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Advanced Drawing

This course is for students seeking further growth in drawing, either as individual studio focus or as a tool for ideation and methodologies within other disciplines. Advanced study in drawing interrogates historical notions of traditional draftsmanship and the contemporary contexts of the discipline. Students are encouraged to explore and experiment with drawing as a way to further develop visual understandings of pictorial, sculptural or temporal space. The course is intended to help students use drawing as a critical and procedural tool within individual art practice. Group critiques and drawing sessions as well as individual meetings with the instructor are integral components of the course. 

Fall 2025, FA-341-1, Advanced Drawing, J Barth: Students will work independently on self-directed projects after proposing a work or set of works that directly engage with the course topic. Class time will be used for screenings and listening sessions, discussion and analysis of works and related writing, artist visits, individual presentations, and one on one visits with the professor.

Fall 2025, FA-341-2, Advanced Drawing, W Villalongo

Fall 2025, FA-341-3, Advanced Drawing, Y Masnyj

Beginning Spring 2026, Drawing will no longer be a pre-requisite for Advanced Drawing.

3 credits. Pre-Req: Drawing. May be repeated.

Course Code: FA-341

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