COURSES

No prerequisites.

This required course focuses on drawing as a means of visual inquiry and builds skills for articulating both perceptual and conceptual visualizations. A variety of drawing media and processes heighten awareness of what we see and how we see it, and achieve confident and intelligently articulated visual responses. Students work primarily from observation, supplemented by rigorous critique and systematic exposure to historical and contemporary precedents for their practice.

No prerequisites. Wireless laptop and appropriate software required.

Topics for this required course comprise an introduction to fundamental computing processes that are integral to contemporary studio practice. The three primary areas of focus are basic computing skills and programming, 2-D image generation and manipulation, and 3-D object generation and surfacing. By giving students hands-on experience with a variety of digital tools, the course aims to engender an appreciation for the computer’s potential as a creative tool/medium and provide a foundation of skills that will be developed further in more advanced courses.

No prerequisites.

This is one of a series of three required courses, which provide introductory exposures to a wide spectrum of the physical materials, tools, and processes germane to contemporary art and design practices. These introductions establish a practical base for future creative work. TMP I: Construction has three-dimensional focus.

ARTDES 120 is prerequisite.

This is one of a series of three required courses, which provide introductory exposures to a wide spectrum of the physical materials, tools, and processes germane to contemporary art and design practices. These introductions establish a practical base for future creative work. TMP II: Messages has a two-dimensional focus.

No prerequisites.

One of a series of three required freshman/sophomore studio courses that focuses on problem identification, problem investigation and referencing, and subsequent development of creative responses. Each exercise and project incorporates reading, research and writing components. By integration of critical thinking and language skills, the students are challenged to develop personal expressions through both analytical and intuitive approaches. The courses focus on structured projects that encourage the development of transferable perceptive and formal skills in a world-view conceptual response.

ARTDES 120 and 121 are prerequisite.

This is one of a series of three required courses, which provide introductory exposures to a wide spectrum of the physical materials, tools, and processes germane to contemporary art and design practices. These introductions establish a practical base for future creative work. TMP III: Time has a four-dimensional focus.

ARTDES 130 is prerequisite.

One of a series of three required freshman/sophomore studio courses that focuses on problem identification, problem investigation and referencing, and subsequent development of creative responses. Each exercise and project incorporates reading, research and writing components. By integration of critical thinking and language skills, the students are challenged to develop personal expressions through both analytical and intuitive approaches. The courses focus on structured projects that encourage the development of transferable perceptive and formal skills in a world-view conceptual response.

ARTDES 130 and 230 are prerequisite.

One of a series of three required freshman/sophomore studio courses that focuses on problem identification, problem investigation and referencing, and subsequent development of creative responses. Each exercise and project incorporates reading, research and writing components. By integration of critical thinking and language skills, the students are challenged to develop personal expressions through both analytical and intuitive approaches. The courses focus on structured projects that encourage the development of transferable perceptive and formal skills in a world-view conceptual response.

No prerequisites.

One of a series of three required academic courses that casts a broad net to explore a variety of creative expressions from those collected by museums to those uncollected and taken for granted as objects of everyday life. This first course uses a case study approach to focusing on the concept of creators and creative work through time and across world cultures.

No prerequisites.

One of a series of three required academic courses that casts a broad net to explore a variety of creative expressions from those collected by museums to those uncollected and taken for granted as objects of everyday life. This second course uses a case study approach to focusing on societies and the influence of societies on creators and creative work through time and across world cultures.

ARTDES 150 and 151 are prerequisite.

One of a series of three required academic courses that casts a broad net to explore a variety of creative expressions from those collected by museums to those uncollected and taken for granted as objects of everyday life. This third course uses a case study approach to explore the relevance of technology and the environment to creators and creative work through time and across world cultures.

No prerequisites.

Students attend the weekly Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Visitors Series each week, through which a variety of artists, designers, performers, critics and theorists give insight into their biographies, career paths, and ideas about contemporary practice.  Students register for 160 for each Fall term.

No prerequisites.

Students attend the weekly Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Visitors Series each week, through which a variety of artists, designers, performers, critics and theorists give insight into their biographies, career paths, and ideas about contemporary practice. Students register for 161 each Winter term.

Instructor(s): Michael Rodemer

Prerequisite: A&D major or permission of instructor.

Intended particularly for sophomores, the Michigan International Seminars for Undergraduates (MISU) is a new series of courses, conceived and taught collaboratively by faculty from a variety of disciplines, including A&D. Students in the A&D section will concentrate on international influences in art and design, but will also share readings and take part in a series of meetings together with students from other sections to consider international issues from diverse points of view.

International experiences have frequently played a catalytic role in the development of creative work. Sometimes this influence has come about by accident, while other times it has been sought deliberately; in some cases, the influence functions as part of a broad cultural change, in others, the effect of the contact with “foreign-ness” has played out in a very personal, individual way. We will consider all these circumstances, embodying our reflective thought in creative visual work as well as writing. Questions may be directed to Professor Michael Rodemer. This course is cross-listed with UC 254.

Instructor(s): Jim Cogswell

Prerequisite: A&D major and TMP I: Construction or permission of instructor.

