ART 2113 - Painting II

• Demonstrate disciplined and consistent work habits.
• Develop personal ideas within the creation of a unified body of work.
• Complete a cohesive series of related works (a minimum of six unique pieces.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the formal, conceptual, and technical issues related to the direction of a series of works.
• Engage in effective critical analysis of one’s own work and the work of others.
• Effectively employing a sketchbook in planning a series of works.
• Demonstrate understanding of curating a portfolio of work.
• Demonstrate knowledge of basic aspects of self-promotion.
• Demonstrate effective collaboration with other artists.
• Demonstrate ability in co-curating and exhibiting a group exhibition.

• Students develop higher order thinking skills.
• Students can develop effective oral communication skills.

• Idea development and planning a series (a minimum of six works)
• Professional work habits including the ability to work independently and productively
• Self-reflection and effective expression
• Continued work with formal, conceptual, and technical aspects of painting
• Giving and receiving critique
• Build a portfolio of work
• Writing an artist’s statement
• Documenting artwork 
• The fundamentals of self-promotion
• Co-curating and exhibiting a group exhibition

Learning Activities

• In-class painting
• Sketchbook drawing
• Critiques

Assessments

• Paintings will be graded individually and/or as a series.
• Artist Statement
• Creating a body of works for exhibition and curating it in collaboration with others for a group exhibition
• Photography and written documentation of artwork
• Creating a website for artwork

Grading guidelines

• A minimum of 70% of this course’s grade should be in-class painting for a series with some variation allowed in terms of weight for sketchbook and critiques.