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Faculty |
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Professors Godfrey, Kaimal, Marlowe (°ä³ó²¹¾±°ù),ÌýMcVaugh, Schwarzer, Stephenson |
The Department of Art offers courses of study in the history, theory, and practice of the visual arts for the general liberal arts student as well as the art history or studio art major.
Art History The department offers more than 20 courses that trace the visual arts from antiquity to the present day. Classroom lectures are supplemented by visits to museums in the area and in New York City, as well as ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø's Clifford Gallery, Picker Art Gallery, and Longyear Museum of Anthropology. In this way, students increase their understanding of the visual arts as expressions of fundamental cultural values.
Studio Art Courses explore creative modes of expression and problem solving while gaining familiarity with contemporary issues in visual art. The curriculum supports a variety of mediums including digital art, drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and video art at the introductory and advanced levels. Studio arts courses are enriched by an ongoing series of visiting artists' lectures, exhibitions, and screenings as well as regular visits to New York City galleries, museums, and artists' studios.
Effective spring 2024, departmental subject codes will be adjusted to reflect the various topics offered. The ARTS subject code will be reserved for studio arts courses. Art History courses will have the subject code of ARTH and architecture courses will have the subject code of ARCH.
Departmental Exhibitions, Lectures and Screenings
The Clifford Gallery is a teaching gallery featuring four to six exhibitions a year. Exhibitions are selected by the art and art history faculty to explore issues central to the academic curriculum, with the primary focus on professional work by contemporary artists. These artists are often featured in the weekly public lecture series described below. The Clifford Gallery is open to the entire community and contributes to the cultural life of the central New York area.
The Department of Art Lecture Series Lectures take place throughout the semester in Little Hall's Golden Auditorium. The series features presentations by studio artists, art historians, and critics, and serves as an arena for discussion of a wide range of subjects relevant to the study of the visual arts. Recent participants have included art historians and practicing sculptors, painters, film and video makers, printmakers, photographers, architects, and artists working in digital art and performance. The series is required as part of the curriculum and is open to the community. It also serves as a venue for welcoming ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø graduates back to discuss their work in the visual arts and architecture.
The Alternative Cinema Series takes place weekly on Tuesday evenings. Tied to the film and video art curriculum, this series is programmed to include films and videos ranging from "classic" cinema to the current avant-garde. Each semester several film/video makers, historians, or curators visit campus and present work in person.
Honors and High Honors
After completing ARTH 475 - Senior Project: Art History Ìý´Ç°ùÌýARTS 406 - Senior Project: Studio Art  in the fall semester, students have the opportunity to apply to continue their project in the spring semester as an independent study, ARTS 499 - Senior Project Intensive  in Studio Art or Art History. Some projects completed in ARTS 499 may be nominated for honors at the end of the spring semester. The award of honors is dependent on departmental evaluation.
GPA Requirements: Honors — 3.20 in courses within the department; High Honors — 3.70 in courses within the department.
Awards
The Fitchen Award for Excellence in Art and Art History — awarded by the department to an outstanding major.
The Harriette Wagner Memorial Award — established in 2004 by Professor Joseph Wagner, created in memory of Harriette Zeppinick Wagner. The award will be given annually to the senior major whose work exemplifies the way visual arts enrich the spirit and express the dignity of human beings.
Transfer Credit
The department allows two courses to be transferred for credit toward the major, with prior approval of the courses by the department. No seminar taken outside ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø or outside the art department will fulfill the seminar requirement within the art history major.
Study Groups
Students are encouraged to participate in study groups; they may not schedule off-campus study during the senior year. For information, see Off-Campus Study.
Majors and Minors
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Minor
Courses
- ARCH 105Â -Â Introduction to Architecture in Cultural Context
- ARCH 220Â -Â Early Modern European Architecture
- ARCH 244Â -Â Housing the Sacred in Ancient India
- ARCH 245Â -Â Palaces and Paintings of India
- ARCH 271Â -Â Architectural Design I
- ARCH 273Â -Â Architecture of Art Museums
- ARCH 274Â -Â Sustainability in Architectural Design
- ARCH 275Â -Â American Campus Architecture: ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
- ARCH 277Â -Â Modern Architecture 1880-1970
- ARCH 291Â -Â Independent Study
- ARCH 344Â -Â Hindu Temples: Architecture and Sculpture, Architecture as Sculpture
- ARCH 363Â -Â War and Plunder
- ARCH 391Â -Â Independent Study
- ARCH 491Â -Â Independent Study
- ARTH 101Â -Â Caves to Cathedrals: The Art of Europe and the Mediterranean to the 13th Century
- ARTH 103Â -Â The Arts of Asia
- ARTH 107Â -Â What is Modern Art?
