Note: Course offerings vary by semester, students should check for course availability on the schedule of classes posted on the SRISA web-site. http://www.santareparata.org
Note: All photography courses require that student bring a 35mm camera that has a manual setting. In addition students will be responsible for purchasing film and photographic paper. Students bringing digital cameras should also bring a card reader for downloading images. It is recommended that students purchase a jump drive (mini hard drive) for saving files and images.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 23-2651 SR
Dept: Photography
Course Description: Students will explore the history and craft of photography
using the beautiful and historic backdrop of Florence and Tuscany as
inspiration. The course will
examine such topics as urban and rural landscape, portraiture and digital
techniques and is structured to take full advantage of the experience of being
in Florence. Class time will
include visits to museums and galleries, field trips, technical demonstrations,
darkroom work, individual and group critiques. This course is open to students with all levels of photo
experience. Beginners will master
the basics of camera usage, film development, and black and white printing.
More advanced students will be encouraged to expand their personal photographic
vision and skills. The digital component of the class will be explored on an
individual basis according to the interest and previous experience of the
student.
Credit hours: 3-- Contact hours: 90
Course # 23-1105 SR
Dept: Photography
Course Description: Students will learn basic photographic principles and techniques along with darkroom and laboratory procedures. Aimed at encouraging creativity, emphasis is given to developing a critical sense of the visual language that modern photography uses so expressively. An understanding of technical and critical skills in photography enables students to translate their ideas from other areas of art into the medium of photography. This course is for beginning photo students.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 23-1106 SR
Dept: Photography
Offered: Spring & Fall
Course Description: Designed for students who already have a strong foundation in black and white darkroom practices, this course will present detailed information on advanced techniques. These will include pinhole photography; studio lighting; use of techniques such as solarization; still life and portrait photography; use of the medium format camera; and a complete description of the uses of different papers, developers and films. Classes meet twice a week, 3 hours per class. Students have generous use of the photo lab Outside of class time. Prerequisite: Black & White Photography I
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 23-2105 SR
Dept: Photography
Course Description: This course is intended for students wishing to add the element of color to their work in photography. Early projects will be designed to help students make the transition from shooting images for black and white to seeing with color film in mind. Slide presentations and discussions will be offered to help students recognize the multitude of possibilities the use of color provides for making exciting photographs.
Prerequisites: Black & White Photo I and Black and White Photo II
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 23-3520 SR
Dept: Photography
Course Description: The social and aesthetic aspects of this vital and evolving photographic tradition are explored through and examination of methods, concepts, and history. Projects are designed to use the studentsÕ everyday experiences in Florence as a focus for understanding the medium and practice of documentary photography.
Prerequisites: Black and White Photo
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course# 23-3700
Dept: Photography
Course Description: This course is a systematic exploration of alternative photographic processes, including Cyanotype, Kallitype, Gum Bichromate, and a variety of photo processes that are typically classified as alternative or experimental. In addition to mastering the technical side of these mostly unconventional processes, students will work on projects that extend beyond traditional means of presenting their photo work. This could mean printing imagery on unconventional materials such as fabric, glass or wood, or presenting the photos in a more sculptural form. Students will learn to manipulate their images using graphic arts film; creation of clichŽ verre negatives; digital techniques; and photographic prints. The class will require students to make new imagery with conventional and less conventional cameras (pinhole cameras, for example), but will also encourage students to work with found and collected imagery which can be collaged together with other materials, photos, drawings, prints, etc. to create mixed media pieces. Prerequisites: Black and White Photo II or equivalent
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22-3798 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: An independent project takes place outside the regular classroom environment and is the advanced study of a topic of particular interest to the student. It requires a faculty advisor who will periodically consult with the student, evaluate the result of the project and submit the grade.. An independent project must not be equivalent in content to courses offered at Santa Reparata. It is expected that students create and develop a study or production schedule for their projects and that they are prepared to devote at least 3 clock hours of work per week (45 clock hours per semester) for each credit award to be awarded. Students are required to begin developing their project ideas and completing their independent project form before the add/drop period ends. The faculty advisor must approve the proposed project by signing the form. The completed form must be presented to the Director.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 45
Course # 23-2652 SR
Dept: Photography
Course Description: Since its beginnings in the mid-19th century, photography has dramatically changed our world and how we see that world. In this course, students will develop familiarity with the complex and contradictory genres of photographic images: between documentary and discourse; between mass culture and avant-garde. This course covers work from Europe and the United States from the mid-nineteenth century to present. Particular emphasis will be given to Italian photography.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 45
Course #24-1030 SR
Dept: Film and Video
Course Description: This is a course designed for beginning film students and art students interested in exploring digital filmmaking as an art form. As a beginning workshop in film expression, this course deals with the grammar and construction of digital film through editing programs, learning simple scripting, and story boarding. Students will develop a short digital film project over the course of the semester.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 45
Course #24-1040
Dept: Film and Video
Course Description: This course is designed for intermediate and advanced students wishing to further develop their digital video skills. During the course of the semester, each student will develop their own short film .
