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Beyond required fundamental and drawing courses for the art major and minor, additional courses are offered in areas of art concentration, as well as some electives.
Art history students select coures that cover ancient to contemporary art with special topics courses that explore specific areas around the world.
Drawing from the human form, students interpret the structure, anatomy, movement, mass, volume and weight of the human figure in various two-dimensional media, emphasizing expressive and design elements. Offered alternate years. Prerequisite: Art 113 or 116 or by permission of the instructor. This course is an alternative core requirement for studio art majors. Offered yearly.
Students make images on and with handmade paper. Diverse techniques of manipulating handmade paper are explored: sheet-forming, laminations, use of vacuum table, casting and spraying of three-dimensional forms, and handmade paper books. Students are expected to produce both individual works and editions. Offered alternate years.
This course examines the fundamentals of painting as a language, utilizing a wide range of acrylic possibilities and surfaces. Explorations will include the use of mediums and gels, flow release, molding pastes, and other experimental inclusions. Students will work from observation and conceptually-based assignments to expand their personal use of this versatile medium. Prerequisite: Art 113 and 115.
This course, based primarily on the use of oils paints but non toxic oil substitutes will be used to offer instruction in a range of materials and techniques from early Western historical processes to the present. Various supports, scales, color and other formal elements are examined in light of compositional explorations and development of content. By means of direct observations (e.g. the figure) and other conceptual problems, students begin to examine the possibilities of this painting medium in the expression of personal statements. Examples are taken from different cultural, historical, and contemporary settings. Prerequisite Art 113 and Art 115 or by permission.
The emphasis of the course is on decision-making. Students solve “picture problems” and explore unique ways to “write with light.” Assignments lead students through a “hands-on” history of photography while they develop their own image ideas. The camera obscura and handmade pinhole cameras give way to film cameras and eventually to digital cameras. Students learn the fundamentals of camera handling, film development, and black and white printing in the traditional wet darkroom. Additionally digital point-and-shoot cameras and/or cell phone cameras will be used for certain assignments. In the digital darkroom students will print from digital files and also scan prints and make on-line portfolios through systems like Flickr. Students must provide some type of digital camera as well as their own 35mm film cameras with variable aperture and shutter speed. Yellow and red filters are recommended, and flash and tripods are useful. For majors and non-majors. No prerequisite, but ART 113, 115, or 116 is recommended. $100 lab fee plus cost of materials. Offered yearly. (EL)ART 250 Topics in Art (3 or 4 credits depending upon course) The topic is announced prior to registration. Previous topics have included “History of the Print,” “Commercial Photography.” Offered occasionally. Prerequisites depend on the topic. Please see schedule for current offerings and LAiP designations. Offered fall and spring.
This is a cross-disciplinary course investigating ceramics and its geological origins. It encompasses the geology of clay, clay in the white-wares industry, and clay and glaze chemistry. Art and Geology students are paired together to work through labs and solve studio problems using a scientific approach to problem-solving. Through field work students will have the opportunity to collect samples of local materials to create their own clay and glazes. Students enrolled in ART 250 will have a studio space in which to make work throughout the semester. Offered every other fall semester. Prerequisite: ART 271. Offered alternate years ART 250 Topics in Art (3 or 4 credits depending upon course) The topic is announced prior to registration. Previous topics have included “History of the Print,” “Commercial Photography.” Offered occasionally. Prerequisites depend on the topic. Please see schedule for current offerings and LAiP designations. Offered fall and spring.
Functional ceramics are often taken for granted. We use them every day, without reflecting on their origins, how they are made, or the culture that surrounds them. In this course students will explore objects for the table and their ability to communicate meaning by creating two sets of dinnerware that represent particular ideas, concepts, or visual languages. The course will culminate in a dinner party prepared by students and faculty. Offered alternate years.
Claystallation explores hand-building techniques in order to develop site-specific installations of clay that address scale, weight, concept, place, communication, and interaction. By looking at contemporary ceramic artists working in installation using both raw and fired clay, students will create their own installation. The course will culminate in an exhibition of site-specific work. Offered alternate years.
Through this studio course students learn traditional silver photography techniques (film camera and wet darkroom) while exploring the history of photographic images made by women working in the field from 1839 to the present. Research projects and presentation will assist class members to understand historical trends and contemporary issues of the medium, as well as to define some of the unique aspects of photography by women and consider how gender may affect art-making. Students will produce a portfolio of their own images influenced by their research and new understanding. Film camera with variable aperture and shutter speed required. Digital point-and-shoot or cell phone camera useful for color work. Permission required to assure clarity about equipment needs. No prerequisite. This course is equivalent to Art 241 Photo I and also carries a GWS (Gender and Women’s Studies) designation. Offered alternate years.
