*There is a per semester lab fee of $75.00 for students taking one or more studio arts classes. This fee aids in the cost of equipment, supplies, models and props, visiting artists and field trips.

CRN	94248	Distribution	F */ Practicing Art
Course No.	ART 001 KB
Title	Foundations: Colorama
Professor	Kenneth Buhler
Schedule	Mon 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm Fisher

The investigation of the exquisite potential of color is the focus of this class. Color influences all aspects of our experience – perceptual, emotional, psychological, physiological, even spiritual. Students will gain experience learning to see, understand, and utilize all the possibilities of color. The goal is to develop a working knowledge of color as it may be applied to any visual medium. The nature of assignments will range from vigorous color studies to train the eye, to forms of expression more personal and expressive in nature.

CRN	94260	Distribution	F */ Practicing Art
Course No.	ART 001 KF
Title	Foundations: 3-D
Professor	Kenji Fujita
Schedule	Wed 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm Fisher

An introductory studio art course where students will explore the visual language of three-dimensional art. Students will draw from direct observation, found imagery and the imagination to make art works in a variety of mediums and materials. Supplies will come from a variety of sources ranging from the art store to the hardware, craft and 99 cent stores. Attention will be paid to the relation between two-dimensional and three- dimensional work.

CRN	94266	Distribution	F */ Practicing Art
Course No.	ART 001 LB
Title	Foundations: Drawing
Professor	Laura Battle
Schedule	Th 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm Fisher

This course will be an introduction to fundamental aspects of 2-D composition, form, light, color and space using a wide variety of materials and conceptual approaches with the emphasis on drawing. Students will begin working from life, but will gradually move away from perceptual work to transform the physical world in order to develop a personal train of thought. We will work small and very large, quickly and very, very slowly. Plan on at least one trip to NYC to look at art.

CRN	94257	Distribution	F */ Practicing Art
Course No.	ART 001 MM
Title	Foundations: Painting
Professor	Medrie MacPhee
Schedule	Wed 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Fisher

For students who have had virtually no experience with painting or need a brush-up. Lectures, demonstrations, exercises and assigned projects will provide students with a basis in the fundamentals of painting. Exploring color mixing and paint handling combined with an ongoing review of various compositions/color organizing principles as they relate to painting will be the methodology of the class. Work will be done on a variety of supports including wood, canvas and paper. Assignments will cover projects that deal both with observation and various aspects of abstraction.

CRN	94832	Distribution	F */ Practicing Art
Course No.	ART 001 DD
Title	Foundations: Sculpture
Professor	Daniela Dooling
Schedule	Tu 9:30 am - 12:30 pm Fisher

This course will cover a core set of techniques that will allow
participants to begin making form. These skills willl include but not be limited to wood working, mold making, sewing, and many others. Within an overview of all techniques, two main ideas will be explored: 1. What is the relationship between form and content? 2. What is the relationship of craft to art making? In addition, there will be slides, videos, and some reading to illustrate the broad range of contemporary sculpture.

CRN	94226	Distribution	F */ Practicing Art
Course No.	ART 100
Title	Cybergraphics I
Professor	Hap Tivey
Schedule	Fr 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm HDR 106

Cross-listed:Integrated Arts

An introduction to graphic creation using the computer as a compositional tool; basic computer skills are required and minimal ability in Photoshop and a comparable application is recommended. The imaging potential of a variety of graphic applications will be discussed and demonstrated during the first half of the class. The second half will focus on individual projects with an emphasis on printing.

CRN	94246	Distribution	F */ Practicing Art
Course No.	ART 101
Title	Painting I: The Figure
Professor	Joseph Santore
Schedule	Mon 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm Fisher

This course is an introduction to the language and methods of constructing a painting. Students will be working with geometric forms in the beginning, to learn structure and study spatial relationships, scale and composition. We will be working with a limited palette to begin with (black, white and grays) and slowly add color in an attempt to become familiar with the concept of temperature. The emphasis of this course will be on formal concepts and structure. There will be outside assignments.

