Fine Art Minor

The fine art minor provides students from different majors with an understanding of, and appreciation for, traditional and modern expressions of the visual arts while providing training in appropriate technologies.

The fine art minor provides students from different majors with an understanding of, and appreciation for, traditional and modern expressions of the visual arts while providing training in appropriate technologies.

An introduction to the principles of two-dimensional design and color theory and their use as tools for effective visual communication.

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ART201-C
Lippire, Kristine
01/13/2025 TTh 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM The Village at CBU ART2
ART201-A
Sankey, Lauren Michelle
01/13/2025 MW 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM The Village at CBU ART2
ART201-D
Lippire, Kristine
01/13/2025 TTh 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM The Village at CBU ART2
ART201-B
Lippire, Kristine
01/13/2025 MW 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM The Village at CBU ART2

This course functions as the introductory drawing course for Art majors and minors. In it, the perceptual and technical skills, and the basic media of drawing are introduced and exercised. Drawing as a historic art form is studied and used to develop a sophisticated awareness of its current expressive potential. Credit cannot be earned for ART 204 and 208.

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ART208-B
Gomez Jimenez, Renso
01/13/2025 TTh 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM Adams Business Park A22

 

Complete one of the following courses:

This course will introduce you to the major monuments of art and architecture across the globe beginning with prehistoric civilizations and ending with medieval societies. As a survey, we will be covering a wide range of objects, concepts, terms, chronology, and geography.

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This course will introduce you to the major monuments of art and architecture across the globe beginning with medieval societies and ending with the modern world. As a survey, we will be covering a wide range of objects, concepts, terms, chronology, and geography.

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Complete three to four (3-4) units from the following:

Basic elements of sculpture. Creating forms in clay, plaster, paper, and multi-media techniques.

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ART225-A
Lippire, Kristine
01/13/2025 W 10:45 AM - 1:45 PM Adams Business Park C33

Projects introduce traditional painting methods in oils or acrylic paints. Applied studio work, slide lectures, group discussions, and field trips are possible.

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This is a combination studio and lecture course that focuses exclusively on issues of color, its aesthetic, symbolic and psychological dimensions, as related to visual expression. This content is applicable to both fine art and design-related fields.

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ART301-A
Lippire, Kristine
01/13/2025 TTh 3:45 PM - 6:45 PM Adams Business Park C33

Complete eight (8) units from the following:

An essential course for the serious art student. Projects include multimedia community outreach opportunities; such past projects have been local elementary school murals, public sculptures, and collaborations with other departments on campus. More experimental art processes will also be explored in this class such as indigo dye painting, cyanotypes, and image transfer techniques. Emphasis on developing individual student skills and concepts.

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This course is dedicated to developing facility at rendering the human form in a variety of dry media. The context for this is drawing from live models (clothed), augmented with anatomical drawing exercises. It will also introduce students to the metaphorical and expressive possibilities of the human form.

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Sculpture II is an expansion of Sculpture I. There will be an emphasis on scale and new materials such as wood, metal, and found object assemblage. A large scale collaborative object for community outreach also gets explored in this class as well as a history in object making and their various functions.

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Projects further develop skills learned in ART 283 - Painting I. Applied studio work, slide lectures, group discussions, and field trips are possible.

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ART383-A
Ward, Nancy G.
01/13/2025 MW 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM Adams Business Park A22