Between the two worlds of painted surfaces and sculptural objects lies the challenging territory of low relief ceramics, neither purely flat nor fully volumetric, capable of speaking through image, pattern, color, and form. Tile in particular has an extraordinary history as an art form, with close ties to architecture and public murals. This course will explore color compositions, low relief structures, modular constructions and installations. Working individually and collaboratively, students will be encouraged to envision the possibilities for permanent installations and public works. Class projects will explore tile works, architectural installations, and public mural spaces.

Instructor(s): Seth Ellis

Prerequisites: A&D major or permission of instructor.

This course is a collaborative exhibition project with the Facultad des Bellas Artes, an art school in Altea, Spain. Students from both institutions will work together to create a single show on the themes of transnationality, tele-location, and the representation of physical space across distances. Students will work in a variety of media, and will have frequent contact with students and faculty in Altea over the Web and other digital communications. The result will be simultaneous physical exhibitions in both Ann Arbor and Altea.

Instructor(s): Andy Kirshner

Prerequisite: TMP III: Time and A&D major or permission of instructor.

In the last ten years, the power and relatively low cost of desktop digital media tools has completely changed the nature of independent film and video. With a desktop program like Final Cut Studio, Cinema 4D, or Adobe After Effects, it is possible to completely alter the nature of cinematographic “reality,” creating alternate physics, expressionistic color palettes, mythic utopias/dystopias, and impossible visual effects. This course explores the creative possibilities of digital manipulating the moving image. Through direct instruction and collaborative projects, students learn the essential techniques of modern visual effects: green screen, virtual sets, motion tracking, and digital compositing. They are then challenged to create their own “impossible worlds,” using the high-end tools available in the University’s Duderstadt Center. Students also receive hands-on visual effects production experience in the Digital Media Commons well-equipped video studio. A familiarity with basic film or video production and post-production is expected.

Instructor(s): Rebekah Modrak

Prerequisite: A&D major or permission of the instructor.

Shopdropping, the act of making objects or images and covertly placing these items in a store, is a form of culture jamming where artists and designers turn consumables into opportunities for critical or personal reflection. Droplifting items (the opposite of shoplifting) gives artists and designers a broader audience - reaching consumers in the midst of shopping in the store/location/context of your choice. In this class, you can design, create, and droplift items, which may (depending upon your interests) include photographic imagery, advertisements, designed packages, garments, and sculptural objects.

Prerequisite: A&D major or permission of the instructor.

Instructor(s): This class will be taught by David Turnley, new A&D faculty member for winter 2012.

When you step into this experience, you will join forces with your fellow “photojournalist” classmates, under the instructor’s direction, to unleash your unique power of expression to address the human condition with photographs. You will learn the skills necessary to earn access to a subject, and to create an honest relationship that allows you as the photographer to enter someone’s life to tell their story. We will create an online publication - and on a weekly basis - you will be mentored to go on “assignment” to photograph diverse aspects of life in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Time will be divided between reviewing student work as a group, learning the fundamentals of photojournalism, and learning about the work of some of the great photojournalists of our time. No previous photographic experience is required. Each student must provide a digital camera of any kind to use for this course, which includes the option of using an iPhone.

Instructor(s): Robert Platt

Prerequisite: A&D major or permission of the instructor.

Artists from the Renaissance to the present have relied on optical ‘devices’ to assist them in the perception and representation of the external world. Students will gain practical experience of the historical developments in drawing aids and constructing some of these devices to explore their potential in image making. Throughout the course there will be field trips to experience ‘authentic’ nature as well as drawing inspiration from simulated nature found in museum dioramas and gallery displays. Students will develop painting projects using such devices as the camera obscura, camera lucida, Claude glass, magic lantern, projectors, cameras, and digital 3-D environments to assist our depiction of landscape and nature. The emphasis of the course is the ‘filtered’ or mediated reality in the depiction of landscape painting, where technology meets traditional painting methods.

Instructor(s): Michael Rodemer

Prerequisite: Digital Studio and A&D major or permission of the instructor.

This studio elective course explores how you can use tiny computers in conjunction with sensors and motors to make artworks that behave. We’ll cover the basics of using electricity safely, along with the fundamentals of programming for control. The Arduino microcontroller, which you will receive along with a box of sensors, motors, and more, will be your chief tool; combining it with traditional media and your ideas will constitute your main activities in the class.

Instructor(s): Joyce Brienza

Prerequisite: A&D major or permission of the instructor.

Through intensive studio sessions, this course focuses on drawing from the live model, both clothed and unclothed. Students investigate ways the figure is used and referenced in the work of contemporary artists and explore strategies for using the figure in drawings that are creative and expressive in nature. The goals of this course include gaining a better understanding of the figure and its significant role in the history of art, improving figure drawing skills, and pursuing unique methods of personal expression through the use of the figure in drawing.

Instructor(s): Elona Van Gent

Prerequisite: Digital Studio or Digital 3-D or permission of instructor.

This course is an introduction to the techniques and creative potential of three-dimensional computer modeling and animation. Students will model, animate, and render virtual scenes in order to tell stories, visualize spaces, and convey ideas. The course provides a foundation of digital 3-D technical skills and conceptual understanding that can be developed further in more advanced courses and applied in a variety of art and design practices.

