The Fine Arts core curriculum provides a strong foundation that emphasizes the development of technical skills, basic design and liberal arts, while maintaining a conceptual basis in fine arts. As students develop a focus of interest, instruction shifts to personal explorations in drawing, printmaking, sculpture, painting and photography.
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Untitled (listen)
Lisa Bachman Jones
Untitled (listen) investigates the willingness and capability to hear limitations and needs. The materials point to the body. Cotton fabric, the paper wrapping and wax of crayons, and food cartons all touch us or are touched by us. Each of these materials can be taken to physical limitations. The cotton will rip, the wax will break, and the paper will fold under too much weight. I present cross-generational groupings in the installation. Age often determines who is worth listening to.
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Cryptid Art
Christie Gaskill
For the fluxus excursion, my superpower was a shapeshifting cryptid. The word cryptid comes from the word cryptozoology or the study of creatures that the scientific community has not recognized yet. I took a walk in downtown Dickson with zero expectations of myself. I decided to stop at a book store that I had not been in. I usually don’t go into book stores. This would change up my natural habits of art-making. The first book I found mentioned depression as a shapeshifter and was full of many enlightening short poems about depression. I took witness sketches from around the United States of cryptid sightings to make a set of tarot cards as archetypes of the tarot of this depression.
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You Want It, You Buy It, You Forget It
Mia Jones
This was part of the Walking as Thinking project. Mia chose the identity of a "protester" and asked random people in Hillsboro Village to hold individual signs or her to document.
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Rachel McKee
This was an assignment called "Tagging the City". This student made tags with printed made up words and a Instagram site on the back of the tag for anyone to look up and see the meaning of the "tag".
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Pilgrimage
Michaela Mondesir
This was part of the Walking as thinking assignment where this student did a "pilgrimage" into the woods with a destination.
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4AM 4PM 6AM 8PM
Huy Nguyen
This was a project where students had to take a walk and think about a Fluxus excursion.
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"How's My Critique Going"
Rosemary Solomon
Students were asked to make a Flow Chart that represented a Habit
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Untitled Study
Chloe Elsdorfer
focus on structure and planes of the figure. Attention to proportion and line quality. Addition of shadow shapes in preparation for finished value study.
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My Dad
Sarah Fulton
This is a large-scale scribble drawing of student’s father. Drawn from a photo, it shows correct proportions and was graded based on how much it looked like the source. The outside of class assignment asked students to brainstorm and then choose someone who they considered a personal hero. It was somewhat conceptual designed to get students to begin thinking about how to make art about personal ideas but also skills based as it reinforced our face study.
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Untitled
Mia Jones
figure study—Skin and Bones
This outside of class assignment was the first conceptual assignment. After studying the skeletal system, students were asked to conceive a finished drawing using both bones and body to create an interesting, skillfully rendered drawing. This student was already working with the female body and decided to create a collage.
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Untitled
Mia Jones
figure study—working with composition.
After a lecture on composition, students were told they would have three different poses they would need to arrange on their newsprint page. Each time consideration was needed as to placement.
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Untitled
Mia Jones
Charcoal reduction drawing. Students covered the entire paper with charcoal dust and worked back and forth with line, value and eraser to create a subtle value study.
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Untitled Study
Michaela Modesir
focus on figure—torso. Attention line quality and expression.
In this class assignment students had studied faces and heads so we focused on the torso enabling them to integrate the head into the rest of the body. They were to pay close attention to proportions, line quality, sensitivity and add some value if time.
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Untitled Study
Michaela Modesir
female figure study. Focus on structure and line quality with foreshortening.
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Untitled Study
Alisea Turc
This in-class assignment was designed to help students see figure drawing as more than studies by having them integrate a background into an already existing figure drawing. They found photo images and altered them to create something that looked like a finished drawing.
