ART-101 Drawing I
Introduces the fundamentals of free-hand drawing and explores a variety of materials, techniques and subject matter such as still life, landscape and the human form as students identify individual areas of interest and artistic expression. Informal slide presentations and class critiques will expose students to the diversity of drawing and its manifestations in contemporary art and culture. Fulfills the general education requirement in fine arts and Artistic Expression. [3 credits]
ART-102 Color and Design
Introduces the fundamental elements and principles of color and design as a communicative tool. The course is designed for students with limited studio background and explores a wide variety of mediums and techniques as students develop technical virtuosity and personal aesthetic. The concepts and design strategies explored in this course can be applied in related areas of computer design, interior design and fashion design. Fulfills the General Education Requirement in Fine Arts. [3 credits]
ART-103 Three-Dimensional Design
Explores the sculptural organization of form in three dimensions through the use of a wide variety of materials such as found objects, paper, wire, wood, clay and metals. Projects are developed that consider the relationship of the sculptural object to its perception in time and space. Fulfills the general education requirement in fine arts and artistic expression. [3 credits]
ART-109 Basic Photography
Provides hands-on experience with the fundamental controls of the photographic process for black and white photography. Students learn the use of the camera, film development, darkroom printing and the presentation of mounted photographs. Includes lectures and presentations on photographic technique, illustrated lectures on the history and aesthetics of photography, assistance in the darkroom and critiques of work in progress. Lecture plus lab. Fulfills the general education requirement in fine arts and artistic expression. [3 credits]
ART-119 Introduction to Photography
Introduces the art of digital photography. Through lectures, demonstrations and assignments students will learn the fundamentals of camera selection and usage, image editing using Adobe Photoshop software and photographic composition. Students must have their own camera. While a digital camera is preferable, any camera is suitable. Open to CAUS students only. Fulfills General Education Requirement in Fine Arts for CAUS students. [3 credits]
ART-120 Survey I: Western Art from Prehistory to the Renaissance
Introduces seminal works of painting, sculpture, and architecture made in Europe and the Near East from prehistoric times to 1400 CE. Traces the evolution of the roles of art and artists in society, whether mystical, practical, aesthetic, or spiritual. Students will examine significant original artwork from this period firsthand in area museums, including ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman statuary; Medieval manuscripts, stained glass, jewelry and metalwork; and paintings depicting early Christian imagery. Fulfills the general education requirement in fine arts and intercultural knowledge. [ 3 credits ]
ART-121 Survey II: Western Art from the Renaissance through the 20th Century
Introduces seminal works of painting, sculpture, printmaking, and architecture made in Europe and the United States from 1400 to the 1900s. Identifies regional styles and follows the evolution of subject matter and technique over the centuries. Considers the impact of changes to artistic training and patronage, as well as political and social change, on attitudes about art and artists. Students will examine significant original artwork from this period firsthand in area museums, including the Renaissance and Baroque collections at the Walters Art Museum and the modern and contemporary collections at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Fulfills the general education requirement in fine arts and intercultural knowledge. [ 3 credits ]
ART-122 Art of China, Japan and India
Explores the major art mediums of China, Japan and India from Neolithic times to the present, contrasting it with that of the Western tradition and examining the influence of Buddhism and Hinduism upon it. Among the art forms to be studied are Chinese landscape painting, Japanese screen painting, the Japanese tea service, silkscreen painting, bronze vessels, ceramic pottery, Indian rock-cut temples, and the vast burial complexes of China and Japan, which include life-sized pottery soldiers. Students will examine fine examples of Asian works in The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. Fulfills the General Education Requirement in Fine Arts. [3 credits]
ART-123 Art of Africa
ART-142 Painting I
Introduces the fundamentals of oil and acrylic painting. Through an exploration of traditional and contemporary techniques of painting, students will develop their powers of observation and artistic expression. Informal slide presentations and class critiques will expose students to the diversity of painting and its manifestations in contemporary art and culture. Fulfills the General Education Requirement in Fine Arts. [3 credits]
ART-150 Baltimore Museums Study Tour
Combines tours of Baltimore area museums, such as The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art, the Maryland Historical Society, the Maryland Arts Place (MAP) and the Visionary Art Museum, as well as local art galleries, with classroom lectures and discussions. Explores the history of art, perceptions of art as presented in museums of the past and present, as well as the museums' role in interpreting art for the public. Fulfills the General Education Requirement in Fine Arts. [3 credits]
ART-151 Washington Museums Study Tour
