Learn the foundations of yoga through the practice of yoga postures, breathing, techniques, yoga philosophy and meditation. Intended for students who are new to yoga or those looking for an introduction to yoga beyond the poses. Expect detail-oriented instruction, dynamic exploration of movement, and guided relaxation. Please bring your own yoga mat. Yoga mats are for sale at the OPRA equipment room. Five Colleges students will be graded pass/fail.

Scavenging Color & Light: Introduction to Representational Painting and Collective, Abstract Work. This course will introduce students to the fundamentals of painting, such as composition, value, and color. Students will learn about material and the technical issues of painting. Drawings will often be produced in tandem with paintings in order to illuminate visual ideas. We will work with water based and oil based paint on various surfaces. Besides creating individual paintings, students will collectively prepare and work on large-scale canvases.

Vagabonding Images invites students to investigate the indistinct borders between two dimensional art and installation art through studio work. Assignments will emanate from drawing. With a focus on abstraction and nonrepresentational studio art practice, students will learn to develop an individual approach to a subject matter through research, readings, films and digital image presentations. While we examine visual art productions from a transcultural perspective, we will also engage in critical art theory and topics such as media diversity, materiality, and composition.

Graphic design is a creative and critical practice at the intersection of communication and abstraction. The process of learning graphic design is two-fold, and students in this course will engage both areas: first, students will develop knowledge and fluency with design skills--in this case, software (Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator); second students will address the challenges of design head-on through discussion, practice, iteration, critique and experimentation.

Building off of the foundations of Introduction to Acting, students will strengthen their performance skills by doing partner-scenes selected from both classical and contemporary plays. Like any good scene-study course, this class will require students to memorize and rehearse their scenes outside of the classroom. This will be a deeply collaborative class, and students will be engaging in various acting exercises meant to deepen and widen their scope of imagination, physical movement, and vocal range.