This course focuses on the introduction of glass as a material for artistic expression, as well as elementary technical skills for working with hot glass. Students will be introduced to the basics of glass blowing, sand blasting on glass, the history of glass, and other processes used in glass making. Aesthetic and conceptual concepts associated with object-making will be presented and discussed. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Offered fall and spring.
This course emphasizes interface design and artistic approaches to the Internet. Students will consider the Internet as a medium for expression, communication and as a space for conceptual works and creative inquiry. Works that use the Internet as a medium for artistic production will be encouraged through projects that stimulate students’ individual interests. Students will investigate the potential for artistic experimentation through the consideration, use and design of Blogs, Web pages, RSS feeds, Web Apps, and commercially oriented sites. Software covered includes Adobe Dreamweaver and Adobe Flash. This class culminates with a portfolio-worthy showcase of students’ work through an allocated online exhibition space at www.hartwickdigital.com. Prerequisite: ART 213 May be repeated for additional credit, addressing additional interactive media. Offered yearly.
This digital course addresses linear time through audio and video. The class will explore visual time through the study of linear imaging conventions including natural life cycles, historical progressions, storyboard mapping of space and time, stop motion, animation, projection, film, and video. Audio will be considered through the creation of loops, mashups, remixes and as a spatial experience. Software includes Final Cut Express, Adobe Flash, Audacity, and Quick Time. All the work from this class is broadcast on the hartwickdigital.com Web site. This course is extremely useful and strongly recommended for students interested in filmmaking, video art, TV production, web casting and installation art. Prerequisite: ART 213 May be repeated for additional credit, addressing additional time based media. Offered yearly.
Students continue to develop skills learned in Art 221 and/or Art 222 and they are encouraged to clarify and cultivate emerging personal approaches to painting while continuing to experiment. Work can be done in a variety of media such as non toxic oil processes and acrylics. Prerequisite: Art 221 or 222 or by permission of instructor.
In this half-semester course students expand their understanding of traditional photographic processes and also learn digital means that assist to renew traditional fine arts methods. Skills may include archival fiber-based printing, large scale printing, and using larger format cameras and sheet film. Students will learn to scan negatives and prints to make high resolution digital files for projects such as artists’ books and websites. Prerequisites: ART 113 or 115 or 116, and 241. $100 lab fee plus cost of materials. Offered yearly.
In this half-semester course students explore traditional and digital methods for creating “manipulated images,” such as painted photographs or photo-collage or photo-printmaking processes like solar prints. Scanning “old” negatives for reprinting, making digital negatives for contact printing and other technical options are also available to assist students develop a personal artistic vision. Prerequisites: ART 113 or 115 or 116, and 241. $100 lab fee plus cost of materials. Offered yearly.
Students learn the fundamentals of the Digital Single Lens Reflex camera, image capture and the Lightroom/Photoshop software. A series of assignments will lead students to develop a portfolio of color photographic images. For art majors, documentary photography minors and non-majors. Prerequisite: ART 241 Photo I can be taken during the same term. Students completing 241 and 343 may register for Art 441. Offered yearly.
$100 lab fee plus cost of materials. Students must have their own DSLR camera. Offered fall and spring.
An introduction to the practice of modern digital photojournalism, this course emphasizes the techniques necessary for visual storytelling, including artistic skills (composition, lighting, narrative) and technical skills (camera use, timing, software). In weekly assignments covering spot news, general news, features, sports, portraits, photo illustration and the photo essay, students will practice all stages of photo reportage: story planning, shooting, editing and digital imaging. Students provide their own digital SLR (35mm) cameras. A telephoto lens, wide angle lens and separate flash are recommended but not required. Software: Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop. Prerequisites: ART 241 Photography I and Art 343 Introduction to Digital Photography. $100 lab fee plus cost of materials. Offered yearly.
The topic is announced prior to registration. Prerequisites depend on the topic. Permission of instructor required for enrollment. Please see schedule for current offerings. Offered occasionally.
This course is an introduction to the process and skills of wheel throwing and its various applications (including wedging, centering, throwing, and trimming) and will build upon the knowledge gained in ART271. By exploring the wheel as a tool, students will create work in a variety of contexts both sculptural and functional while expanding their knowledge of clay, glazes, and firing techniques. Additionally students will continue to develop their historical and contemporary knowledge of the field of ceramics. Prerequisite: ART 271. Offered yearly.
