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In the Fine Arts Department, the focus is on the CURRICULUM individual. Studio classes are small, and students Disciplines from beginners to majors receive individual The fine arts program at Haverford centers instruction. around five disciplines: drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, and sculpture. Every student is encouraged to develop the physical and critical skills necessary to create art. Each discipline is offered at both the introductory The philosophy of the department is that and advanced levels, exposing students to the observational skills are the cornerstone of all rigors and processes of each medium. Students visual art disciplines. Cognition and processing get the benefit of learning about the tradition and information are key skills for any discipline—in the practice in the introductory courses, and then the humanities or the sciences—and for this utilize and alter those ideas and tools in the reason art at Haverford is specifically geared advanced courses. towards enhancing visual perception. Such finely tuned skills can benefit anyone professionally and Students are encouraged to channel multi- personally. disciplinary interests and ideas in their work, and to find an identity and voice through the medium, The fine arts courses offered by the department as well as producing work that is relevant to are structured to accomplish the following: them. • For students not majoring in fine arts: to • Drawing is typically viewed as practice or a develop a visual perception of form and to preparatory exercise for a more “finalized” present knowledge and understanding of it in project (i.e. painting, sculpture, printmaking, works of art. installation), and as the definition of art • For students intending to major or to minor becomes ever-changing, drawing by in fine arts: beyond the foregoing, to promote contemporary standards includes sketches thinking in visual terms and to foster the and everything in between as final works. skills needed to give expression to these in a Especially with the influx of street art and coherent body of art works. illustration, sketches, lists, and doodles are taken both seriously and as final art forms. About 20 percent of Haverford students take fine Drawing at Haverford introduces and expands arts courses while enrolled in the College. The the traditional drawing practice to working students who major in fine arts and wish to self-sufficiently and exploring aesthetic continue their education are usually accepted at notions in a variety of mediums: ink, pencil, the professional graduate art school of their charcoal, pen, pastel, markers, mixed media, choice. Our alumni are distinguished etc. professionals, active in the visual creative arts and allied fields. • Traditionally rooted in narration, religion, and history the practice of painting is a LEARNING GOALS mode of expression using different styles and All fine arts studio courses are designed for mediums. Oil, acrylic, ink and mixed media students to obtain motor skills, theoretical and are the tools to experiment with different critical thinking, and problem solving necessary painting styles and compositions. Painting at to create art to the student’s fullest ability along Haverford aims to guide students through the with developing their own original ideas and formative practices as well as encouraging concepts. Students achieve these goals in exploration. The painting program is rigorous individual interactions such as critiques and with intensive work and weekly student hands-on instruction in small classroom settings. critiques. Students have classroom These educational goals are augmented by opportunity to work figuratively and paint outside speakers, visiting artists, exhibitions and from live models, work within the elements non-studio courses in visual culture sponsored by outside in Haverford’s sprawling landscape, the department or taught by its faculty. and also encouraged to challenge and take Haverford College Catalog 2017-2018 187 FINE ARTS ideas further conceptually. With distinguished photography. The photography book guest artists and lecturers visiting from other collection in Magill Library is one of the finest academic institutions, students are exposed to in the country. The photographic print many views and interpretations of art making, collection contains over 5,000 original inspiration, and the painting process. photographs. It is encyclopedic and contains works from Hill and Adamson at the dawn of • Printmaking is an interdisciplinary art form the beginning of photography to that has its own unique style as intaglio, contemporary works by Andres Serrano and lithography, relief, monotype, and silkscreen. Laurie Simmons. These exceptional resources Digital printmaking in lithography, intaglio, support small classes that allow for personal and silkscreen are taught along with attention and instruction from the professor traditional methods. Students are encouraged and staff. to combine printmaking with other mediums and extend their ideas from 2D to 3D • The sculpture concentration at Haverford including installation. Multi-media offers students the opportunity to explore the approaches are strongly recommended in three-dimensional media with a broad range advanced levels. of materials and processes. Classes are designed to engage the visual language Printmaking requires an intensive discipline. through a process of critical analysis and Patience is essential. Focus and attention are discovery while providing a structured unavoidable. It is an art form based on environment that allows students to acquire chemistry and math. It has a long history that dexterity with a comprehensive set