Visiting professional artists and critics are regularly scheduled to lecture and critique student work. In addition to traditional black and white and color photography, this program offers a variety of workshops focusing on temporal and cultural issues. The faculty stresses an experimental approach to picture-making, ranging from the handmade camera to production on a Heidelberg press. The sculpture facility houses wood shops, metal fabrication equipment, plaster and model-making facilities, and an extensive foundry for casting bronze and aluminum. The initial emphasis is on the development of basic skills with tools and equipment.
Advanced courses provide intensive studio experience and the dynamics of a critical dialogue.
One course in Senior Sculpture 0335 or 0336 Two advanced level courses in Drawing Two advanced level courses in Sculpture Art Richard Hricko , Chair The purpose of the studio art concentration is to offer students an education in art within a liberal arts context. The curriculum is devised to offer students a rich range of choices in other academic disciplines to augment their studio studies. It is the purpose of the visual studies concentration to organize the various approaches to visual thinking that cut across various disciplines into a logical whole. Students will analyze visual communication from a variety of aesthetic, theoretical, scientific, sociological, and historical viewpoints. Art Education Jo-Anna Moore , Area Coordinator The Art Education program is conceived as a curriculum ensuring a fully rounded preparation for the elementary and secondary school teacher.