Fall 2013 Course Catalog - School of the Museum of Fine Arts

Fall 2013 Course Catalog
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Illustration
GRA 1301 01 (2 Credits)
Joseph Landry
M
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
A206
This intensive course in pictorial communication emphasizes idea and visual metaphor
development, and the development of personal style through weekly homework assignments
and in-class critiques. Slide lectures on idea generation, design and color theory, and the
work of illustrators as well as painters and sculptors of interest to illustrators, are a regular
part of the course. Class projects include theoretical assignments and the illustration of
editorials, short stories, book jackets, posters, and a children’s book. Students may also
bring their personal projects to the course.
Remade, Recycled,
Reconfigured
GRA 1302 01 (4 Credits)
Jesseca Ferguson
F
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM /
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
A206
This mixed media studio class will explore collage in its many potential configurations: as visual
poetry, as conjunction/disjunction, as narrative, as social commentary, as recycling - a perfect
vehicle for combining text, image, and object. Whether generated digitally in PhotoShop, in
a traditional studio space with glue, brushes, and paper, or some combination of the two,
collage has endless applications and enduring fascination for today’s artists. Workshops and
assigned problems will expand collage options working with hands-on techniques, digital
imaging, and the myriad potential interfaces between the two. Generating and maintaining
an active dialogue between the hand-made and the digital image/object will be key to this
course. Slide lectures, books and catalogues, videos, plus a relevant field trip or visiting
artist, will expose students to art historical antecedents as well as to exciting examples of
contemporary collage - both digital and hand-made.
Print Matters
GRA 1401 01 (4 Credits)
Brian Reeves
R
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM /
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
B211A, A207
What do we think of when we think of publication – newspapers, books, posters, tumblr,
text messages? Print Matters argues that these prior forms serve as only some possible
tools, and not the end result, within the mechanism that is publication. Considering the
conceptual, social, and mechanical aspects of publication, this course focuses on publication
as, inherently, a means of public-making through discourse: a verb rather than a noun.
Publication is a social act, inherently political, anarchic and nonhierarchical in form and
function, highly volatile in nature, able to break off and create new formulations of itself at
will. Looking into activist, communal, and quotidian histories, as well as the current mode of
art making known as Social Practice, Print Matters utilizes the mechanism and concept of
publication as a vehicle to discuss how and why we converge, and the uses of and tools for
the formation of those convergences. In this course we will access production levels that
we see every day and ask the class to collaboratively imagine and produce new models
for their use out in the world. The class may focus on hand-drawn signs, photocopies, post
cards, screen printing, off-set/newspaper printing, and any number of means of production
that seem common place. We will work through these processes in traditional as well as
contemporary fashion; the class will utilize aspects of Photoshop and InDesign, as well as
web publishing tools of varying sorts (Dreamweaver, CSS coding, Word Press, etc…), to
create work to disseminate publicly.
Artists’ Books: An Introduction
GRA 1402 01 (4 Credits)
Anne Pelikan
T
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM /
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
A206
An introduction to the world of artists’ books both one of a kind and multiples; this course is
for artists of any discipline who want to explore the book format. The class is hands on and
students will learn many book structures including pamphlets, concertinas, multisignature,
wire hinge, coptic, portfolios and boxes. We will also cover a variety of image and textmaking
techniques. During open studio time students develop ideas and complete a book
every other week, which may include edible books, recycled books, books made of natural
materials visual books or books that tell stories. Field trips are planned to visit artist book
collections. Each student will design and complete ‘an edition’ and the semester will end
with a book exchange.