of three- they must be aware of in order to create their dimensional skills. At the introductory level own works. Furthermore, it is visual. No students are introduced to fundamental three- thoughts or philosophy can “be” a print even dimensional techniques and through though it requires them all. Regardless of sequential classes they gain proficiency in a level, students are individual artists; they are skill set that culminates with sophisticated respected to create their own work with an sculptural concepts and fabrication methods excellence in commitment that leads them to at the advanced level. great achievements. The sculpture facilities include a wood shop, • The purpose of photography instruction at metal fabrication equipment, and a large- Haverford is to allow students to develop a scale foundry for bronze casting. Students are personal body of work using photographic introduced to wood and metal working materials. techniques, modeling and casting skills, and digital fabrication methods. The sculpture A sequence of courses is offered from concentration’s focus on conceptual Foundation Photography for students with investigation and in-depth technical little or no knowledge to Advanced education, in conjunction with well-equipped Photography in which students produce books foundry facilities, provides students the and exhibitions. Emphasis is placed on setting to foster creativity and work through producing photographs, which express both artistic curiosity. form and emotion through mastery of materials and acquisition of the intellectual Coursework and Studio Work and critical traditions of photography. The The 100-level “Introductory or Foundation” former is accomplished by technical critiques courses consist of half-semester courses. of student work in negative, digital and print Although one half-semester is not sufficient for a formats. The latter is accomplished through beginning student to master a given medium, it reading and studying of the history of offers ample time for acquiring a medium’s basic photography, theory and criticism, skills. In each discipline, the student learns to see photographic monographs and original prints. and to coordinate their increasing skills of interpretation and expression to create individual The facilities for the study of photography art works. include up-to-date and well-equipped darkrooms for chemical and digital The 200-level courses are “Materials and 188 Haverford College Catalog 2017-2018 FINE ARTS Techniques” courses. Having gained a solid basis Studies (ARTSH 499A and 499B, prerequisite from the foundation courses, the student chooses 300 course in student’s concentration such as a medium to pursue in depth for a semester. At drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, or this level, we encourage the student to explore the sculpture) on a weekly basis. This two-semester, various materials and their uses to create a two-credit course provides students with a refined and distinctive body of work. In the 300- structured environment to develop a body of level “Experimental Studio” courses, the student work that is presented in the form of an uses the acquired knowledge of materials and exhibition at the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery. The techniques to further express and broaden their scope of the senior thesis exhibition artistic vision and ideas. accomplishes the process of selecting works to be included in the exhibition, determining the We encourage students to spend time on their layout of the works, and installing the works in own work outside of class in the fine arts the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery. Students building. Adjacent faculty studios encourage this participate in the planning of the opening informal contact, which is invaluable in learning reception for their thesis exhibition, which is the discipline of creating art. This type of contact advertised to a broad audience. During the and mentoring is an important aspect of a opening, they present their work to a general student’s education in our department. audience and are available to answer questions from guests. After the gallery opening, the Fine MAJOR REQUIREMENTS Arts Department faculty schedules a full Fine Arts majors are required to concentrate in departmental review of the work presented by one of the following: drawing, painting, each student. During the review each student photography, printmaking, and sculpture, as articulates a formal presentation of their work detailed here: and students are asked to respond to questions • Four 100-level foundation courses in each and comments put forth by the faculty. discipline. • Two different 200-level courses outside the Senior Project Learning Goals area of concentration in the major. Seniors are expected to create a coherent body of work that demonstrates proficiency in the use • Two 200-level courses and one 300-level of their chosen concentration, develop content course within the students chosen focal area and articulate ideas with a personal and within Fine Arts. effective visual language and present their work • Three art history/theory/criticism or visual in a professionally installed gallery exhibition, studies courses (as approved by major e.g. in the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Atrium advisor). Gallery, or Alcove Gallery. In addition to • Senior Departmental Studies 499. presenting visual works, majors are expected to • For majors intending to do graduate work, we articulate the content and context of the their strongly recommend that they take an work in a written statement, which is on display additional 300-level studio course within with their work along with researches on visual their area of