DSC-230 SCULPTURE: THE FIGURE

In this course, the systematic study of the human figure is used as the foundation for formal, conceptual and expressive sculptural explorations. Students work directly from live models, instructed in armature building techniques, modeling from clay and direct body casting. Open to non-majors with departmental approval.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DSC-130 (formerly DFA 130)

SAC-106 SURVEY AND METHODS II

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:

DSC-231 SCULPTURE: FABRICATION

This course is a study in form and sculptural language that focuses on the use of metal and wood. The instruction gained in the course helps students gain proficiency in the use of metals and wood as sculptural media. Shop and materials practices as well as safety are covered. Students, through a series of projects, learn a variety of techniques and methods which bring them to a confident skill level using these two media.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DSC-130 (formerly DFA 130)

SAC-205 SOPHOMORE SEMINAR

How do artists develop the discipline to maintain a studio practice? What kinds of creative strategies support an ongoing, exploratory and expansive studio practice? What are the ways artists define research and how does that research fuel and expand ideas that influence processes of making? Sophomore Seminar addresses theoretical and practical concerns that are central to working artists. Topics include the role of artists in society, the artist/audience relationship, creative practices, authenticity and ownership, the role of judgment in critique, as well as subjects from a broad range of cultural, political, and socio-economic positions that inform contemporary art and craft-related practice. Through readings, research, and presentations, students will examine their own positions relative to the various topics and the trajectory of their individual paths as artists and artisans.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: SAC-105, SAC-106