Instructor(s): Jeremy Brooks

Prerequisite: TMP I: Construction and A&D major or permission of instructor.

This course will focus on exploring the boundaries of the medium, and ultimately challenge the limits of what it means to create work utilizing clay-based materials. Processes that involve replication and modification will be explored through the use of plaster molds; methodologies that involve the integration of clay with non-clay materials will be explored through mixed media; and aspects of the ephemeral (clay) and permanence (ceramics) will be explored through material studies, installation, and/or performance-based work.

Instructor(s): Katie MacDonald

Prerequisite: TMP I: Construction and A&D major or permission of instructor.

In this course, students will explore basic skills and techniques used to create contemporary jewelry and small metal works. Mastering these techniques, students will explore metal as a medium of personal expression by creating a series of works based on their interests and curiosity. Students will also be introduced to contemporary metals artists through research and presentation assignments.

Instructor(s): William Burgard

Prerequisite: A&D major or permission of instructor.

Take an idea. It could be for a graphic novel, a theatrical event, choreography for a dance, a new product, an installation or any creative endeavor, which doesn't yet exist. This course develops students' ability to sketch images in order to visualize and present those ideas. The course begins with finding systems for generating creative solutions to problems. Students then explore image making techniques and mediums, which describe the ideas most effectively. The course also examines professional examples of this process.

Instructor(s): Barbara Brown

Prerequisite: A&D major or permission of instructor.

In this course, students explore their ideas through traditional and alternative bookmaking methods and discover how content can inform the structure of a book. Projects introduce basic materials - paper, book cloth, binder's board, PH neutral adhesives - and techniques - folding, gluing, and sewing - of bookbinding. Students also explore the significance of the book as a means of distribution and display. Students gain an understanding of basic bookbinding techniques and the tools and materials necessary to create handmade books. Traditional book arts techniques and the many ways in which contemporary artists have expanded upon them will be explored. Craftsmanship is important and so are ideas. The goal is to integrate both of these elements into a finished whole.

Instructor(s): John Baird

Prerequisite: TMP I: Construction and A&D major or permission of instructor.

This course will focus on developing individual wood working skills using power and hand tools. Projects will explore both fine art and design applications with wood. Students will further develop three dimensional design skills, wood working skills with power and hand tools, and an understanding of the strengths and limitations of wood as a material.

Instructor(s): Shaun Jackson

Prerequisites: A&D major or permission of instructor.

This course is designed as an introduction to the principles of product design and exposes students to the key components of new product development including, design research, human factors, ideation and 2-D concept development, model making, and 3-D prototype development, and the design of packaging and marketing materials. This is a rigorous course and should only be taken by students with a serious interest in the topic.

Instructor(s): Phoebe Gloeckner

Prerequisites: A&D major or permission of the instructor.

Stories of single days and entire lives have been told in the literary format of graphic novels/comics. We will read works of graphic biography and autobiography by artist/writers such as Robert Crumb, Harvey Pekar, Diane Noomin, Jeffrey Brown, John Porcellino, and many others. Students will produce stories based on the facts of their own experience and the lives of others with attention to point of view. We will be using both traditional (ink, collage) and non-traditional (digitally-created images, sound, and motion) to create stories intended for printed and/or digital publishing.

Instructor(s): Louis Marinaro

Prerequisite: TMP I: Construction and A&D major or permission of instructor.

Will it ring? This course demonstrates the roles that shape and material structure play in determining the acoustic properties of objects through the hands-on making of bronze bells. Working within the framework of design-build-test, students will apply mathematical models of resonant structures to design, cast, measure and refine the tonal properties of bells. As members of cross-college teams, each student will learn how to bring this object from a two-dimensional drawing through the process of molding in plaster, modeling in clay and casting in bronze. Students will be instructed in a variety of processes including wave propagation, computer simulations, sound analysis and synthesis, drawing, wood construction, plaster forming, plaster mold making, wax casting, bronze casting and finally tuning of the bell cast, including the use of CAD tools. They will receive hands-on training in the use of all equipment needed to fabricate a bell from the point of conception to the moment it is struck. They will have access to explore, record, and analyze the bells of the University of Michigan’s two carillons, and will have the opportunity to consult with carilloneurs. The semester will end with a demonstration performance by the class of the bells they have created. Please note that teams will be required to meet outside of the regularly scheduled 6 contact hours to handle the more time-intensive phases of the fabrication.

For information about the first iteration of this course, see http://playgallery.org/stories/bells.

Instructor(s): Sherri Smith

Prerequisite: A&D major and TMP I: Construction or permission of instructor.

Students learn the basic skills for exploration of contemporary fibers work. Techniques include weaving, silk screening fabrics in repeat, and other techniques of students’ choices. Students design and execute several finished projects.

Instructor(s): Katherine Luchs

Prerequisite: TMP II: Messages and Digital Studio or permission of the instructor.

This course focuses on multiplicity, reproduction, serialization, and sequence related to the printed image. Students create prints through a variety of matrix-based technologies and digital processes. Emphasis is on the print in larger social, political, and cultural contexts and on the relationship of contemporary print practices to the larger visual culture.

