Summer 2019 in the School of Art

THE SUMMER OF FINDING NEW DIRECTIONS AND IDEAS, THE SUMMER OF ART FOR EVERYBODY

For information, contact School of Art advisor Linda Rumbelow.

Non-Major Undergraduate only: No prerequisites

Art and Everything

ART 1309 Art Appreciation, two sections, Summer 1 and Summer 2
Take a journey into the world's most fascinating artistic and architectural developments. Learn about a wide variety of Western and non-Western artists, periods, and styles. Examine the greatest achievements of distant and present civilizations through the lens of their arts and crafts. This course will enable you to understand visual art—one of humanity's most creative forms of expression—and to recognize how artworks reflect wider cultural phenomena.
Instructor: Dr. Bryan Wheeler (Summer 1), Dr. Kimberly Jones (Summer 2)

Non-Major and Major Undergraduate: No prerequisites for non-majors

Photography from the Beginning

ART 3325 Beginning Photographic Arts, Summer 1
An introduction to digital and film photography with Aaron Hegert, MFA Photography, for anyone who is interested in photography. Covers camera technique, intro to the darkroom and digital printing.
Instructor: Professor Aaron Hegert 

Unlock the Power of Drawing

ART 1303 Drawing 1, Summer 1
Drawing is power! Drawing helps you to see and understand the world around you. This course will help you to interpret the world and put it back down on a piece of paper.
Instructor: Kelly Reyna

Intense and Involved

ART 2304 Drawing 2, Summer 2
After you have learned the basics, it is time to start to master techniques in drawing, color, and the human form.
Instructor: Jessie Dodington

Building with Your Hands

ART 3301 Beginning Handbuilding, Summer 1
In this class, we will cover a wide range of building methods. Some of these clay working methods include pinching, coiling, and slab building. These techniques offer the possibility to make EVERYTHING and ANYTHING be it an abstract sculpture or figurative sculpture, as well as an assortment of functional objects like bowls, cups, platters and tiles.
Instructor: Carolina Alamilla 

Water Media – On Paper and Canvas

ART 3321 Beginning Painting: Water Media, Summer 1
This course will be an introduction to painting concepts and techniques with designated sections for water media. The course is an intensive studio investigation in water-base painting skills and materials: their properties, processes, context, and their involvement in the student's personal creative growth. The majority of class periods will be spent in a one-on-one basis with individuals working and the instructor circulating. At various times, the class will have small and large group critiques, discussions, and presentations.
Instructor: Samantha Resendez; contact Professor Ghi Fremaux for permission

Renaissance Art: Art & Life in 15th-Century Florence

ARTH 4340 The Art of the Renaissance, Summer 1
The course introduces students to culture in 15th-century Florence, within which patrons and artists developed distinctive means of expressing ideas and values that we characterize as Renaissance art. Rather than a series of artists' biographies, individual works are presented in the context of themes and issues. Knowledge of these representative themes, in turn, offers the means to explore works of art in terms of relationships to such factors as religious ideology; patrons' concerns & artists' interests; humanism, civic identity, & religion; interplay between "scientific" attitudes and emergent art theory; and issues of gender.
Instructor: Dr. Brian Steele 

Study in Marfa and Lubbock: Non-Major and Major Undergrad and Graduates

Art, Place, and Story (Marfa and Lubbock)

ART 4304-94 Advanced Problems, one section, July 15-July 20
How do scents, sounds, sights, and objects construct place? Participants in this workshop will investigate emplacement in relation to bodies, memories, and the materiality and the sensoriality of environments that include art. Exploration of Marfa and Lubbock, Texas; artist talks, experimentation with creative processes that explore notions of emplacement in relation to identities, memories, and surroundings, visits to museums, discussions, creative writing, and interdisciplinary curriculum that combines art and science are included.
Instructors: Dr. Rina Little and Dr. Andres Peralta 

Graduate MFA, MAE, PhD, MA only

Art@Work: Environment & Sustainability

ART 5304-50 Advanced Studio: Two-Dimensional, Summer 2
Work with Solar Energy International, High Country News and Environment and Sustainability Program at Western Colorado State University. Independent Study with Carol Flueckiger for two graduate students who are accepted to Elsewhere Studios Artist Residency in Paonia, CO for the month of July. Three credits.
Instructor: Professor Carol Flueckiger 

Make Art Collaboratively

ART 5340-105 Transdisciplinary Approaches to Issues in the Arts
ART 4304-81 Independent Study in Art, Summer 2
The Marfa Intensive is an unforgettable experience of collective art-making in the internationally renowned art town of Marfa, Texas. Combining strategies of artistic production from sculpture and performance art, the Marfa Intensive centers on the collaborative creation of new works of art made by students. The Intensive is appropriate for graduate and advanced undergraduate artists who work in any medium. Graduate students should enroll in ART 5340 and undergraduate students should enroll in ART 4304.
Instructors: Dr. Heather Warren-Crow and Professor Cody Arnall

Art, Place and Story

ART 5300-95 Advanced Art Unit, one section, Summer 2
How do scents, sounds, sights, and objects construct place? Participants in this workshop will investigate emplacement in relation to bodies, memories, and the materiality and the sensoriality of environments that include art. Exploration of Marfa and Lubbock, Texas; artist talks, experimentation with creative processes that explore notions of emplacement in relation to identities, memories, and surroundings, visits to museums, discussions, creative writing, and interdisciplinary curriculum that combines art and science are included.
Instructors: Dr. Rina Little and Dr. Andres Peralta