concentration and an additional art and artists that are related to their own art history course at Bryn Mawr. work. These educational goals are augmented by outside speakers, visiting artists, exhibitions and MINOR REQUIREMENTS non-studio courses in visual culture sponsored • Minors must take four 100-level foundation by the department or taught by its faculty. courses in different disciplines. • Two 200-level courses and one 300-level Senior Project Assessment course within the student’s chosen focal area Each thesis project is evaluated by the Faculty within fine arts. members who are also their concentration • One art history/theory/criticism or visual advisors using the following categories: culture course. • Original ideas and creativity. • Proficiency in their chosen concentration. SENIOR PROJECT • Quality of the project. In preparation for the senior thesis exhibition • Active discussion and participation during students attend 499 Senior Departmental group critiques by departmental full faculty, which forms in the beginning, mid•term, and Haverford College Catalog 2017-2018 189 FINE ARTS final week, and weekly group critique and William Williams research in addition to individual meetings Audrey A. and John L. Dusseau Professor in the with the faculty members. Humanities and Curator of Photography • Progress in their project. • Research on related sources, e.g. professional COURSES artist works and digital presentation. ARTS H101 ARTS FOUNDATION- • Statement of the project. DRAWING (2-D) • Attendance. Jonathan Goodrich Humanities (HU) STUDY ABROAD A seven-week introductory course for students Credits from Study Abroad or from with little or no experience in drawing. Students Outside the Fine Arts Department will first learn how to see with a painter’s eye. Majors can take one 200-level course outside of a Composition, perspective, proportion, light, form, major’s concentration and any art history/theory/ picture plane and other fundamentals will be criticism or visual culture courses, subject to studied. We will work from live models, still life, approval by the chair of the Fine Arts Department landscape, imagination and masterwork. (Offered before the course is taken. Fall 2017)

Minors can take one 200-level course outside of a ARTS H103 ARTS FOUNDATION- minor’s area of study and one art PHOTOGRAPHY history/theory/criticism or visual culture courses, William Williams subject to approval by the chair of the Fine Arts Humanities (HU) Department before the course is taken. This is a half-semester course to introduce the craft and artistry of photography to students with some or no skills in photography. Students learn FACILITIES how to develop negatives, print enlargements, See the departmental web page for a description and printing techniques such as burning, of art studios, galleries, and other special facilities dodging, and exposure time. This class also for this program. requires a two-hour workshop. The day and time of the workshop will be determined during the FACULTY first class. Offered in the first quarter. (Offered Markus Baenziger (on leave 2017-2018) Fall 2017 and Spring 2018) Professor ARTS H104 ARTS FOUNDATION - Anna Benjamin SCULPTURE Visiting Assistant Professor Naomi Safran-Hon Humanities (HU) Christina Freeman This is a seven-week, half semester course Visiting Assistant Professor designed to provide an introduction to three dimensional concepts and techniques. Skills Jonathan Goodrich associated with organizing and constructing Visiting Assistant Professor and Senior Thesis three-dimensional form will be addressed Coordinator through a series of projects within a contemporary context. The first projects will Hee Sook Kim (on leave Fall 2017) focus on basic three-dimensional concepts, while Professor later projects will allow for greater individual self- expression and exploration. Various fabrication Ying Li skills including construction, modeling, basic Chair and Professor mold making, and casting will be demonstrated in class. All fabrication techniques will be covered in Bill Pangburn detail in class, and no prior experience is required Visiting Assistant Professor to successfully complete this course. (Offered Fall 2017 and Spring 2018) Naomi Safron-Hon Visiting Assistant Professor 190 Haverford College Catalog 2017-2018 FINE ARTS ARTS H106 ARTS FOUNDATION - of the medium to create a personal visual DRAWING statement. (Offered Spring 2018) Staff Humanities (HU) ARTS H121 FOUNDATION This is a seven-week introductory level course PRINTMAKING: RELIEF PRINTING designed to provide an overview of basic drawing Staff techniques addressing line, form, perspective, Humanities (HU) and composition. Various drawing methods will A seven-week course covering various techniques be introduced in class, and students will gain and approaches to the art of the woodcut and the experience in drawing by working from still life, linocut, emphasizing the study of design models, and architecture. Preference to declared principles and the expressive potential of the majors who need Foundations, and to students medium to create a personal visual statement. who have entered the lottery for the same (Offered Fall 2017) Foundations course at least once without success. (Offered Spring 2018) ARTS H122 FOUNDATION PRINTMAKING: LITHOGRAPHY ARTS H107 ARTS FOUNDATION- Hee Sook Kim PAINTING Humanities (HU) Ying Li A seven-week course covering various techniques Humanities (HU) and approaches to Lithography, including paper A seven-week introductory course for students plate preparation, drawing materials, editioning, with little or no experience in painting. Students black and white printing and color registration. will be first introduced to the handling of basic Emphasizing the