DR200 Drawing II 3 credits
This course emphasizes the functions of drawing, including definition, exploration, ritual, and process. Within these functions are more specific issues of perspective space, non-objective space, scale, color, line, contrast, sequence, imagination, and memory. The goal is to develop confidence and consolidate skills into an approach to drawing that has broad applications.
Prerequisites: Drawing I
Fulfills: 200-level Drawing Elective; Studio Elective

DR204 Life Drawing I 3 credits
Studying the human figure is an effective way to engage with and understand visual dynamic. Through involvement with gesture, structure, proportion, anatomy, the effects of light in relation to form and composition, students explore both formal and expressive issues as they work from the model. Slides and other sources of historic and contemporary figurative art are presented throughout the semester.
Prerequisites:
Fulfills: Life Drawing 1 Requirement (Illustration, Painting, Printmaking and Sculpture Students); Art Education Requirement

DR205 Life Drawing II 3 credits
A continuation in the study of the human form, with an emphasis on an interpretive and expressive approach to the figure.
Prerequisites: Life Drawing I
Fulfills: Life Drawing II Requirement (Illustration students); 200-level Drawing Elective; Studio Elective

DR216 Figure Drawing and Painting (Viterbo) 3 credits
This course is devoted to exploring strategies for depicting the figure. These include a wide range of "gesture drawing" approaches, analytical strategies, value and color studies, and composition techniques. Students are encouraged to use a wide range of materials.
Prerequisites: Drawing I, Life Drawing I, or permission of the instructor
Fulfills: 200-level Drawing Elective; Studio Elective

DR225 Perspectives in Anatomy 3 credits
Perspectives in Anatomy develops students' working knowledge of the human figure through the exploration of its structure, form, and function. Students investigate the figure from simple planar and mass conceptions to more detailed studies of the skeletal and muscular systems. Through an examination of the whole and parts, students explore proportion, balance, locomotion, and the relationship between underlying structure and the surface form. Studio work includes observation and drawing from the model, slides, and illustrated lectures, visualization exercises and the construction of a 24" anatomical figure in clay.
Prerequisites: Drawing I, Life Drawing I
Fulfills: Perspectives in Anatomy Requirement (Illustration students); 200-level Drawing Elective; Studio Elective

DR299 Topics in Drawing 3 credits
This course provides an in-depth study of a topic in Drawing. The topic may be selected to take advantage of special events, to allow further exploration of a subject covered in a preliminary way in other courses, or to explore areas not sufficiently covered by the regular class rotation.
Prerequisites: Prerequisites will be developed in conjunction with the course description for each topic.
Fulfills: 200-Level Drawing Elective; Studio Elective

DR300 Advanced Figure Drawing 3 credits
Using the figure as the major element, students work in a variety of media, size, and scale. Various themes are explored, such as figures in landscape, figures in conflict, figure groups, and figure distortion. Students communicate a personal point of view through their drawings according to their own experience and vision. Contemporary and historical references help students examine the use of narrative or symbolic figuration.
Prerequisites: Life Drawing II
Fulfills: 200-level Drawing Elective; Studio Elective

DR305 Advanced Abstract Drawing 3 credits
An investigation of several approaches to abstract drawing that derive from contemporary and early abstract artists. Students work in a variety of media and on both large and small works. Tension, shape, frontality, marks, geometry, and space are some of the issues that are addressed.
Prerequisites: one 200-level Drawing Course
Fulfills: Advanced Drawing Elective; 300-level Studio Elective; Studio Elective

DR310 Advanced Objective Drawing 3 credits
Intended for both illustration and fine arts majors, this course is an opportunity to explore the realms of contemporary objective drawing. Students are asked to infuse drawings with a personal point of view, searching for a sense of originality through use of specific perceptual subjects. Field trips to various sites, including zoos, churches, and natural landscapes.
Prerequisites: one 200-level Drawing Course
Fulfills: Advanced Drawing Elective; 300-level Studio Elective; Studio Elective

DR311 The Artist "Notebook" 3 credits
Throughout history the artist notebook has played an important role in the development of visual imagery. From the sketchbooks of DaVinci, Turner, Picasso and Khalo, to the folders of Phillip Guston and the boxed sheets of Terry Winters, this course examines the ways artist notebooks are used to develop and process ideas in creative work. Through the use of notebooks, using a variety of materials, methods, and subject matter, the student will develop methods to work through ideas and to reach meaningful coherent resolutions. This course will be useful to all fine arts and illustration majors.
Prerequisites: one 200-level drawing course
Fulfills: Advanced Drawing Elective; 300-level Studio Elective; Studio Elective