- ARTH 109Â -Â Buddhist Arts of Asia
- ARTH 110Â -Â Global Contemporary Art
- ARTH 207Â -Â Roman Art
- ARTH 210Â -Â Contemporary Art and Politics in the Middle East
- ARTH 216Â -Â Nature's Mirror: Renaissance Arts 1400-1550
- ARTH 219Â -Â The Economics of Art
- ARTH 226Â -Â Nature's Order: Baroque Arts 1550-1750
- ARTH 232Â -Â Latin American Modernism, 1922-1968
- ARTH 236Â -Â Art and Politics in the 19th Century
- ARTH 238Â -Â Transatlantic Avant-Gardes: 1880-1920
- ARTH 240Â -Â Art and Theory 1950-1980
- ARTH 243Â -Â Art & Theory 1980 to Present
- ARTH 246Â -Â From Emperors to Anime: Pictorial Practices in China and Japan
- ARTH 255Â -Â Museum Exhibitions: Design, Rhetoric, and Interpretation
- ARTH 257Â -Â Colonizing and Decolonizing Museums
- ARTH 270Â -Â Critical Museum Theory
- ARTH 280Â -Â Visual Culture of Fascism
- ARTH 287LÂ -Â Required Film Screening
- ARTH 287Â -Â History and Theory of Cinema
- ARTH 291Â -Â Independent Study
- ARTH 309Â -Â Scandals, Controversies and Debates in the Art World
- ARTH 311Â -Â The Arts in Venice during the Golden Age (Venice Study Group)
- ARTH 345Â -Â Exhibiting the New: 1960-2000
- ARTH 348Â -Â Modern Art on Display
- ARTH 350Â -Â Art and the Goddess
- ARTH 357Â -Â Storytelling Without Words
- ARTH 360Â -Â Borderlands
- ARTH 361Â -Â Boundary Consciousness: 1960s Art
- ARTH 381Â -Â Seminar in Art History: Pre-1300
- ARTH 382Â -Â Seminar in Art History: 1300-1800 (AH)
- ARTH 383Â -Â Seminar in Art History: After 1800
- ARTH 391Â -Â Independent Study
- ARTH 475Â -Â Senior Project: Art History
- ARTH 491Â -Â Independent Study
- ARTS 100Â -Â Introduction to Studio Art
- ARTS 130Â -Â Art and Storytelling
- ARTS 131Â -Â Public Art and Public Space
- ARTS 132Â -Â Art and Activism
- ARTS 133Â -Â Eco-Art
- ARTS 201Â -Â Digital Studio: Code, Recipes, Spells
- ARTS 202Â -Â Digital Studio: Distribution and Intervention
- ARTS 211Â -Â Drawing
- ARTS 221LÂ -Â Required Film Screening
- ARTS 221Â -Â Video Art
- ARTS 223LÂ -Â Required Film Screening
- ARTS 223Â -Â Analogue Filmmaking
- ARTS 231Â -Â Painting
- ARTS 241Â -Â Analog Photography
- ARTS 242Â -Â Digital Photography
- ARTS 251Â -Â Printmaking
- ARTS 260Â -Â Social Practice Art
- ARTS 263Â -Â Sculpture: Surface and Form
- ARTS 264Â -Â Sculpture: Material & Process
- ARTS 291Â -Â Independent Study
- ARTS 302Â -Â Advanced Digital Studio: Interactivity and Narrative
- ARTS 312Â -Â Advanced Drawing
- ARTS 322Â -Â Advanced Video Arts (SA)
- ARTS 332Â -Â Advanced Painting
- ARTS 342Â -Â Advanced Photography
- ARTS 354Â -Â Printmaking II
- ARTS 375Â -Â Advanced Projects in Studio Art
- ARTS 391Â -Â Independent Study
- ARTS 406Â -Â Senior Project: Studio Art
- ARTS 491Â -Â Independent Study
- ARTS 499Â -Â Senior Project Intensive