Instructor(s): Cynthia Pachikara

Prerequisite: TMP III: Time or permission of instructor.

This course offers students the chance to understand and master the craft of video production. Using Final Cut Pro and higher end cameras with full manual controls, students will contemplate and practice many ways to intentionally generate moving images. The course introduces students to conventional methods and concepts from film and video - including point of view, shot composition, spatial and time continuity, lighting, superimposition – and will allow students to compare narrative and non-narrative formal systems. During the term, students will be introduced to contemporary precedent projects from the fields of film and video, theater, installation art, and architecture that demonstrate the innovative application of video. This course is a follow-up to TMP III: Time.

Note: Next year, this course will be a prerequisite for enrollment in the two advanced video courses: ARTDES 347: Video Installation and ARTDES 420: Modeling Space & Marking time. Therefore, if you plan on enrolling in either course next year, consider taking this course now.

Instructor(s): David Chung

Prerequisites: TMP III: Time and A&D major or permission of instructor.

This course examines how movement and animation are created through the use of sequential images, drawing and software tools. Instruction in hand drawing, paper cutout, replacement animation and digital motion graphics will be covered. Students will develop filmmaking skills from concept to a finished work through group projects, classroom workshops and an individual final project.

Instructor(s): Dwayne Overmyer

Prerequisite: A&D major or permission of instructor.

This course is a close study of the full range of typographic variables (i.e., the characteristics of letterforms and the ways in which they are combined and configured to create texts) and of the relationship of typographic form to conventions of language-use.

Instructor(s): Jim Cogswell

Prerequisite: A&D major or permission of instructor.

The visual surface of a painting invites imaginative engagement by implying space and movement that do not exist except in a viewer’s acts of perception. This course will focus on building knowledge of the basic tools of oil painting in order to intelligently create this engagement. Through a series of paintings from observation as well as from imagination, students will investigate the potential of color, surface, mark, and form to create spaces and movement that refer to the external world as well as those that are unique to the pictorial plane. Students who anticipate enrolling in more advanced painting classes are encouraged to begin here, as this course will prepare students for more advanced topics, and may serve as a prerequisite for some advanced courses.

Instructor(s): Seth Ellis

Prerequisite: Digital Studio and A&D major or permission of instructor.

Building Web Interfaces is an elective studio course in the development, design and construction of websites. We begin with the building blocks of Web pages, in particular HTML and CSS, and move on to consider issues of web architecture, site structure, and interface design. By the end of the course, students conceive and develop interactive projects on their own, with attention paid to every step of the process. In addition, students spend some time thinking about the nature of interactive design, how our existing skills and pre-existing media come to play in this new environment, and how the new environment affects our other practices.

Instructor(s): Roland Graf

Prerequisites: TMP I: Construction and A&D major or permission of instructor.

The objective of this course is to build a large site-specific interactive installation in the highly travelled west corridor of the Art & Architecture building. The interface for this interactive installation is the wall along this corridor that has come to be known as “The Wall.” Specs: concrete, 12 feet high, 183 feet long, and fitted with 500 sunken threaded anchors arranged in a grid. Students will have the opportunity to develop, combine, and test their knowledge and skills in a series of hands-on experimentations on site. The final installation will evolve from these experiments and a competition of ideas that is open to any kind of media or intervention – analog or digital, audio/video based or kinetic. This Art & Design course has space for a few students from Architecture and Performing Arts Technology. The requirements for this course are hands on skills, the ability to work in interdisciplinary teams, and a passion for spatial experiments.

Instructor(s): Douglas Hesseltine

Prerequisite: Digital Studio, TMP II: Messages

Projects will involve the exploration of design and art as applied to specific visual communications.  The desire for personal expression will be examined within the context of traditional structure and pertinent cultural references. Exploration of various media will be encouraged. All projects will require multiple explorations of form and content to thoroughly examine cultural and style implications.

Course content will involve print media, traditional and experimental illustration, and exploration of typography.  Working knowledge of Adobe CS4 or 5 is required.

Instructor(s): Holly Hughes

Prerequisite: A&D major or permission of instructor.

This course will explore a range of techniques for creating original performance, including collaborative work, site specific work, alter egos, and monologues. Students will also work with several guest artists, investigating new ways of creating live, time-based work.

Instructor(s): Janie Paul

Prerequisite: A&D major or permission of instructor.

This course provides an objective study of color as a visual phenomenon utilizing both wet and dry mixed media on a 2-dimensional surface. Lectures, projects and assignments will include studies of the work of modern and contemporary artists and the theory and understanding of temperature, intensity, hue, tint, shade, elements of perspective, and composition. Students will have an opportunity to study the theory of color as it relates to the visual arts and to put into practice the results of their studies.

Instructor(s): Carol Jacobsen

Prerequisite: A&D major and TMP III: Time or permission of instructor.

This course focuses on producing, studying and discussing contemporary social documentary video. Students produce original works within a context of critical discussion, assigned readings, viewing of documentaries by various artists, and creative experimentation. Critical issues and approaches are investigated in connection with the emergence of social documentary video; in particular, the social and cultural questions arising out of the feminist, civil rights, LGBT and other liberation movements that continue to challenge traditional power relations, including those affecting the artist behind the camera and the subject in front, and other issues of representation.

