This class offers an exciting, advanced curriculum welcoming students from both two-dimensional and three-dimensional backgrounds.

Each year we establish a few fundamental issues to insure we generate discussion and exercises in those areas. The issues we've decided to focus on this year are perspective, line, gesture, composition, value, and color. These issues are universal, regardless of media.

Although more time is spent working with two dimensional exercises during scheduled class periods, we try to present the different disciplines without a sense of hierarchy. Modeling projects as part of value studies are included with the idea that the sculptor is dealing with the same subtleties of value, proportion, and shifting form as the painter.

We want students students to gain a better understanding of the context in which artists, historical and contemporary, create. We address this with discussions, field trip, reports, and recommended gallery visits.

Students continue to develop a strong vocabulary of art terminology and become conversant in its usage during critiques, which are utilized as a method for teacher/peer evaluation and feedback.

Students are expected to meet with one of the Intensive Studies teachers one period per week to discuss their independent work, attend class meetings two times per week, and to continue their own independent work and finish class assignments the remaining two periods. Requirements also include the creation of an artist's statement and participation in the annual Intensive Studies show in the Bonsack Gallery.