Foundation Seminar

BFA1 Art Program students will be pre-enrolled in
this class, along with What Makes it
Art(AAIC-103).

In order to have a better understanding of the
work you make and how that work interacts with
culture, it is important to begin to grapple with
the relationship between your art and art
history, the divide between the type of work you
now make and the art practice you wish to build,
and your awareness of the variety of contemporary
art practices. In this course you will wrestle
with these and other ideas as you begin your
course of study in the Art Program.
This course includes lectures, discussions,
readings, critiques, in-class projects, and an
expectation that you will produce artwork that
reflects your interests and ideas. Introduction
to the program's labs (production facilities),
course advisement, and field trips are also part
of the course curriculum. In short, this 2-part
course sequence is an introduction to the Art
Program - both as a practical primer to help you
navigate the Institute and a conceptual
introduction as to how artwork is produced,
analyzed and critiqued in a myriad of ways.
AART-101 is offered in the Fall Semester.