This course is a thorough introduction to color photography. Weekly project-based assignments and critiques address students' aesthetic and technical progress; readings and discussions will introduce students to historical and contemporary art practices, with an emphasis on current photographic theory. Lab sessions will cover a range of techniques including the nuances of color, color film, digital capture, color management and archival inkjet printing. An additional lab workshop will meet once a week for two hours.

Video, still images and sound are used in this course to explore the fundamental character of story telling, filmmaking and time-based art practices. Students perform all aspects of production with particular attention to developing ideas and building analytical and critical skills. We will read seminal written work and interviews with practicing avant-garde artists in order to expand our knowledge, understanding and love for the medium. Through exercises that include in-class and weekly projects students will produce sketches aimed at exploring video as an experimentation tool.

This course will introduce students to the practice and the appreciation of graphic expression. We will focus on studio work, class discussion, and critique, while exploring the role of drawing in contemporary art. Assignments will address drawing from objects, the human figure, various spaces, and imagination. Students will learn to work with traditional and unconventional resources, large scale, small scale, and no materials at all. The course is designed for students with little previous experience in drawing, but flexible enough to challenge Division II studio-art concentrators.

Contact Improvisation is a duet form of movement improvisation where two people move together in a playful physical dialogue, communicating through the language of touch, momentum, balance and weight support. From this seemingly simple premise arise rich embodied investigations of such issues as trust, touch, support, focus, permission, initiation, safety, verbal and non-verbal communication and shared power.