IUPUI Campus Bulletin 2022-2023

Designed for non-art majors who wish to continue developing ceramic hand building skills through an exploration of more complex forms expressing individualized ideas, and investigative advanced forming and firing techniques.

Open to Herron majors and non-majors. This course is designed to offer specific focused topics of surface design and alternative firing techniques in the ceramic arts. All methods of forming ceramic objects to be explored in an intensive 3 week workshop environment.

Students are introduced to basic drawing using a range of subjects and techniques, progressing from simple to complex forms. Students learn to express themselves through drawing and to critique, evaluate, and interpret drawings of different types. Introduces the history of drawing as a mode of human expression. No experience expected.

This beginning drawing class fosters creativity and experimentation while building drawing skills. Students draw from a wide range of subjects to explore different modes of drawing with a variety of materials. Lessons include working with color, three-dimensional space, the human form, and communicating ideas visually. No prerequisites.

Students with little or no experience will paint from a range of subjects that begins with simple forms and progress to more complex. Lessons include mixing color, working from observation, sources of imagery, and the role of painting in art today.  Students will apply their skills in a self-directed final project.

Introduction to basic design and color theory through the manipulation of 2-D imagery. Students study the elements of design, developing a visual language for analyzing, organizing, and communicating ideas. Historic and contemporary models build an understanding of human expression in the world. Equal emphasis on conceptual and manual skills.

Introduction to the basics of photography for non-art majors. Students will learn how to use a digital camera in manual setting, to compose and expose images, to process images with software, and to critique imagery. Also introduces history of photography and alternative photographic media.

Intermediate level photography for non-art majors. Students expand on their current photography skills while exploring more conceptual aspects of imagery and how it fits into their own cultural and narrative context. This course includes the history of photography, art history, and intermediate learning of digital editing software for photography. 

This course introduces students in any major to the visual arts through the study of history, cultures, media, processes, and concepts that artists use. Students will participate in class discussions about art's place in society, while developing an understanding of art through visits to local art galleries and museums.

This course is an introduction to understanding contemporary art and the methods and issues within the discipline of art history. It offers a chronological overview of the history of contemporary art beginning with 1945 to the present. This course will look at artworks, the social contexts in which they are produced and presented, and the different theoretical models through which they have been interpreted.  Not counted as credit toward the BFA or BAE degree, nor toward the major or minor requirements in art history.

The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the profession of art therapy. Students will learn the definition of art therapy, how and where it is practiced, with whom, and why. Students will explore the interface between art and various theories of psychotherapy and will begin to understand the relationship between the creative process and the unconscious. Students will see how art therapy is used to visually communicate thoughts, feelings, emotions and inner conflicts in the effort to understand self and other. Students will be exposed to first hand experience of the creative process as both a form of visual expression and as a therapeutic tool. Didactic and experiential methods of teaching, along with field trips and guest lectures, will provide the teaching mechanisms for this course.

Drawing for Interior Design is on two and three-dimensional presentation methods that prepare students to communicate interior design concepts for “real-world” scenarios. Students will learn techniques for producing architectural/interior presentation drawings and develop methods of rendering interior and exterior spaces. Sketching, drafting and color rendering will be done, using different media including pens, pencils, and markers to create a portfolio of drawings that present their skills.

Comprehensive study of design elements and principles through the investigation of two-dimensional space. Students explore basic two-dimensional concepts such as figure/ground, grouping principles, grid, symmetry, rhythm, and pattern. As a result of this course, students develop a visual language for analyzing, organizing, and communicating two-dimension principles.