Students continue to explore glass-making possibilities with the introduction of more advanced glass-making techniques. Emphasis is placed on refining form and simplifying ideas to fully understand and clarify concepts. Students will be encouraged to continue to develop personal expression. They will also be required to demonstrate an understanding of more advanced skills and procedure as well as to monitor and assist with equipment and studio maintenance. Prerequisites: Glass I and permission of instructor. Offered fall and spring.
Digital Art & Design Studio is an advanced-level class that contains both a studio and teaching component. The studio aspect allows for investigation and creation of intensive student driven projects. The second component of the class has students participating as Teaching Assistants for Art 213 Digital Art & Design I, Intro to Digital Media. Advanced students will help Introductory students during studio time and will participate in critiques of introductory students’ projects. Introductory students will experience and participate in critiques of advanced students projects. This class is limited to 3 students. Instructor approval is required. Prerequisites: ART 116, ART 213, and one upper-level Digital Art & Design class (ART 216, 316, 317, or 250). Offered yearly.
Art Theory & Practice is a course centered around navigating the art world after graduation. Topics covered will include writing artist statements, grants, and gallery proposals; applying for residencies and grad schools; creating a CV; finding venues to present your art; and how to use new media to promote and display one’s art. The class is for Art seniors only and requires instructor approval. Prerequisite: completion of the Junior Art Review. Offered yearly.
Students work toward evolving personal, individual approaches to painting on an advanced level. The imaginative manipulation of formal ideas and concepts is emphasized. Philosophical and theoretical issues about painting are addressed. This course may be repeated twice Prerequisite: ART 321. Offered yearly.
The topic of this advanced seminar is announced prior to registration. Prerequisites depend on topic. Permission required. Please see schedule for current offerings. Offered occasionally.
Students will begin to develop their own language as artists by creating four bodies of work over the course of the semester. Students will choose to work functionally or sculpturally to further develop their skill. Studio work will be complemented by development of an artist’s statement and a digital portfolio of work. This course may be repeated twice. Prerequisites: ART 165 and 371. Offered Yearly.
An internship in an art-related field. The student should arrange to do this internship with the appropriate faculty supervisor. Offered fall and spring.
This course surveys major monuments in architecture, painting, sculpture in Western Europe, the Near East, Egypt, China, India and the Americas from prehistory through 1000 C.E. Using a chronological framework, students are introduced to the fundamentals of art history, including developing skills in formal analysis, iconography, and the comparative method. Emphasis will be on the social, political and cultural context of objects. Suitable for non-majors.
As a continuation of Art 102, this course surveys the major monuments of art history from 1000 C.E through the 17th century. Architecture, painting, sculpture and printmaking created in countries and cultures throughout the world, including Japan, China, Islam, Africa, the Americas and Western Europe are investigated. This course introduces students to art historical methods, concepts and definitions and stresses the relation of objects to their political, social and cultural context. Suitable for non-majors.
This course is the final part of a three-part survey of the history of art, a major goal of which is understanding human cultural diversity. We will examine some of the major monuments, artists, and artistic developments from the 18th to the late 20th century in Europe, China, Japan, North America, and Sub-Saharan Africa. The purpose of the course is to foster an understanding of the relationship between works of art and the historical, political, religious, and philosophical context of the societies that produced and made use of them, and to build the fundamental skills of visual analysis and the critical concepts and vocabulary necessary for discussing works of art verbally and in writing. Suitable for nonmajors.
This course surveys the arts of the Americas from prehistory through the present. The course emphasizes the native arts of the Americas in the broadest sense by examining the work of native cultures, immigrant cultures with special attention to Latino art, and the dominant white culture after the 15th century. Hence the course contrasts Western arts with non-Western art in order to show how different cultures make art for very different reasons. The course, like the other art history surveys, addresses art historical methods and approaches, definitions and concepts.
This course studies women’s various roles in the history of western and non-western art with special emphasis placed upon underlying issues of racism and sexism in the modern and contemporary eras. Although it focuses on women as artistic producers, it also addresses the way in which women have been imaged by men. Various art historical approaches are applied in order to examine the cultural, economic, political, and social restrictions that have shaped women’s relationship to the visual arts in the past 200 years.
The survey of Chinese Imperial Art begins with Shang Dynasty pottery and bronzes from the second millennium BCE and continues through 1912 and the fall of the Ch’ing Dynasty. Chinese history, literature and religion will be discussed in order to explain the works of art, their meaning and the society in which they were produced.
This lecture course examines key developments in the history of photography from its invention in 1839 to the rise of postmodernism in the 1970s. Arranged chronologically, the course examines recurrent debates in modern Europe and the U.S. regarding photography’s dual status as an expressive fine art medium and objective historical document. It likewise charts ongoing aesthetic disputes between proponents of “straight,” unmediated photographic production and those who champion the expressiveness of the manipulated image.