expressive potential of the tools, materials and techniques. We will study medium to create a personal visual statement. color theory such as interaction of color, value & (Offered Spring 2018) color, warms & cools, complementary colors, optical mixture, texture, and surface quality. We ARTS H124 FOUNDATION will work from live model, still life, landscape, PRINTMAKING: MONOTYPE imagination and masterwork. (Offered Fall 2017 Staff and Spring 2018) Humanities (HU) Basic printmaking techniques in Monotype ARTS H108 ARTS FOUNDATION- medium. Painterly methods, direct drawing, PHOTOGRAPHY stencils, and brayer techniques for beginners in William Williams printmaking will be taught. Color, form, shape, Humanities (HU) and composition in 2-D format will be explored. This is a half-semester course to introduce the Individual and group critiques will be employed. craft and artistry of photography to students with (Offered Fall 2017) some or no skills in photography. Students learn how to develop negatives, print enlargements, ARTS H217 THE HISTORY OF AFRICAN- and printing techniques such as burning, AMERICAN ART FROM 1619 TO THE dodging, and exposure time. This class also PRESENT requires a two-hour workshop. The day and time William Williams of the workshop will be determined during the Humanities (HU) first class. Offered in the second quarter. (Offered A survey course documenting and interpreting Fall 2017 and Spring 2018) the development and history of African-American Art from 1619 to present day. Representative ARTS H120 FOUNDATION works from the art and rare book collections will PRINTMAKING: SILKSCREEN supplement course readings. (Offered Spring Hee Sook Kim 2018) Humanities (HU) A seven-week course covering various techniques ARTS H218 CHINESE CALLIGRAPHY AS and approaches to silkscreen, including painterly AN ART FORM monoprint, stencils, direct drawing and photo- Ying Li silkscreen, emphasizing the expressive potential Humanities (HU)

Haverford College Catalog 2017-2018 191 FINE ARTS This course combines studio practice and creating Students are encouraged to experiment with art projects with slide lectures, readings, and various drawing media and to explore the museum visits. Students will study the art of relationships between media, techniques and Chinese Calligraphy, and its connection with expression. Each student will strive to develop a Western art. No Chinese language required. (Not personal approach to drawing while addressing offered 2017-18) fundamental issues of pictorial space, structure, scale, and rhythm. Students will work from ARTS H223 PRINTMAKING: MATERIALS observation, conceptual ideas and imagination. AND TECHNIQUES: ETCHING Course includes drawing projects, individual and Staff group crits, slide lectures, museum and gallery Humanities (HU) visits. (Offered Fall 2017) Concepts and techniques of B/W & Color Intaglio. Line etching, aquatint, soft and hard ground, ARTS H233 PAINTING: MATERIALS AND chin-colle techniques will be explored as well as TECHNIQUES visual concepts. Developing personal statements Ying Li will be encouraged. Individual and group Humanities (HU) critiques will be employed. (Offered Fall 2017) Students are encouraged to experiment with various painting techniques and materials in ARTS H225 LITHOGRAPHY: MATERIALS order to develop a personal approach to self- AND TECHNIQUES expression. We will emphasize form, color, Hee Sook Kim texture, and the relationship among them; Humanities (HU) influences of various techniques upon the An intermediate course covering B/W and Color expression of a work; the characteristics and Lithography in plates. Combined methods with limitations of different media. Students will work other printmaking techniques such as Paper from observation, conceptual ideas, and lithography and Monotype are explored during imagination. Course includes drawing projects, the course along with photographic approaches. individual and group crits, slide lectures, museum Editioning of images is required along with and gallery visits. Prerequisite(s): Fine Arts experimental ones. Development of technical Foundations or instructor consent. (Offered skills in traditional Lithography and personal Spring 2018) visual study are necessary with successful creative solutions. A strong body of work following a ARTS H243 SCULPTURE: MATERIALS specific theme is required. Individual discussions AND TECHNIQUES and group critiques are held periodically. Staff Additional research on the history of printmaking Humanities (HU) is requested. (Not offered 2017-18) This course is designed to give students an in- depth introduction to a comprehensive range of ARTS H229 TOPICS IN VISUAL STUDIES: three-dimensional concepts and fabrication ROLAND BARTHES AND THE IMAGE techniques. Emphasis will be on wood and metal John Muse working, and additional processes such as casting Humanities (HU) procedures for a range of synthetic materials and An exploration of the rhetoric of visual culture working with digital tools including a laser cutter through an examination of 20th century French and CNC equipment will be introduced in class. critic Roland Barthes’ many writings on Course may be repeated for credit. (Offered Fall photography, film, and what he calls the “civilized 2017) code of perfect illusions.” We will spend the semester reading his texts, charting the trajectory ARTS H251 PHOTOGRAPHY: MATERIALS of a career that begins with the euphoria of an AND TECHNIQUES ever-expanding semiotic and ends with a William Williams meditation on the limits of this very project. Humanities (HU) (Offered Fall 2017) Students are encouraged to develop an individual approach to photography. Emphasis is placed on ARTS H231 DRAWING (2-D): ALL MEDIA the creation of color photographic