CRN	94261	Distribution	F */ Practicing Art
Course No.	ART 101 LB
Title	Painting I
Professor	Laura Battle
Schedule	Wed 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm Fisher

This course is an introduction to fundamentals of painting, with an emphasis on working perceptually from still life, landscape and the figure. Students will explore composition, color, gesture, surface, shape, space and volume simultaneously to developing a personal train of thought in their work. It is essential that students be open to exploring new approaches to working up an image beyond the unfortunate “outline and fill in” directive initiated in early childhood. We will work in oil paints, on small as well as very large canvases. During the latter part of the semester, each student will focus on a single subject in a series of related works. No prerequisites, although a background in drawing is helpful. Bear in mind the high cost of large stretchers and oil paints.

CRN	94267	Distribution	F */ Practicing Art
Course No.	ART 105
Title	Sculpture I
Professor	Daniella Dooling
Schedule	Mon 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm Fisher

Clay, hair, wood, bubble gum, steel, Vaseline, stone, take-out bags, plaster, chocolate, glass, soap, and bronze….This course will introduce students to a variety of sculptural practices through the exploration of materials, techniques and concepts.

CRN	94247	Distribution	F */ Practicing Art
Course No.	ART 107 NE
Title	Drawing I
Professor	Nicole Eisenman
Schedule	Mon 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm Fisher

This course will primarily be concerned with the figure and location of space. The emphasis will be on spatial articulation and formal concerns. There will be assignments outside of class.

CRN	94826	Distribution	F */ Practicing Art
Course No.	ART 107
Title	Drawing I
Professor	Laura Battle
Schedule	Tu 9:30 am – 12:30 pm Fisher

See description above.

CRN	94259	Distribution	F */ Practicing Art
Course No.	ART 107 PRJ
Title	Drawing I
Professor	Paul Ramirez Jonas
Schedule	Wed 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm Fisher

The basic tenet of this class is that drawing is a tool for observation. Drawing will be used as a method to see, represent and interpret the world around us. Thus, it will explore different ways of observing the body, the self, the culture, nature, objects, the imagination and thoughts. These observations will take the form of notations made with traditional and non-traditional mark making tools. While the course will stimulate non-verbal thinking, it will also relate drawing to an intellectual tradition. Class time will be spent drawing, from life, looking at art, and instruction on the use of materials. There will be weekly assignments that will require a significant time commitment. This course is open to all students regardless of intended field of study or skill-level. Whether you become an artist or not, my hope is that this class will let you consider drawing as a helpful practice in your life.

CRN	94258	Distribution	F */ Practicing Art
Course No.	ART 109
Title	Introduction to Printmaking
Professor	Lothar Osterburg
Schedule	Wed 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Fisher

This class gives the students an introduction into the print techniques possible at Bard. The first part of the semester will be dedicated to mono printing and woodblock. In both techniques multiple run color printing will be introduced. In the second part of the semester primarily drypoint techniques in intaglio will be explored, but the basics of etching techniques will be introduced as well.

CRN	94265	Distribution	F
Course No.	ART 200
Title	Cybergraphics II: Strategies for Digital Painting
Professor	Hap Tivey
Schedule	Th 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm

This studio class is devoted to analyzing, designing and creating paintings using the computer and digital printers. The class will learn to analyze images of paintings and drawings with digital techniques. We will examine both historical images and those created in the class. By testing compositional alternatives, the class will develop strategies to break down images into gesture, texture, space and color. Finally, we will extract these elements into printable forms, and transfer the digital information to paper and/or canvas for final application of paint. Because this class will focus primarily on abstraction, students taking Painting III, “Modes of Abstraction”, may profit from the interaction between the classes. Cybergraphics I or permission of the instructor is required. Experience with paint is recommended, but not required.

