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

Melinda Whitmore

Assistant Professor, Adjunct

Bio

BA, Art History, Studio Art, 1994, Indiana University, Bloomington; MFA, 1997, New York Academy of Art. Exhibitions: Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Indiana; Dow Museum of Science and Art, Michigan; Woman Made Gallery, Chicago; Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture Museum, South Carolina; Salamagundi Club, NYC., ARC Salon, NYC. Publications: Poets & Artists, International Painting Annual 3, American Artist Drawing, Contemporary American Realists, Fine Art Connoisseur. Bibliography: Who's Who of American Women, Who's Who of American Teachers. Collections: Ft. Wayne Museum of Art, Eileen Guggenheim, Stephanie Izard. Awards: National Sculpture Society Walter Hancock Award, Agop Agopoff Sculpture Award

 

Courses

Title Department Catalog Term

Description

This course is designed to enlighten and empower the student?s knowledge of basic anatomy in skeletal and superficial musculature forms and to apply it in a drawing context with confidence and fidelity. Not only will the student become better familiarized with anatomical structures through class lectures and life drawing sessions, but a greater understanding of the dynamics of form and movement in space will be achieved through practice and repetition of procedures learned throughout the course.

Class Number

1957

Credits

3

Description

This course is designed to enlighten and empower the student?s knowledge of basic anatomy in skeletal and superficial musculature forms and to apply it in a drawing context with confidence and fidelity. Not only will the student become better familiarized with anatomical structures through class lectures and life drawing sessions, but a greater understanding of the dynamics of form and movement in space will be achieved through practice and repetition of procedures learned throughout the course.

Class Number

1664

Credits

3

Description

Ecorche (ay-kor-shay) is a French word meanining 'flayed' or 'skinned', but to figurative artists it also refers to any representation of the figure that describes what lies under the skin. In this course, we will be exploring anatomy through the production of a three-dimensional ecorche - where students will use additive and subtractive sculptural practices to create a 1/3 life-sized sculpture representing half skeletal structure and half musculature form. Lectures and materials will focus on specific areas of the body.

Class Number

1634

Credits

3