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ART EDUCATION
Offered Spring Semester 2008
Courses offered may vary from term to term. Please
check with our office for the most recent course offerings. Some
classes may be cancelled due to insufficient enrollment.
ARED 3350/7350 Basic Curriculum in Art Education is
the elementary methods course required for licensing and certification
throughout the country. This course will be designed to cover the
theory and methodology of teaching art at the elementary level and
will provide unique opportunities to work with Italian children
in the elementary school in the Tuscan hillside town of Cortona.
These experiences will provide valuable insights into teaching the
content of art to children and in working with students from another
culture.
ARED 4010/6010 Approaches to Art Appreciation
and Criticism addresses the inclusion of aesthetics and art
criticism within the art curriculum. Students will explore methods
of criticism and strategies for aesthetic inquiry. They will develop
curricular materials that connect to the wealth of art found throughout
Italy. Much of this art will be observed in person as field trips
take students to various museums and churches throughout the region.
Emphasis will be placed on connecting these experiences to issues
impotant in art today.
ART HISTORY
Offered Spring, Summer and Fall Semesters
Courses offered may vary from term to term. Please
check with our office for the most recent course offerings. Some
classes may be cancelled due to insufficient enrollment.
In the Fall and Spring Semesters, ALL Undergraduate
Students are required to take ARHI 3020.(Graduate Students take
6020). Students are strongly encouraged to take this course during
Summer Semester as it is an integral part of the program.
Program Description
The required course may not be dropped nor can a student withdraw
(required of all students during spring and fall semesters.)
Prerequisites: One art history survey course, comparable background
or permission of the instructor.
The instructor will meet with individuals and groups
of students on site and hold regular classes while in Cortona. Students
will have a research/observation paper assigned on a specific work
of art. Cortona provides students with numerous masterpieces for
study, such as the mosaics by Severini, the paintings of Fra Angelico,
Pietro da Cortona and Signorelli, or the architecture of Francesco
di Giorgio Martini. The Museo Diocesano, Academia Etrusca, and churches
of Cortona maintain collections of art from pre-history, Egyptian,
Roman, Etruscan, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque-era, as well as
Modern & contemporary art.
The program keeps a library of essential volumes
in English and a slide collection. The public library of Cortona
is open for those who read Italian. Its holdings include an important
collection of illuminated manuscripts. Occasionally Art History
courses of greater specialization are available to majors and other
qualified students. The content is related to the instructor's area
of specialization. In past years, seminars have been offered on
special topics in Renaissance art. Those courses correspond to the
catalog descriptions of the School of Art's regular listings, but
include on-site visits, and other methods as described above.
ARHI3020 (Undergraduate) 3 hrs. Processes & Principles: Italian Art & Architecture in Italy
REQUIRED Spring and Fall semesters.
Each week the instructor lectures/presents a specific work of Italian art. This classroom activity introduces both the historiography of the work in question and issues related to its production. The lecture is followed by a prearranged site visit to observe the work in situ. Each student will be responsible for the analysis (formal, art historical, technical) of a comparable work.
ARHI6020 (Graduate) Processes and Principles: Italian Art and Architecture in Italy
The form of this course follows a fixed structure. The same description as ARHI3020 applies, but on a graduate level. Students will do more extensive research projects and will accompany the instructor on additional excursions.
ARHI4200/6200
15th Century Art in Tuscany (Offered Summer and Fall)
The course provides a chronological approach to painting, sculpture,
architecture, and urban design produced in Tuscany during the 1400s,
focusing on art in situ. Advanced students are engaged in directed
looking, critical thinking, and expository writing about Renaissance
art. Emphasis is placed on understanding Giorgio Vasari's role in
how we look at art of this period. Evaluation is based on essay
exams and a research paper.