Combines tours of Washington-area museums, such as the National Gallery of Art, the National Museum of American Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Phillips Collection, with classroom lectures and discussions. Explores the history of art, perceptions of art as presented in museums of the past and present, as well as the museums' role in interpreting art for the public. Fulfills the General Education Requirement in Fine Arts. [3 credits]
ART-162 Digital Photography I
Introduces the fundamentals of digital imaging using Adobe Creative Cloud with an emphasis on camera vision. Through assigned readings and classroom discussions, students also will gain a critical perspective of the impact of digital imaging on photographic practice. Fulfills general education requirement in fine arts and artistic expression. [3 credits]
ART-201 Drawing II
ART-202 Painting II
ART-204 Watercolor Painting
ART-205 Printmaking
ART-208 Creative Arts in the Elementary School
Demonstrates the use of creative arts and their integration into the curriculum. Basic understand-ing of the ways children use the fine arts (dance, theatre, music and visual arts) as a means of learning. Skills in analyzing and interpreting young children's art expressions will be presented from preschool through the elementary levels. A review of art skills and processes will be presented and practiced in order to effectively use art experiences as learning vehicle in the classroom. Basic skills in drawing, painting, printmaking, lettering, sculpture and crafts will be included. Fulfills the General Education Requirement in Fine Arts. [3 credits]
ART-209 Black and White Photography
ART-211 Art of the Ancient World: Roots of the Western Tradition
Explores underlying currents of human purpose, thought and feeling in art through reflection upon examples from the earliest human attempts at expression in prehistoric times; the ancient Egyptian focus upon death and the afterlife, as understood through the elaborate contents of King Tut's tomb and the mystery of the Great Pyramids; the intriguing Goddess culture of the Aegean, exemplified by Cycladic idols and other ceremonial objects; the Greek realization of self as reflected in representations of the human figure; the Mesopotamian sense of deities as natural forces; the divine, yet very human, sculptural portrayals of Greek gods and goddesses; the Roman love of things Greek melded to imperial desires evident in sculpture and architecture. Fulfills the General Education Requirement in Fine Arts. [3 credits]
ART-212 Art of the Medieval World: Crosscurrents In Politics and Religion
Explores the transformations evident in Western European art spanning from the age of Constantine to the late Gothic period. Special areas of interest include Early Christian attempts to visualize a new religion in the varied images of Jesus and the saints, and through mysticism and the world of symbols; Byzantine elegance and grandeur; the melding of Roman style with Christian thought in the Romanesque; chivalry and love in the courtly society of the Gothic and the cult of the Virgin Mary; the great cathedrals of the Gothic, viewed as immense prayers in stone; the late medieval return to the humanism of antiquity with the school of Giotto; and the role of women, and ways women are represented in medieval art. Fulfills the General Education Requirement in Fine Arts. [3 credits]
ART-213 Art in the Age of Rembrandt and Kingship
Traces the evolution, definition and dissemination of Mannerist, Baroque and Rococo art from 1510-1750 A.D., including absolutism and the bourgeois in the age of Rembrandt. Examines 17th-century architecture; the influence of the Counter-Reformation; the Italian translation of stone to flesh and heavenly vistas; Rubens and the artist as celebrity, and Caravaggio: the bad boy as artist; absolutism in France and its aristocratic art; Rembrandt and the Little Dutch Masters; Vermeer's ethereal imagery; Rococo and the Salon: wit and subtlety; Rousseau's back-to-nature movement and the Enlightenment; and the expressive and spiritual use of light in images by Caravaggio, Rembrandt and Vermeer. Fulfills the General Education Requirement in Fine Arts. [3 credits]
ART-214 The Splendors of the Renaissance in Italy and the North
Examines the art of Western Europe from the advent of the Renaissance to the 1530s through topics such as the artist as hero; the lingering Gothic influence in art of Italy and the North; the greater emergence of women in the world of art; the convergence of science and art: Renaissance artists as theorists and the complete investigation of human anatomy; the individual and a sense of self; and The Last Supper and The Sistine Ceiling: controversies of restoration. Also explores such artist-centered topics as lyricism and classicism: the beauty of Botticelli; Leonardo da Vinci: the Renaissance man and artist; Michelangelo: a revival of the classical humanism of classical Greece; Jan van Eyck and Durer: the Italian Renaissance in the North; and Titian and the Venetian: school of color and sensuality. Fulfills the General Education Requirement in Fine Arts. [3 credits]
ART-219 Honors: Intersections: Image and Word
Examines collaboration through series of exercises, group projects and assignments that explore the interplay of photography and literature. Students make and edit their own photographs and creative writing in response to instructor prompts and class critique. Students will collaborate on a final publishable portfolio of photographs and creative writing. Prerequisite: Morrissy scholar or permission. Fulfills General Education Requirement in Fine Arts. [3 credits]
