MFA 6009 003
Graduate Projects
1-week sessions throughout the summer for 1 credit hour
2-week sessions throughout the summer for 3 credit hours
Graduate courses taken for credit are subject to SAIC Graduate tuition rates.
Graduate and undergraduate projects are most suitable for a current BFA or MFA candidate or recent graduates with a concentration in painting or drawing. Exceptions can be arranged with the consent of the Program Director.
UGDIV 4000
Undergraduate Projects
1-week sessions throughout the summer for 1 credit hour
2-week sessions throughout the summer for 3 credit hours
No Independent Study available June 21-July 4, 2009
Instructor: Philip Hanson
Available throughout the summer Independent Study is designed for those prepared to pursue their own projects. The beauty of Ox-Bow's natural setting encourages outdoor work. Individual guidance and group critiques are provided by visiting advisors, faculty-in-residence, and visiting artists. Requirements and objectives are determined according to an individual student's needs.
Graduate and undergraduate projects are most suitable for a current BFA or MFA candidate or recent graduates with a concentration in painting or drawing. Exceptions can be arranged with the consent of the Program Director.
SCI 3517 001
The Physics of Light and Color
June 7-June 20, 2009
3 credit hours
Instructor: Andy Johnson
This course explores light as a physical phenomenon and as a subject of scientific theory-building. We will establish basic properties of light through an exploration of shadow phenomena (which are not always as simple as you might think)! Next we will investigate the role of light in the production and perception of colors. If you think you know about color you may find yourself thinking again. We will work out a little bit of what happens when light interacts with objects. Students will develop the ideas in this course through experimentation, discussions, and careful scientific reasoning.
PERF 602 001
The Body Double: Medi(a)tative Walking
June 21-July 4, 2009
3 credit hours
Instructor: Jose Ferreira
This course is about the transformation of our perception of walking as a metaphor of production as artists. A long lineage of artists exists who have used this practice as a form of engaging the landscape, from the romantics to current-day urban practice. As our biological functions alter due to the exercise and environment we traverse, we will record these moments in collaborative, discursive media. This course is based upon the notion that our “biography becomes our biology” through the subjectification of our associations with the landscape, which can induce loneliness, clarity, vulnerability and a variety of other states. Using the grounds of Ox-bow with its history and beauty as our exploratory laboratory, we will walk collectively and make new pieces on a daily basis. Participants are expected to be able to walk fair distances and document their experiences in various media, please bring your own equipment, like cameras, laptops, sketchbooks or journals. Readings will be provided to participants of this course.
FVNM 601 001
Video Works: Serious Play
June 21-July 4, 2009
3 credit hours
Instructor: Lee Walton
Students of all levels are invited to engage in a two-week low-tech video course exploring themes of process, place and play. Students will work both individually and collectively to create poetic interventions, social experiments, site-specific projects and more. This course will examine the role of process in relation to the “experience” of making and perceiving art. The work of relevant artists and writings will be introduced and discussed, from John Cage and Francis Alÿs to George Perec, Guy Debord, Haruki Murakami, and Janet Cardiff. Ultimately, the direction of this course will be determined by the ideas of the students. The class will provide limited digital video cameras, but students are encouraged to bring their own digital cameras and/ or cell phones with video capabilities. Minimal editing will be done through imovie and/or FinalCut Pro. An open mind and willingness to play will be essential to this course. Previous video skills are not necessary.
ARTH 3906 001/SCULP 001
Making the Wor(l)d Visible: Text and Art Practice
July 5-July 18, 2009
3 credit hours
Instructors: Kymberly Pinder and Shinique Smith
$50 Lab Fee
This class explores the history and practice of art’s relationship to the written word. From illustration to calligraphy, language, narrative and mark-making have had a complex and diverse relationship across cultures. Taught by an art historian and a sculptor, students in this course will create work using texts that will be contextualized through learning about the history of artists from antiquity to the present who were inspired by texts or used them visually in their work. During the two weeks of the course, a diverse set of historical examples and studio exercises will create a call-and-response structure to the course. Assigned essays, speeches, poetry and prose will inform, inspire and guide various assignments. One can take this course for either art history or studio credit.
PHOTO 602 001
Outside Narrative Photography
July 5-July 18, 2009
3 credit hours
Instructor: Wes Kline
$200 Lab Fee
This multi-level course will allow students to create new methods of constructing photographic narratives that operate outside of the dominant strategies of recent contemporary art photography. The class will look at histories of narrative photography, from Hippolyte Bayard to Philip Lorca DiCorcia, that utilize a range of performative, “experimental,” essayistic and documentary images, and then build narratives using techniques diverging from these dominant models. Narrative strategies ranging from the ‘theatrical’ to ‘cinematic’ and ‘to ‘painterly’ will be approached in all their messy and complicated glory, and students will work towards creating new ways of articulating narrative photography using improvisatory and constructed means available in the camp setting. Time will be spent shooting and processing images, with demos, slide lectures, and critiques to supplement studio explorations. Inks are included in the lab fee.
ARTH 620 001
The Nature of Nature
July 26-August 1, 2009
1 credit hour
Instructors: James Yood and Lorraine Peltz
This multilevel class will examine both historical and contemporary ideas of interpreting nature as visual idea. Functioning in both art history and art studio, the student will have the opportunity to consider how nature has been constructed in the past and the present through lectures by an art critic/art historian and then create studio work with an artist that incorporates working directly from the actual landscape (nature), and translating and expanding that into an individual language that could include abstraction, the decorative, the figure, and more. Experimentation of techniques and materials will be encouraged. Final critique will include both instructors. The class will include studio demonstrations, discussion and lecture, studio work, and critique.
FIBER 603 001
Fast Line/ Slow Line
August 16-August 22, 2009
1 credit hour
Instructor: Rebecca Ringquist
Students of any level are invited to participate in this weeklong course exploring issues of speed and materiality in drawing with pencils and sewing with thread. We will examine the translation process of stitching a quickly drawn pencil line. We will begin by utilizing the fast automatic drawing techniques of blind contours, non-dominant hand and feet drawing, and large-scale sand drawings in Lake Michigan's beach, generating a collection of ideas and references. The class will also explore the ramifications of translating these speedy drawings with slow, hand stitched (embroidered) lines. Traditional stitches will be demonstrated, and students will focus on developing their own vocabulary of mark making. Assignments and individual projects will be supplemented by slide lectures regarding the histories of embroidery and drawing. Individual and group critiques will add structure and rigor to this fast pace course.
FIBER 604 001
Fabric + Fabrication = Jewelry
August 16-August 22, 2009
1 credit hour
Instructor: Renee Zettle-Sterling
$50 Lab Fee
Within the last decade there as has been a growing resurgence of artists working with fiber. This revival has also influenced the metalsmithing/jewelry world in a profound way. The workshop will explore themes of nostalgia, haute couture, recycle/reuse, and playfulness. The participants will be introduced to techniques such as needle felting, basic crocheting, hand sewing, and paper casting to create one of-a-kind pieces of jewelry and accessories. Students will also work with metal to create support systems or armatures through cutting and shaping to finish the fabric forms. There will be a strong focus on how formal concerns such as scale, repetition, texture, asymmetry, and weight creates meaning within the piece. Participant will also have the opportunity to further develop their metal fabrication techniques, but is not a requirement.
Open to all levels.