ARHI4910/6910
History of Cortona (Offered Spring only)
With Cortona as an open classroom, students study each layer of
the city's uninterrupted civilization, from the Neolithic period,
through the Etruscans and Romans, to the city's golden age during
the Middle Ages. Renaissance churches and palazzi outside the belt
of city walls, plus Baroque, Neoclassical, and modern achievements
are also discussed through walking tours, museum visits, and guest
lecturers. Each student chooses a specific time period, makes a
map of the city during that epoch, and gives a tour of selected
monuments that best exemplify the major themes and concepts of that
period. A research paper accompanies the tour.
CERAMICS
Offered Spring and Summer Semesters
Courses offered may vary from term to term. Please check with
our office for the most recent course offerings. Some classes
may be cancelled due to insufficient enrollment.
Program Description
Historically Cortona has a rich background in ceramics dating back
to Etruscan times. There are several clay mines in the vicinity.
The ceramic studio is located on the ground floor of one of Cortona's
former monasteries. Students work in a large studio where there
is ample table space for hand building, wheels for throwing and
a 25 cubic foot muffle gas kiln is situated in an enclosure nearby.Local
terra cotta clay is used for both hand building and throwing.
A basic majolica and low temperature glaze coupled with slips,
stains and terra sigillata provides a broad palette for glazing.
Ceramic students visit Faenza to see the International Ceramics
Museum. The museum contains an extensive collection of pottery
styles from throughout the world. Special visits are made to folk
potters and the production facilities at Deruta.
ARST 2500 Introduction to Ceramics (Undergraduate)
3 hrs.
No prerequisite.
Development of personal expression using the ceramic process.
ARST 3500 Intermediate Ceramics (Undergraduate)
3 hrs
Prerequisites: ARST 2500.
Sculptural and functional ceramic forms with an emphasis on personal
expression and individual style.
ARST 4500 Advanced Ceramics (Undergraduate) 3
hrs
Prerequisites: 12 hours of ARST 3500.
Specific projects for experienced students selected in consultation
with the instructor.
ARST 4590 Senior Exit Show in Ceramics (Undergraduate)
3 hrs
Prerequisites: 6 hours of ARST 4500.
Independent study directed towards the presentation of a BFA exhibition.
The course includes preparation for a career and/or application
to graduate school.
ARST 7500 Ceramics (Graduate) 3 hrs
Prerequisite: Permission of Department
Experimentation with ceramic forms, glazes and firing techniques.
ARST 7510 Technical Problems in Ceramics (Graduate)
3 hrs
Prerequisites: ARST 7500
Individual Research in clay, glaze and firing techniques directed
towards personal style.
ARST 7520 Individual Research in Ceramics POD
(Graduate) 3 hrs
Prerequisites: ARST 7510
Second year student begins to focus on individual style and cohesive,
unified statement. Innovation in ceramic forms, glazes and firing
techniques.
ARST 7530 Individual Research in Ceramics POD
(Graduate) 3 hrs
Prerequisites: ARST 7620
Refinement of ceramic techniques in form and surface elaboration
with emphasis on individual style. Work from this class will become
the M.F.A. final exhibition.
CREATIVE WRITING/POETRY
Offered Spring Semester 2008
Program Description:
This course is designed to improve students' poetry writing and
ability to critique poetry. The course emphasizes the finished
product as well as the writing process. Class sessions will include
discussion about the assigned readings and workshopping of student
poems. The course will be designed to complement the Cortona program,
with a special emphasis on paper- and book-making and the visual
arts.
ENGL3800 / 4800: Creative Writing Studio: The
Life Behind the Image
These two course numbers cover the same class; sign
up for 4800 if you’ve already taken ENGL 3800. 4800 is repeatable
for a maximum of 6 hours credit.
Writing is not restricted to one genre in this workshop;
writing in all genres (fiction, poetry, drama, creative non-fiction,
experimental, travel writing, &c.) is welcome and will be encouraged.
The course will emphasize the mutual dependence between the visual
and linguistic arts. It’s designed to sharpen students’ perception
and attention to detail, to stimulate the imagination and to train
the power of inspiration -- in addition, of course, to improving
students’ writing and ability to critique writing. It emphasizes
the writing process as much as (if not more than) the finished product.
