| Drawing Studio |
Early College Program |
401 (001) |
Summer 2024 |
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Description
In this dynamic course, you'll explore drawing as a powerful way to express your thoughts, feelings, and unique ideas. Whether new to the medium or looking to sharpen your skills, you'll investigate contemporary themes and subjects while developing essential techniques like line, perspective, tone, proportion, composition, value, gesture, and contour. Get hands-on with various traditional and modern drawing materials, experimenting with everything from charcoal and graphite to ink and vibrant water-based paints. You'll also visit the Art Institute of Chicago, interact with professional artists, and take virtual tours of museums when available¿all designed to inspire your artistic journey. This course emphasizes personal expression and creative exploration, making it the perfect space for beginners and experienced artists to discover their artistic voice. Note: Figure Drawing and Figure Painting use nude models hired by the School. Other painting and drawing classes may use them to a lesser degree.
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Class Number
1152
Credits
1
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| Summer Institute: Sculpture: Materials and Methods |
Early College Program Summer Institute |
402 (001) |
Summer 2024 |
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Description
This course is a rigorous exploration of contemporary sculptural practices with an emphasis on critical relationships between form, material, and content. Students use research, instructor feedback, and peer support to realize their own unique visions in three dimensions. Discussions of materials, processes, and hands-on practice empower students to move from concept to completed work, generating a better understanding of how sculpture is situated within the context of culture and society at large. Projects allow for an investigation of traditional and contemporary materials and methods, including installation, carving, casting, fabrication, mold making, and construction. Demonstrations of SAIC's digital tools, field trips to the Art Institute of Chicago, and artist presentations supplement the studio experience. Artwork and/or performances that are temporary in nature or that cannot be easily transported will be properly documented through photography and/or video.
*NOTE* Previous experience in sculpture helpful, but not required. SAIC will provide basic equipment, but students are encouraged to bring their own digital camera, tablet, and/or laptop for homework and after-studio hours projects.
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Class Number
1040
Credits
2
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| SI: Portfolio Prep Studio: The Final Presentation |
Early College Program Summer Institute |
407 (002) |
Summer 2024 |
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Description
In this hands-on course, students work on the development and presentation of their portfolios for upcoming college applications. Through dynamic workshops with SAIC faculty and admissions staff, students will discover the most effective way to represent their unique points-of-views as artists to the colleges of their choice. They will develop artists statements, learn photo documentation best practices, edit and organize images of their existing works using Adobe software and then graphically design a digital presentation of their work. Additional resources such as artist presentations, and the Art Institute of Chicago supplement the course curriculum.
*NOTE* Students should have developed a number of artworks either in previous ECPSI classes or independently before taking this course; they will be asked to bring in at least one art piece to document (and revise if needed). Students are encouraged to bring their own digital camera, tablet, and/or laptop for homework/research and after-studio hours projects.
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Class Number
1012
Credits
1
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| Core Studio Practice I |
Contemporary Practices |
1010 (018) |
Fall 2024 |
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Description
In this course we will focus on disciplinary and interdisciplinary art and design practices of contemporary art production. This team-taught, year-long class explores the materials and techniques of surface, space, and time (2D, 3D, and 4D), as well as the connections and interplay of these areas. Core Studio integrates the formal with the conceptual, traditional with the contemporary, and makes visible a variety of approaches in current cultural production in order to foster the development of students? emerging practices as makers and thinkers.
In this interdisciplinary studio course students will be authorized to use a variety of school shops, materials and equipment; including the woodshop, plaster studio, digital lab, sewing machine, hand tools, sound and video production, digital workflows and principles of visual fundamentals. This is a hands-on making class, faculty present artists and content related to a particular toolkit and, or project theme. Every section of Core Studio has shared learning outcomes which are uniquely realized by each Core faculty partnership.
Students should expect a fast-paced studio environment. In Core Studio students will complete short assignments as well as longer multi-week projects. Assignments are designed to help students develop their own ideas in relation to the materials, processes, and themes presented by faculty.