ART-221 Artistic Rediscovery and Transformation in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Examines European and American art from 1750 to 1900, in the context of the vast political and social changes in the Age of Revolutions and the development of modernity. Themes include Rococo and aristocratic taste; Neoclassicism and the rediscovery of classical antiquity; Romanticism and the pursuit of originality; Orientalism and the lure of the exotic; photography and positivism; Realism and social revolution; Impressionism and the painting of modern life; American expatriates in Europe; and Post-Impressionism and the avant-garde. Students will examine artwork firsthand in the Cone Collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art. Fulfills the General Education Requirement in Fine Arts. [3 credits]
ART-223 20th Century Art: Modernism and Innovation
Interprets the work of European and American artists working from the turn of the 20th century through the 1990s. Focuses on the development of style, theoretical and philosophical concerns, and social contexts of modern art movements, including Cubism, Dada, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, and Pop. Special topics include the impact of art criticism, the challenges of public art, the influence of non-Western art, the role of the museum, and more. Students examine artworks firsthand at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Fulfills the General Education Requirement in Fine Arts. [3 credits]
ART-226 Two Dimensional Media and Techniques For the Elementary and Secondary Schools
ART-227 Three Dimensional Media and Techniques For the Elementary and Secondary Schools
ART-228 Mixed Media
Students explore the place of materials in contemporary art practice and methodology. Focusing on an interdisciplinary approach to art making and process students synthesize skills gained in 100-level course work and explore interrelations between drawing, painting, print making, photography, and 3D approaches, experimenting with a wide variety of non-traditional materials. Students are encouraged to use their area of emphasis as point of departure for pushing the boundaries between media and forming their own visual vocabulary. Methods include directed studio time, art historical lectures and critiques. Prerequisites: ART-101, ART-142. [ 3 credits ]
ART-241 Watercolor Painting: Landscapes
Explores the beauty of watercolor painting while on location in natural settings. A variety of methods and applications of the medium are demonstrated in each class as students practice and develop technical skills, selectivity and personal expression. Students must provide their own transportation to and from the painting sites. Fulfills the General Education Requirement in Fine Arts. [3 credits]
ART-243 Materials and Techniques of the Old Masters
Explores the materials and techniques used by the Great Masters of drawing and painting. Materials such as silverpoint, charcoal, bistre ink and egg tempera will be fabricated from raw substances and used in drawings and paintings. Fulfills the General Education Requirement in Fine Arts. [3 credits]
ART-247 Ceramics
Provides practical study of elementary principles and problems in creating ceramic art. Technical study of glazes, clay and methods of firing. [3 credits]
ART-267 Photographic Criticism
Analysis and discussion of the art of photography to increase skills in critical observation of relationships, styles, structure, composition and content in photographs. Lecture/seminar format. Fulfills the General Education Requirement in Fine Arts. [ 3 credits ]
ART-270 Media and Techniques for Art Teachers In the Elementary and Secondary School
ART-279 Honors: Concepts in Visual Aesthetics
Introduces new ideas and concepts stemming from a particular period and/or movement in society, becoming the "fireworks" that stir the artistic spirit to react to those ideas consciously, vibrantly, intuitively and with unique creativity. This class will use audio-visuals, readings and shared dialog to examine works of art and varied aesthetic concepts. It will address the artist as a gendered translator of history, as a visionary, and as a social documentarian within the context of significant periods in Western art. Prerequisite: Morrissy scholar or permission. Fulfills the General Education Requirement in Fine Arts. [3 credits]
ART-301 Drawing III
ART-302 Painting III
ART-313 Emergence of an American Style
Examines the art created in the United States from Colonial times to the 1970s, exploring its relationship to European styles, and the question of what constitutes an American style. Mediums studied include painting, sculpture, architecture and photography. Artists such as Gilbert Stewart, Thomas Cole, Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt, James Whistler, Jackson Pollack and Andy Warhol will be discussed. Fulfills the General Education Requirement in Fine Arts. [ 3 credits ]
ART-315 Explorations of Women in Art
Focuses upon the significant contributions of women artists to the history of art and the traditional duality of gender. Emphasis will vary in different sessions; some may focus primarily on topics applicable to art made by women of the nineteenth or twentieth centuries, while others may address topics related to feminism in European and Asian traditions, women as subjects in art, and/or women as artists. The seminar format will emphasize class presentations and discussions. Students will also examine artwork in local collections, particularly the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. Fulfills the general education requirement in fine arts, gender studies and impact of diversity. [ 3 credits ]
ART-320 Large Format Photography
ART-321 Life Drawing I
ART-322 Picture Story
ART-323 African-American Art