DR315 Advanced Drawing Workshop 3 credits
Assigned and student-initiated projects encourage the development of a series of related works. Initiating and sustaining ideas, the expressive possibilities of black-and-white and color media, and the formal integrity of a drawing are some of the issues explored. Frequent lectures, critiques, and field trips.
Prerequisites: one 200-level drawing course
Fulfills: Advanced Drawing Elective; 300-level Studio Elective; Strudio Elective

DR316 Drawing III: Nature and Abstraction 3 credits
This course introduces the historical and contemporary use of nature as a source for abstraction. Students develop drawing ideas based on observation and interpretation of natural phenomena. Through a series of specific subject units (the human body, macro/micro worlds, geological and botanical subjects, landscape forms and weather) students learn to integrate abstract forms and content in drawing. Issues of scale, form, space, surface tension and mark making will be stressed.
Prerequisites: one 200-level drawing course
Fulfills: Advanced Drawing Elective; 300-level Studio Elective; Studio Elective

DR320 Plasticity and Space 3 credits
This course assumes that all drawings, abstract or representational, idea-based or expressionistic, must deal in some way with the organization of space. Students explore the use of formal structural elements in painting from Giotto to the present day. Working from still-life motifs and from the model, students discover how spatial relationships seen in nature can be expressed in drawing through the use of shifting, interacting planes, opposing movements of spatial forces, and the creation of large volumes which contain and lend coherence to smaller forms.
Prerequisites: one 200-level drawing course
Fulfills: Advanced Drawing Elective; 300-level Studio Elective; Studio Elective

DR399 Topics in Drawing 3 credits
This course provides an in-depth study of a topic in Drawing. The topic may be selected to take advantage of special events, to allow further exploration of a subject covered in a preliminary way in other courses, or to explore areas not sufficiently covered by the regular class rotation.
Prerequisites: Prerequisites will be developed in conjunction with the course description for each topic.
Fulfills: Advanced Drawing Elective; 300-Level Studio Elective

PN200 Painting II: Watercolor 3 credits
Methods and expressive possibilities of water-based media: watercolor, gouache, dry-brush, and inks. The students use and experiment with the methods and materials of past and present artists, from the use of watercolor for "note-taking" to its rediscovery as a creative means of expression. This course is particularly useful for painting and illustration students.
Prerequisites: Painting, Color and Light
Fulfills: 200-level Painting Elective; Studio Elective

PN205 Painting II: Nature and Abstraction 3 credits
This course introduces the historical and contemporary use of nature as a source for abstraction. Students will develop painting ideas based on observation and interpretation of natural phenomena. Issues of scale, color, form, space, surface tension, and paint quality will be stressed.
Prerequisites: Painting, Color and Light
Fulfills: 200-level Painting Elective; Studio Elective

PN210 Painting II: Realist Methods 3 credits
The purpose of this course is to acquaint the student with the techniques of the great European masters and their relevance to creating work in the present era. Using oils, the students make their own painting panels and learn to use under-painting and over-painting, glazing, scumbling, etc. They study the methods of such painters as Van Eyck, Titian, Caravaggio, and Degas and the rediscovery of these methods in the twentieth century by artists such as Balthus, Paul Cadmus, Alfred Leslie, and Philip Pearlstein. This course is useful for painters and illustrators.
Prerequisites: Painting, Color and Light
Fulfills: 200-level Painting Elective and Studio Elective

PN211 Painting II: Color Theory and Practice 1 credits
The goal of Color Theory and Practice is for each student to explore the nature and properties of color through discussion, practical application, class studio projects and accompanying readings. Students investigate color through projects exploring the seven major color contrasts, as well as color and light, color in a three-dimensional context, and the psychology and subjective symbolism of color.
Prerequisites: Painting, Color and Light
Fulfills: 1-Credit Studio Elective

PN213 Painting II: Figure Painting 3 credits
Working from observation of clothed and life models, students create paintings of figures that explore a range of expressive options. Formal and material issues of painting are emphasized in tandem with a focus on composition and content. Students investigate gesture and human expression through in-class and homework assignments. A wide variety of traditional and contemporary figurative work is introduced to discuss related issues for each painting project.
Prerequisites: Painting, Color and Light and Life Drawing I
Fulfills: 200-level Painting Elective; Studio Elective

