SART 17.01 – Collage: Bridging the Gap
An exploration of the design and construction of imagery through the medium of collage. Students will work in mixed media collage materials from a variety of subject matter with a focus on the development of critical abilities and an individual esthetic. Assignments will make use of collage as a connection between two-dimensional and three-dimensional artwork, addressing collage work in relationship to drawing, painting, relief sculpture, photography and architecture.

SART 17.07 – The Passionate Pursuit of Color
Students in this course will explore the use of color as a language to construct and find meaning in a fully realized work of art that captures both internal and external realities. A variety of traditional as well as digital drawing media and techniques will be encouraged. Emphasis will be on testing the boundaries between the flat picture plane and the mysterious illusion of pictorial space, between sensuous details and the overall unity of each work of art.

SART 17.08 – Digital Drawing
This class will explore the connection of hand drawing and digital drawing to create original images. Students will explore the implications, opportunities and technical issues of using the computer as a drawing tool and combine computer-generated drawings with those done by hand. Drawings may combine layering, collaging and converting 3D form to 2D hand drawings using PhotoShop, Illustrator and Rhino software, among others.

SART 17.09 – The Photographer as Activist: Making Art Inspired by the Hood Museum's Collection 
This course examines photography's evolving role as protagonist for raising awareness of important social and political issues of our time, such as war and its aftermath, the politics of gender and family, and the sustainable landscape.  Meetings in the Bernstein Study Center will focus on the study of specific photographs and the processes and techniques employed; these explorations will form the basis for individual photographic projects, culminating in a creative portfolio or book. Students will develop a critical framework for the cultivation of visual literacy and the understanding of photography's importance as witness to human experience.

SART 17.11 – Embodied Magic: Drawing into Life
Starting from close observation, this class will explore possibilities for translating the wide and vibrant world into two-dimensional drawing and painting, and for translating two-dimensional works into sequential and moving images.  We will investigate interrelationships between embodied magic, improvisation, disciplined daily practice, and finished work.  Athletes, dancers, musicians, graphic designers, complete beginners, animators, fans of sequential art, and other assorted students from a variety of backgrounds and interests are welcome.  

SART 17.12 – Art Practices Across Media
This course examines strategies used by artists who work across a range of media. We will start with a critical inquiry into theoretical and practical methods: how do ideas determine the choice of material and the shape they take?  Further explorations will address the socio-political dimension of art-making and how it enables interventions and interruptions of the historical, cultural, and individual sphere. In the spirit of its subject, this class will ask students to utilize multiple media with the goal of visualizing the relation between material and concept.

SART 17.13 – Drawing with Van Gogh
Students learn to draw as Vincent Van Gogh did throughout various stages of his life, with similar instruction, purpose and drawing materials.  The class will see and draw from the art that influenced him, work from subject matter similar to his, and experiment with his particular techniques.  Students will copy a range of Van Gogh drawings, draw directly from life as he did, and read many of his extraordinary letters.  At the end of the term, each student will develop a suite of drawings, embodying their own idea of how Van Gogh's work might have further evolved.  Supplemental course fee required. All levels of drawing experience welcome.

SART 17.14 – Reinventing Architecture: Design and Social Action
By thinking more broadly about the populations served and more expansively about collaborative initiatives, designers can take on an important role in addressing the significant challenges we face in a rapidly changing and developing world. This course will include a series of drawing/media/design assignments that will serve as concentrated exercises in the investigation of architectural and spatial concepts and projects for challenged communities on the local, national and international levels. A wide array of design tools will be utilized and students will work both individually and collaboratively with classmates.  Course requirements will consist of the completion of drawing, model making and analysis assignments associated with each of the phases of the course. A substantial part of many class sessions will be dedicated to working on these assignments in the studio, thus attendance will be critical to the successful completion of the course. There will be a time commitment required outside of class to complete most assignments and additional assignments will also be made explicitly for completion outside of class. Field trips, site visits and visiting experts will be an integral component of the course.

