faculty
Melissa Wilkinson
Assistant Teaching Professor
Art & Design
Contact
508-999-8546
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College of Visual & Performing Arts 151
Teaching
Courses
Forum for exploring contemporary art and design issues and learning from peers about developments in various art fields. Representative critical writings are discussed.
A forum for establishing a community of PBC students from Artisanry, Fine Arts and Design. This seminar introduces the student to the greater art world, and issues of the professional artist and designer. Students will develop critical thinking skills and understanding of other media through cross-disciplinary critique. The seminar deepens and enriches the students¿ awareness of personal direction seen in the context of historic and contemporary art and design. Through writing, assigned readings, lectures, and discussion, students refine their awareness of individual voice and the implications of their formal and conceptual choices.
Provides fundamental knowledge needed to develop course content, curriculum, and project planning for studio classes taught in the foundation program.
Studio with Lecture /6 hours per week. Drawing as a creative art and design process. Students are introduced to a wide range of drawing concepts, practices, media, and design. Emphasis is placed on developing essential perceptual, technical, formal, analytical and critical skills through work in representation, abstraction, and from imagination. Students explore idea, image, formal elements and their interdependence, and various modes of idea-generation, observation, image-development and expression.
Color, methods, materials. Introduction to color and the various methods and materials of painting that form the framework of learning to paint. Through work from direct observation of a variety of subjects, students learn to integrate shape, value and color in the creation of pictorial space and form. Students acquire the fundamental perceptual, technical, design and critical skills necessary to work in painting and begin to develop an understanding of the media.
A forum to present contemporary themes in art and design. This course will focus on conceptual and formal themes in order to explore influences that define contemporary art and design. Students will develop a keener comprehension of issues in contemporary art, explore majors with in CVPA, and be introduced to the intellectual community of CVPA and the University. Students will practice writing, critical thinking, collaborative learning and social/civic activities. This course is designed for first semester art majors.
A forum to present contemporary themes in art and design. This course will focus on conceptual and formal themes in order to explore influences that define contemporary art and design. Students will develop a keener comprehension of issues in contemporary art, explore majors with in CVPA, and be introduced to the intellectual community of CVPA and the University. Students will practice writing, critical thinking, collaborative learning and social/civic activities. This course is designed for first semester art majors.
Introduction to the comprehensive visual language of drawing. Various projects and presentations expose students to numerous drawing approaches, including working with line, sighting, positive and negative shapes, value and composition. Students will apply these skills to idea generation, form and space development, experimental variations on design, and creative problem solving. Students are also introduced to the processes involved in planning, researching, and actualizing a major drawing project Critiques and lectures will help students develop an understanding of the critical issues of drawing and of its context within the history of art and design.
Teaching
Online and Continuing Education Courses
A forum for establishing a community of PBC students from Artisanry, Fine Arts and Design. This seminar introduces the student to the greater art world, and issues of the professional artist and designer. Students will develop critical thinking skills and understanding of other media through cross-disciplinary critique. The seminar deepens and enriches the students¿ awareness of personal direction seen in the context of historic and contemporary art and design. Through writing, assigned readings, lectures, and discussion, students refine their awareness of individual voice and the implications of their formal and conceptual choices.
Register for this course.
Forum for exploring contemporary art and design issues and learning from peers about developments in various art fields. Representative critical writings are discussed.
Register for this course.