2020 Art Summer Courses
ART 20G
Session 1
Introduces the methods, materials, and history of printmaking and drawing as a tool for creative exploration. Understanding and development of concepts and skills are achieved through a series of lectures, studio demonstrations and practice, assignments, and critiques. Students are billed for a materials fee. (General Education Code(s): PR-C.).
All students - prerequisites and restrictions lifted in summer.
Proposed Instructor - Bridget Henry
ART 20I
Session 2
Introduces basic skills and conceptual development in photography and related digital media through image-making in the field, on the web, and in laboratories, through readings, discussions, and critiques. (General Education Code(s): PR-C.)
All students - prerequisites and restrictions lifted in summer.
Proposed Instructor - Karolina Karlic
ART 20J
Session 2
Introduces the material practices of painting in combination with the formal vocabulary of the visual arts. A discussion of values, form, color, and figure/ground relationships
enters into each class. Students are billed for a materials fee. (General Education Code(s): PR-C.)All students - prerequisites and restrictions lifted in summer.
Proposed Instructor - Susana Terrell
ART 20L
Session 1
Online only course.
Traditional handmade drawing course taught in online format through demonstration videos, digital submissions, and small-group discussion forum critiques. Introduces the fundamental basics of observational drawing in a progression designed to develop and build skills in sighting, measuring, value, and rendering. Familiarity with Canvas, access to digital camera, and purchase of art supplies required. Assumes 30 hours per week of coursework. (General Education Code(s): PR-C.)
All students - prerequisites and restrictions lifted in summer.
This course will be hosted online in Canvas at canvas.ucsc.edu. It will be available the Friday before class starts. Be sure to check your UCSC email for specific instructions!
Note: If you are a high school student interested in this course, please email the proposed instructor (gwhipple@ucsc.edu) with 3 examples of previous work to be considered for admittance.
Proposed Instructor - Grant Whipple
ART 80E
Session 2
Online only class.
Examines the ways artists engage, interact, and comment upon ecology and nature in their artworks by examining environmental art from the 1960s through the present. Offers students a foundational introduction to art and artists working in the field of environmental and ecological art/activism. (General Education Code(s): PE-E)
This course will be hosted online in Canvas at canvas.ucsc.edu. It will be available the Friday before the class starts. Be sure to check your UCSC email for specific instructions!
Proposed Instructor - Elizabeth Stephens
ART 80T
Session 1
Online only course.
Introduces the digital tools and mediums available to contemporary art practices. Tools are explored from a historical and theoretical context and from a technical perspective through hands-on tutorials. A variety of artworks that use digital mediums are also examined. Covers photo and vector editors, sound and video editing, basic 3D modeling, and images and interactions generated by code. Students should have basic computer literacy. (General Education Code(s): PE-T.)
This course will be hosted online in Canvas at canvas.ucsc.edu. It will be available the Friday before the class starts. Be sure to check your UCSC email for specific instructions!
Proposed Instructor - Kristen Gillette
ART 106-O
Session 2
Online only class.
This project-centered studio course introduces 2D animation concepts, history, techniques and contemporary practices, production strategies, processes and tools from a practical approach rooted in a historical/theoretical context. During each project's development, students research artists working within relevant categories and/or topics of animation, presenting findings to assist in their creative process.
This course will be hosted online in Canvas at canvas.ucsc.edu. It will be available the Friday before class starts. Be sure to check your UCSC email for specific instructions!
Proposed Instructor - Kristen Gillette
ART 113
Session 1
This drawing/painting class will be taught using New Yorker magazine covers as examples of illustration at a level of excellence that is accessible and will be examined for content and formal qualities. Work will be done in drawing and painting media. There may be some digital and mixed media incorporated.Painting will be water based. Wit, humor, restraintand sophistication will be discussed as well as inclusivity, exclusivity, and explicit and implicit social issues. (General Education Code(s): PR-C.)Proposed Instructor - Frank GaluszkaART 132
Session 2
Students learn the classical practice of painting the nude figure from life using traditional oil painting techniques. Students study short poses, limited color, and graduate to long pose, full color. Students are billed a $50 materials fee. (Formerly course 102A.) May be repeated for credit. (General Education Code(s): PR-C.)
Proposed Instructor - Noah Buchanan
ART 159-01
Session 1
Special Topics in Photography: Shelter in Place: Social Documentation in a time of self-isolation.This photography course examines personal works and documents created in times of forced and selected isolation. Photographic images will be created, collected and curated to form an expressive visual communication to the future about living through a pandemic in physical isolation. Experimentation, text, mixed media, audio, still and moving images will be explored.All students - prerequisites and restrictions lifted in summer.
Proposed Instructor - Jack Chapman
ART 159-02
Session 2
Special Topics in Photography: Alternative Processes: Cyanotype and other outdoor photographic practices.This special topics photography class will explore methods of generating light based images using alternative photochemical processes including cyanotype and Van Dyke brown. These are outdoor printing practices that use sunlight and do not require a darkroom. There is no course fee associated with this course and students will be responsible for purchasing their own materials with guidance before the start of the class.All students - prerequisites and restrictions lifted in summer.
Proposed Instructor - Jack Chapman
ART 189-02
Session 1
Special topics in sculpture as announced, concentrating on specific aspects of subject matter and media.All students - prerequisites and restrictions lifted in summer.
Proposed Instructor - Sean Monaghan
ART 189-03
Session 2
An interdisciplinary studio course intended for students from various disciplines to explore the intersections between art and life. Students will learn the tools and techniques of Bio Art and Design including a basic background in synthetic biology and biomimicry. Practical workshops and hands-on assignments with critical reading and observational skills will be taught to support student production of contemporary artworks and creative prototypes.All students - prerequisites and restrictions lifted in summer.
Proposed Instructor - Jennifer Parker
Introduction to Printmaking & Drawing (5 credits)
Introduction to Photography (5 credits)
Introduction to Drawing and Painting (5 credits)
Introduction to Drawing (online) (5 credits)
Environmental Art in the Expanded Field (online) (5 credits)
Digital Tools for Contemporary Art Practice (online) (5 credits)
2D Animation (online) (5 credits)
Illustrating Stories: Fantasy & Documentary Narratives (5 credits)
Figure Painting (5 credits)
Special Topics in Photography: Shelter in Place (5 credits)
Special Topics in Photography: Alternative Processes (5 credits)
Special Topics in Sculpture: Figure Sculpture (5 credits)
Special Topics in Sculpture: Bio Art & Design (5 credits)
