Digital, Photo, and Image-based Studio Arts
[ Above: Artwork by Emily Giorgi ]
All studio courses are one-unit courses and meet five hours per week. Students interested in an Art and Art History major should plan to take AAH131 Drawing I, the pre-requisite for upper-level studio art courses, as soon as possible. See the Foundations page for more information.
Photography
Photo I introduces black-and-white film photography's history, theory, techniques, and processes. This course will emphasize photography's potential for creative problem-solving and self-expression. Students will learn about basic photographic theory, as well as historically relevant art movements.
Instructor: Sarah Knobel
Facilities
- Noble Center NC004
- Noble Center NC221
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Equipment Includes: 14 darkroom enlargers, large print and film developing darkrooms. Lighting studios, film and digital cameras for students to check out.
Courses
- AAH259 Photography I
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AAH260 Photography II
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AAH360 Photography III
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AAH3095 Pinhole Cameras and Alternative Process Photography
Student Work
- From a recent Pinhole Camera course > Lightroom Gallery
Digital Media
A combination studio/seminar course that explores the major theoretical issues surrounding the continually evolving culture of digital technology and the effects on various aspects of contemporary life including: aesthetics and perception, creative production, morality, contemporary art discourse, visual culture, entertainment, identity and other forms of social effects/affects.
Instructor: Sarah Knobel
Facilities
- Noble Center
- Newell Center for Arts Technology (NCAT): Has 20+ iMac computer stations with 21” screens, all computers have the full Adobe Creative Suite for video, digital and photo editing.
- The NCAT holds a large Epson 44” format printer for archival pigment prints.
- A small lightroom with continuous and strobe lights is available for creating studio photographic images.
Courses
- AAH262 Video Art (DMF262)
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AAH269 Digital Media and Culture I
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AAH369 Digital Media and Culture II
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AAH Digital Drawing
Student Work
- Video Installations - Music and Video Art
- SLU Video Art
All of our art studios have been renovated since 2004.
Learn More
For a complete and up to date listing of available classes please see the 'Art and Art History Courses' webpage. ⇒
- Drawing (charcoal, pencil, pen; figure drawing)
- Painting (various media)
- Color Theory
- Printmaking (relief and intaglio, non-toxic processes)
- Book Art
- Photography (analogue and digital, using a multi-room darkroom and also a two-level computer classroom/work space)
- Digital Media and Culture
- Sculpture (incl. figure modeling)
- Ceramics
- Senior Seminar (spring semester, with exhibition in the Brush Art Gallery)
Studio Art Fields, including Architecture
- Boston University
- Maryland Institute College of Art
- New York Academy of Art
- Rhode Island School of Design
- Royal College of Art, London
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- School of Visual Arts, New York City
- South Dakota State University
- University of Georgia
- University of Pennsylvania
- For more information see Senior Year Capstone and Careers
Studio Art
- MFA programs in studio art → practicing artists
- Architecture
- Designers / Graphic Designers
- Book authors and illustrators
- Professional Photographers/Photography Assistants/Videographers
- K - 12 Teaching
- As well as some of the areas Art History Majors find careers in.
- For more information see Senior Year Capstone and Careers
Student Work In Photography and Digital Media
See also the Vimeo gallery of student video work at https://vimeo.com/user14727406
Allison Attarian
Cat Temkin
Emily Giorgi
Eva Yeo
Eva Yeo
Grace Nelson
Andrew Hale
Wyeth Olmsted
Yiming Huang
Digital and Image Learning Spaces
See Art And Art History Learning Spaces for a photo gallery tour of all our facilities.