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 45
Course # 24-2512 SR
Dept: Film and Video
Course Description: This course focuses on the world of Italian Cinema It is a general analysis of post-war cinema and a parallel social history of this period using film as "decoded historical evidence". In the first part of the class, discussion will focus on Neo-realism, a cinematic phenomenon that deeply influenced the ideological and aesthetic rules of film art. The second part of the course will concentrate on the films that mark the decline of Neo-realism and the talent of "new" auteurs such as Fellini and Antonioni . The last part of the course is devoted to the cinema from the 1970's to the present. The class will also analyze the different aspects of ÒFilm MakingÓ both in Italian and the U.S. industry.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22-2260 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: Color Strategies will examine the study of traditional color theory in depth, along with modernist color applications. The basic text sources for the course are Johannes IttenÕs The Elements of Color, and Joseph AlbersÕ The Interaction of Color. Many of the color exercises taught at the Bauhaus will be a foundation of the course. The students will be able to orient their color thinking towards their major area of study throughout the semester. This course or its equivalent is a prerequisite for Beginning Painting
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22-2220 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: In this introductory oil painting course, students will learn the basic techniques of pictorial representation: color mixing; color composition; the depiction of light and form through painterly means; alla prima painting; under-painting and glazing. Through studio assignments, students will explore a variety of approaches to oil painting and gain competence using these techniques and materials. Studio assignments will be augmented by discussions, critiques, illustrated lectures, museum visits and the analysis of historic and contemporary paintings. Prerequisites: Drawing I and Color Strategies
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22-2221 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: This intermediate painting course builds upon the formal skills learned in Beginning Painting and cultivates further conceptual understanding. Through a series of studio projects based upon a variety of historical approaches to painting, students will strengthen their mastery of materials and techniques while developing an increased understanding of the relationship between form, subject and content. Museum visits, illustrated lectures, critical readings and critiques will supplement studio projects. Prerequisites: Drawing I, Beginning Painting
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22-2223 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description:
Using both
nude and costumed models, the compositional context of the figure and
individual form development are studied. Various media and techniques are discussed and
demonstrated and the instruction is approached on an individualized basis. Materials used in the course are acrylics,
oils, pastels, watercolors, canvas, and paper.
Prerequisites: Figure Drawing I, Beginning painting
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22-2226 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: This course will focus on the validity of portraiture within contemporary painting as well as referencing the vast history of portraiture in all mediums. Readings from critics and artists on portraiture will be provided for discussion throughout the course. Students paint the figure from direct observation and discuss formal issues such as composition, handling of materials and color and reinforce issues of form, proportion and gesture. In addition to discussion and lectures, critiques are offered on both an individual and group basis. Students paint in oil and should have a basic understanding of oil painting as a prerequisite to the course.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22-3222 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: Painting III is an advanced painting course that provides students with a loosely structured sequence of conceptual painting problems based upon modern and contemporary artistic practices. Through studio projects that engage broad topics in painting, students will begin to define their own personal interests and develop an informed individual aesthetic. This course leads students to develop a greater level of conceptual knowledge and technical skill, which prepares them for the self-generated problems of Advanced Studio and independent professional practice. Studio projects will be augmented by critical readings, illustrated lectures and visits to contemporary art exhibitions. Prerequisites: Drawing II, Painting II
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22-3223 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: Students will be encouraged to choose subject matter and materials that relate to their individual visual concerns and interests. Students will work on developing their own body of work that deals with the issues of content, process, and technique. Classes will include discussions of painting, slides, videos, and visits to museums and contemporary galleries. Prerequisites: Drawing II, Painting III
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22-2217 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: Beginning and advanced students will be introduced to the formal and technical issues of on-site drawing. Students will learn to accurately and creatively render from life. The class will address the challenges and benefits posed from working on-site. Taking advantage of the city of Florence and its environs students will work primarily on location in museums, gardens and other historic locations of interest. Student will be encourage to use a wide range of mark making tools including pencils, pens, markers, charcoal, conte, pastels, brushes and ink.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22-2218 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: Beginning and advanced students will be introduced to the formal and technical issues of on-site drawing and painting. Students will learn to accurately and creatively render from life. The class will address the challenges and benefits posed from working on site. Taking advantage of the city of Florence and its environs students will work primarily on location in museums, gardens and other historic locations of interest. For practical reasons students will be encouraged to use only water based colors though more advanced students may choose to further develop work done on location in other mediums outside of class time.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22-2219 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description:
This course introduces beginning and advanced students to the formal and technical issues of on-site painting. Students will learn to accurately and creatively render from life. The class will address the challenges and benefits posed from working on-site. Taking advantage of the city of Florence and its environs students will work primarily on location in museums, gardens and other historic locations of interest to the instructor and students. For practical reasons students will be encouraged to use only water based colors though more advanced students may choose to further develop work done on location in other medium outside of class time.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22-2226 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: In the Landscape Painting class students will develop critical thinking skills about thematic issues in art by exploring the subject of landscape through drawing, painting, discussion and readings. The class will consider the issues surrounding the use of landscape in art by examining different culturesÕ attitudes about space and place.