Instructor(s): Matt Kenyon

Prerequisite: A&D major and Digital Studio or permission of instructor.

This course will concentrate on creating, authoring, exhibiting, and critically evaluating interactive games as creative vehicles for self-expression. The focus will be creative work that is exploratory and experimental and that engages students in research methods to advance their skills and critical competence in making interactive games. Assignments will cover a range of digital processes and applications using interactive sound, image, and interface design. This course provides technical skills and conceptual understanding in preparation for further advanced study in game art/design utilizing digital technologies.

Instructor(s): Heidi Kumao

Prerequisite: A&D major and TMP III: Time or permission of instructor.

Artists and designers can play key roles in the era of information overload by visually translating facts, news, and data into intelligible animated narratives. From petroglyphs and pictograms to weather reports and family trees, images have been used to effectively communicate complex events and histories throughout time. This class explores a range of approaches to effective storytelling and visual communication through the use of graphics, diagrams, photos, movies, texts, and sounds. Tools to be implemented for these tasks include Adobe After Effects, PowerPoint/Keynote, Flash, Excel, Photoshop, and Illustrator.

Instructor(s): Stephanie Rowden

Prerequisite: A&D major and Digital Studio or permission of instructor.

In this class, people are the subject, stories are the form, and multi-track audio software is the canvas. Throughout the semester our focus is on the small and large stories around us: stories forgotten, remembered, stumbled upon, and even imagined out of whole cloth. Students learn basic digital audio skills (recording, editing and mixing) to create sound works that range in possibility from personal audio essays, radio plays, oral histories to experimental sonic narratives, sound poetry and beyond. We'll listen to work by innovative contemporary sound, radio and performance artists, and participate in a special guest workshop with directors of the Third Coast International Audio Festival. The technical skills learned in this class are applicable to sound design for video, animation, radio, multi-media storytelling, and performance works. No previous technical experience required, just an open ear and an eagerness to experiment. Possible podcast, exhibition and/or radio broadcast at the end of the semester.

Instructor(s): Brad Smith

Prerequisite: A&D major and Digital Studio or permission of instructor.

Students will investigate the intended and the unintended consequences of medical imaging technologies by using medical images in their own creative work, studying the work of other artists who use medical depictions, and by examining the cultural, political, and health effects that medical imaging technologies have had in society. The course will blend image making skills and conceptual development. Students will acquire medical images from their own health records and from public medical image databases. They will use the medical images to develop creative work addressing healing, body image, diagnosis, internal surveillance, and health histories. Students will learn to manipulate the medical image data as still images, image series, animated images, virtual models, or as three-dimensional objects to express the selected concepts. Students will be expected to be proficient in basic imaging software (Photoshop) prior to taking this course.

Instructor(s): Louis Marinaro

Prerequisite: TMP I: Construction or permission of the instructor.

Students learn precise ways of analyzing the form of the human figure. Lectures will include the skeletal structure, joint movements, superficial muscles, and the topography of the surface of the human figure. Students work from life in the third dimension. They construct armatures that are proportioned to the model and develop form based upon observation and analysis.

Instructor(s): Sherri Smith

Prerequisite: A&D major and previous weaving course and or permission of instructor.

This course focuses on individual projects for students who have already completed Entanglement. It provides an opportunity for the student to pursue in depth work in area(s) of most interest.

Instructor(s): Jan-Henrik Andersen

Prerequisite: A&D major and previous product design course.

Sustainability covers a wide range of aspects, and this course is focusing on the emotional and cultural aspects of the durability of designed objects and products. Students develop an understanding and command of form development through instruction and use of 3-D CAD software (Rhinoceros), rapid prototyping, and fabrication processes including, for example, porcelain slip casting. The course is suitable for students who are interested in sustainability issues related to materials and form expressions referenced in historic and contemporary practices around product design. Course work focuses on modeling, fabrication and discussion of descriptive and expressive form gestures and postures in relation to creative intent.

Instructor(s): Shaun Jackson

Prerequisite: A&D major and previous product design course.

This course focuses on the design and construction of every day objects including lighting, furniture, and tabletop objects. A strong emphasis is placed on the relationships among the materials used in the designs and the details employed in bringing those materials together to create functional objects. Several manufacturing processes will be explored. This course, cross-listed with Architecture, should be considered only by those truly interested in the opportunity to create resolved, full-scale designs. Work from previous iterations of this course has been featured in Interiors and Metropolis magazines and has been exhibited for a number of years at NEOCON in Chicago.

Instructor(s): Carol Jacobsen

Prerequisite: A&D major and previous photography course or permission of instructor.

Photo essays are collections of photographic images that form narratives or stories, often with brief accompanying texts that give them an added dimension. We will shoot, edit, and print photographs and write texts to tell the stories we want to tell. Students also view and study contemporary photographers and their different approaches to photo essay practices. Readings, films, and lectures will provide starting points for analyzing and discussing issues of power, representation, audience, gender, race, class, and sexuality and ways to express and communicate meanings and messages.