Previous experience in creative writing is not required. Class
sessions will include discussion of assigned readings, workshopping
of student writing and directed field-writing exercises that get
students out of the classroom and into the streets and alleys of
the living Cortona.
ENGL4890: Topics in Criticism and Culture:
Italy and its Interpretations
Literary perspectives on Italy, from both Italian
and non-Italian writers. Readings will include British and American
writers traveling in and writing about Italy (e.g. Shelley and Keats,
James, D.H. Lawrence, Twain) and Italian authors in translation
(e.g. Marcus Aurelius, Leonardo, Pirandello, Eco, Calvino). As
with the creative writing course, ENGL4890 is designed to complement
the Cortona program, considering Italian literature in its historical
context and in relation to the visual arts.
DRAWING
Offered Spring, Summer and Fall Semesters
Courses offered may vary from term to term. Please
check with our office for the most recent course offerings. Some
classes may be cancelled due to insufficient enrollment.
Program Description
The variety of subject matter, the twisted olive trees, the rolling
vineyards, the variety of textures and patterns of the landscape
and cityscape provide drawing students with new inspiration and
opportunities for exploration. Studying in close proximity to
monuments of traditional European art, the drawing student has
the unique opportunity to see first-hand; to compare and assimilate
the ideas and the techniques of the Italian tradition and compare
this tradition with contemporary European art. In all drawing
classes there will be opportunity to work from the figure as well
as landscape motifs. Work is in structured studio courses and
independent study at all levels. Undergraduate and graduate level
drawing courses are offered.
ARST 2010 Intermediate Drawing (Undergraduate)
3 hours
Prerequisites: ARST 1070 ARST 1080.
Varied approaches to drawing incorporating experience with still
life, landscape, models, composition, analytical and expressive
drawing, and the use of basic drawing media will be stressed.
ARST 3010 Advanced Drawing (Undergraduate) 3
hours
Prerequisites: ARST 3000.
Advanced drawing stressing individual projects and experimental
approaches.
ARST 4000 Directed Study in Drawing (Undergraduate)
3 hours
Prerequisites: ARST 3010 or Permission of Department.
Independent projects for advanced drawing and painting majors.
ARST 7020 Drawing and Composition (Graduate)
3 hours
Prerequisites: Permission of Major.
Projects in drawing with individual and group critiques.
ARST 7030 Drawing and Composition (Graduate)
3 hours
Prerequisites: ARST 7020.
Projects in drawing; individual and group critiques, continuation
of ARST 7020.
ARST 7040 Drawing and Composition (Graduate)
3 hours
Prerequisites: ARST 7030.
Studio work in drawing, with consideration of relationship of principles
to picture structure. Readings in Art History and Criticism.
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Offered Summer Semester
Courses offered may vary from term to term. Please check with
our office for the most recent course offerings. Some classes
may be cancelled due to insufficient enrollment.
ARGD4120 - 3 hrs. Informational Graphics, Signs, and
Posters.
Utilizing digital photography, students will document informational
graphics, signs, and poster designs in everyday
life. Field trips for shooting different locations will be included.
Students will produce a series of projects focusing on simple concepts
represented in a form which is thought provoking, challenging or
provocative. Informational graphics will be explored which transcend
language and cultural differences. While some traditional materials
may be incorporated, the focus will be on the use of vector and
raster based image creation software.
Prerequisites: ARGD 3020 or permission of the instructor.
ARGD4130 - 3 hrs. Photography and Image Editing for Designers
This course focuses on students investigating photographic expression
and image creation through digital photography and raster based
image creation software. Emphasis will be placed on the students
ability to improve the concept or communication potential of imported
and digitally created visuals through Adobe Photoshop.
Prerequisites: ARGD 3020 or permission of the instructor.
ITALIAN LANGUAGE-CONVERSATIONAL
Offered Spring, Summer and Fall Semesters
Courses offered may vary from term to term. Please
check with our office for the most recent course offerings. Some
classes may be cancelled due to insufficient enrollment.
