A wide shot of a ceramics studio, featuring students working with pottery wheels and other tools.

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Arnold Kemp

Professor, Presidential Professor

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Professor, Painting and Drawing, (2016). BA/BFA, 1986, Tufts University, Medford, MA and School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; MFA, 2006, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. Concurrent Position: Dean of Graduate Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions: King School Museum of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR; Fourteen 30 Contemporary, Portland, OR; Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR; Iceberg Projects, Chicago, IL, Biquini Wax, EPS, Mexico City, Mexico; May 68, New York, NY; Soloway, Brooklyn, NY; PDX Contemporary, Portland, OR; 2nd Floor Projects, San Francisco, CA; Capital Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Workshop Residence, San Francisco, CA; Apalazzo Gallery, Brescia, Italy; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA; Joan, Los Angeles, CA; The Drawing enter, New York, NY; The National Art Gallery of the Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas; Gallery 400, Chicago, IL; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY.

Awards: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation; Pollock-Krasner Foundation; Joan Mitchell Foundation; ArtMatters Grant; Printed Matter Inc. Grant; Distinguished Artist-in-Residence, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA; Artadia

Bibliography: Mary Weatherford: Canyon-Daisy-Eden, Tang Teaching Museum; From Our Hearts to Yours: New Narrative as Contemporary Practice, ON Contemporary Practice; New American Paintings; Re:collection : Selected works from the Studio Museum in Harlem.

Courses

Title Department Catalog Term

Description

This drawing studio serves as a broad introduction to historical and contemporary drawing practices. This course presents drawing as an organizer of thought, experience, and image.

Students will investigate a full range of drawing materials and supports. Lectures and exercises introduce various concepts of drawing, possibly including illusionistic form and space, gesture and expressive mark-making, or collage and found imagery, depending on the instructor?s emphasis.

Designed to accommodate many skill levels, students can explore various creative strategies through technical drawing exercises, material explorations, and individual projects. Structured classroom critiques will bring drawing concepts into personal student work.

Class Number

1661

Credits

3

Description

This studio explores specific problems in each student's area of concentration and interest. Students are expected to command familiarity with problems of color, composition, and basic materials.

Class Number

2090

Credits

9

Description

Studio Projects:Independent studio work under the guidance of a faculty advisor. Post-Baccalaureatee studio students receive a list of scheduled advisors. Writing Projects: Independent tutorial work with the guidance and encouragement of a faculty advisor. Post-Baccalaureate writing students receive a list of scheduled advisors. The student registers for 6 credit hours of Post-Baccalaureate Projects during each semester of study.

Class Number

2095

Credits

3 - 6

Description

Taken every semester, the Graduate Projects courses allow students to focus in private sessions on the development of their work. Students register for 6 hours of Graduate Project credit in each semester of study.

Class Number

2322

Credits

3 - 6

Description

Taken every semester, the Graduate Projects courses allow students to focus in private sessions on the development of their work. Students register for 6 hours of Graduate Project credit in each semester of study.

Class Number

1957

Credits

3 - 6