This team-taught course will introduce first-year students to a range of conceptual frameworks for making and thinking about art. Unlike a skills-based class devoted to a single medium, in this course students will practice problem-solving across traditional media boundaries. Specifically, the course will explore such concepts as perception/description, authorship, and spatial systems, through use of a range of two-dimensional media, including drawing, photography, digital media and printmaking, with an emphasis on object/art-making framed largely within the studio setting.

An introduction to materials and methods used historically in the various arts. The emphasis will be on the two dimensional arts. A required fee of $75 to cover materials will be charged at the time of registration. Enrollment limited to 12.

An introduction to design principles as applied to three-dimensional form. A required fee of $25 to cover group supplied materials will be charged at the time of registration.

An introduction to visual experience through a study of the basic elements of drawing. A required fee of $25 to cover group supplied materials will be charged at the time of registration. An introduction to visual experience through a study of the basic elements of drawing. A required fee of $25 to cover group supplied materials will be charged at the time of registration.

An introduction to visual experience through a study of the basic elements of drawing. A required fee of $25 to cover group supplied materials will be charged at the time of registration. An introduction to visual experience through a study of the basic elements of drawing. A required fee of $25 to cover group supplied materials will be charged at the time of registration.

An introduction to visual experience through a study of the basic elements of drawing. A required fee of $25 to cover group supplied materials will be charged at the time of registration. An introduction to visual experience through a study of the basic elements of drawing. A required fee of $25 to cover group supplied materials will be charged at the time of registration.

An introduction to visual experience through a study of basic principles of design. All course work will be developed and completed using the functions of a computer work station. A required fee of $75 to cover group supplied materials will be charged at the time of registration. Students may require additional supplies as well and will be responsible for purchasing them directly. Enrollment limited to 14.

Constitutional limits on monarchical power, the embrace of Protestantism, religious intolerance and fanaticism, revolution and regicide, and a much vaunted (when not exaggerated and misleading) insularity, set the stage in England for patterns of patronage and a relationship to the visual arts both similar to and significantly different from modes established in Continental absolutist courts.

Topics course. This course will serve two functions: first, to think about the ways that feminism has engaged with the museum, one of the most important institutions of art history, and second, to participate in the preparations for an exhibition on feminism and abstraction that will take place at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in Spring 2013.