Program Description
This course is designed to offer to the American student in Italy,
with little or no knowledge of Italian, effective and expedient
control over basic language patterns and structures necessary
in basic direct communication. In this course language acquisition
is considered as a process of learning how to use the right tools
to develop basic language proficiency. At the end of the course,
students will have consolidated their skills in understanding,
interpreting, and speaking Italian in everyday situations.
The study of language informs the study of culture
and vice versa. Through readings by cultural critics and anthropologists,
journalists and other writers we shall try to get to know and become
aware of what constitutes the modalities of the Italian cultural
experience.
ROML 3000 Topics in Romance Languages. 3 hours
Selected topics in the Romance Languages. Taught in English. No
credit allowed to majors and minors in the Romance Languages.
ITALIAN LANGUAGE-BEGINNING
Offered Spring, Summer and Fall Semesters
Courses offered may vary from term to term. Please
check with our office for the most recent course offerings. Some
classes may be cancelled due to insufficient enrollment.
Program Description
The area of Tuscany in which Cortona lies is noted by linguists
for the purity of the spoken Italian. The student will not hear
a pronounced accent as in many other regions of Italy. Since the
community is small it is easy for students to merge into the normal
flow of the Italian lifestyle.
ITAL 1001 Elementary Italian (Undergraduate)
4 hours
Not open to students with credit in ITAL 1002.
The Italian language and Italian-speaking cultures. Emphasis is
on conversational skills with attention to reading, writing, and
listening comprehension. Fundamentals of Italian pronunciation and
grammar.
ITAL 1002 Elementary Italian (Undergraduate)
4 hours
Not open to students with credit in ITAL 2001.
Prerequisite: Italian 1001 or one entrance unit in Italian.
Continuation of Italian 1001. Open only to students who took Elementary
Italian or who have an appropriate placement score. Emphasis is
on conversational skills with attention to reading, writing, and
listening comprehension. Fundamentals of Italian pronunciation and
grammar; study of Italian culture.
ITAL 2001 Intermediate Italian (Undergraduate)
3 hours
Not open to students with credit in ITAL 2002.
Prerequisite: ITAL 1002.
Practice in speaking, listening, reading, and writing Italian at
the intermediate level. Study of Italian language and culture.
ITAL 2002 Intermediate Italian (Undergraduate)
3 hours
Not open to students with credit in ITAL 3010.
Prerequisite: ITAL 2001.
Continuation of Intermediate Italian. Emphasis on strengthening
the students' speaking, listening, reading and writing skills at
the intermediate level. Conversation, compositions, reading of texts,
and grammar review.
INTERIOR DESIGN
Offered Summer Semester 2008
Courses offered may vary from term to term. Please
check with our office for the most recent course offerings. Some
classes may be cancelled due to insufficient enrollment.
Program Description
For centuries Italians have been recognized for their distinctive
sense of style and design. In Italy, Interior Design students
are constantly surrounded by innovative Italian design incorporated
into the interior environment where there is a fantastic juxtaposition
between the ancient and the modern. Students also will have the
opportunity to see how space (two and three dimensionally) is
utilized and organized.
ARID 4150/6150 Special Topics in Interior Design
(Undergraduate/Graduate)
3 hours
Prerequisite: ARID 3110, ARID 3310, ARID 3410
Special topics for advanced students with a formal written and/or
graphic presentation of the results. Non-Traditional Format: Only
to be taken by students who have demonstrated that they can handle
directed studies responsibility. This is a portfolio building studio.
It is conducted as a rendering course emphasizing marker, pencil,
ink, and free-hand sketching techniques.
ARID 4350/6350 Interior Design Practicum (Undergraduate)/(Graduate)
3 hours
Prerequisite: ARID 3110, ARID 3310, ARID 3410
Individualized projects arranged with clients to explore various
aspects of the interior design profession. Non-Traditional Format:
Only to be taken by students who have demonstrated that they can
handle directed studies responsibility. The professional practice
of Interior Design is the emphasis for this studio. Numerous field
trips will be taken to observe various interiors, both commercial
and residential.
