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FNAR-553 – Advanced Printmaking: Silkscreening, Marti
This course will concentrate on expanding imagery in print media. A wide variety of print techniques will be covered. Techniques will be addressed as they serve the needs of ideas rather than a set technical procedure. Through individual consultation, scheduled class critiques, field trips, guest artists, and collaborative projects, attention will be given to studio work in and out of printmaking so that the technical and conceptual strengths of print media can serve as a worthwhile adjunct to an overall studio practice. The course requires the proposal of a directed project to be explored in this seminar.
FNAR-554 – Graduate Printmaking I, Adkins
This course will cover the traditional print processes while offering a chance to develop visual skills. The processes covered in class will include monoprinting (one of a kind prints), relief printing and a variety of etching techniques. Demonstrations will be offered to introduce more advanced processes like lithography and silkscreening. This class is an excellent introduction to the visual arts because the through process as well as the development of the image can be recorded.
FNAR-568 – Integrative Design Studio: Cultures of Play, Telhan This course is a research-based design studio that will introduce new materials, fabrication, and prototyping techniques to develop a series of design proposals in response to the theme: Cultures of Play. This semester the studio will be taught in collaboration with the LEGO® Learning Institute. Through a series of design experiments, we will investigate how games and play can facilitate:1) Intercultural exchange among kids with different ethnic, economic linguistic backgrounds in developing countries; 2) Alternative forms of knowledge production and sharing through play that can utilize local traditions, conventions and personal experience.
FNAR-575 – Graduate Drawing Seminar, Freedman
This seminar examines the essential nature drawing has in an artist's process. Direct visual perception, self-referential mark making, the viability of space and understanding it, and drawing from one's own work are some of the drawing experiences encountered in the course. There are regular critiques and discussions based on the work and readings.
FNAR-596 – Figures of Thought, Adkins
Figures of Thought is a seminar that examines a variety of themes and strategies employed by contemporary artists in the expanded field of studio practice. It monitors the process that occurs from the luminosity of an idea through its conceptual underpinnings to its material manifestation. The course also addresses alternative approaches of adaptation to the current professional climate regarding the access to emerging professional opportunities. Its aim is to offer graduate students the tools to develop distinguishing avenues to the generic career approaches that often plague their ranks. The reassessment of the processes involved in presentation of artist statements and applications for residencies and grant opportunities are examined and reviewed. Readings from the texts of traditionalist philosophers Titus Burckhardt, Ananda Coomaraswamy, and Rene Guenon combined with contemporary texts on a variety of topics in the arts form the basis of class discussion and presentations. Each semester students create work in response to thematic foci issuing from bodies of literature, film, music, and popular culture that culminates in a public multimedia group exhibition. Figures of Thought also includes occasional joint trips to museums and galleries in New York that bear on class topics and visits to artists' studios when possible.
FNAR-576 – Critical Issues I: A History of Ideas in Art, Tileston
This seminar will address some of the theories, critical ideas and methods that have influenced studio artists, touching on 2000 years of art and aesthetics from Plato to Dave Hickey. Issues covered will range from traditional investigations of aesthetics to Modernism, Postmodernism, Post Postmodernism and more. Connections will be made between ideas, theories, and practice as it shows up in the work of various 20th century artists. We will investigate how issues in philosophy, art history and criticism can be used by the studio artist to understand not only the contemporary climate in the art world, but his or her own work.
FNAR-576 – Critical Issues II: Contemporary Themes, Tileston
This seminar will focus on writings within the last ten years or so about the contemporary art world, the current dialogues, and issues specific to our time and place as artists. This seminar will explore contemporary issues in a spirit of curiosity and critique, and relate them to our studio practice. Many of the readings point to an artists place in a complex world of competing ideologies and address how the choices you make in the studio inherently signify a value system.
FNAR 594 – Graduate Photo Seminar, Davenport
This seminar will examine contemporary issues in photography from the point of view of the practicing artist. Students will meet with visiting critics during the semester, the course will also include student presentations, weekly discussions and group critiques, visits to artists' studios and gallery and museum exhibitions. Texts for the seminar will be drawn from contemporary critical theory in art, philosophy, history and popular culture.
FNAR-638 – Creative Research, Telhan
This seminar explores what it means to do research in creative and critical practices. Students learn about different research methods from design, engineering, humanities and sciences; utilize them for developing and evaluating their individual creative work as cultural producers. This is an interdisciplinary course that encourages students to observe, measure, analyze, test, study, experiment, diagram, prototype, speculate, generate and criticize; apply multiple modes of inquiry; be conceptual, analytical, propositional and critical at the same time to develop their work from different perspectives.
FNAR-666 – Sound Seminar: Sonic Measures, Adkins
Sonic Measures is a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of digital audio design, including sound for video, sound installation, composition, and sound art. Projects and demonstrations will familiarize students with all aspects of recording and synthesis of sound using Apple's Logic Pro software. Assignments will combine technical issues alongside an ongoing conceptual development individual to each student's interests. No musical knowledge needed.
FNAR-669 – Graduate Video Studio, Mosley
Through a series of studio projects, this course focuses on the conceptualization and production of time-based works of art. A seminar component of the course reviews contemporary examples of media based art and film. A studio component of the course introduces production techniques including lighting, cinematography, audio, editing, mastering projects, and installing audio-visual works in site-specific locations or gallery spaces.
FNAR-712 – Visual Epistemologies, Telhan
In this joint seminar between Architecture and Fine Arts, we investigate the alternative modes of diagrammatic thinking that are influencing art and design disciplines. The course provides a historical perspective on the evolution of visual epistemologies from late 1950s and reviews its current state from the lens of contemporary representation theory, computation, fabrication and information technologies. The goal is to gain both theoretical and hands-on experience with the contemporary diagramming techniques in order to advance both designs and the thinking behind them.
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