PN215 Painting II: Mixed Media 3 credits
A variety of new materials is used in contemporary painting. Students create personal aesthetic statements through the inherent nature of alternative materials, including mark-making in acrylic and oil; wall constructions and assemblage; and other alternative materials. At the end of the semester, students develop a coherent series of independent works in mixed media.
Prerequisites: Painting, Color and Light, and one 200-level Drawing Elective
Fulfills: 200-level Painting Elective; Studio Elective

PN220 Painting II: Abstract Painting and the Figure 3 credits
This course explores the relationship between figuration and abstraction. Students work with the conceptual contributions of such twentieth-century modernists as Matisse, Picasso, DeKooning, Johns, and the New Image Painters. Subject matter is discovered through imagination and contact with real and photographed objects, figures, and space. Traditional and nontraditional painting materials are employed.
Prerequisites: Painting, Color and Light
Fulfills: 200-level Painting Elective; Studio Elective

PN225 Painting II: Color Issues 3 credits
A course expanding further on color issues in painting. Some of these are luminosity, iridescence, color assimilation, space, color as form, color as content, and color palettes of historic and contemporary painters. Although past and present views on the use of color in art are investigated, emphasis is placed on the student's personal interpretation and the use of color principles.
Prerequisites: Painting, Color and Light
Fulfills: 200-level Painting Elective; Studio Elective

PN230 Painting II: Landscape 3 credits
This course explores the broad range of landscape and cityscape painting. Elements of color, structure, viewpoint, and paint handling common to both contemporary and historical landscape painting will be stressed. Both outdoor and studio methods will be introduced, with special emphasis on personal interpretation.
Prerequisites: Painting, Color and Light
Fulfills: 200-level Painting Elective; Studio Elective

PN235 Painting II: Nonobjective Painting 3 credits
This course addresses the potential of painting as pure abstraction independent from representation. Students extend their understanding of artistic intention, design, and materials through the exploration of a variety of media and strategies. Students are challenged to explore form, line, color and scale as elements of a powerful and unlimited visual language. Among the artists who will be discussed are Malevich, Kandinsky, Mondrian, Delaunay, Pollock, Louis, Martin, Riley, Marden, and Kusama.
Prerequisites: Painting, Color and Light
Fulfills: 200-level Painting Elective; Studio Elective

PN237 Portrait Drawing and Painting 1 credits
Working from models and self-portraits, students develop facility with structure of the human head ­ first in drawing media, then in painting. Traditional and contemporary approaches to portrait drawing are introduces with emphasis on achieving volume and expression.
Prerequisites: Painting, Color and Light; Figure Modeling; and Life Drawing II
Fulfills: 1-Credit Studio Elective

PN240 Landscape Painting in Italy (Viterbo) 3 credits
This course explores a wide range of approaches to landscape painting, focusing primarily on the unique environment of the medieval city of Viterbo, surrounding countryside and gardens. Students study composition, color, light and space, and are encouraged to work with a variety of media. Both outdoor and studio methods will be introduced with special emphasis on personal objectives.
Prerequisites: Painting, Color and Light or permission of instructor
Fulfills: 200-level Painting Elective; Studio Elective

PN242 Fresco Painting (Viterbo) 3 credits
Based on the teachings of 15th-Century artist Cennino Cennini, this course familiarizes students with the complexities of creating fresco, by combining studio production with the firsthand study of historical and contemporary examples. Students progress from the first steps of grinding pigments and mixing plaster to painting their own fresco panels. The various methods, both past and present, for planning and executing large scale wall frescos will also be discussed. Weekly field trips to see frescos on site and presentations on the fresco tradition and its current applications will provide students with a full appreciation for this enduring technique.
Prerequisites: Painting, Color and Light
Fulfills: 200-level Painting Elective; Studio Elective

PN245 Contemporary Painting Practice 3 credits
This course is a survey of contemporary painting practice that introduces the student to a variety of methods, mediums, and materials. The topics may include the construction and preparation of painting supports and grounds, the specific properties of pigments and mediums, and the unique advantages of acrylics, oils, synthetic polymers, encaustic, and enamels. The course cites modern and contemporary painters to introduce each unit and explores the choice of methods and materials on the expressive power of painting.
Prerequisites: Painting, Color and Light
Fulfills: Contemporary Painting Practice Requirement (Illustration and Painting students); Studio Elective; Requirement for all 300-level Painting Classes