JEWELRY & METALWORK
Offered Spring and Summer Semester 2008
Courses offered may vary from term to term. Please
check with our office for the most recent course offerings. Some
classes may be cancelled due to insufficient enrollment.
Program Description
Our studio is located in an old monastery above Cortona overlooking
the vast Chiana Valley. It is a creative environment in which
faculty work closely with students, at all levels, from many different
schools and disciplines. The rich history of metalwork in Italy
is evident everywhere in the art, architecture and landscape.
The program will visit many major museums with extensive metals
collection. Arezzo, located a few miles from Cortona, is the largest
gold manufacturing center in Europe. Field trips and guest artists
are an important part of our program and arranged whenever possible.
Courses on all levels, beginning through graduate,
will be offered. Beginning students will work primarily in the lost
wax casting process and be introduced to soldering and hand finishing
techniques. Advanced and graduate students will be encouraged to
work on their individual interests.
ARST 2600 Jewelry and Metalwork (Undergraduate)
3 hours
Prerequisite: Permission of Department.
Fundamental techniques of forming, casting, fabrication, and finishing
metals such as sterling, gold, copper, and iron.
ARST 3610 Jewelry (Undergraduate) 3 hours
Prerequisite: ARST 2600.
Traditional and contemporary forms, materials, ornament. adornment,
and techniques of surface enrichment. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours
credit.
ARST 4600 Jewelry (Undergraduate) 3 hours
Prerequisite: ARST 3610 and ARST 3620.
Advanced design and fabrication of jewelry emphasizing individual
research. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit.
ARST4610 Advanced Metalwork (Undergraduate) 3
hours
Prerequisite: ARST 3610 and ARST 3620.
Advanced design, forming, and embellishment of metals emphasizing
individual research. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit.
ARST 4900 Technical Problems (Undergraduate)
3 hours
Prerequisite: Permission of Department.
For students qualified to carry out individual projects in studio
areas. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit.
ARST 7630 Jewelry (Graduate) 3 hours
Prerequisite: Permission of Department.
Jewelry making processes and development of individual interpretations
of those processes and products. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours
credit.
ARST 7640 Metalwork (Graduate) 3 hours
Prerequisite: Permission of Department.
Problems in design, forming, and constructing of metals, including
copper, silver and gold. Independent study and research for solutions
to design problems. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit.
ARST 7980 Directed Study in Major Studio Area
(Graduate) 3 hours
Prerequisite: Permission of Department.
Individual studio projects and investigation for specific problems
under the direction of faculty members. Non-Traditional Format:
Directed study. Repeatable for maximum 15 hours credit.
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
Offered Summer Semester 2008
Courses offered may vary from term to term. Please
check with our office for the most recent course offerings. Some
classes may be cancelled due to insufficient enrollment.
LAND 4910/6910 Independent Project (Undergraduate) (Graduate) 4 hours
Prerequisite: Permission of Department
Independent study in urban design, involving a variety of scale spaces. Field measuring and sketching will be included along with 2 to 3 studio projects.
LAND 4911/6911 Independent Project (Undergraduate) (Graduate) 3 hours
Prerequisite: Permission of Department
Independent study in planting design, focusing on the use of plants to enclose 3-dimensional space.
PAINTING
Offered Spring, Summer and Fall Semesters
Courses offered may vary from term to term. Please
check with our office for the most recent course offerings. Some
classes may be cancelled due to insufficient enrollment.
Program Description
The fundamental ideas of Western painting have been the outgrowth
of those of the Italian Renaissance. Course work offers graduates
and undergraduates the unique opportunity of working in proximity
to locations where these ideas were born. Students of all levels
are encouraged to develop strong personal approaches to painting
in a wide range of studio experiences. An atmosphere of inquiry
is developed so that strong individual approaches to painting
can be encouraged in open daily discourses with the instructor.
Other aspects of the course deal with current philosophical ideas
of painting and their relationship to the Italian environment
and its distinguished history.
Contemporary ideas are dealt with through work in
oil, alkyd, acrylics, and watercolor. Depending on the expertise
of each individual instructor, the traditional techniques of egg
tempera, fresco, Venetian oil painting, and their application to
the needs of modern painters, may be introduced in an environment
where exceptional examples of these techniques can be studied.
