Summer Session 1, May 17 – June 4, Monday – Thursday
ART 240: Landscape Drawing and Painting
8:00am to 12:10pm, Mon-Thurs with Professor Carrie Patterson
Hybrid class: participate in-person or remotely
This course introduces the principles, practices, and history of landscape painting and drawing. Students learn beginning techniques of drawing and painting from direct observation, and the conceptual framework for a variety of approaches to visual landscape theory. Critique, discussions center around skills, concepts, and context embedded in traditional and contemporary landscape painting and drawing. Students work primarily on-site, within the landscape of the College and surrounding community. This class satisfies the Core Curriculum requirement for Arts. This course satisfies a Humanities Track elective for the ENST major and minor.
ART 208 Introduction to Sculpture
1:00pm – 5:10pm, Mon – Thurs with Visiting Professor Katia Meisinger
Hybrid class: participate in-person or remotely
An introduction to the principles of sculpture and basic sculptural processes. Creative problems are explored through the use of a variety of subjects and techniques, including modeling and construction in clay, steel, and wood. Critiques and discussions of issues in art history and in contemporary art. This course satisfies the Core Exploration requirement in Arts.
ART 212 Introduction to Photography / ART 333 Advanced Topics in Photography
6.00pm to 10.10pm, Mon – Thurs with Asst. Professor Tristan Cai
Hybrid class: participate in-person or remotely
An introduction to the principles of photography and basic photographic processes. Creative problems are explored through the use of a variety of subjects and techniques, including experiments with paper and film, small-camera operation, guided photo-walks, film processing and printing in the darkroom. The course offers a broad survey of photography art by prominent artists in a global context including art by Asian and Asian-American artists. Students will appreciate how specific sociocultural environments and history influence the works of artists. Critiques and discussions of issues in art history and contemporary art. This course satisfies the Core Exploration requirement in Arts and requirements in ART and ASIA. Crosslisted as ART333. Students enrolled in ART 333 will complete a final self-proposed project at the advanced level. ART333 pre-requisites: Art212 or permission from instructor.
Summer Session 2, June 7- June 25, Monday – Thursday
ART 205 Introduction to Visual Thinking
Mon-Thurs with Professor Carrie Patterson
Remote, asynchronous instruction
This course serves as a broad introduction to visual literacy, and introduces students to the complex process of visual communication, from the mechanics of sensation and perception to the interaction of symbols, subject matter, and context. Through a series of lectures, hands-on visual projects, visiting artist presentations, and readings, students learn that their ability to derive meaning from what they see is essential in a world suffused with composed objects. By the completion of this course, students will develop their visual intelligence and begin to observe, decode, recognize, dissect, identify, experience, and understand the visual world. No prerequisites. Art 205 satisfies the Core Curriculum requirement in the Arts, and Climate Change Inquiry.
ART 233 Introduction to Digital Photography / ART 333 Advanced Topics in Photography
6.00pm to 10.10pm, Mon – Thurs with Asst. Professor Tristan Cai
Hybrid class: participate in-person or remote asynchronously
A comprehensive introduction to digital photography as an art form. Students will master the digital workflow: shooting digitally with DSLRs, lighting techniques, editing in Photoshop. Through a series of lectures and exercises, various genres of photography including photoessays, landscapes and portraits will be introduced. By the end of the course, students will be competent in producing images of high quality for web, print and exhibitions. This course satisfies the Core Exploration requirement in Arts and requirements in ART. Crosslisted as ART333. Students enrolled in ART 333 will complete a final self-proposed project at the advanced level. Students attending remotely must have access to a DSLR camera; a limited number of loaner cameras are available for SMCM students.