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Painting Course List

Course Title Course # Credits
Abstraction/ Mixed Media PT 230 3 credits
Abstraction/ Representation PT 225 3 credits
Automatic Triggers PT 236 3 credits
Building Pictures PT 316 3 credits
Collaborations PT 324 3 credits
Color Abstraction PT 280 3 credits
Coloration of Asian Painting PT 289 3 credits
Contemporary Concepts Painting PT 308 3 credits
Cultural Perspectives PT 305 3 credits
D-Painting PT 290 3 credits
Experimental Painting PT 271 3 credits
Figure and Ground PT 248 3 credits
From the Photograph PT 232 3 credits
Image and Identity PT 367 3 credits
Junior Independent Painting PT 350 3-6 credits
Material as Metaphor PT 213 3 credits
Material, Technique &Conservat PT 343 3 credits
Painting II PT 200 3 credits
Painting Over the Lines PT 235 3 credits
Painting:Personal Directions PT 300 3 credits
Parapainting PT 216 3 credits
Personal Narrative PT 372 3 credits
Poetry and Painting Seminar PT 240 3 credits
Pushing Color PT 311 3 credits
Rhythms and Systems PT 268 3 credits
Sophomore Painting PT 250 3 credits
Storytelling and Mythmaking PT 310 3 credits
The Other Life of Painting PT 285 3 credits
The Spaces Between PT 315 3 credits
The Studio Practice & Research PT 355 3 credits
Theme and Variation:The Figure PT 282 3 credits

Drawing Course List

Course Title Course # Credits
Abstractions DR 388 3 credits
Advanced Figure Drawing DR 452 3 credits
Advanced Illusionism DR 344 3 credits
Anatomy for Artists DR 324 3 credits
Color Media Drawing DR 394 3 credits
Dim Draw: Process Time & Space DR 317 3 credits
Drawing Independent Study DR 398 3 credits
Drawing Through Process DR 359 3 credits
Drawing through Movies DR 332 3 credits
From Perception To Metaphor DR 365 3 credits
Interpretative Figure Drawing DR 352 3 credits
Introduction to Drawing DR 220 3 credits
Junior Independent Drawing DR 320 3 credits
Life Drawing DR 252 3 credits
Seeing Color DR 386 3 credits
Seeing More Color DR 386B 3 credits
Studio Drawing: 2-D for 3-D DR 298F 3 credits
Studio Drawing: Inside/Outside DR 298P 3 credits
Studio Drawing: Sumi Ink DR 298Q 3 credits
Studio Drawing: Trees DR 298Z 3 credits
Studio Drawing:Nature DR 298O 3 credits
Studio Drwg: From Architecture DR 298S 3 credits
Studio Drwg:Animal Imagery DR 298D 3 credits
Studio Drwg:Color DR 298I 3 credits
Studio Drwg:Composition DR 298C 3 credits
Studio Drwg:Conceptual Comp. DR 298E 3 credits
Studio Drwg:From Masters DR 298L 3 credits
Studio Drwg:Illusionism DR 298G 3 credits
Studio Drwg:Landscape DR 298R 3 credits
Studio Drwg:Let There Be Light DR 298H 3 credits
Studio Drwg:Painterly DR 298X 3 credits
Studio Drwg:Portrait DR 298A 3 credits
Studio Drwg:Realistic Comp. DR 298M 3 credits
Studio Drwg:Still Lfe/Interior DR 298J 3 credits
Studio Drwg:Structural DR 298Y 3 credits
Watercolor Drawing DR 392 3 credits

PNCA’s Sculpture department encourages students to work within a broad range of 3-dimensional practices to explore both contemporary and traditional art-making approaches. The sculpture studios provide excellent facilities, on-site technicians, and the expertise of a diverse faculty. Students individualize their production, and directions may include: stand-alone objects, site-specific works, multiples, installations, performance, or any number of hybrid forms of 3-dimensional engagement.

Projects & Assignments
A full-scale hot air balloon, used as a metaphor on various levels, was one senior’s thesis project. She made every element herself, working with textiles, basket weaving, and other traditional processes.
One student created a sculpture primarily from video equipment. Images captured in realtime on a surveillance camera were played back in an agonizingly slow fashion on the sculpture’s monitor.
Sewing and craft-based techniques enabled another student to concentrate on making touchable pieces, such as flocked clay sculptures.

Painting

From the observation and the imagination is an investigation conducted by the painting. The painting and the painted image are examined in all their aspects: image, material, metaphor, content and illusion. The painting as a visual language is placed within a current visual culture. This image is a personal and creative work developed.