SART 17.15 – 3D Design and Digital Fabrication 
This course is an introduction to basic three dimensional design principles and the relationship between structure and space. Students will learn fundamentals of design ideologies to design and construct objects and structures that use cutting edge computer modeling and 3D fabrication processes to create forms ranging from everyday utilitarian objects to structures for specific sites on campus. Material investigations and problem solving skills to design innovative solutions to real world problems will be undertaken. Computer drawing and fabrication using the program Illustrator, and 3D modeling with Rhino, 3D Printers and CNC Routers will be taught and used. Students will develop skills needed to communicate design concepts and develop personal approaches to design as well as to construct them. The projects include forms based on aesthetic as utilitarian design.

SART 17.16 – Personal Iconography & the Public Debate: Text, Image and Form
This class will give students the chance to explore the relationship of what you want to say to how you say it in art, with a strong focus on combining image, text and material. How do text and image work together to create art that engages and demands its place in the public exchange of non-art related ideas? Making use of research students will work in the studio to realize their ideas. Students will make broadsides at the Book Arts Workshop in Baker-Berry, and create a public intervention at a place of their choosing.

SART 17.18 – Art & Activism
This course will look at various international and domestic artists to examine how contemporary visual art can be a form of social activism. Instead of working in one medium, students will have the opportunity to experiment with multiple media like drawing, painting, digital photography & collage, and video. The focus of the course will be on art practices in the context of social activism and its potential to interrupt conventions surrounding history, culture, identity and politics. In the spirit of its subject, students will utilize a range of media with the goal of visualizing the relation between medium and concept, art and thought, self and world.

SART 17.22 – On Earth: Art The Anthropocene
The Anthropocene is a new geologic era that has been defined as the present epoch in which the earth’s systems and biodiversity are being slowly disrupted by the impact of humans on the earth. This theory/practice, studio course engages with contemporary art to explore creative practices related to the topic. Through the production of artworks students will investigate the profound role art and design can play to address and expand current related dialogues.
This course will explore what it mean to consider humans as a geological agent and how artists and designers can engage with the shifting perceptions of our surroundings. Creative projects that are open to the use of a range of media center on practical techniques that may include; mapping, the production of data visualization, journaling, and collaborative exercises. The course content builds through interrelating topics such as: new understandings of time, space, and scale; the concept of worlding; the use of scientific data to interpret planetary systems; the influence of the techno-sphere on human sensing and perceptions of “the natural”, and a redefinition of kin in a posthumanist era.
The course serves neither as a comprehensive study of the Anthropocene nor as an art historical survey. It is instead an introductory exploration into ways to consider the Anthropocene in order to cultivate and reinforce new forms of flexible creative and critical thinking.

SART 17.23 – Book Publication Lab 
This special topics studio course will provide students an opportunity to engage in research, conceptualization, design thinking, and execution of collaborative print projects. Strategies in design research, investigation, form-making will all be discussed along with techniques in page layout, typography for book and editorial layouts, risography, zines, self-publishing, and bookmaking. It will function as a creative laboratory, providing an opportunity to be immersed in and mindful of a range of collaborative creative processes. Through fast-paced exercises, readings, and studio projects, students will develop skills to create with others and test the boundaries of ways to give form to new ideas and strategies to generate content. Outcomes will include both digital and analog print methods. This course is designed as an interdisciplinary exploration for students in studio art and from other departments such as english and creative writing, music, languages, and the sciences. Supplemental course fee required. Enrollment limited.

SART 17.24 – What is Architecture? 10/10
This course focuses on addressing the question “What is Architecture?” within the context of liberal arts education, through topics such as: light and the immaterial, details and processes of making (craftmanship), structure and engineering, materiality and resources (site-specificity), form, interdependence and symbiosis, composition and systems, representation, future practices, among others. It consists of 10 lectures and 10 relevant exercises/small projects. Students are expected to actively participate in the course through presentations, discussions, and the design exercises. Students will work individually and in teams. Supplemental course fee required.