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This introductory course teaches the basic skills needed for drawing. Working with a variety of materials and techniques, including charcoal and pencils, students explore the rendering of geometric forms, volume, and perspective, with an emphasis on personal gesture marks.
Explore the basics of color theory, including temperature, value, and harmony-creating color schemes. In hands-on projects, learn to use a color wheel with tinting and toning, color charts, and color harmony studies.
For more than a century, Hollywood has relied on star power as the most reliable way to draw an audience. Media historian Brian Rose traces the history of movie stardom, from the days when film actors weren’t even identified by name to how Mary Pickford became the first real film star and eventually how actors like Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, and Denzel Washington ushered in a new definition of stardom during the last few decades.
The dramatic landscapes of northern New Mexico captivated Georgia O’Keeffe and inspired striking paintings that depict rocks and landforms shaped by erosion. Geologist Kirt Kempter explores the geologic story of the beloved region O’Keeffe called home—one that spans more than 300 million years and includes rock layers from ancient rivers, oceans, and sand dunes.
In this class, learn the strategies artists such as Rembrandt, Daumier, Cézanne, and Vermeer used to harness light and unify, intensify, and give dimension to their images. (World Art History Certificate elective, 1/2 credit)
Participants refine and expand their drawing skills through studio practice in traditional media. Sessions focus on classic subject areas such as landscape, portrait, and figure.
Guided by the founding instructor of the National Gallery of Art’s Writing Salon, Mary Hall Surface, immerse yourself in the colors, light, and forms of Claude Monet’s exquisite The Japanese Footbridge to explore the bridge as a metaphor for the thresholds and journeys of our lives. Designed for writers of all levels, and for the curious, the workshop invites you to look outwardly at art and to look inwardly through writing.
Learn simple techniques to create landscape and seascape paintings. Special emphasis is given to watercolor techniques such as wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, and masking.
Over the 2,000 years since many European roads were built, they have been walked by crusaders, dictators, writers, refugees, and artists. Historian Catherine Fletcher reveals how these roads have functioned as channels of trade and travel and routes for conquest and creativity, transforming cultures across Europe. Fletcher tells the stories of her travels from Scotland to Cádiz to Istanbul and Rome, sharing histories of nations and empires that have risen and fallen.