CRN	94252	Distribution	F
Course No.	ART 201
Title	Painting II
Professor	Nicole Eisenman
Schedule	Tu 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm Fisher

While this course will extend the perceptual articulation and essential painting skills learned in painting I, class projects will also develop approaches to painting based in abstraction and in the imagination. Particular attention will be given to understanding the various roles that color can play in creating structure and meaning in a painting. Self-motivation, extensive outside of class work, and a commitment to acquiring the necessary physical materials are all requirements for this course.

CRN	94264	Distribution	F */ Practicing Art
Course No.	ART 205
Title	Sculpture II: Cut to the Chase
Professor	Paul Ramirez Jonas
Schedule	Th 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm UBS

Sculpture continues to expand and is evolving into an approach rather than a medium. In its present form it incorporates almost any medium and method in the visual arts: objects, actions, video, photography, breathing, thinking, installation, performance, etc. This class will be a strong brew of readings, slide lectures, video screenings, and studio assignments. While it is beyond the scope of a single class to explore the countless strategies and techniques available to a contemporary studio practice, this class will nonetheless attempt to introduce some salient currents and point in the direction of others. For the most part, projects will have to be completed outside of class and will require a significant time commitment.

Prerequisite: A level I course in Sculpture, Painting, Video or Photography, or by permission of instructor.

CRN	94245	Distribution	F */ Practicing Art
Course No.	ART 207
Title	Drawing II: The Figure
Professor	Joseph Santore
Schedule	Mon 9:30 am - 12:30 pm Fisher

The focus of this class will be on the figure. Students will be working directly from life using models. The emphasis will be on structure and the interaction between figures and the spaces that they occupy. Students will be examining spatial relationships, composition, scale and geometric structures. Students will be using different materials (charcoal, pencils, cut paper, ink, etc.) while attempting to experience a wide range f mark making possibilities. They will explore different ways of making form by utilizing light, space and air while also addressing the problems of scale and investigating the potential power and pressure of how marks move across the picture plane. As the semester goes on students will be encouraged to focus in on the figure and become more specific. Students will be encouraged to keep sketchbooks and there will be work assigned out of class.

CRN	94256	Distribution	F */ Practicing Art
Course No.	ART 207
Title	Drawing II:Drawing from Nature
Professor	Kenneth Buhler
Schedule	Wed 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Fisher

The term “drawing from nature” here is used both literally and figuratively. Part of this drawing course is analytical in nature and utilizes perceptual work (including observation through microscopes) to acquire visual information about basic structures in nature, growth patterns, and other phenomena less than immediately apparent to the eye. In addition to the perceptual work, this visual data will be adopted for continued exploration on individual drawing projects. Drawing I, the love of natural forms, great patience, and good basic drawing skills are required.

CRN	94250	Distribution	F */ Practicing Art
Course No.	ART 209
Title	Printmaking II / III: Multiple Plate Color
Professor	Lothar Osterburg
Schedule	Tu 9:30 am - 12:30 pm Fisher

The class will give an in depth introduction to color printmaking in etching, woodblock and screen print. Techniques that will be covered are multiple plate registration, viscosity printing, chine colle, and a la poupe. You will learn how colors effect each other in prints, how to register colors, control and change the interaction of plates and colors, recognize characteristics of pigments, their tinting strength or transparency and how to realize a print from the planning stage to a finished state, ready of exhibiting. Combination of processes and techniques will be possible in the second part of the class. Prerequisites are basic platemaking and printing skills in etching acquired in “Introduction to Printmaking”. This class will make great demands on your time and materials.

CRN	94270	Distribution	A/F */ Practicing Art
Course No.	ART 235
Title	The Practice of Sculpture, 1865-1965
Professor	William Tucker
Schedule	Mon 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm Fisher

Cross-listed: Art History

This course will introduce Art History and Studio students to the practical aspects of making sculpture, together with a detailed study the history of modern sculpture in Europe and North America.  There will be a lecture each week on the work of an individual sculptor, or group of sculptors, and a workshop on some aspect of studio practice. Students will get to know first hand how technical processes and the character of materials affect the development of modern sculpture—in clay, wax and plaster modeling, and in different methods of casting, carving, welded construction, and fabrication. In bridging the concerns of the academic discipline of art history and studio practice, students will undertake significant critical reading and writing for the course while also being invited to develop independent studio projects based on course work. 

