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  • Fine Arts 239: Sculpture I

    4.00 Credits
    St Lawrence University

    This is a course for expressing one's ideas in three dimensions and through a variety of media. Students receive an introduction to the basic techniques, materials and terminology of 3D design, sculpture and contemporary art in general. Assignments in modeling, mixed media, installation and collaboration are included. Materials include clay, plaster, wood and metal as well as found, mixed and experimental media. In order to give students a broader perspective on contemporary cultural production and thought, the course includes investigation of historical and theoretical aspects of contemporary art. Prerequisite: Fine Arts 121 or permission of the instructor. Registration limited.
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  • Fine Arts 240: S culpture II

    4.00 Credits
    St Lawrence University

    A continuation of Sculpture I. Students are expected to expand their ideas into more fully resolved and conceptually challenging works. Collaboration, casting, fabrication/building techniques using wood and metal, investigation of tactical media approaches and other materials as determined by the student's interest and conceptual direction. Prerequisites: Fine Arts 121 and 239 and permission of the instructor.
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  • Fine Arts 241: Printmaking I

    4.00 Credits
    St Lawrence University

    An introduction to relief, intaglio and lithography processes, this course involves drawing, processing, proofing and producing prints. Students are also exposed to historical and contemporary ideas and images related to making prints. Prerequisite: Fine Arts 121 or permission of the instructor. Registration limited.
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  • Fine Arts 246: Art and Politics in Nigeria

    4.00 Credits
    St Lawrence University

    This course examines the relationship between art and sociopolitical conditions and events in Nigeria since 1960, as reflected in the works of selected major cultural producers. Key figures in literature, music and fine arts are studied and, through their works and personal histories, the role of the artist in society is examined. Offered on rotation. Fulfills the diversity distribution requirement. Also offered through African Studies.
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  • Fine Arts 247 ,248: and 347,348.Special Topics in Art

    4.00 Credits
    St Lawrence University

    Topics relate to the history, practice or theory of art. Open to all students, but depending on the topics, prerequisites may be required. Specific topics are announced in the Class Schedule each semester when offered.
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  • Fine Arts 249: Ceramics I

    4.00 Credits
    St Lawrence University

    This is a course for expressing one's ideas through the most basic and malleable material - clay. Different hand-building techniques such as pinch, slab, coil, solid and hollow modeling are explored, along with the basics of ceramic and non-ceramic finishes. In order to give students a broader perspective of the material and its use, this course includes investigation of historical and theoretical aspects of contemporary ceramic and "fine" art.Prerequisite: Fine Arts 121.
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  • Fine Arts 250: Ceramics II

    4.00 Credits
    St Lawrence University

    A continuation of Ceramics I. Students are expected to expand their ideas into more fully resolved and conceptually challenging works. Fabrication/building techniques such as press molding, slip casting, installation work and mixing media are discussed. More advanced surfacing techniques such as ceramic decals, printing on clay, experimental finishes and glaze chemistry are explored. Prerequisites: Fine Arts 121 and 249 and permission of the instructor.
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  • Fine Arts 252: History of Modern European Art

    4.00 Credits
    St Lawrence University

    A critical historical investigation of art production in Western Europe from 1850 to 1945. Special emphasis is given to the strategy and tactics of the avant-garde, the revolutionary potential of art, the public reception of modernist art, the politics of the art market, the problem of abstraction and issues of gender. Prerequisite: Fine Arts 117. Also offered through European Studies.
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  • Fine Arts 254: A History of Contemporary Art

    4.00 Credits
    St Lawrence University

    The aim of this course is to provide a historical basis for an understanding of the current ideologies of art. Beginning with the emergence of an avant-garde in the United States in the 1940s, the course investigates how artists and their publics attempted to redefine the role of art in the West. Prerequisite: Fine Arts 117.
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  • Fine Arts 256: Art and Nature

    4.00 Credits
    St Lawrence University

    An overview of nature as a subject of artistic representation, in ancient Mediterranean and Mesopotamian cultures, and in the West from the Renaissance to the present. This course explores the ways in which depictions of nature have both reflected and shaped constructs of the natural world, by reference to religions, philosophies and moral values. Works of art to be examined include obvious examples of nature in art, such as landscape painting, and less obvious ones, such as villas and portraits, as well as earthworks and other environmental art created by contemporary artists. This course requires no previous experience of art history. Also offered through Outdoor Studies.
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