Painting and Acrylics is an introductory studio art course open to all students. In this class you will be exposed to a range of strategies and subject matter for painting with acrylics. Each week students will be shown new techniques and asked to put them into practice with class projects e.g., cloud painting, self-portraits, and making your own masterpiece. At the end of this course students will understand how to use acrylic paint to render any and all representational subject matter.

This introductory class explores how we arrange objects and understand their meaning. Using personal props, students will experiment creating still life photographs while thinking about object placement, scale, lighting, and perspective. Together we will analyze their photo compositions using concepts like hierarchy, alignment, and metaphor. Students will be given weekly assignments to develop their visual storytelling skills as well as their ability to read object arrangements. Weekly slide lectures will explore historical and cultural depictions of objects in still life. Students will be asked to participate by bringing in examples of still life imagery they find inspiring to share with the group. The purpose of this course is to help students learn the ways in which object arrangements communicate.

In this course, we turn to the practice of copying as a form of study, appreciation, and inspiration. Using the Cantor Museum collection, the Bowes Art Library, and the internet, we will curate personal archives of images which we will draw from – literally and figuratively– to explore a range of techniques and approaches to image making. An emphasis will be placed on drawing as routine and the keeping of a sketchbook/journal. Students will train in ways of seeing that will allow them to employ skills and iconography learned from studying other images towards the development of their own unique visual language.

This course explores the potential of your cell phone in working in various photography art practices, ranging from experimental to documentary-style photography. We will leverage the potential of the cell phone by delving into different genres through hands-on assignments, demo lessons, and discussions about artists working with this photography. We will merge a critical analysis of contemporary photography with a study of early forms of popular photography, examining the democratization of this medium. By completing our weekly assignments and lessons, you will learn to better articulate and convey ideas through photography, expand your technical and conceptual approach, and understand how we communicate through images.

Fundametals of ballet technique including posture, placement, the foundation steps, and ballet terms; emphasis on the development of coordination, balance, flexibility, sense of lines, and sensitivity to rhythm and music. May be repeated for credit.

Steps and styling in one of America's 21st-century vernacular dance forms. May be repeated for credit.

Is a hands-on class where students learn to make stuff. Through the process of building, you are introduced to the basic areas of EE. Students build a "useless box" and learn about circuits, feedback, and programming hardware, a light display for your desk and bike and learn about coding, transforms, and LEDs, a solar charger and an EKG machine and learn about power, noise, feedback, more circuits, and safety. And you get to keep the toys you build.

Despite the rise of emerging forms like two-minute YouTube videos, six second Vines, or interactive storytelling modules, many core principles of visual storytelling remain unchanged. In this hands-on film production class students will learn a broad set of filmmaking fundamentals (basic history, theory, and practice) and will apply them creating film projects using tools such as iPhones, consumer cameras and FCPX.

In this workshop, 40 students will design and create a silver pendant. Beginning with a basic introduction to design and CAD, students will use a computer aided design tool to create a 3D model of their pendant design. Next, using machines and processes at the Product Realization Lab, students will build a version of their part in a wax-like material. This part will then be used in a lost-wax investment casting process to turn the printed part into a cast silver part. Finally, the students will be introduced to a set of hand tools they will use to turn their cast silver part into a finished silver pendant.

See Website for Details. Zero unit enrollment option available with instructor permission. By enrolling in this course you are giving consent for the video and audio recording and distribution of your image and performance for use by any entity at Stanford University.

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