CRN	94262	Distribution	F */ Practicing Art
Course No.	ART 300
Title	Cybergraphics III: Virtual Sculpture
Professor	Hap Tivey
Schedule	Wed 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Cross-listed:Integrated Arts

This course employs 3-D modeling programs for the development of hypothetical structures and environments. Through mid-term the class will include instruction in the use of basic and advanced 3-D applications. The second half of the class focuses on creation of digital structures and their image placement in real or virtual environments. Emphasis on scientific source material.

CRN	94253	Distribution	F */ Practicing Art
Course No.	ART 301
Title	Painting III: Modes of Abstraction
Professor	Kenneth Buhler
Schedule	Tu 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm Fisher

This painting class is designed for students who wish to explore in-depth the possibilities of abstraction. Non-objective paintings from the past and present will serve as models to stimulate the ability to think and work with an abstract vocabulary. Projects will emphasize the wide range of visual experiences that abstraction can address. The development of personal imagery and meaning as they relate to the issues of process, material, and scale will be explored throughout the semester. This class may be taken independently, or in conjunction with Cybergraphics II.

Pre-requisites: Painting II, a self-motivated work ethic, and a commitment to independent exploration.

CRN	94263	Distribution	F */ Practicing Art
Course No.	ART 305
Title	Sculpture III
Professor	Judy Pfaff
Schedule	Th 10:00 am - 2:00 pm Fisher Barn

An advanced level sculpture course dealing with all aspects of construction in a wide variety of materials, especially metals and plastics: actual and illusionary movement, the dynamics of scale in relation to the body, light as transparency and reflection, the communication of energy through the articulation of space.

Open to 8 technically qualified students.

CRN	94251	Distribution	F */ Practicing Art
Course No.	ART 307
Title	Advanced Drawing
Professor	Medrie MacPhee
Schedule	Tu 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm Fisher

This advanced studio class will explore the range of drawing in its traditional and experimental forms from the observed to the imagined. Particular attention will be given to exploring and expanding the sources of visual information upon which a student may draw for personal imagery. The goal is to help students locate ideas essential to their art and develop those ideas in processes of drawing. In addition to classroom assignments, students are expected to develop independent drawing projects in consultation with the professor. The students’ response to specific works of art and artists will be explored in class presentations and a gallery or museum visit. Please bring 2 or 3 recent drawings to the first class.

Prerequisites: Drawing I and Drawing II

CRN	94255	Distribution	A
Course No.	ART 330
Title	Junior Seminar
Professor	Amy Sillman
Schedule	Tu 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

In this required course, art majors will examine modern art from a practitioner’s perspective, exploring and articulating ideas and methods of artmaking and their own place within that history. The course will include slide presentations, readings, visiting artist lectures, some writing and visual presentations by students on their own work and the work of other artists, and the Junior Seminar Holiday Crafts Fair.

*This course is a REQUIREMENT for all Junior or Sophomore II studio art majors. If you will be a Sophomore II in the fall, you should sign up for this course, unless you are taking Sophomore Seminar. It will also be open to other arts division majors if space allows.

CRN	94254	Distribution	A
Course No.	ART 405
Title	Senior Seminar
Professor	Arthur Gibbons
Schedule	Tu 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Fisher Annex

Senior Seminar is a component of the Senior Project and will no longer be a separate 1 credit seminar, but is part of the 8 credits earned for Senior Project. Any student registered in Studio Art Senior Project or any student of another discipline who has been granted studio space in either the Fisher Studio Art Center or the U.B.S. Exhibition Center in Red Hook will be required to register and participate in all aspects of Senior Seminar.