PN250 Painting II: Collage Projects 3 credits
This course is designed to investigate the intersection of technology, traditional collage and mixed media approaches.  Researching historical and contemporary practice, students develop a series of work using photo compositing techniques, traditional collage and mixed media approaches.  In addition to using computer imaging programs, students explore collage using a variety of materials, including paper, scanned images and element, paint cloth and objects.  Working in turn from objective sources and imagination, or by setting up formal and expressive objective to be 'solved', students research and develop their work in a series format.  There is an emphasis on the formal and expressive issue related to each collage, and to resolving relationships and structure key to each work.
Prerequisites: Painting, Color and Light
Fulfills: 200-Level Painting Elective; Studio Elective

PN299 Topics in Painting 3 credits
This course provides an in-depth study of a topic in Painting. The topic may be selected to take advantage of special events, to allow further exploration of a subject covered in a preliminary way in other courses, or to explore areas not sufficiently covered by the regular class rotation.
Prerequisites: Prerequisites will be developed in conjunction with the course description for each topic.
Fulfills: 200-Level Painting Elective(Painting Students); Studio Elective

PN300 Life Painting III 3 credits
Various means of painting the human form are studied, using under- and over-painting, alla prima, impasto, glazing, etc. Composition, mood, color, and scale are stressed. Each student is expected to produce a body of independent related work.
Prerequisites: Life Drawing II; Contemporary Painting Practice; one 200-level painting course
Fulfills: 300-level Painting Elective; Studio Elective

PN305 Painting III: Painting and the Photograph 3 credits
This course explores ways that photography has profoundly affected painting. Projects in such areas as photographic note-taking, appropriation, media manipulation, and collage emphasize the use of photographic processes to create an expanded definition of painting.
Prerequisites: Contemporary Painting Practice and one 200-Level Painting course and one course in Photography
Fulfills: 300 level Painting Elective or Studio Elective

PN310 Painting III: Advanced Objective Painting 3 credits
Intended for both illustration and fine arts majors, this course is an opportunity to explore the realms of historical and contemporary objective painting. Through site studies and work from imagination and memory, students will develop a body of related works. Field trips, emphasizing observation, will include natural history museums, architectural sites, urban and natural landscapes, and interiors. Emphasis is placed on personal interpretation and its expression through formal structure.
Prerequisites: Contemporary Painting Practice; one 200-level painting elective
Fulfills: 300-level Painting Elective; 300-level Studio Elective; Studio Elective

PN316 Painting III: Alternative Materials 3 credits
In this continuation of Painting II: Mixed Media, students explore a variety of alternative grounds and supports, including shaped canvases, assemblage, and industrial materials. Through a sequence of assignments, students create independent works incorporating a range of alternative materials that relate to a particular theme or reflect a personal direction. Contemporary artists who employ nontraditional materials and mixed media are discussed.
Prerequisites: Contemporary Painting Practice and Painting II: Mixed Media or permission of instructor
Fulfills: 300-level Painting or Studio Elective; Studio Elective

PN320 Painting III: Abstract Painting 3 credits
This course examines formal, psychological and spiritual concerns of abstract painting that originate from the work of modern and contemporary abstractionists. The focus of this course is on finding and organizing sources for abstract imagery.
Prerequisites: Contemporary Painting Practice and one 200-level painting elective
Fulfills: 300-level Painting and Studio Elective; Studio Elective

PN321 Painting III: Mural Painting 3 credits
In this course students create their own fresco walls on a small scale through model projects. They also study the great traditions of Renaissance, Mexican, and American public art from the 1930's to contemporary large-scale murals in city places. Examining the technical approaches such as fresco, mosaics, enamels, and a variety of new materials, students working individually or in collaboration explore the mural's potential through on-site commissions when possible. Students also investigate the cultural and political factors inherent in the creation of such works.
Prerequisites: Contemporary Painting Practice and one 200-level painting elective
Fulfills: 300-level Painting and Studio Elective; Studio Elective

PN325 Painting III: Expressive Figure Painting 3 credits
This course is for students who would like to explore a more expressive approach to the figure. Contemporary and art historical references are used to introduce the student to individual expressive possibilities.
Prerequisites: Life Drawing II and Contemporary Painting Practice and one 200-level painting elective
Fulfills: 300-level Painting and Studio Elective; Studio Elective