ARST 2100 Introductory Painting (Undergraduate)
3 hours
Prerequisite: ARST 1050, 1070 (at least two foundation drawing courses).
Fundamentals of painting related to subject matter, composition
and color preparation of supports and grounds, and knowledge of
basic painting materials will be stressed.
ARST 2110 Intermediate Painting (Undergraduate)
3 hours
Prerequisites: ARST 2100.
Painting applied to still life, landscape, abstraction, and the
human figure from live models.
ARST 3140 Painting Studio (Undergraduate) 3 hours
Prerequisites: ARST 2110.
Inquiry into varied approaches in painting, both representational
and non-representational. Experimental attitudes and personal ideas
and solutions are encouraged.
ARST 4100 Painting-Directed Study POD (Undergraduate)
3 hours
Prerequisites: ARST 2110 ARST 3100, or ARST 3120, or ARST 3130,
or ARST 3150, or ARST 3160.
Advanced independent study for drawing and painting majors. Studio
meetings arranged.
ARST 7110 Painting (Graduate) 3 hours
Prerequisites: Permission of Major.
Projects in painting; including individual and group critiques.
ARST 7120 Painting (Graduate) 3 hours
Prerequisites: ARST 7110.
Continuation of Painting. Projects in painting; individual and group
critiques.
ARST 7980 Directed Study in Major Studio Area
(Graduate) 3 hours
Prerequisites: Permission of Department.
Individual studio projects and investigation of specific problems
under the direction of faculty members. Non traditional format,
directed study. Repeatable for maximum 15 hours credit.
PAPERMAKING AND BOOKARTS
Offered Spring, Summer and Fall Semesters
Courses offered may vary from term to term. Please
check with our office for the most recent course offerings. Some
classes may be cancelled due to insufficient enrollment.
Program Description
In the paper making class, the student studies the methods and materials
for making paper by hand. Students learn the traditional craft
of forming paper sheets which may add another dimension to painting,
drawing, printmaking, or calligraphy. In addition, students are
encouraged to investigate the potential of paper as medium; lamination,
papercasting, embedment and dyeing. This course approaches the
book as an art form. Paper as support and as an expressive medium.
Italy, with the western world's finest handmade paper since the
thirteenth century, is the setting for the University of Georgia's
Papermaking and Book Arts course. Instruction includes casting,
molding, embossing, coloring, decorating as well as combining
paper with other materials. Considerable emphasis is placed on
the book as art object. Western case binding as well as contemporary
experimental approaches to the book are taught. Most Papermaking
and Bookarts classes visit the world famous papermaking facilities
and museum in Fabriano.
ARST 3310 Book Art/Papermaking I (Undergraduate)
3 hours
Hand papermaking as a support for other media and as a creative
medium in two or three dimensions.
ARST 3370 Book Art/Papermaking II (Undergraduate)
3 hours
Prerequisite: ARST 3310
The book as an art form, its structure including various binding
techniques in relation to its content.
ARST 7310 Book Art and Papermaking (Graduate)
3 hours
Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. Hand papermaking as a support
for other media and as a creative medium in two- or three-dimensional
form. The book is examined in structure and content with skills
learned in various binding techniques.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Offered Spring, Summer and Fall Semesters
Courses offered may vary from term to term. Please
check with our office for the most recent course offerings. Some
classes may be cancelled due to insufficient enrollment.
Program Description
"During the day a haze hovers over the earth...This phenomenon cannot
easily be seen in nature more beautifully than here...The sky is like a light-blue
piece of taffeta, lit up by the sun."
-Goethe, Italian Journey, 1786
The unique circumstances of this course in photography
suggest the appropriateness of color slides, a format that is practical
and relatively permanent, and, being viewed by transmitted light,
ideal for learning to judge qualities of light and color. Thus,
we can spend more time contemplating and making photographs in the
lovely light of Italy, free of darkroom procedure and technique.
Also, the slide film can be processed in Cortona, quickly and economically.