Using Florence and the surrounding countryside, the class will consist of several sessions of on-sight sketching and painting. Students will also have studio time to develop a long-term project using landscape as the subject.
Credit hours: 1-3--Contact hours: n/a
Course # 22-3998SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: An independent project takes place outside the regular classroom environment and is the advanced study of a topic of particular interest to the student. It requires a faculty advisor who will periodically consult with the student, evaluate the result of the project and submit the grade.. An independent project must not be equivalent in content to courses offered at Santa Reparata. It is expected that students create and develop a study or production schedule for their projects and that they are prepared to devote at least 3 clock hours of work per week (45 clock hours per semester) for each credit award to be awarded. Students are required to begin developing their project ideas and completing their independent project form before the add/drop period ends. The faculty advisor must approve the proposed project by signing the form. The completed form must be presented to the Director.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22-1210 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: Through observational drawing, using black and white media, students learn the skills needed to realistically render 3-dimensional objects on a 2-dimensional surface. Renaissance systems of perspective and chiaroscuro drawing are explored along with the formal aspects of drawing such as line, tone, shape, rhythm, composition, space and proportion.
Credit hours 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22-1211 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: While the emphasis remains on accuracy, clarity, observation and realistic rendering, individual creative solutions are encouraged in this class. Throughout the semester, students will be challenged to find their own creative means to eloquently express their ideas in drawing. In this class, there is a choice of various drawing media and color. Prerequisite: Drawing I
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22-2214 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: Using live nude and costumed models, on-site visits to draw from sculptures, and street life in Florence, students will study the anatomical and structural dynamics of the human figure. This course will emphasize the role of the human figure in both traditional and contemporary art. Materials used include pencil, charcoal, conte and wash drawing. Prerequisite: Drawing I
Printmaking Lab is open from 9am to 11pm most days and students have access outside of scheduled class-time. Many supplies such as inks, blotting paper, etching supplies tools are provided by the school and included in the course lab fee. Students will be responsible for purchasing paper and personal etching tools.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22-2224 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: Students explore the expressive forms and history of printmaking while learning various printmaking techniques. Projects will start with simple one-color relief prints and graduate to multi-color relief, intaglio, monotype and photomechanical processes. The inter-relationships of these media to other art disciplines and ideas are stressed.
Pre-requisite: Drawing I
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22- 2225 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: The approach to printmaking at Santa Reparata includes low-tech processes such as relief prints, intaglio and monotype, combined with the most advanced digital and photomechanical processes. Students will be encouraged to build on their prior experience in printmaking and learn new processes in order to develop their personal approach to image making. Pre-requisites: Drawing I and Printmaking I
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22-2227 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: This course will introduce the student to simple black and white woodcut printing and more complex methods of printing with color. Reduction printing, multiple blocks, chine-colle, and the use of the jigsaw to divide the block for separate, multi-colored inking will be demonstrated, as will various methods of registration and printing, both by hand and using the presses.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22- 2226 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: Serigraphy or Silk Screen is a printmaking technique that can be applied to fine art prints, graphic design and photographic experimentation. The course covers various stencil making techniques; paper and cut stencils; and direct block out. The main emphasis is on photographic emulsion techniques using hand drawn acetates, photocopies, computer printouts and photographs with litho film or diffusion transfer film. Instruction in darkroom procedures, ink mixing, registration; and printing methods will be given.
The Book Arts Lab located in the Printmaking facilities is open from 9am to 11pm most days and students have access outside of scheduled class-time. Many supplies such as inks, glue, mat- board, and general book arts tools are provided by the school in a kit provided to each student. which is covered by the course fee charged to students. Students will be responsible for purchasing paper and other personal supplies not provided in the book arts kit.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22-3347 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: This intensive course will introduce students to the traditions and methods of the handmade book, as well as the expressive possibilities available with book making. The course will begin with simple foundational structures such as pamphlet-stitched and accordion style books and progress through more complex historical structures such as books sewn on supports, long-stitch and coptic bindings. Exploration with materials is encouraged and students can combine other media that they are familiar with (such as photography, printmaking, painting, etc.) in creating their book-works. In addition students will be introduced to traditional methods of typesetting. To help acquaint the student with the long and on-going tradition of book arts in Italy, selected fieldtrips will be organized to visit contemporary artists (bookbinders, papermakers) in their studios as well as visits to museums and institutions in the area which maintain collections relevant to the art of the book. Slide presentations, sample works and lectures, will give an overview of the history of the book and its development in Western art.
Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90
Course # 22-3348 SR
Dept: Art and Design
Course Description: This course is intended for intermediate and advanced book arts students. In addition to learning three to four new book structures students will be given more complex projects and variations of structures learned in past semesters. More emphasis will be given to craftsmanship and creativity in completed projects. In the second half of the course students will project a book or series of books that will be completed by the end of the semester. In addition to the final book project students must complete research in an area of book arts to integrate into their final project. This research may be on ancient manuscripts studying calligraphy, illuminated manuscripts, ancient binding structures, typographic research or other areas relating to book arts.