Instructor(s): Cynthia Pachikara

Prerequisite: TMP III: Time or permission of the instructor.

In this experimental studio course, students will use video to creatively represent spatial and temporal ideas. The course will cover the use of split screens, green screens, advanced lighting and small projections that use objects-as-screens. Students will use Final Cut Pro and After Effects and higher end video cameras with full manual controls. Emphasis will be placed on light as a medium for sculpting space and on video as a means for heightening a spectator’s spatiotemporal awareness. At the end the term, students will design and execute an independent project that challenges mainstream manners of viewing video. This course is interdisciplinary “meet together” between students in Art & Design and Architecture. Students with thesis projects involving video may find this a useful complement to their studio work.

Next year, the pre-requisite for this course will be Intro to Video Editing, so if you want to take this course next year, considering taking Intro to Video Editing now.

Instructor(s): Dwayne Overmyer

Prerequisite: A&D major and previous graphic design course or permission of instructor.

The focus of this course is the graphic and textual presentation of information for purposes of instruction and explanation. Design will be approached as a problem-solving activity, with special emphasis placed upon user needs, genre conventions, and other relevant situational constraints. Exercises and projects will address issues typically entailed in making complex events, processes, relationships, and environments understandable to a relatively general public.

Instructor(s): Melanie Manos

Prerequisite: A&D major or permission of instructor.
This course fulfills the Engagement Studio requirement.

Connecting A&D students with elementary school students in Detroit through visual and performing arts projects, this class is a combination of work with the children and contextual projects, site visits and literature that address the issues of urban schools, neighborhoods and the radical transformation creative work can have on cognitive development and civic engagement. Working intensively in Detroit every week, students learn first hand about the city's history and contemporary cultures with site visits and projects in the city. Planning for and reflecting on individual and group projects, from a collaborative publication of painting, sculpture and writing to public art, students develop close ties with each other and across generations through shared experience and creative engaged work.

Instructor(s): Hannah Smotrich

Pre-requisites: A&D major and prior course in graphic design or permission of the instructor.
This course fulfills the Engagement Studio requirement.

This course will explore graphic design, Detroit, and the possibilities of collaborative work — in the context of both student design teams as well as students working with community partners. Students will take on several projects over the course of the semester with different community partners — including the design of a cookbook for the Brightmoor Youth Garden, a visual extension of academic work with a 7th grade Language Arts class at Detroit Community School, and more. Students will develop their graphic design skills, experience the simultaneous frustration / exhilaration of collaborative making and working for a “real client” and enjoy exploring Detroit.

Instructor(s): Melanie Manos

Prerequisites: Open to both A&D majors and non-majors. Students must make a commitment to summer engagement hours.
This course fulfills the Engagement Studio requirement.

This course meets twice monthly on campus during the winter 2012 semester, with one intensive weekend at Summer in the City's Collaboratory in Southwest Detroit, followed by participation in the SitC site program, June through August 2012. (Winter meetings: Tuesday: 3:00 - 6:00 pm; Jan. 10, Jan. 24, Feb. 7, Feb. 21, Mar. 6, Mar. 20. Weekend Intensive: April 7 - 8, 2012). The total commitment during winter and summer 2012 will equal the number of hours for a regular U-M course. In this course, students will learn about the rich history and diversity in Detroit, engage community groups in identifying opportunities to strengthen and beautify neighborhoods through mural projects, and design and paint murals with high school volunteers through Summer in the City. Arts programming and youth enrichment (working one-on-one with K-5 children in Detroit) are also key components of SitC and this course. Extensive resources will be available through the Ginsberg Center, A&D, and SitC to ensure that student experiences have optimal impact on under served communities in Detroit as well as reciprocal benefit for students. Students will be eligible for AmeriCorps Membership stipends through Michigan Service Scholars. Key components of the course include reading, reflection, and dialogue regarding the urban dynamics of Detroit (history, race relations, demographic/population shifts, politics); neighborhood empowerment strategies and campaigns; urban culture/urban murals; and the role of creative work in the community. For more information, contact Melanie Manos.

Instructor(s): Holly Hughes

Prerequisite: A&D major or permission of instructor.
This course fulfills the Engagement Studio requirement.

In this engagement course, students work with the Huron Valley Humane Society investigating the issues surrounding animal and human relationships as well as the various ways artists and designers have represented these relationships. Students watch animal assisted therapy and talk to local organizations involved with rescue, feral, and wild animal management. What is the difference between animal rights and animal welfare? What is the new work of dogs? How do these issues relate to broader environmental concerns? This is a multi-media course. The only requirement is compassion for companion animals.

No prerequisites. Available to all UM undergraduate students.

In this course sponsored by ArtsEngine, students explore the creative process through a structured sequence of exercises in four studio modules: sound, motion, visual images/objects, and verbal/symbolic language. Faculty from Art & Design (Elona Van Gent); Music, Theatre & Dance (Amy Chavasse); Architecture (Gregory Saldana); and Engineering (Herbert Winful) introduce a variety of creative strategies for generating problem solving ideas through hands-on projects. Weekly colloquia (Stephen Rush), discussions, and readings supplement projects. Grading is based upon attendance, class participation, a journal, four mini-projects, evidence of intellectual and creative process development, and a final culminating project. This course is appropriate for UM undergraduate students at all levels and in all disciplines. It is a fast paced, information-rich educational experience, offering insights that will make creativity and innovation an integral part of life and work.

