Summer
Undergraduate
Residency
Program

This course is designed to develop the student’s ability to represent the human form in pictorial space, a skill that is critical to all artists. Emphasis is placed on gaining an in-depth understanding of the body’s underlying geometry and anatomical structure. Students will be working from the live model to create perceptual, naturalistic drawings, learning about the characteristic contours of muscles and how body parts move in relation to one another and to the picture plane. Course meets once a week for 6 hours, 4 sessions for 24 contact hours.

Core Learning Outcomes

Accuracy of transposing visual phenomena to the page

Improved abilities in observation, strategies, control and development in drawing

Understanding of mark making to forge a more effective strategy

An understanding of the  body’s underlying geometry and anatomical structure

Taught primarily through discussions, lectures, and readings, this course addresses the social and art historical underpinnings of the emerging contemporary milieu and encourages students to locate their own practice within a larger cultural framework. Students will explore the ways in which contemporary artistic practice and critical theory interrelate, and build their ability to locate themselves and their practice within a larger zeitgeist of contemporary art. This course introduces methods of art criticism, provides an academic and theoretical basis upon which to discuss current artistic practice, and teaches students to gauge personal reactions against established scholarly approaches. Course meets once a week for 3 hours, 4 sessions for 12 contact hours.

Core Learning Outcomes

Expanded knowledge of contemporary artistic developments as well as a deeper understanding of the interdisciplinary nature of academic discourses on visual art

Explore a range of theoretical perspectives that shape attitudes towards visual art

This course is an exploration of the immense and historically significant collection of art that is centered in New York. Using the rich diversity of museums and galleries in the New York City area, this course provides the student with the opportunity to explore many of the city’s art centers and learn visual research techniques to aid in the development of his or her own work. Course meets once a week for 6 hours, 4 sessions for 24 contact hours.

Core Learning Outcomes:

Refined rhetorical skills through active engagement

Ability to consider how the exposure to work of other artists might impact their own

A better understanding of the New York art world through professional practice: studio visits, gallery visits, museum visits, non-profits and more

This course examines the practical application of indirect painting techniques from historical and contemporary practice. Students will paint from the live model exploring the warm/cool palette, the dead palette and chromatic palette approach to tonal structure and color theory. Emphasis in this course is on analytical seeing/interpreting of form. Course meets once a week for 6 hours, 4 sessions for 24 contact hours.

Core Learning Outcomes:

Ability to address painting development in sequential fashion and optically mix color through indirect layering painting techniques and materials

Increased skill in use of toned grounds, imprimatura, underpainting, glazing and vellatura

Understanding of how to approach multiple forms in space with a coherent tonal structure

Development of core skills of composition, drawing, form, and color/temperature

This course addresses the challenge of sculpting the human figure from observation, in combination with a systematic study of the largely invisible underlying structure of the figure. Initial instruction promotes analytical seeing and interpretation. Exploration of linear and volumetric systems of proportion supports the architectonic organization in the realization of the figure through the process of modeling. Course meets once a week for 6 hours, 4 sessions for 24 contact hours.

Core Learning Outcomes:

Knowledge of human proportions, anatomy, axis lines, planar and mass relationships, and composition

Knowledge of materials and techniques for manifesting 3-dimensional form

Understanding of the importance of creating maquettes to aid in the development of the final outcome

Skills in sculpting—and, by extension, in drawing and painting—the human form