The curriculum includes painting, photography, mixed media and critical studies. Each student will study and practice his or her primary medium with the option to pursue additional subjects. For instance, several painting students regularly participate in the photography program, while photographers at times join drawing sessions. Most students will declare a concentration in painting, photography or mixed media. Drawing is a continuing activity over the entire course of instruction. Critical studies, including involvements with art history, are included as well as regularly scheduled presentations and seminars. Instructors are present in the studios for demonstrations, critique and discussion several times each week. At other times students work independently from models and set ups as well as on assignments defined by the instructors. Spring 2011 Series Descriptions - "The Visual Space of Narrative" Fall 2010 Series Descriptions - "The Apollonian and Dionysian" An investigation into the myths, prejudices and rationalizations surrounding the relationship of order and chaos. This seminar will take a broad view of the subject, defining it in classical terms but further exploring work drawn from the history of the visual arts related to the subject to bring specificity of meaning to the terms. Fall 2009/Spring 2010 Series Descriptions - "Truth & Beauty" The resonance between concepts of truth and beauty will be explored throughout the Fall 2009 and Spring 2010 semesters. Issues related to nature, traditional beauty, the sublime, horror, expression and challenges to the concept of Truth in favor of multiple truths will be explored. Rather than being a chronological history of aesthetics, multiple aspects of aesthetics with particular relevance to the contemporary visual artist will be encountered along with identifying significant positions in aesthetics over history.

Spring 2009 Series Descriptions - "Redefining the Avant Garde" The early and neo-avant-garde as a component of modernism and as a force in 20th-Century art will be considered. The concept of the autonomous artwork, aesthetics and the interaction of the spectator with the artwork will be traced. The dilemma presented by the Avant Garde's evisceration under postmodernism as a result of widespread acceptance, market endorsement by the art world, and investment by the financial establishment will be explored. Fall 2008 Series Descriptions & Semester Theme - "Spatial Concepts & the Visual Artist" Spring 2008 Series Descriptions & Semester Theme - "Sense, Intellect and the Imagination" Fall 2007 Series Descriptions Spring 2007 Series Descriptions

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