Instructor(s): Holly Hughes

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.

Students and faculty will travel via vans to New York City, stay in hostels, see performances and exhibitions at a variety of cultural institutions, as well as have conversations with New York based professionals including artists, performers, literary managers, and curators. The trip will be oriented towards performance and theatre, but will include exploration of other genres of creative work as well.

Students will research the sites they are visiting, the work they are seeing, the conversations they are having, and will write a short response paper.

Instructor(s): Louis Marinaro

Prerequisite: Students must apply through M-Compass. Selected students will be issued an override for registration.

Florence, Italy is home to some of the world’s greatest works of art. Students will visit and work in the Uffizi Galleries, the Acadamia, the Pitti Palace and Gardens, and the Bargello museum and many other locations. Students will be traveling and working in the museums, piazzas, and streets of the city. This program will use the facilities of Studio Art Centers International (SACI), that will make available their apartments, studios, and courses - in addition to this course offered by the School of Art & Design. This course will focus on the techniques and methods related to drawing in an urban environment. Student will draw on locations, examining various ways of representing constructed space. Preparation for this course begins in the winter 2012 semester in Ann Arbor. Students will be assigned drawings that will prepare them for the rigors of drawing on site in Florence, Italy. We will complete our work in Florence in summer 2012 from June 28th to July 28th.

Instructor(s): Nancy Thorson

Prerequisite: A&D major. Students must apply through M-Compass.
This course fulfills the Engagement Studio requirement.

This course will meet occasionally during the winter 2012 semester followed by cultural and environmental immersion in two locations:

• May 6 through May 12 in the rainforest at Casa de La Selva, Puerto Rico
• May 12th to May 25th at Plenitud Organic farm, St Marias Mountains, Puerto Pico

A one-day trip to Ponce will give students an opportunity to tour the city and visit the local museum. During the program students will be required to document their experiences through sketchbooks, journals, video, blogs, etc.

Instructor(s): Charlie Michaels

Prerequisite: A&D major. Students must apply through M-Compass.
This course fulfills the Engagement Studio requirement.

This course meets weekly during the winter 2012 semester and continues through a field-based extension in Ghana from August 4 through August 26. Participants in this program will travel to Ghana, where they will be staying and working with a non-governmental organization called Cross Cultural Collaborative - located in Nungua, a small oceanside fishing village just east of Accra, the capital of Ghana. Aba House, as it is known around Nungua - for the woman who founded and manages its programs - is a cultural center and guest house that provides classes in techniques like papermaking, bookbinding, drawing, computer imaging, and traditional Ghanaian art forms to local children through the help of international volunteers and local artists.

Instructor(s): Sadashi Inuzuka

Prerequisite: This course is available to students who have been accepted to GIEU. Students must apply through M-Compass.
This course fulfills the Engagement Studio requirement.

This course will explore the nature and perception of physical and mental disability in our society and the role that art can play in improving the lives of individuals. We will examine numerous issues through classroom lectures and workshops, and will gain greater understanding of work and education opportunities for people with disabilities through fieldtrips (Detroit, Ann Arbor Center for Independent Living, Work Skills Corporation). The early part of this course during the winter term in Ann Arbor will lay the groundwork for the second part of the course, a one-month trip to Japan for field studies. For more information, see M-Compass.

Instructor(s): Osman Khan

Prerequisite: Only students participating in the Arts in Paris program may register for this course.

According to Susan Sontag (On Photography, 1977), "The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker, reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a landscape of voluptuous extremes."

This course explores documenting with the camera (still and/or video) - aestheticizing, fetishizing, and fictionalizing our understanding of the world around us. Students create projects that expose still and/or video cameras as media for sustained personal perspectives and exploration and not simply as media for candid exposure. The emphasis is experimentation and exploration of possibilities of the still and moving image through the use of image capturing technologies, including exploring what non-linear editing and other computer software may allow. Through site visits, students also learn first-hand historic and contemporary precedents (Bresson, Lumiere, Melies, Man Ray, Vertov, Hitchcock, Marker, the New Wave, to name a few) for framing their ideas. There are also workshops to learn basics of image processing and video editing software. If time permits, this course will explore storage and distribution methods as well.

Note: Students are responsible for providing their own digital cameras (still, video, or both) as well as laptop computers.

Instructor(s): Osman Khan

Prerequisite: Only students participating in the Arts in Paris program may register for this course.

This course takes its title from the French word Terroir, which can be very loosely translated as "a sense of place." Terroir embodies characteristics generated by the local historical, social, political, technological, aesthetic and physical environment. Though most commonly used today to explain the particularity of a food or wine, this course uses the term Terroir as a springboard for understanding creative and cultural idiosyncrasies that resulted from unique conditions of place. Students explore the manifestations of “place” that developed in and around Paris from the 17th century to the 1960s. Students, where possible, visit cultural manifestations under investigation, deconstruct them, distill them, and then generate their own contemporary renditions by re-imagining the manifestation through the student’s own personal analysis and perspective, exploring what different artifact would be produced today given current corresponding social, political, technological and aesthetic conditions. Students’ creative solutions are limitless – from projects that focus on academic aspects to studio practice projects.