Some photographic involvements are: portraiture,
particularly of our Italian friends; the effects of atmosphere and
time-of-day on light and color; photographing architecture; photographing
our own works of art. There is a small darkroom for black and white
work in Cortona. These facilities are accessible to program participants
taking photography courses.
Photographic seeing and thinking in a new culture
is the primary emphasis of study. The issues within photo documentation,
portraiture, landscape and architecture are some of the topics to
be explored. Each photographer is individually critiqued by the
instructor and the class. The result is a photographic opportunity
to work in Italy and to achieve personal and artistic growth. A
35mm SLR camera is required. The assignments will utilize color
transparency film and local lab processing for in-class discussion
and evaluation. A written journal and historical/technical readings
will be given. This is not a course in travel photography, rather
an artistic exploration of the medium.
ARST 2200 Introductory Photography (Undergraduate)
3 hours
Prerequisites: ARST 1050.
The art of photography, its history and criticism including basic
processing techniques and optical principles, using standard cameras
and black and white materials. Picture making concepts and interpretation
are emphasized.
ARST 3200 Intermediate Photography (Undergraduate)
3 hours
Prerequisites: ARST 2200.
Intensive practice of camera skills and processing techniques for
black and white negatives and prints with emphasis on visual concepts
and articulation of ideas.
ARST 4900 Technical Problems (Undergraduate)
3 hours
Prerequisites: Permission of Department.
For students qualified to carry out individual projects in studio
areas.
ARST 7230 Graduate Photography I (Graduate) 3
hours
Prerequisites: ARST 7200
Intensive practice of the photographic medium. Emphasis is placed
on learning advanced techniques in the context of artistic expression.
ARST 7240 Graduate Photography II (Graduate)
3 hours
Prerequisites: ARST 7230.
Continuation of Graduate Photography. Emphasis is placed on the
proposal of art projects to be worked on in preparation for graduate
exit studio.
ARST 7980 (Graduate) 3 hours
Prerequisite: Permission of Department.
Individual studio projects and investigation of specific problems
under the direction of faculty members. Non-Traditional format:
Directed study. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit.
PRINTMAKING
Offered Summer and Fall Semesters
Courses offered may vary from term to term. Please
check with our office for the most recent course offerings. Some
classes may be cancelled due to insufficient enrollment.
Program Description
Printmakers joining the program have a fully equipped intaglio and
relief studio in Cortona. All basic equipment, accessories, and
inks are provided. During the studio sessions intaglio and relief
techniques such as etching, engraving, aquatint, mezzotint, dry
point, collography, and woodcut are explored according to the
interests of each individual. Through frequent study visits to
museums and galleries and to print shops in Rome and Florence,
the student has the opportunity to observe the practice of traditional
as well as modern, more experimental approaches to printmaking.
Many summers, they have participated in a special workshop in
color etching and monotype given by Dennis Olsen of the Santa
Reparata workshop in Florence. Courses are offered on the undergraduate
and graduate levels.
ARST 2300 Printmaking: Relief Processes I (Undergraduate)
3 hours
Prerequisites: ARST 1070 and ARST 1080.
Various relief printmaking techniques with concentrated work in
the processes of woodcut, linoleum cut and other related relief
approaches.
ARST 2310 Printmaking: Intaglio I (Undergraduate)
3 hours
Prerequisites: ARST 1070 and ARST 1080.
Various printmaking techniques with concentrated work on intaglio.
ARST 3340 Printmaking: Relief Processes II (Undergraduate)
3 hours
Prerequisite: ARST 2300.
Relief for advanced students stressing their aesthetic development.
ARST 3350 Printmaking: Intaglio II (Undergraduate)
3 hours
Prerequisites: ARST 2310.
Intaglio for advanced students stressing their aesthetic development.
ARST 4900 Technical Problems (Undergraduate)
3 hours
Prerequisites: Permission of Department.
For students qualified to carry out individual projects in studio
areas.