PN330 Painting III: Myth, Metaphor, and Symbol 3 credits
This course explores historical and contemporary visual approaches to mythology, metaphor, and symbol. Sources may include the Bible, Greek and Roman myths, symbolism, and psychoanalysis. Twentieth-century artists such as Picasso, Klee, Warhol, and Beuys provide a framework for painting projects that stress the personal integration of idea, image, and paint.
Prerequisites: Contemporary Painting Practice and one 200-level painting elective
Fulfills: 300-level Painting and Studio Elective; Studio Elective

PN335 Painting III: Workshop 3 credits
This course is structured to allow students the opportunity to develop a group of related works. A wide range of figurative and abstract approaches is encouraged. Slide presentations, discussions, and critiques provide a basis for critical judgment. This course is recommended for all third year painting students.
Prerequisites: Contemporary Painting Practice and one 200-level painting elective
Fulfills: 300-level Painting and Studio Elective; Studio Elective

PN345 Painting III: Visual Systems 3 credits
This course is an overview of visual systems used by artists, both past and present, to organize a two-dimensional surface. Student projects examine traditional and non-traditional methods such as flat and deep space, scale, color, and contemporary mathematical and language systems. Comprehension and practice in the fundamentals of visual organization increase the student's ability to make effective expressive statements.
Prerequisites: 200-level Drawing Elective; Contemporary Painting Practice; and one 200-level painting elective
Fulfills: 300-level Painting and Studio Elective; Studio Elective

PN346 Painting III: Advanced Transparent Media 3 credits
This course is designed to expand the student's use of transparency and luminosity in watercolor and other transparent media. Problems in planning and structuring an image in colored layers are approached in a variety of ways. First working from observation, focusing on light and its effects on atmosphere and color, students consider ways in which color unity and subtlety can be built up. Later problems explore light as subject, and color absorbency or reflections. Students complete self-directed projects further exploring their particular interests within the scheme of the course.
Prerequisites: Contemporary Painting Practice and Watercolor
Fulfills: 300-level Painting and Studio Elective; Studio Elective

PN350 Painting IV: Visiting Artist 3 credits
This course, conceived and taught by a visiting painter, prepares the student for the senior program of self-directed study. Within a course format that focuses on assigned projects, discussions, and critiques, each student is expected to produce a body of related works.
Prerequisites: Contemporary Painting Practice and one 200-level painting elective
Fulfills: 300-level Painting and Studio Elective; Studio Elective

PN355 Painting III: Advanced Color Workshop 3 credits
Students explore and apply issues and concepts relating to the use of color as a driving force in the making of art in this advanced multi-media workshop. The course will focus on the integration of color, form, and content, and the uses of color in formal and emotive content. Emphasis will be placed on helping the student develop a cohesive body of work to present for admission to Senior Seminar.
Prerequisites: Contemporary Painting Practice and one 200-level painting elective
Fulfills: 300-level Painting Elective or Studio Elective

PN360 Professional Issues 3 credits
Professional Issues will prepare students for the enormous leap from art school to the art world: creating a place for themselves, with the expectation of receiving both critical attention and financial remuneration. Class lectures demystify the art business by clarifying the roles of artist, dealer, curator and critic. This augmented by visits from people who hold those jobs, and distinct points of view, in commercial and non-profit fields, will help students understand financial and legal basics. In field trips to galleries, studios and non-profits, students will see theory in practice. They will be expected to prepare verbal reports; develop a personal file of shows, galleries, grants and groups specific to their careers; and prepare a presentation package that includes an electronic portfolio, and will be the basis for what they show to galleries or use when applying for grants or graduate school. This course is primarily designed for Fine Arts students.  
Prerequisites: 60 Credits or Permission of Instructor
Fulfills: 300-Level Painting Elective and Studio Elective; Studio Elective

PN399 Topics in Painting 3 credits
This course provides an in-depth study of a topic in Painting. The topic may be selected to take advantage of special events, to allow further exploration of a subject covered in a preliminary way in other courses, or to explore areas not sufficiently covered by the regular class rotation.
Prerequisites: Prerequisites will be developed in conjunction with the course description for each topic.
Fulfills: 300-Level Painting Elective (Painting Students); 300-Level Studio Elective

PN900 Independent Study in Painting 3 credits
Advanced work in the student's major field of study, supervised by a designated faculty member.
Prerequisites: Only open to third and fourth year students with permission of the instructor.
Fulfills: