Course Bulletin
Fall Semester
&
Spring Semester
2008 - 2009
THE
The
The curriculum reflects a deep
respect for traditional forms of teaching which have produced master artists
throughout the ages.
The Studio curriculum is centered
around the study of nature and the human figure.
The Liberal Arts curriculum
provides a strong academic foundation necessary for advanced critical and creative
thought. Together the integrated program
is designed to provide a practical foundation on which each student can develop
his or her unique intellectual and visual articulation with confidence and
integrity.
Therefore, the
educational programs of the Academy develop:
·
Craftsmanship and technical skill in the use of materials
and methods;
·
Discipline, as intuition and creativity are subjected to
judgment and revision;
·
Knowledge of history of art, ideas and human experience;
·
Critical thinking about ideas, events, intentions and
issues in contemporary culture;
·
Mastery of writing and oral skills;
·
Commitment to a relentless pursuit of excellence;
·
Inspiration to fuel the intention and direction of the
work;
·
Respect
and tolerance for authenticity and diversity in the search for intellectual and
aesthetic integrity;
·
Integration of the subjective, rational and technical in
artistic practice.
Based on these principles, the
Ultimately, the Lyme Academy College believes the Fine Arts are of unique importance as a defining, substantive element of society and life itself; further, that educated artists are individuals who not only articulate their culture but who give shape and substance to that culture.
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SELF-STUDY
September, 2002
ACADEMIC PROGRAMS
BFA
Degree
The Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting or Sculpture degree is designed to combine a solid, substantial foundation of technical and conceptual skills in the visual arts with the critical thinking and communication skills essential for success in today’s complex world of art. Four years, 132 credits. Entering first-time freshmen for the academic year 2008-2009 will follow a 120 degree credit curriculum.
The College plans to inaugurate a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration and in Drawing commencing in the 2009-2010 academic year.
Certificate
Certificate in Painting or Sculpture is a program for
students who do not wish to pursue a BFA degree.
The Certificate program includes the same balanced curriculum with fewer studio and
liberal arts requirements. Three years,
90 credits. See schedule of courses and credits.
Post-Baccalaureate
Certificate
A program developed for the individual who has completed an undergraduate degree, and who wishes to strengthen conceptual abilities or studio skills, and/or develop a cohesive body of work to qualify for graduate school or other professional opportunity. The program is two semesters of study full-time. 30 credits. May be enrolled for half-time, credits per semester, for four semesters.
ACCREDITATION
Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts is proud to be accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC), the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD) and the Connecticut Department of Higher Education.
EDUCATIONAL GOALS FOR BFA PROGRAMS
Educational Goals: BFA, Sculpture Major
The primary
educational goals for the sculpture major are knowledge of and proficiency in
sculptural practice based on the observation of nature including the human
figure and supported by craftsmanship, individual initiative, creativity, and
the ability to interpret ideas through artistic expression.
The program
requires students to understand historical and contemporary examples of
sculpture and to integrate that knowledge into studio practice. Informed by
proficiency in life drawing, knowledge of anatomical structure, and an
understanding of three-dimensional composition, students will demonstrate their
ability to articulate forms, in the round and in relief, and to produce robust
and convincing sculptures in such modes as the figure and the portrait. Students will be competent in the use of
sculptural materials and methods of casting.
Educational Goals: BFA, Painting Major
The primary
educational goals for the painting major is knowledge of and proficiency in
painting practice based on the observation of nature including the human figure
and supported by craftsmanship, individual initiative, creativity, and the
ability to interpret ideas through artistic expression.
The program
requires students to understand historical and contemporary examples of
painting and to integrate that knowledge into studio practice. Students will
demonstrate a thorough understanding of value, color, composition and
expression through the study of anatomy, life drawing, perspective and design
and the role these elements play in conveying meaning and vivacity. Students
will be competent in the use of media such as oil, watercolor, egg tempera, and
pastel and will demonstrate through robust and substantial works proficiency in
a range of painting modes including the figure, landscape, portrait and still
life.
BFA Supporting Curriculum: Drawing
Program
The Drawing program supports the B.F.A. degree as a whole by offering
all L.A.C.F.A. students the opportunity to develop their intellectual and
artistic faculties through work in a variety of drawing-based artistic forms. The drawing program is comprised of a
sequenced series of courses that is intended as a cumulative progression
through sets of intelligences and proficiencies that are associated with drawing. These intelligences and proficiencies in some
respects overlap and contribute to those being concomitantly developed in
either painting or sculpture; in other respects they are unique to drawing and
pertain to the practice of drawing as an art form in its own right. Both as a contributory tool in the service
of painting and sculpture and illustration and as an independent art form,
then, students’ involvement in drawing is meant to expand the scope of their
responses to the world, thereby expanding their capacity for learning in ways
in keeping with the broader goals of undergraduate education in art.
The sequence of major courses in the B.F.A. in Drawing includes and
follows upon students’ successful completion of Drawing I or equivalent
approved foundation drawing transfer credits.
All three Sophomore Drawing courses are required; a total of 12 drawing
credits (including those earned by completing the Sophomore Drawing credits) is required for both Painting and Sculpture majors.
The three-year drawing progression flexibly corresponds to students’
undergraduate years as follows:
·
Sophomore Drawing (sophomore year)
·
Advanced Drawing (junior year)
·
Topics in Drawing (senior year)
Sophomore Drawing
Three required 1½-credit studio courses comprise Sophomore Drawing
which separately focuses on one of three key areas of consideration that are
basic to classically-oriented drawing. Observational Drawing addresses
operations pertaining to the eye; Constructional Drawing addresses
operations pertaining to the mind; and Calligraphic Drawing addresses
operations pertaining to the hand in drawing.
Advanced Drawing
Advanced Drawing
courses provide opportunities for students to deploy the proficiencies that
were separately targeted in Sophomore Drawing in specified combinations. For example, Extended-Pose Figure Drawing develops and deploys observational and
constructional strategies; Rapid-Pose
Figure Drawing deploys constructional and calligraphic strategies in
tandem; and Scenic Drawing develops
both observational and calligraphic modes.
An additional course, Chiaroscuro
Drawing, addresses more deeply observational considerations relating to the
representation of light (either as contrast or as value) through applications
of various drawing media. The
Junior-level Drawing Projects
encourages each student to begin integrating drawing knowledge into independent
projects which will be developed more substantially in the final year’s Senior
Project.
Topics in Drawing
Topics in Drawing
courses are intended to build further upon gains made in previous drawing
courses by affording students the opportunity of exploring further artistic
uses to which they can be put. In
courses such as Narrative Drawing and
Dynamic Drawing, stress is placed on
ways the study of historical examples and the development and application of
students’ own idioms of judgment can yield drawings in which the dramatization
of the human figure is both expressive and novel.
BFA Supporting Curriculum: Liberal Arts
Program
The Liberal Arts
program supports the Painting and Sculpture majors by developing in students a
rich understanding of the cultural, social, historical, and scientific context
of the world they will enter as arts practitioners. Courses in Liberal Arts are
taught in a logical and effective sequence that supports each student’s
intellectual development. They are designed to meet the General Education
requirements of NEASC and other relevant accreditation agencies and to be
pertinent and intellectually engaging to the developing artist. The Liberal
Arts curriculum emphasizes competency in communication skills through
assignments that encompass both written work and oral presentations.
The Liberal Arts
program also offers an opportunity for students to acquire further art
historical knowledge by taking additional courses to fulfill the Art History
Minor.
BFA Supporting Curriculum: Foundation
Program
The Foundation
program supports the Painting and Sculpture majors by providing all entering
students with a common first year experience that prepares them for a
successful transition to their sophomore year and choice of major. The program
develops fundamental artistic proficiencies in drawing, painting, sculpture, color,
and design based on the observation of nature including the human figure.
Students successfully completing the Foundation curriculum are able to
demonstrate a consistent level of basic competencies including an understanding
of visual arts principles and the ability to translate the observed environment
into drawn, painted, and sculpted form with a reasonable degree of technical
skill and vivacity.
ACADEMIC
CALENDAR
FALL SEMESTER,
2008
SPRING
SEMESTER, 2009
FALL SEMESTER DATES: Wednesday, August 27 through Monday, December 15
NEW STUDENT ORIENTATION: Tuesday, August 26
FACULTY RETREAT: Tuesday,
August 26
FIRST DAY OF CLASSES: Wednesday, August 27
WELCOME BACK LUNCH: Wednesday, August 27-
LABOR DAY HOLIDAY : Monday,
September 1 (no classes)
LAST DAY to DROP/ADD CLASSES: Tuesday, September 10 (except for Monday classes
which have until September 15)
SCHOLARSHIP
RECIPIENTS DINNER: Sept.12- Sophomore & Junior Scholarship students
TEN WEEK, NON-CREDIT
CLASSES BEGIN: September 15 (through November 21)
MATRICULATED ADVISING FOR SPRING '09: October 20- November 7
MATRICULATED REGISTRATION FOR SPRING '09: October 27- November 18
ALL SCHOOL THANKSGIVING POT LUCK LUNCH – November 25
THANKSGIVING
PART-TIME STUDIES REGISTRATION BEGINS FOR SPRING '09: November 24
FALL SEMESTER ENDS:
Monday, Dec. 15th Saturday and
Sunday classes go through the14th
STUDIOS ARE CLOSED: December 22 through January 5
Selected Studios for
student use will be open during the balance of the break
SPRING, 2009 SEMESTER DATES: Tuesday, January 20 through Monday, May 11
FIRST DAY OF CLASSES: Tuesday, January 20
LAST DAY to DROP/ADD CLASSES: Monday, February 2
TEN WEEK, NON-CREDIT CLASSES BEGIN: February 9 (through April 25)
DEADLINE to SUBMIT WORK for ALL-STUDENT EXHIBITION: Friday,
February 27,
ALL-STUDENT EXHIBITION: Opening Reception Friday, March 6
SPRING BREAK: Monday, March 16 - Friday, March 20
FRESHMAN REVIEW: April 1
MATRICULATED ADVISING FOR FALL '09: April 6-April 24
SPRING WEEKEND: April
11 and 12 (Sat/Sun classes will not run)
MATRICULATED REGISTRATION FOR FALL '09: April 13-May 1
SENIOR PROJECT EXHIBITION: Opening Reception-Friday, April 17
PART-TIME STUDIES REGISTRATION BEGINS FOR FALL '09: May 4
LAST DAY OF CLASSES: Monday, May 11
CLASS MAKEUP DAYS-May 12-13
GRADUATION: Saturday, May 16,
DISCLAIMER:
The
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS See Schedule for days, class hours
and studios.
FOUNDATION
PROGRAM for BFA DEGREE STUDENTS
DR150-5 DRAWING I (core bfa; cert) 3 credits.
(Fall and Spring: Total 6 credits.)
Drawing I is a two-semester course
that presents drawing as the visually accurate representation of
three-dimensional forms in space on a two-dimensional surface. Students are taught to see proportions and
confirm their observations with measurements.
Spatial relationships are checked horizontally and vertically, and
negative shapes are sought out and used to define and confirm positives. Still-life objects are utilized as subject
matter, progressing from simple geometric forms to the more complex. Students should leave Drawing I with a
systematic and effective approach to the construction of an accurate drawing
through line and value. 2 sections:
Monday
PT100-5 PAINTING I (core bfa; cert) 3 credits. (Fall and Spring: Total 6 credits.)
This two-semester foundation course provides students with
the skills necessary to paint convincing forms in space. Using oil paint, students proceed through a
series of sequential assignments designed to promote a thorough understanding
of value, temperature, and color and introduce them to other formal conventions
employed by painters. Students develop
an intelligent, reliable approach to painting, a familiarity with basic
materials and techniques, and an understanding of composition and color theory.
2 Sections: Thursday
Instructors: Roland Becerra;
PT160 2-D AND 3-D DESIGN (core bfa; cert) 1.5 credits - Fall semester.
This course introduces students to the fundamental elements
and principles of design in both two-dimensional and three-dimensional
applications. Students learn to analyze compositions, identify their
components, and apply the various principles to their own work. Students will
develop an intellectual and practical understanding of the construction of a
work of art, acquire knowledge of various media, and become familiar with the
terms used in the discussion of art. 2
Sections: Wednesday or Friday
PT165 COLOR AND
DESIGN (core bfa; cert) 1.5 credits - Spring semester.
This course provides a thorough examination of color theory. Students are introduced to various color contrasts through a series of exercises, which allow them to use color more coherently.
2 Sections: Wednesday
or Friday
Instructors: Nancy Gladwell; Shira Avidor
SC150-5 SCULPTURE I (core bfa; cert) 3 credits. (Fall and Spring: Total 6 credits.)
This two semester introductory course explores three dimensional form and composition. First semester projects include modeling the skull, planes of the head, and a portrait from the live model. The second semester focuses on the total human figure with reference to bone structure, proportion, and balance. Each student constructs a half life-size skeleton and models the major muscle groups on their skeleton. In addition, each student creates a full figure sculpture from the live model, allowing integration of his/her knowledge of the human form.
22 Sections: Tuesday
AHS170-5 SURVEY OF WESTERN ART HISTORY (core bfa; cert) 3 credits. (Fall and Spring: Total 6 credits.)
A two-semester required course examining major periods,
styles, and themes in Western Art. The first semester will examine works from
the Prehistoric to the Gothic eras, continued in the second semester by the
study of works from the Renaissance through the early twentieth century.
Lectures and readings are devoted to presenting students with a repertoire of
significant painting, sculpture, and architecture, and an understanding of the
meanings of these works within their original cultural contexts. Students are
also challenged to expand their observation and vocabulary skills through close
formal analysis of the visual properties of art. Exam essays and writing
assignments develop research skills and promote development of analytic and
critical thinking. Requirements each semester: purchase of textbook, assigned
readings, museum visit, two quizzes, two exams, one formal analysis paper based
on an object studied in a museum. Monday
& Wednesday
Instructor: TBA
ENG100 ENGLISH COMPOSITION (core bfa; cert) 3 credits - Fall semester.
English Composition is designed to
develop and hone those writing and critical reading skills basic to any
Humanities course. Careful seeing leads to effective writing— only by devoting
our scrupulous, passionate attention to the texts and images we encounter, will
we be able to evaluate them in writing. In weekly assignments students will
work on organizational and structural strategies; analytical writing skills;
and methods of revision. Over the course of the semester students will
undertake a variety of writing assignments of increasing length and complexity.
Several of these projects will involve multiple drafts and constructive peer
review.
Tuesday
Instructor: Jennifer
M. Burke
ENG105 ENGLISH LITERATURE & COMPOSITION (core bfa; cert) 3 credits Spring Semester.
This is an introductory literature course, with an emphasis
on twentieth-century modernism, and its roots in certain foundational works by
Goethe, Shakespeare, and Sophocles. We will read and discuss nine works of
fiction and drama in terms of their historical context and continuing cultural
relevance. Students will be introduced to traditional scholarly views and
encouraged to explore their own personal responses to these works. Each student
will give an oral presentation elucidating aspects of the work discovered
through additional research. Requirements will include formal essays
expressing original ideas and following the conventions of literary analysis,
as explained in the class.
Tuesday
Instructor: Jennifer
M. Burke
DRAWING
Drawing Requirements-
·
Students completing the 132 credit BFA (juniors and seniors)
are required to complete 18 drawing credits in addition to 6 credits of
Foundation Drawing.
·
Students completing the 120 credit BFA (freshmen and
sophomores) are required to complete 18 drawing credits which include
the 6 credits of Foundation Drawing
100 LEVEL (FOUNDATION DRAWING)
DR150/155 DRAWING I
(core bfa;
cert) 6 credits
Drawing I is a two-semester course
that presents drawing as the visually accurate representation of
three-dimensional forms in space on a two-dimensional surface. Students are taught to see proportions and
confirm their observations with measurements.
Spatial relationships are checked horizontally and vertically, and
negative shapes are sought out and used to define and confirm positives. Still-life objects are utilized as subject
matter, progressing from simple geometric forms to the more complex. Students should develop a systematic and
effective approach to constructing an accurate drawing through line and
value. 2 sections: Monday
Instructors: Nancy Gladwell;
200 LEVEL (SOPHOMORE DRAWING)
DR210 OBSERVATIONAL DRAWING (core bfa;
cert) 1.5 credits Fall semester
An introduction to figure drawing
as an act of observation from a fixed position.
Basic modalities of vision such as luminance differentials (brightness
values) and discontinuities (edges) are transcribed through line and tone.
Skills necessary for such perceptual calibrations as those involving size
comparisons, relation to eye level/horizon and depth cues are developed.
Organizing strategies such as selection and emphasis and grouping are
highlighted.
Prerequisite Drawing I Monday
DR220 CONSTRUCTIONAL DRAWING (core bfa; cert) 1.5 credits Fall Semester
An introduction to figure drawing as an act of analytic
demonstration. Both general and specific
constructional strategies are established.
Students learn to draw and modify Euclidean-type solids that are related
to the figure to establish mass and trajectory and to vivify planar
contrasts. Prerequisite
Drawing I Monday or Tuesday
Instructors:
DR215 CALLIGRAPHIC DRAWING (core bfa; cert) 1.5 credits - Spring semester
An introduction to drawing as
representation through graphic symbols.
Ways that the hand and its cursive habits determine modes of
representational conveyance are established.
Through the in-depth study of a variety of precedents, the role that shape,
pattern and cursive rhythms play in drawing as a stimulant to observation is
established. Students’ own cursive
habits are buoyed through free-hand copying and internalization of examples,
and by applying them to the live model (in the studio) and to landscape, still
life or other objects (in sketchbooks).
Students learn to recognize graphic verve as the ability of an artist to
draw just those features that can be presented as examples of his or her
cursive habits.
Spring semester
Instructor:
300 LEVEL (ADVANCED DRAWING) These
courses are designed primarily for students who have completed the Sophomore
Drawing requirement (or by permission of the instructor).
DR350 EXTENDED POSE
LIFE DRAWING (core elective) 1.5
credits
Poses of longer duration provide an opportunity to address key figure drawing objectives, including organization of effects of light, clarification of figure/ground, planar, axial and other spatial relationships, resolution of detail-mass relationships, figure completeness, and aptness of selection and emphasis. The clear organization of perceptual material, rather than optical copying, is presented as an effective means of realization in representations of the human form.
Fall semester Friday
Instructor: Justin Wiest
DR345 CHIAROSCURO
DRAWING (core elective) 1.5
credits Spring
semester
The exploration of two approaches to the representation of light in drawings. The first approach is based on brightness values, calibrated according to a global scale. The second approach is based on local, rather than over-all, contrasts, and provides opportunities for the representation of light through linear, rather than tonal, means.
DR360 LARGE SCALE
LIFE DRAWING (core elective) 1.5 credits
Key figure drawing objectives are set in relation to the
representation of the human figure on a large scale. Practical considerations regarding uses of
media in large-scale presentations as well as artistic considerations related
to the achievement of figural presence through life-size scale are
addressed. Means by which the
large-scale figure’s powerfully direct appeal to the viewer are conveyed,
including frontality, orthogonal “address” and the
continuity of real and fictive dimensions, are established and developed. Wednessday
Instructor:
DR370 RAPID-POSE LIFE
DRAWING (core elective) 1.5 credits Fall semester
Key figure drawing objectives are set in relation to the
representation of a live model in briefly-held poses. Pre-set figural templates, cursive and
geometrical patterning as well as graphic symbols denoting
plane, mass and trajectory are deployed in rapid-response drawings. Wednesday
Instructor:
DR375 SCENIC DRAWING (core elective) 3.0 credits Spring
semester
Drawing strategies are established and applied to challenges
of creating whole pictures. In a variety
of formats, including studio set-ups, on-site landscape and imaginative
composition, successful over-all pictorialization is
pursued as an effect of artistic completeness and unity to which each pictorial
element and part has contributed. Attendance
at a three hour printmaking session, to be scheduled in consultation with the
printmaking staff, is required. This
course is available only for students who have previously taken
printmaking.