Examines works created by African-American artists from the Antebellum era to the present, and situates those works in the contexts of American art, American history, African tradition, and global politics. Explores the evolution of artistic responses to such issues as identity, race, class, ethnicity, and representation, and compares the work of African-American and Euro-American artists to address and understand differences in attitude and experience. Topics of student include the visual construction of race and identity, slavery and cultural deprivation, the legacy of fold art and craft, the politics of portraiture, African-American artists abroad, and the role of the museum. Movements to be examined include the Harlem Renaissance and the New Negro; the rise of abstraction and development of a modern black aesthetic; the Civil Rights Movement and activist art; feminism, postmodernism, and neo-expressionism; and the question of a "post-black" art. Students will also examine artwork in local collections, including the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of African-American History and Culture, the National Portrait Gallery, and/or the National Museum of African-American History and Culture. Fulfills the general education requirements in fine arts and cross-cultural studies. [ 3 credits ]
ART-324 Contemporary Problems in the Arts
Examines ethical issues confronting the visual arts through a series of case studies. Topics include looting and restitution; cultural appropriation in the museum; monuments and their protestors; decency, morality, and censorship; the ethics of arts funding; diversity and inclusion in arts institutions; and #MeToo in the arts, among others. Students will examine each issue on a theoretical basis, and will then investigate specific case studies, evaluate opposing arguments, and develop solutions. Fulfills the General Edcuation requirements in Fine Arts and in Thinking Critically and Analytically. [ 3 credits ]
ART-330 Theory, Criticism and Contemporary Art
Presents an overview of the history and development of art theory and criticism from antiquity to the present. The course explores a wide range of art forms and ideas from traditional art to controversial contemporary art and art censorship. With the knowledge gained through the study of aesthetic evolution, students will assess the art of the 20th and 21st centuries, and formulate critical judgments and aesthetic positions of their own. Fulfills the general education requirement in fine arts and thinking critically and analytically. [ 3 credits ]
ART-342 History and Aesthetics of Photography
Explores the art of photography from its pre-history to the present. The course will deal with the effects of changing technology, interrelationships with the other arts, and the impact of photography on society. Major photographers and movements will be covered, including study of local exhibitions. Fulfills the General Education Requirement in Fine Arts. [ 3 credits ]
ART-363 Color Photography
ART-364 Studio Photography
Practices photographic lighting using continuous and strobe lights, as well as portable flash. Artistic and professional procedures using 35mm as well as departmental 4x5 view camera systems are covered. Topics include studio and location assignments such as still life and portraiture, culminating in a portfolio. H31 [3 credits]
ART-368 Alternate Photographic Processes
ART-373 Illustration II
As a sequel course to Illustration I, this course continues use and personal development of imagery, application technique, and graphic medium that visually communicate literary scenes and ideas, advertising texts and products. Special attention, time, and focus, will be given to graphic illustration techniques that reflect students’ individual stylistic development.
Students Prerequisites: ART- 273 or permission of instructor. [3 credits]
ART-380 Visual Aesthetics in a Post-Modern World
ART-401 Drawing IV
ART-402 Painting IV
ART-406 Advanced Photography
ART-411 Explorations in Western Art
ART-412 Explorations in American Art
ART-413 Explorations in Asian Art
ART-419 Digital Photography II
Deepens experience in digital photography and investigates the relationships between communication through photographs and digital images and other electronic media such as the digital press, World Wide Web and the virtual environment of the video game. Students enhance their skills and personal aesthetic using Adobe Photoshop and choose projects from still photography, graphic design or motion graphics. Prerequisite: ART-162. [3 credits]
ART-421 Life Drawing II
ART-427 Study Tour:
Explores Art in various external settings.
ART-440 Senior Seminar
ART-460 Senior Studio Photography
ART-463 Independent Study
ART-465 Directed Readings: Selected Topics In Art History
ART-470 Practicum in Art
ART-471 Practicum in Art
ART-509 Graduate Photography Workshop
ART-510 Graduate Ceramics Workshop
Provides students with the opportunity to work independently with traditional and contemporary approaches to ceramic materials and processes to develop an individual approach to art making. Students work in consultation with faculty and meet as a group to workshop and critique concepts and techniques. As an advanced studio course for graduate art therapy students, methodologies in support of ways in which ceramics can be brought into the narrative, self-expressive realm, advancing the basics of handbuilding methods, will be emphasized. [ 3 credits ]
ART-511 Explorations in Western Art
ART-512 Explorations in American Art
ART-515 Explorations of Women in Art
ART-520 Visual Culture
ART-525 Graduate Mixed Media Workshop
Provides students with the opportunity to work independently with a range of materials and processes to develop an individual approach to art making. Students work in consultation with faculty and meet as a group to workshop and critique concepts and techniques. As an advanced studio course for graduate art therapy students, methodologies in support of ways in which mixed media can be brought into the narrative, self-expressive realm will be emphasized. [ 3 credits ]