Each student pursues one theme, creating a series of acrylic paintings in the studio classroom under the instructor's supervision. A studio course in the history of hand papermaking and its use as an art form for beginning and advanced students. Lecture, slides, and examination of handmade papers illustrate and explain the history and methods of paper production. Demonstration and hands-on experience facilitate the exploration of the nature and techniques of making paper by hand. This course deals with the complex art scene following the French Revolution of 1789.
Students learn about major painters and sculptors while developing visual literacy.
Videos, slides, lecture-discussion, and museum visiting are included. This course studies the aesthetic and social revolutions of modern art which are grounded in the 19th Century but erupted in Fauvism in 1905 Paris. Cubism, futurism, and surrealism are examined, as well as the art scene in America up to mid-century. Videos, slides, lecture-discussion, and visits to the Castellani Art Museum are included. A survey of Western music designed to develop specific musical understandings as well as a sense of the place of music in history and the relationship of music to the other arts.