400 LEVEL (TOPICS IN DRAWING) These
courses are designed for students who have completed the Sophomore Drawing
requirement and who have previously completed work in Advanced Drawing courses
(or by permission of the instructor).
DR480 NARRATIVE DRAWING (core elective) 3.0 credits Fall semester
The study and application of drawing ideas
and approaches pertaining to narration, both singly and sequentially, from
Renaissance Cycles to the modern
graphic novel. Compositional
ideas/approaches for bringing pictorial elements into dynamic, mutually-reactive
relationships are explored. Ways that
narrative in drawing can be seen as a direct expression of the artist’s graphic
style are considered. Through their own
contributions students have the opportunity to enlarge the scope of the topic
areas. Attendance at a three hour printmaking session, to be scheduled in
consultation with the printmaking staff, is required. This course is available only for seniors who
have previously taken printmaking. Tuesday
Instructor:
DR485 DYNAMIC DRAWING (core elective) 3.0 credits Spring semester
The application and study of ideas
pertaining to the representation of bodily movement. The fusion of multiple poses/views and
addition of imaginative elements is achieved. The orchestration/exaggeration of
visual forms, including re-calibration of proportions and calligraphic
indulgences is also explored. Attendance
at a three hour printmaking session, to be scheduled in consultation with the
printmaking staff, is required. This
course is available only for seniors who have previously taken
printmaking.
PAINTING
100 LEVEL (FOUNDATION
PAINTING)
PT100-5 PAINTING I (core bfa; cert) 3 credits
This two-semester
foundation course provides students with the skills necessary to paint
convincing forms in space. Using oil
paint, students proceed through a series of sequential assignments designed to
promote a thorough understanding of value, temperature, and color and introduce
them to other formal conventions employed by painters. Students develop an intelligent, reliable
approach to painting, a familiarity with basic materials and techniques, and an
understanding of composition and color theory. 2 Sections: Thursday
PT160 2-D AND 3-D DESIGN (core bfa; cert) 1.5 credits - Fall semester.
This course introduces students to the fundamental elements and principles of design in both two-dimensional and three-dimensional applications. Students learn to analyze compositions, identify their components, and apply the various principles to their own work. Students will develop an intellectual and practical understanding of the construction of a work of art, acquire knowledge of various media, and become familiar with the terms used in the discussion of art.
2 Sections: Wednesday or Friday
Instructors: Nancy Gladwell; Shira Avidor
PT 165 COLOR AND
DESIGN (core bfa; cert) 1.5 credits - Spring semester.
This course provides a thorough examination of color theory. Students are introduced to various color contrasts through a series of exercises, which allow them to use color more coherently.
2 Sections: Wednesday or Friday
Instructors: Nancy Gladwell; Shira Avidor
200 LEVEL PAINTING (SOPHOMORE)
Core
painting courses for sophomore level are labeled as 200 level.
These courses assimilate disciplines introduced in the Foundation Program.
Painting methods and techniques share the stage with spatial and design
concepts. Many electives such as Printmaking, Portrait, Watercolor and Pastel
bridge 200 level studio courses with upper level, more advanced courses.
PT260 PAINTING II (SOPHOMORE) (core bfa; cert) 3 credits, Fall semester.
This required course for Painting majors takes the student through a series of more advanced color and spatial problems building on the concepts introduced in the Foundation Program. Students will work from direct observation while achieving higher levels of realization in design, color manipulation and technique. Subject matter and compositional demands will increase in complexity as the course progresses, challenging and developing student’s painting competency.
2 Sections: Tuesday
PT265 PAINTING II (SOPHOMORE) (core bfa; cert) 3 credits, Spring semester.
The Spring semester focuses on the figure. Students articulate
the volume of the human form first in monochrome and then through color. The
objective is to create a viable and credible interpretation of the figure using
anatomical and relational drawing skills as well as subtle gradations of
color/value to turn the form. An active critique component provides
valuable feedback to help students to assess compositional skills as
they begin to develop deeper meaning and content. Prerequisite: successful completion of the
foundation program.
2 Sections: Tuesday