Electives

Spring 2022 Electives, Advanced Practice: Contemporary Video – Sammy Cucher

Advanced Practice: Contemporary Video PGFA:5301 (CRN: 3994) Thursday 4:00pm – 6:40pm In this class, students will be equipped with the technical and artistic tools to…

Spring 2022 Electives, Advanced Practice: Artist’s Books and Magazines – Rit Premnath

Advanced Practice: Artist’s Books and Magazines PGFA:5302 (CRN: 5047) Date/Time TBA This studio driven course focuses on the book as a form of artistic exploration….

Spring 2022 Electives, Advanced Practice: Performing Resistance – Emilio Rojas

Advanced Practice: Performing Resistance PGFA:5310 (CRN: 10627) Date/Time TBA How as artists and citizens do we respond creatively in times of crisis? Where do poetics…

Fall 2021 Electives, Advanced Practice: Material As Metaphor

Advanced Practice: Material As Metaphor CRN:11929 PGFA 5310 A Faculty: H. Lan Thao Lam Thursday. 9:00 – 2:40pm Metaphor: Greek metaphora, from metapherein meaning ‘to carry across or…

Spring 2020 Electives, Advanced Practice: Contemporary Video – Stefanos Tsivopoulous

Advanced Practice: Contemporary Video PGFA: 5301 (CRN: 3994) Thursday 7:00pm – 9:40pm In this class, students will be equipped with the technical and artistic tools…

Spring 2020 Electives, Advanced Practice: Mining the Museum – Mira Schor

Advanced Practice: Mining the Museum PGFA: 5300 (CRN: 1944) Friday 12:10pm – 2:50pm What makes your pupils dilate when you look at an art work…

Fall 2022 BFA Electives, Topics in 3D: Omni Maker – Adam Brent

This course fuses the digital to the real world. Making sculptures that range from small-scale objects to both proposed and realized installations, students will utilize…

Fall 2022 BFA Electives, X-Studio: Love Letters to the Future – Douglas Paulson

An edible weed can grow from a crack in the bricks. A single seed can grow into an oak that can live 400 years. As…

Fall 2022 BFA Electives, Topics in 2D: Return of the Real – Shoshana Dentz

This observational-based painting and drawing course engages the facts, fictions and impossibilities inherent in visual perception when focused intensely on a portion of the phenomenal…

Fall 2022 BFA Electives, X-Studio: Sociological Imagination in Film and Video – Eleana Antonaki

In this course students will closely read theoretical texts in order to create critical works of experimental video art. Referencing Avery Gordon’s use of the…

Fall 2022 BFA Electives, Topics in 2D: Critical Collage – Johannah Herr

In our era of the remix, sampling has become its own art form. This course will critically explore the material and conceptual possibilities of the…

Fall 2022 BFA Electives, Topics in 2D: Drawing Energy – Anne Gaines

Everything is made up of or emits energy. How can we both utilize and visualize its presence? This course expands the practice of drawing to…

Fall 2022 BFA Electives, Topics in 4D: Against Productivity – Yasi Ghanbari

This course will examine paradigms of productivity, health, and care through various 4D media including performance, video, sound, and installation. Given late stage capitalism’s increasing…