The course is designed to address major architectural developments in world architecture with a concentration on Western architecture. Students examine the monuments in a cultural, social, and political context.
This course is designed to prepare you for your experiences in Art & Architecture of Rome, Florence, and Venice (ARTH 307) during the following J Term. The content of this Fall’s course will include art historical background, some basic language preparation, journal/reflective writing, travel tips, safety issues, and other information necessary for a fuller understanding of Italian culture. You will also begin researching the topic on which you will give a presentation in Italy in January. Permission to enroll is contingent upon the student’s acceptance into the J-term off campus program.
The topic is announced prior to registration. Previous topics have included “History of the Print,” “Commercial Photography,” and “20th Century Black Art and Visual Culture.” Offered occasionally. Prerequisites depend on the topic. Please see schedule for current offerings.
This course is an intermediate-level introduction to the art of Buddhism from the religion’s inception in the 6th century BCE through the present day. The emphasis is on the painting, sculpture, and sacred architecture of India, China, Japan, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, the Himalayas, and beyond. New trends and scholarship will allow for variation from semester to semester. Required textbooks will be supplemented with readings of Buddhist scriptures and current articles.
In this course, students will take an in-depth look at what makes film one of the most powerful artistic media of our time. Everyone is familiar with the experience of watching a movie that tells us a story. By the end of this course, students will have ventured beyond the narrative to explore the relationships between form and content in films in our pursuit of an understanding of how they communicate ideas and persuade us. Students will cover some of the basic terminology and concepts necessary to view a film critically and analyze examples of films outside of the American cinematic mainstream to look at how diverse cultures use the medium of film. Specific films vary from semester to semester and include the cinematic production of Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia, and the Americas.
The study of ancient art begins with Bronze Age civilizations from around the Aegean Sea and continues to the age of Constantine, around C.E. 315. Course content includes architecture, painting, sculpture, ceramics and minor arts, all studied in relation to the philosophies and histories of the civilizations that produced them. Offered alternate years.
This course will be conducted primarily in Rome, Florence, and Venice which will allow students to experience the artworks and monuments of ancient, Renaissance, Baroque, and modern Rome, Florence, and Venice, as well as medieval and Renaissance Orvieto. The trip will give students a more intimate understanding of both the monuments and the culture that produced them. Issues of iconography, politics, religion, scale, placement and interactions between monuments will be highlighted. Students will be responsible for providing much of this information as they research their topics and historical figures and discuss them in meetings and on site. Students will also be expected to reflect on their experiences with the cultural differences they encounter in contemporary Italy.
In this course, students will examine the major figures and movements of art in Europe and the United States from 1965 through the present day. Readings will be drawn mostly from primary sources written by artists and critics, as 43 well as new exhibition catalogue essays and articles and reviews from newspapers and current and recent issues of major art journals. Prerequisite: ARTH 104.
The topic is announced prior to registration. Offered occasionally. Prerequisites depend on the topic. Permission of instructor required for enrollment. Please see schedule for current offerings.
The topic of this advanced seminar is announced prior to registration. Offered occasionally. Prerequisites depend on topic. Permission required. Please see schedule for current offerings.
The art history capstone consists of two courses: A research and methods course taken during the spring of the junior year and the Senior Thesis completed and presented during the fall of the senior year. Art History Research and Methods is designed to improve the Art History major’s critical, analytical, writing, and research skills. Throughout the course, students will discuss readings on the history and various methods of doing and writing art history, including current trends and controversies. Students also will formulate a topic, amass a bibliography, create an outline, and plan a method for researching and writing their senior theses. Students will make regular presentations on the progress of their theses in class. This course is mandatory for all Art History majors during the spring of their junior year and is the prerequisite for ART 490. Prerequisites: ARTH 102, 103, 104, and permission of the instructor.
Required for all majors during the fall of their senior year, the Senior Thesis is the capstone art history project combining demonstrable knowledge in the history of the field and its methods, original and critical thought, extensive research, and advanced writing. The semester culminates in the completion of the written thesis and its presentation at a mini-symposium to the art and art history faculty and students. Prerequisite: ARTH 487.
An internship in an art-related field. The student should arrange to do this internship with the appropriate faculty supervisor.

References: Art 113
 Art 113
 Art 113
 Art 115
 ART 113
 ART 250
 ART 271
 ART 250
 Art 241
 ART 213
 ART 213
 Art 221
 Art 222
 Art 221
 ART 113
 ART 113
 ART 241
 Art 441
 ART 241
 Art 343
 ART271
 ART 271
 Art 213
 ART 116
 ART 213
 ART 321
 ART 165
 Art 102
 ART 490