Materiality, Play, andPossibilities in Painting (ARTS 3036 R)
Term: 2024-25 Academic Year Spring
Schedule
Tue, 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM (1/22/2025 - 5/6/2025) Location: SLC HEIM 203
Thu, 9:00 AM - 10:50 AM (1/22/2025 - 5/6/2025) Location: SLC HEIM 203
Description
Prerequisite: Beginning Painting and Beginning Drawing or equivalents
This is a project-based painting intensive. Students will be given specific prompts, which will lead to investigations and experimentations in abstraction. The prompts will result in students generating work that is theirs. Each assignment encourages visual and personal research in preparation for making. Technical exploration, perception, development of ideas, intuition, invention, representation, and communication are at the core of this class. We will have a chance to explore different ways of working with acrylic paint and expand on the idea of what painting is by integrating alternative painting materials. The paintings made in this class will consider the meaning of materials; transformation of materials through touch; and working with found, as well as repurposed, materials. Paintings may be three-dimensional and may not stay within a rectangle. Curiosity and giving yourself permission to travel to unexpecte