For any questions about the class specifically reach out to the Professor, for any advising questions reach out to your advisor.
Advisor – Robert Yi (ryi6@gmu.edu)
3 credits
Tuesday, 10:30 a.m. – 1:10 p.m.
Instructor: Benjamin Ashworth
Interdisciplinary exploration of work by citizen-artists whose artmaking engages the social world. Students learn about the history of socially engaged artmaking and experiment with individual and collaborative projects addressing social issues.
3 credits
Wednesday, 4:30 p.m. – 7:10 p.m.
Instructor: Peter Petrine
Drawing with an emphasis on the observational study of the human body. Human anatomy and proportion are examined through a series of methodological approaches, including gesture, contour, mass, and modeling.
3 credits
Tuesday, 10:30 a.m. – 1:10 p.m.
Instructor: Gail White
This course encourages students to openly investigate historical, cultural and theoretical forces that have influenced both established and experimental animation practices. Readings and screenings will challenge students to expand their thinking about animation and to develop innovative approaches to their own creative work. Projects will provide students with a framework to animate lived experiences, invented realities, and to jump the gap between bits and atoms.
3 credits
Tuesday 1:30 p.m. – 4:10 p.m.
Instructor: Victor Torres
Wednesday, 10:30 a.m. – 1:10 p.m. and 1:30 PM – 4:10 p.m.
Instructor: Gail White
This course emphasizes the “Art” of animation and takes a creative and critical approach to making experimental animations where “the story” collides with the codes and conditions of life on planet Earth. Experimental animations will be considered in the context of, and critically engaged with, entertainment and commercial animations. Elements from film production, popular and remix culture, experimental and traditional animation, the visual and performing arts, creative writing, and storytelling may be combined to bring distinctive perspectives to completed projects.
3 credits
Online
Instructor: Mark Cooley
EcoArt is a university synthesis course designed by Professor Mark Cooley and offered by the School of Art. The course brings together ideas, tools and methods from across a spectrum of arts, sciences, humanities, progressive agriculture, and folk traditions with an ultimate interest in forming sustainable and creative relationships with the earth’s life support systems. The course assumes that the environmental problems we face are largely the product of culture, and as such, require cultural responses. EcoArt explores current discourse on art, ecology, and environmentalism, while challenging students to conceptualize and make engaging, creative, and ecologically informed responses to their world.
The course serves as an introduction to EcoArt by creating a context for course members to:
3 credits
Wednesday, 10:30 a.m.-1:10p.m.
Instructor: Cristian Wicha
This course is designed for students with an interest in woodworking and furniture design. The fundamentals of both traditional and contemporary design are explored. Taking cues from historical and contemporary movements, students will have the ability to construct a work of their own design. Over the course of the semester, students will work with the instructor on the design and building of their own piece of furniture. Instruction in the usage and techniques of both machine and hand tools are covered in conjunction with the execution of the finished piece.
3 credits
Friday, 1:30 p.m.- 4:10 p.m.
Instructor: Carol Beach
Learn botanical illustration by observing and drawing from live plant specimens. Students will bring in plants and flowers and by careful observation learn how to draw them. We will start in graphite, and then go on to colored pencil, using a full palette to illustrate the incredible colors found in nature. Students will learn how to layer the colored pencil to get a realistic, vibrant portrait of the plant.
3 credits
Wednesday, 10:30 a.m.- 1:10 p.m.
Instructor: Cristian Wicha
3 credits
Tuesday, 4:30 p.m. – 7:10 p.m.
Instructor: Abdulrahman Naanseh
Arabic calligraphy is the artistic practice of handwriting Arabic script in a fluid manner to convey harmony, grace, and beauty. In this course, students will be introduced to Arabic Calligraphy as an art form and instructed by CVPA’s visiting artist Abdulrahman Naanseh. Knowledge of Arabic is not required.
3 credits
Tuesday, 1:30 p.m. – 4:10 p.m.
Instructor: Justin Plakas
Integrates study of contemporary art theory, montage theory, and artistic practices with application to new media and technology. Special focus on visual culture and video art, sound design, and the sociopolitical implications of media.