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  • ART 1020: Non major Basic Drawing

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Course introduces the fundamentals of drawing. Graphic media used include pencil, charcoal, pen, and ink. Students learn techniques in line, contour, form, light and shade, texture, and explore problems in design awareness and drawing accuracy.
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  • ART 1025: NM Figure Sculpture

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This course explores the figure as a three-dimensional form. Students work directly from the model to gain knowledge of figure structure, gesture, scale, proportion, and composition, as well as to consider how the figure engages with space. A variety of sculpture processes are used to investigate the figure, including clay modeling, carving, mold making, and fabrication techniques. Contemporary ideas in figurative sculpture are explored through readings, lectures, and discussions.
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  • ART 1030: Non-major Painting

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This course builds upon information and skills presented in ART 1020 with the presentation of instruction in basic techniques of painting emphasizing concepts of shape, volume, and use of color theory. Students also learn direct and indirect (glazes) painting. Subject matter varies from representation to free form.
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  • ART 1050: NM Darkroom Photography

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    The course introduces photographic processes based in the traditional darkroom. Topics covered will be pinhole photography, photograms, cyanotype (sunprints), and photo transfers. Students will build their own pinhole cameras, and create photographs using black and white film and chemicals. Cyanotypes will make use of the sun to expose student's images. By working with Xerox copies of photographs (whether digital or film), students will learn several photo transfer processes. A film camera is optional for this course.
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  • ART 1070: NM Handbuild Ceramics

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    The course introduces studio ceramics. It provides the basic technical, historical, theoretical and hands-on experience needed to understand and make high fired, hand made, stoneware ceramics. Through the making of ceramic objects in various techniques, formal discussions, slide presentations and critiques, students are introduced to contemporary artistic and aesthetic issues transcending the clay medium. Students work in stoneware clay and fire work in high fire reduction and Raku.
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  • ART 1080: NM Wheel Pottery

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Beginning course in wheelthrown pottery to develop skills in throwing, surface decoration, and glazing of stoneware and porcelain. Students explore work rhythms of the pottery studio as they learn the concept of good craftsmanship.
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  • ART 2060: NM Digital Photography

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    The class introduces the history, mechanics and applications of digital photography as well as basic photographic combination of lectures, guest lectures, viewing the work of master photographers, class assignments and in-class critiques of student work which will be projected on the screen.
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  • ART 2200: Beginning Drawing

    4.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Concentrates on line drawing with emphasis on representational accuracy, linear perspective, hand-eye coordination and skill, expressive qualities of line, and exploration of conceptual ideas in drawing. The final third of the semester shifts the emphasis to a careful study of chiaroscuro, as well as its theory and application. Prerequisites: Pre-Major status OR Intermediate Status OR Full Major status in Art OR Minor status in Drawing.
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  • ART 2201: Action

    2.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This Foundations course, required of all BFA majors in Studio Art, introduces students to the basic principles of time, storytelling, four-dimensional studio practices and community engagement, as related to the visual arts. Students will use critical thinking and creative problem solving to explore art as a form of action through narrative, duration, tempo, intensity, social practice and context. Prerequisites: Full Major or Intermediate or Minor status in BFA Studio Art OR Full Major status in BFA Graphic Design.
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  • ART 2202: Construct

    2.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This Foundations course, required of all BFA majors in Studio Art, introduces students to fundamental 3-D design. It does so through beginning explorations into materials and process, as well as tools and construction methods. Projects focus on 3-D formal applications of line, plane, form, and space, with investigations of topics including, but not limited to: positive/negative, interior/exterior, volume/mass, multiple/repetition, scale, color/surface, and texture. Prerequisites: Full Major or Intermediate or Minor status in BFA Studio Art OR Full Major status in BFA Graphic Design.
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