Daniel Kojo Schrade

This course will introduce students to the fundamentals of visual art in general and drawing in particular. While focusing on perception, composition, line and materiality, students will draw from objects, the human figure, interior/exterior spaces, and from imagined sources. We will work with a variety of materials and challenge the limits of scale, by investigating the navigation of landscapes as accumulative drawn lines. We will develop strategies to visualize histories, topographies, individual perspectives and inner worlds embedded in landscape. Regular class critiques will assist in developing evaluation skills of work in progress, and in analyzing formal composition principles. Assigned readings and one research project, contextualizing work and life of an assigned artist, will be as well a segment of this course. Students will be evaluated based on class participation, timely submission of assignments, and their artist presentation. Keywords:Drawing / Studio Art / Introductory / Foundation / Art The content of this course deals with issues of race and power.

Scavenging Color & Light: Introduction to Representational Painting and Collective, Abstract Work. This course will introduce students to the fundamentals of painting, such as composition, value, and color. Students will learn about material and the technical issues of painting. Drawings will often be produced in tandem with paintings in order to illuminate visual ideas. We will work with water based and oil based paint on various surfaces. Besides creating individual paintings, students will collectively prepare and work on large-scale canvases. This course will develop from individual representational set-ups towards collective, abstract work. Regular class critiques will assist in examining formal composition principles. While we will discuss historic work examples from a post-colonial perspective, the course will focus on the work of non-western contemporary artists. Readings artist presentations will be assigned. Assignments require students to work independently outside of class. KEYWORDS:Painting, Studio Art, Drawing, Contemporary, Color

Vagabonding Images invites students to investigate the indistinct borders between two dimensional art and installation art through studio work. Assignments will emanate from drawing. With a focus on abstraction and nonrepresentational studio art practice, students will learn to develop an individual approach to a subject matter through research, readings, films and digital image presentations. While we examine visual art productions from a transcultural perspective, we will also engage in critical art theory and topics such as media diversity, materiality, and composition. Students will be required to present a collaborative artist presentation on an assigned artist. Student evaluation will be based on participation in studio sessions, class discussions, timely completion of assignments and the artist presentation. Vagabonding Images is affiliated with the Learning Collaborative Time & Narrative. KEYWORDS:Studio Art, Multimedia, Installation, Painting, Drawing

"The Repair" is preceded by the injury. Injuries on the landscape, the environment, on objects, architecture, on the body, on the psyche. In this studio art course students are going to develop multimedia art projects based on their engagement in questions concerning the human impact on land, objects, waters, architecture, plants, animals, and humans. Athorough research phase, lectures, and exhibition visits in the beginning of the semester will require students to engage with the work of artists who are contemplating the human, social, and environmental havocs of our times and their intersections with superiority, destruction, colonialism, displacement, commerce, migration, appropriation, power structures, etc. By writing and presenting course papers, students are first going to collaboratively research the work of artists like Mona Hatoum, Kader Attia, Philip Guston, Jean Dubuffet, El Anatsui, Satch Hoyt, Yinka Shonibare, Ghada Amer, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Wangechi Mutu, Anish Kapoor, David Hammons, Joseph Beuys - and then draft, carry out, and curate their own studio art projects. Keywords:Studio Art, Multimedia Art, Research, Critical Art Theory, Curation

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Thinking is Form will offer students concepts to evolve their drawing practice while addressing the complexity of graphical representation. Parallel to the exploration of the role of drawing in contemporary art, we will establish drawing/studio projects, studio practice, class discussions, and critiques. Assignments will address drawing from objects, the human figure, space, and imagination. Students will investigate traditional and unconventional resources, large scale, small scale, - and incorporeal working strategies. The course is designed for students with limited previous experience in drawing, but flexible enough to challenge Division II studio-art concentrators. Keywords: drawing, studio art, critical art theory

This course will focus on representational painting and collective, abstract work. This course will introduce students to the fundamentals of painting, such as composition, light, and color. Students will learn about material and the technical matters of painting. Students will work with oil-based paint, experiment with water-based alternatives to acrylic mediums, and learn to prepare their own canvases. Besides creating individual paintings, students will collectively work on large-scale canvases. This course will develop from individual representational set-ups towards collective, abstract work. Regular class critiques will assist in examining formal composition principles. While we will discuss historic work examples from a post-colonial perspective, the course will focus on the work of contemporary non-western artists. Readings and artist presentations will be assigned. Assignments require students to work independently outside of class. Evaluation will be based on painting projects, participation in class discussions, critiques, and artist presentations. Keywords: painting, art, color, studio art.