Explores experimental digital video and sound within the context of contemporary art practices in projects involving a sustained inquiry into self-selected themes.

This class explores digital image manipulation using the printmaking technique of Photopolymer Gravure within the context of contemporary art practice. Independent projects will be assigned involving a sustained inquiry in to self-selected themes.

Introduction to photographic materials and processes. Emphasis on acquiring technical skills. Involves the balance between self-inquiry and the importance of process and materials as vehicles of meaning. Critiques and slide presentations employed to examine photography from both a personal point of view and its wider cultural context.

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Emphasis on further development of advanced throwing techniques; uses on- and off-wheel methods of building. Glaze making and firing instruction.

Introduction to all basic methods of handbuilding and decorating techniques. Focus on both vessel tradition and ceramic sculpture. Introduction to glazes, slips and firing. Overview of ceramic/historical traditions.

Three-dimensional form through a sequence of assignments stressing visual design principles. Projects primarily in wood, using woodshop equipment and power tools.

The focus of this class is on the immediacy of the monotype, a crossover discipline combining skills of drawing, painting, and printmaking in independent projects involving a sustained inquiry into self selected themes. .

Techniques and aesthetic considerations of the woodblock print and related media. Emphasis on drawing and on understanding technical procedures.

Basic practice and theory of painting developed through the study of traditional and contemporary procedures used in the development of pictorial form. Emphasis on still life, landscape and the human figure. Materials: oil and aqueous media.