prints which Ying Li express plastic form, emotions and ideas about Humanities (HU) the physical world. Work is critiqued weekly to 192 Haverford College Catalog 2017-2018 FINE ARTS give critical insights into editing of individual held periodically. Additional research on the student work and the use of the appropriate history of printmaking is requested. black-and-white photographic materials in analog Prerequisite(s): One course in printmaking or or digital formats necessary to give coherence to instructor consent. (Not offered 2017-18) that work. Study of the photography collection, gallery and museum exhibitions, lectures and a ARTS H331 EXPERIMENTAL STUDIO: critical analysis of photographic sequences in DRAWING (2-D) books and a research project supplement the Ying Li weekly critiques. In addition students produce a Humanities (HU) handmade archival box to house their work, Students will build on the work done in 200 level which is organized into a loose sequence and courses, to develop further their individual mounted to archival standards. Prerequisite(s): approach to drawing. Students are expected to ARTS 103 or equivalent, or instructor consent. create projects that demonstrate the unique (Offered Fall 2017) character of drawing in making their own art. Completed projects will be exhibited at the end of ARTS H321 EXPERIMENTAL STUDIO: semester. Class will include weekly crits, museum ETCHING visits, visiting artists’ lecture and crits. Each Staff student will present a 15- minute slide talk and Humanities (HU) discussion of either their own work or the work of An advanced course covers Color Etching using artists who influenced them. (Offered Fall 2017) multiple plates. Viscosity printing, line etching, aquatint, soft-ground, surface roll, Chin-collè, ARTS H333 EXPERIMENTAL STUDIO: plate preparation, registration, and editioning are PAINTING covered. Students study techniques and concepts Ying Li in Intaglio method as well as visual expressions Humanities (HU) through hands-on experiences. Development of Students will build on the work done in 200 level technical skills of Intaglio and personal visual courses to develop further their individual study are necessary and creative and approach to painting. Students are expected to experimental approaches beyond two- create projects that demonstrate the unique dimensional outcomes encouraged. A strong body character of their chosen media in making their of work following a specific theme is required. own art. Completed projects will be exhibited at Individual discussions and group critiques are the end of semester. Class will include weekly held periodically. Additional research on the crits, museum visits, visiting artists’ lecture and history of printmaking is requested. (Offered Fall crits. Each student will present a 15- minute slide 2017) talk and discussion of either their own work or the work of artists who influenced them. (Offered ARTS H322 EXPERIMENTAL STUDIO: Fall 2017) PRINTMAKING: LITHOGRAPHY Hee Sook Kim ARTS H343 EXPERIMENTAL STUDIO: Humanities (HU) SCULPTURE An advanced course exploring traditional and Staff experimental lithographic printmaking Humanities (HU) techniques in multiple plates and stones. Two- In this studio course the student is encouraged to and three- dimensional and design and drawing experiment with ideas and techniques with the exploration in color also are addressed. During purpose of developing a personal expression. It is the semester, students use multiple-plate and expected that the student will already have a stone lithography in colors. Registration, color sound knowledge of the craft and aesthetics of separation, and edition are taught at an advanced sculpture and is at a stage where personal level. Combining other mediums can be explored expression has become possible. May be repeated individually. Development of technical skills of for credit. Prerequisite(s): ARTS 243A or B, or the Lithographic process with personal visual instructor consent. (Offered Spring 2018) study is necessary and creative and experimental approaches are highly encouraged. A strong body ARTS H351 EXPERIMENTAL STUDIO: of work following a specific theme is required. PHOTOGRAPHY Individual discussions and group critiques are William Williams Haverford College Catalog 2017-2018 193 FINE ARTS Humanities (HU) Students produce an extended sequence of their work in either book or exhibition format using black and white or color photographic materials. The sequence and scale of the photographic prints are determined by the nature of the student’s work. Weekly classroom critiques, supplemented by an extensive investigation of classic photographic picture books and related critical texts guide students to the completion of their course work. This two semester course consists of the book project first semester and the exhibition project second semester. At the end of each semester the student may exhibit his/her project. (Offered Fall 2017)

ARTS H460 TEACHING ASSISTANT Ying Li Humanities (HU) (Offered Spring 2018)

ARTS H499 SENIOR DEPARTMENTAL STUDIES Staff Humanities (HU) The student reviews the depth and extent of experience gained, and in so doing creates a coherent body of work expressive of the student’s insights and skills. At the end of the senior year the student is expected to produce a show of his or her work. (Offered Fall 2017)

ARTT H251 FUNDAMENTALS OF ACTING Catharine Slusar Humanities (HU) An introduction to the fundamental elements of acting (scene analysis, characterization, improvisation, vocal and gestural presentation, and ensemble work) through the study of scenes from significant 20th-century dramatic literature. (Offered Spring 2018)

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