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AH 165 at the Hirshhorn
Interpretive Techniques in Art - Collections and Collecting
(Modernist and Post Modernist Art and Theory)
CRN 62258 - Professor Hill
First summer session: May 18 - June 27, Mondays, 10:30 – 3:30

This course will take place at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. It will use its collection and Strange Bodies: Figurative Works from the Hirshhorn, readings and student participation as ways to investigate individual artists, an artwork's context, and critical issues that impact twentieth and twenty-first century art museums. Students will develop the ability to clearly articulate, in oral speech and writing, their intellectual, aesthetic and emotional responses to artwork.

AH 129/225  The Age of Michelangelo – Professor Jacks
May 18 – June 27: Tuesday and Thursday 2:30 – 5:00
 
Seminar open to undergraduate AH majors and graduate students. Visit to NGA to study drawings and works by Michelangelo’s contemporaries.

An examination of Michelangelo’s drawings, workshop practice, fresco cycles in the Sistine Chapel and Pauline Chapel, architectural projects from the Palazzo Farnese to new St. Peter’s, and monuments in sculpture from the early Pietà to the tombs of Julius II and the Medici in San Lorenzo.

Selected readings from the poetry of Michelangelo and the theory of Neoplatonism.

FA 21 Drawing I – Professor Ioli
May 18 – June 27: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday 1:00 – 4:00, Smith A401

This class will focus on observational drawing techniques meant to develop a foundation in the principles, concepts and traditions of drawing. We will explore a variety of materials including charcoal, conte`, pencil, ink and acrylic paint. Our emphasis will be on developing skills of observation and methods of translation specific to our materials. Instruction will consist of in class demonstrations, individual and group discussions and short out of class readings. Class activity will be centered on still life and landscape exercises as the weather permits. This class will include a final project and weekly sketchbook assignments.

FA 14  Introduction to Handbuilt Ceramics – Professor Ozdogan
May 18 - June 6: Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday 12:30 – 6:30, Smith A304

This course will introduce the student to working with clay as an art form and to exploring various techniques in handbuilding. Participating in reduction and oxidation firings and in clay and glaze-making activities is all part of this introductory course. Sketches or 3-dimensional models must be submitted to the professor for approval prior to construction, as part of the creative process. Students are encouraged to work in the studio outside of class hours to achieve maximum proficiency.