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Class Number
1305
Credits
3
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| Core Studio Practice II |
Contemporary Practices |
1011 (018) |
Spring 2025 |
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Description
In this course we will focus on disciplinary and interdisciplinary art and design practices of contemporary art production. This team-taught, year-long class explores the materials and techniques of surface, space, and time (2D, 3D, and 4D), as well as the connections and interplay of these areas. Core Studio integrates the formal with the conceptual, traditional with the contemporary, and makes visible a variety of approaches in current cultural production in order to foster the development of students? emerging practices as makers and thinkers.
In this interdisciplinary studio course students will be authorized to use a variety of school shops, materials and equipment; including the woodshop, plaster studio, digital lab, sewing machine, hand tools, sound and video production, digital workflows and principles of visual fundamentals. This is a hands-on making class, faculty present artists and content related to a particular toolkit and, or project theme. Every section of Core Studio has shared learning outcomes which are uniquely realized by each Core faculty partnership.
Students should expect a fast-paced studio environment. In Core Studio students will complete short assignments as well as longer multi-week projects. Assignments are designed to help students develop their own ideas in relation to the materials, processes, and themes presented by faculty.
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Class Number
1241
Credits
3
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| Core Studio Practice I: Transfers |
Contemporary Practices |
1012 (002) |
Fall 2024 |
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Description
Core Studio is a year-long course that introduces students to both disciplinary and interdisciplinary art practice. Students learn about the methods, materials, tools and concepts in the areas of Surface (2-dimensional), Space (3-dimensional), and Time (4-dimensional), both independently and in relationship to one another. Students develop their own ideas in relation to the materials and themes being presented by faculty. Core Studio integrates the formal with the conceptual, historical with the contemporary, and makes visible the possibilities and variety of approaches in contemporary cultural production.
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Class Number
1358
Credits
3
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| Research Studio I |
Contemporary Practices |
1020 (005) |
Fall 2024 |
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Description
This studio course focuses on themes, practices, contexts, and questions undertaken by contemporary artists and designers. Research Studio I is a course that asks students to begin to develop and connect their own work and ideas with a diverse range of artists, designers, and communities. This course engages with cultural institutions including: museums, galleries, libraries and archives as resources of critical engagement.
Students will undertake various types of research activities: a) collecting and classification, b) mapping and diagramming, c) systems of measurement, d) social interaction, e) information search systems, f) recording and representation, and g) drawing and other notational systems.
Assignments in this course are faculty directed, open-media, interdisciplinary and idea based. The projects are designed to help students recognize their work habits, biases, strengths, and weaknesses. Students will experience a wide range of research methods and making strategies. Critique as an evaluative process used in art and design schools, is a focus in this course. Various methods and models of critique are used in order to give students the tools to discuss their own work and the work of others.
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Class Number
1316
Credits
3
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| PS:Human & Animal |
Performance |
4005 (002) |
Spring 2025 |
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Description
This class explores the intersection between performance and animal studies, exploring issues of ethics and exploitation in relation to living bodies of all forms. We will use a series of documents of performance artists and animals as jumping off points to consider our experience and understanding of language and space, presence and perception, instinct and empathy. We will consider the intimacy and potentially transgressive behaviors of the solo artist and the domestic animal: Carolee Schneeman and her cats, Ange Bartram and her dog. We will also interrogate the images and notions of the untamed and the untrained from Joseph Beuys coyote to La Monte Young's compositions that included 'any number of butterflies'. The use of the animal as material will also be explored, from the anonymous open carcasses used by the Viennese Actionists to the consumption of animal derived food as performative act. We will cover broad questions of spectatorship and participation from the theater and the zoo to the abattoir, as well as histories of animal impersonation from the trickster to the nativity play donkey and the pantomime horse. This class will culminate in a day long conference to which students may contribute lectures, performances, videos, papers or other negotiable forms.
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Class Number
1504
Credits
3
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