ARST 7330 Advanced Printmaking (Graduate) 3 hours
Advanced work in printmaking media, including the traditional intaglio
processes; the various relief processes, and the combination of
theseItalious processes. Repeatable for maximum 18 hours credit.
ARST 7980 Directed Study in Major Studio Area
(Graduate) 3 hours
Prerequisites: Permission of Department.
Individual studio projects and investigation of specific problems
under the direction of faculty members. Directed study. Repeatable
for maximum 18 hours credit.
SCULPTURE
Offered Summer and Fall Semesters
Courses offered may vary from term to term. Please
check with our office for the most recent course offerings. Some
classes may be cancelled due to insufficient enrollment.
Program Description
Historically, Carrara marble, alabaster, bronze, gold, wrought iron,
mosaics and stone inlay have been the materials of Italians. Originality,
beauty and impeccable craftsmanship are their creed and the sculpture
courses take advantage of this reservoir of skill and facilities
with visits to artist's studios, art foundries, marble carvers
and wood workers. Coursework is offered on the beginning, intermediate,
advanced and graduate levels.
In the beginning course, basic forms are explored
through a series of problems employing carving, modeling, and construction
methods. Students relate 3-D concepts as they apply to materials
or combinations of materials. The intermediate course stresses,
primarily, the carving process utilizing the wide variety of Italian
marbles and alabasters. For the advanced students, methods of producing
metal sculpture including the lost wax process and casting of bronze
are part of the experience of observing the techniques of Italian
craftsmen. In the favorable climate of Cortona, much of the sculpture
is done in an open courtyard, as well as inside studios. A 135 pound
metal casting furnace, burn-out kiln, air compressor for pneumatic
equipment, oxyacetylene welding equipment, electric arc welder and
a variety of hand tools are available.
All sculpture students take advantage of visits
made to the famous marble quarries and stonecarving studios at Carrara
and often to foundries in Rome and Pietrasanta.
ARST 2400 Fundamentals of Sculpture (Undergraduate)
3 hours
Prerequisite: ARST 1070 and ARST 1080.
Technical fundamentals of carving, modeling, and constructive methods
of sculpture and their aesthetic implications in terms of form and
content.
ARST 3420 Sculpture: The Subtractive Process
(Undergraduate) 3 hours
Prerequisites: ARST 2400 or 2410.
Direct carving in wood or stone.
ARST 3430 Carving Wood and Stone (Undergraduate)
3 hours
Prerequisites: ARST 2400 or 2410.
Carving wood and stone both representational and non-representational,
with emphasis on aesthetic development.
ARST 3440 Fundamentals of Casting Metal Sculpture
(Undergraduate)
3 hours
Prerequisites: ARST 2400 or 2410.
Fundamental techniques for producing metal sculpture using refractory
molds and sand casting.
ARST 3450 Intermediate Casting in Metal (Undergraduate)
3 hours
Prerequisites: ARST 3440.
Production of sculpture in refractory molds and sand casting both
representational or non-representational, with emphasis on aesthetic
development.
ARST 4400 Advanced Casting in Metal (Undergraduate)
3 hours
Prerequisites: ARST 3450.
Refinement of technical and expressive skills in producing cast
metal sculpture.
ARST 4430 Advanced Stone Carving (Undergraduate)
3 hours
Prerequisites: Permission of Department.
Refinement of technical and expressive skills in carving stone.
ARST 4900 Technical Problems (Undergraduate)
3 hours
Prerequisites: Permission of Department.
For students qualified to carry out individual projects in studio
areas.
ARST 7420 Sculpture Materials (Graduate) 3 hours
Prerequisites: Permission of Department.
Formal three-dimensional concepts of sculpture applied to material
or combinations of materials. In-depth work in cast bronze, cast
cement, direct plaster, direct cement, fire clay, welded metal,
stone, and wood. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit.
ARST 7430 Construction Composition-Advanced Techniques
in Metal casting
(Graduate) 3 hours
Prerequisites: Permission of Department.
Production of wax models, venting, investing, casting, chasing and
mounting of finished work. Independent experimentation and study
in cast bronze sculpture. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit.
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