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Potential studio art majors are required to submit a portfolio for review,
either as prospective students applying for admission to the College, or
later as “undeclared” students selecting a major course of study.
Faculty
Art and Art History Faculty: Gloria Escobar, chair; Elizabeth Ayer;
Fiona Dejardin; Roberta Griffith; Katharine Kreisher; Laura Rusnak;
Terry Slade; Phil Young; Douglas Zullo.
Adjunct Instructors: Danielle Boudet, Erik Halvorson, Lonnie Sue
Johnson, Jo Mish, Elizabeth Nields, June Tyler
Courses
The courses described below, open to both majors and non-majors, offer
instruction in studio art and art history from introductory to advanced
levels. All students are invited to enroll in 100-level courses as well as
certain introductory courses in art history (203, 204, 206, 207, 209),
printmaking (231, 233, 234,235) photography (241) and ceramics (270,
271), for which previous studio or art history is helpful, but not required.
For some introductory studio courses in painting and sculpture (221 and
262), students may request the instructor’s permission to waive
prerequisites. Those who are neither majoring nor minoring in art also
may take upper-level courses when they have fulfilled the prerequisites.
Certain drawing courses (212, 217) can be repeated at the 300 level with
permission of the instructor to fulfill the intermediate level in the drawing
concentration. Students may repeat certain advanced courses up to three
times each: 421, 431, 441, 461, 471, 481.
102 World Art History I: Ancient Art (3 credits) This course surveys
major monuments in architecture, painting, sculpture in Western Europe,
the Near East, Egypt, China, India and the Americas from prehistory
through 1000 C.E. Using a chronological framework, students are
introduced to the fundamentals of art history, including developing skills
in formal analysis, iconography, and the comparative method. Emphasis
will be on the social, political and cultural context of objects. Suitable for
non-majors. (CPA or NTW)
103 World Art History II: Middle Periods (10th-17th Centuries)
(3 credits) As a continuation of Art 102, this course surveys the major
monuments of art history from 1000 C.E. through the 17th century.
Architecture, painting, sculpture and printmaking created in countries
and cultures throughout the world, including Japan, China, Islam, Africa,
the Americas and Western Europe are investigated. This course
introduces students to art historical methods, concepts and definitions
and stresses the relation of objects to their political, social and cultural
context. Suitable for non-majors. (CPA or NTW)
104 World Art History III: Art of the Modern World (3 credits)
This course explores the history of modern Europe and the U.S. with an
emphasis on the west’s aesthetic and cultural exchanges with Africa,
Japan, and Mexico from 1750 to 1950. Art of the Modern World
introduces students to all modern media including photography and
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