Registration restricted to senior Art & Design majors in the new 2002+ Curriculum.

Description

This yearlong undergraduate capstone course allows for the synthesis of the students' academic and studio work, developing an individual project proposal and culminating in a thoughtful presentation that demonstrates knowledge of specific issues, methods, and materials. Working with faculty advisors, the students will produce a series of works by organizing, planning, and investigating their concepts in contemporary contexts. The final presentation will engage the public (exhibition, publication, performance, or other appropriate means) and will be documented in a written and visual portfolio.

Objectives

• Engage a theme by means of creative work
• Investigate the theme intelligently through critical and/or theoretical readings and writings
• Demonstrate meaningful use of tools and technical skills
• Develop and demonstrate an awareness of the context for which work is created
• Engage a public arena with the work through exhibition, performance, website, and/or other appropriate venues
• Prepare documentation of the project in the form of a written thesis statement of 1500 words that is supported by relevant printed visual images
• Prepare a website that includes the written thesis, visual documentation of the public engagement, current resume, short artist statement, one page written plan for the first five years following receipt of BFA
• Present the project to a faculty review committee that serves as the student's senior review committee

Logistics and Format

• Students work with two faculty and two graduate students, who teach in collaboration. There are four faculty/graduate student teams each teaching approximately 20 students per section.
• Fall semester is a 6 credit course, which is divided between 3 credits for IP studio practice and 3 credits for class periods and workshops that include development of resume, websites, CD and/or DVD preparations, writing of artist statements and thesis, public speaking, portfolio documentation, publicity possibilities.
• Winter semester is a 6 credit course, which is divided between 3 credits for IP studio practice and 3 credits for class periods and workshops that include discussion of venue organization and portfolio preparation.
• Students are encouraged to choose advanced studios that relate to and support their IP creative work.
• Each student is assigned an individual Integrative Project studio space for independent studio practice.

Instructor(s): Holly Hughes

No prerequisites.

This seminar explores the history and theory of Performance Art and Avant Garde Theatre, focusing on American work since modernism. Although Performance is often seen as a minor subgenre of the larger world of art and design practices, students discover how this work has been central to the evolution of post modern contemporary work. The class takes a field trip to Chicago, has visitors, and students respond through their own creative work to the material covered.

Required for Interarts Performance majors; open to all. Satisfies the A&D humanities requirement.

Instructor(s): Holly Hughes, Malcolm Tulip

Permission of instructor required.

Interarts forum is a one-credit course, lecture discussion group, exploring topics in time-based work. Lead by Holly Hughes and Malcolm Tulip, there are many visitors to broaden the discussion, including other Interarts Performance Art & Design and Theatre/Drama faculty, as well as other artists and scholars working in time based media.

Prerequisite: A&D major.

This upper-level writing course engages students in reading and writing genres specific to art and design practice - genres such as the formal analysis, the curatorial note, the portfolio or creator’s statement, the critical review, and research writing. Being able to articulate sophisticated insights about their own and others’ works through expository writing is a necessary skill for all fields of art and design. This course examines these forms of writing from a variety of angles, and students write and revise three to four papers based on their own creative interests. In addition to improving writing skills in preparation for the Integrative Project thesis, this course also offers students the opportunity to examine and develop their critical thinking skills.

Offered every term. No prerequisites.

Offered fall term only. No prerequisites.

The course introduces students to the basic techniques of intaglio, relief, lithography, and monotype printing methods. Students learn the safe use and handling of the printmaking studio materials and equipment, develop an awareness of printmaking history, and learn to analyze prints through critiques and class discussions. Emphasis is placed on practice/production as well as content/concept. Students are encouraged to incorporate other materials and concepts based on academic major, interests, or expertise. Participation in group discussions and critiques is required.

Offered every term. No prerequisites.

Offered fall term only. No prerequisites.

Offered fall term only. No prerequisites.

Offered fall term only. No prerequisites.

The course introduces students to drawing the human figure by observing its form, shape, contour, perspective, proportion, light co The course introduces students to observing, seeing, and drawing the human figure in terms of its form, shape, contour, perspective, proportion, light source, and resulting contrast of light and shadow. Students will learn a new way of viewing the human form, as well as other objects and physical matter, in terms of their physical relationship to themselves and objects around them. Participation in group discussions and critiques is required.

Offered fall term only. No prerequisites.

The course introduces the principles and processes of graphic imaging - effective communication using typography and visual imagery. Course assignments stress the imaging process, the fundamentals of art and design, and methods for the production of graphic imaging projects. Students learn important aspects of design practice including design terminology, computer software, and how to interact with professional artists/designers. Participation in group discussions and critiques is required.

Offered winter term only. No prerequisites.

Offered winter term only. No prerequisites.

Offered winter term only. No prerequisites.

Offered winter term only. No prerequisites.

Offered winter term only. No prerequisites.

No Prerequisites

No prerequisites.

Third-year MFA graduate students.