On Campus and Hybrid Courses and Workshops

This course includes an introduction to the laws of linear perspective, an exploration of how three-dimensional reality is depicted on a two-dimensional surface. Additional course content includes tools of the trade, various techniques for producing technical illustrations, informational art and instructional illustrations in sequential series. Note: This is not a … Read more

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For students who want an intensive day-long studio experience that provides individual instruction. Students work within a continuum from realism to abstraction, and formal concerns are emphasized and tied to personal expression. Includes use of the model. Class critiques, slide talks and field trips enrich the painting experience. For senior … Read more

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An introduction to the basic glassblowing techniques used to make vessels and sculptural forms. Throughout the course, progressively more difficult assignments teach new concepts and develop students’ skills. Group glassblowing clinics encourage teamwork. Historical and contemporary glass techniques, designs, and applications are discussed and incorporated into student work. No previous … Read more

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For students who want an intensive day-long studio experience that provides individual instruction. Students work within a continuum from realism to abstraction, and formal concerns are emphasized and tied to personal expression. Includes use of the model. Class critiques, slide talks and field trips enrich the painting experience. Some painting … Read more

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For students who want an intensive day-long studio experience that provides individual instruction. Students work within a continuum from realism to abstraction, and formal concerns are emphasized and tied to personal expression. Includes use of the model. Class critiques, slide talks and field trips enrich the painting experience. Some painting … Read more

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Design and fabricate individualized place settings, serving dishes, teapots, and vases. Employing hand-building, the potter’s wheel, plaster molds, and various kiln-firing techniques (stoneware, soda, low-fire) students are able to create pottery that is useful as well as personally expressive. Frequent demonstrations, lectures, and dialogue with the instructor enable beginners as … Read more

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Screen printing is an old and versatile process with many modern uses. We present a variety of techniques and contemporary fine art applications of silkscreen printing. Students are guided through the transformation of an idea to printed image and encouraged to take a creative approach. The emphasis is on experimentation, … Read more

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An introduction to illustration with an emphasis on observational drawing skills and the process of creating an illustration from concept development to final image. Students will complete illustrations for a variety of markets. Aspects of the professional illustration business will be addressed.

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This workshop invites participants to experiment with an array of etching techniques, including multiple state open bite and etched textures. Emphasis is put on relief etching techniques: longer acid bites and deep etches. The expressive character of etched matrices are printed using viscosity methods — superimposition and juxtaposition of color. No … Read more

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This course will focus on MIG (Metal Inert Gas) Welding, and processes to cut and manipulate metal that are available to the beginning metalworker. Easily acquired tools such as Angle Grinders, hand files, and bolt cutters will be at the center of our weekend long investigations. Friday will focus on basic … Read more

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Over the course of a six hour day, students will work from a live model learning to draw and understand basic human anatomy. The first half of the day will be dedicated to linear drawing using pencil, the second  half of the day is dedicated to value drawing using charcoal. Supply List: … Read more

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In this studio course, we will create abstract paintings using a variety of media while exploring aspects of form, color, composition, and format. We will also discuss a range of historical, technical, and conceptual approaches to abstract painting through slide lectures with a particular emphasis on current developments and trends … Read more

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Rich and expressive, monotype joins the graphic qualities of printmaking with the spontaneity of painting. This hands-on workshop teaches the basics of chine colle, pronto plate, collagraph, as well as other processes, and explores the sequential possibilities of monotype to develop images conceptually and formally. Image-making methods, ink handling, print … Read more

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This workshop is a great class for beginners in the wood shop, and covers the bandsaw and some basic carving techniques. Participants in the class will build a basic box that may be then customized with a carved pull or knob, hand-carved decoration, wood burning, paint, etc. This class uses … Read more

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The documentation and communication of ideas require fluency with symbolic and illustrative methods; a language. This course develops and refines the basis of this language, the “alphabet and grammar” used to communicate the characteristic of objects and systems. Through the exploration of various media using architectural or industrial design contexts, … Read more

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This course provides an introduction to architectural design as a social art that emphasizes form relevant to use, and design with an appreciation of site, landscape, and materials. The course is foundational, using observation of existing built environments to support basic design skills through families of form, attending to the … Read more

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Students are immersed in the nuts and bolts of architectural craft and construction technology practice. Through design sketch problems, hands-on demonstrations, and readings, students focus on the most common methods of constructing building systems in wood, masonry, steel, and concrete. Constructing a full-scale model of a wood-framed structure brings the … Read more

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Have you thought about illustrating your life? Do you sketch and make notes and observations in color pens/pencils? Do you enjoy the practice of journaling? Do you think it would be a fun creative habit to establish? In this workshop, let’s combine images and words and pay attention to design, … Read more

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The “one by chair” is a method for building simple furniture, based on the Italian furniture designer Enzo Mari. Mari wanted to create simple designs that everyone could make with basic tools and lumber. Participants begin by looking at Mari’s designs and using them as inspiration to create their own … Read more

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Over the course of a six hour day, students will paint from a live nude model twice (morning & afternoon sessions). The course focuses on color mixing (skin tones), basic anatomy, and overall composition. Some painting experience is preferred. Materials needed for Figure Painting: *Oil Paints- suggested Titanium White (120 … Read more

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Students are introduced to construction at a domestic scale through lectures, slides, and field trips. Structural calculations include safe selection of building parts by stress analysis, beam equations, and column computations. Students learn sufficient wood and masonry building techniques to design a small wood frame building. Assignments include structural models … Read more

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In this introductory, course participants will learn how to design and carve wooden utensils. Students will be shown how to safely and efficiently use the bandsaw as well as hand tools such as gouges, rasps, files, scrapers, and a variety of handsaws. Whether it’s spoons, spatulas, forks, knives, or something … Read more

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Do you pay attention to humor, richness and complexity of everyday life? Do funny phrases you or other people say catch your attention? Do you have challenging experiences that you would like to record? Do you find ordinary interactions fascinating? In this workshop, let’s transform your everyday experiences into comics. Let’s take … Read more

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This course is designed to de-mystify abstract art through a series of exercises and projects that focus on line, shape, color, and texture. Abstract drawing and painting represent a shift from recording the visible to expressing our impressions of what we see. The possibilities of finding inspiration for abstract works … Read more

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