在匹泽学院, 字段组 (similar to a discipline or department) organize major requirements and courses.
艺术领域小组 provides a rigorous and unique program of study with a deep commitment to interdisciplinary learning, 跨文化理解, 社会责任, 社区参与, 环境可持续性. We believe firmly and aspire to develop in our students an appreciation for how art, 各种形式的, can transform perceptions and make positive and lasting change in the world.
Our art program is distinctive in that it includes four studio art faculty, one art historian and one gallery director/curator working collaboratively. 这种独特的妆容, along with our desire to collaborate inside and outside of the discipline of art, 让我们的工艺令人兴奋, experimental and multidisciplinary coursework that goes beyond the traditional boundaries of art. The art program helps students develop the technical skills, 工艺, 注重细节, critical thinking and problem solving skills alongside conceptual rigor and historical understanding in order so that they might create works of art that are informed and compelling.
样本的课程
食物和陶瓷制品
For millennia objects and vessels made of clay have been central to food storage and preparation. Ceramics and cooking are symbiotic and have developed deep and abiding relationships in cultures throughout the world. This course explores these relationships through the design and creation of objects hand-in-hand with the process of cooking. Students will learn techniques in the studio and the kitchen that will inform each other and influence their understanding of utility, 工效学和演示. An appreciation for the complex and ever evolving relationship between useful objects and food/beverages will be at the core of this course. 学生将被要求设计, fabricate and glaze their ceramic work as well as research, create and present their finished recipes or foodstuffs. This course will explore the intersection of tradition and innovation while also emphasizing sustainable practices and developing community.
奥维德的人物
Ovid’s Metamorphoses begins with the poet’s “intention” “to tell of bodies changed/ to different forms.” This course takes up that poem’s iterative, 近乎强迫症的, attempt to capture the very moment at which one “body” ceases to be itself by transforming into something else. 追溯奥维德的叙事场景, 包括阿波罗和达芙妮的神话, 艾可和那喀索斯, 亚克托安, 夜莺, and Pygmalion (to name a few) across centuries of retelling, 重塑, 和重新设计, 我们会问:一个身体是如何, 一个物质星座, 假设另一种形状? What is the relation of the human body to the plants and animals and minerals that it can become? How might the design concept of “affordance” encourage us to rethink the capacities of form? 最重要的是, we will attempt to answer these questions through two distinct, 历史上竞争, but mutually generative modalities of inquiry: the verbal and the visual. Co-taught by a literary critic who specializes in poetry and poetic theory and a painter who specializes in figure drawing, course readings and assignments will move across these fields, requiring students to both analyze and create, 写和画, 描述和制造.
艺术与动物
The seminar explores the emerging interdisciplinary field of “animal studies” from the perspective of 艺术历史, 批评, 以及策展工作. How have non-human animals been depicted in art, and what have the implications of these representations been for understanding human identity and human interaction with the non-human? How do representations of animals express cultural norms and habits of thought, and how do representations of and relations with animals matter, 对谁说? 艺术创作是人类独有的吗? How have artists explored non-human intelligence? Throughout the semester we will read and discuss texts from a range of perspectives–mostly from 艺术历史 and art 批评, but from scholars engaged with ancient and contemporary philosophy, 人类学, 女权主义理论, and animal behavior to name just a few–and in dialogue with the work of artists who are engaged with animals and the idea of the animal in their practice.
顾问
- Gain knowledge of the vocabularies, histories, theories, and philosophies of art
- 学习合适的研究方法
- Learn how to communicate effectively about art, visual, and material culture
- Be able to think critically about their practice, 作为艺术家或研究者, 完善和修改他们的工作
- Define and categorize their practice and research within the context of an art related discipline
- Demonstrate professionalism in the presentation and dissemination of their work
Students from Pitzer’s art program have gone on to pursue, 工作室艺术的研究生学位, 艺术历史, 管理者的研究, 和更多的. 校友 of our program work as studio artists, 媒体艺术家, 艺术教育工作者, 非营利性的管理员, 策展人, 平面设计师, 和更多的.
