Undergraduate Program

This course introduces basic drawing techniques and composition through observation, guiding students to develop formal artistic skills and spatial understanding while exploring art as a visual language. Evaluation is based on studio production, participation in critiques, and exploration of both traditional and non-traditional mediums. Relevant readings and short papers are included. Not open to seniors. Studio art lab supply fees apply.

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(MW 4:50PM - 7:30PM)

Buildings are enduring cultural artifacts that embody both artistic expression and technological limitations, influencing societies beyond their creators. This course explores the design, creation, and study of architecture through lectures, exercises, and thematic assignments by while developing skills in architectural design and understanding the built environment. Coursework culminates in a fully realized building design.

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(MW 2:00PM - 4:40PM)

This course introduces students to painting through both traditional and experimental approaches, allowing them to develop both observational skills and explore non-traditional media. Through projects and critiques, students enhance their understanding of historical and contemporary painting trends while creating mature visual works that effectively communicate meaning. Not open to seniors. Studio Art Lab Fee Applied.

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(TR 2:00PM - 4:40PM)

This course introduces students to painting through both traditional and experimental approaches, allowing them to develop both observational skills and explore non-traditional media. Through projects and critiques, students enhance their understanding of historical and contemporary painting trends while creating mature visual works that effectively communicate meaning. Not open to seniors. Studio Art Lab Fee Applied.

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(TR 9:40AM - 12:20PM)

This course explores a variety of materials and techniques, from metal and wood working to experimental methods for creating three-dimensional art. Students investigate how the qualities of these media convey ideas, aiming to develop a synthesis of material choice and concept while building their creative vocabulary. Not open to seniors. Studio Art Lab Fee Applied.

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(TR 4:50PM - 7:30PM)

This class introduces the basics of photography, focusing on its interpretive and hybrid nature. Students create images using techniques like photograms, collages, and digital processes. Alongside studio projects, students will explore alternative perspectives on the photographic frame and current issues in photography through readings and discussions. Not open to seniors. Studio Art lab fee applied.

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(TR 11:05AM - 1:45PM)

This class introduces the basics of photography, focusing on its interpretive and hybrid nature. Students create images using techniques like photograms, collages, and digital processes. Alongside studio projects, students will explore alternative perspectives on the photographic frame and current issues in photography through readings and discussions. Not open to seniors. Studio Art lab fee applied.

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(MW 10:25AM - 1:05PM)

This course merges contemporary art production with technologies and social interventions. Students will combine historical, inter-media approaches with new, evolving trends in social practice. Students will deploy introductory level techniques to create new works at the intersection of art, design, and technology. Not open to seniors. Studio Art lab fee applied.

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(MW 4:50PM - 7:30PM)

Since the invention of the Xerox machine, artists have used it to create experimental art, known as photocopy or Xerox art, by treating it as both a camera and a printing press. In this course, students will explore this genre by creating imagery through manipulations like reducing, enlarging, and collage, culminating in a midterm fanzine and a self-proposed final artwork.  Not open to seniors. Studio Art lab fee applied.​ Overlaps with DMST 116.

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(TR 4:50PM - 7:30PM)

This course introduces the basic aesthetic and technical elements of video production. Emphasis is on the creative use and understanding of the video medium while learning to use the video camera, video editing processes and the fundamental procedures of planning video projects. Strategies for the use of video as an art-making tool will be explored. Works by artists and directors critically exploring media of film and video will be viewed and discussed. Video techniques will be studied through screenings, group discussions, readings, practice sessions and presentations of original video projects made during the course. Sophomores and Juniors with officially declared FMS and SA majors are given priority registration; followed by sophomores and juniors with officially declared FMS and SA minors.

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(MW 10:25AM - 1:05PM)

This course is an introduction to art exhibition practices including research, curation, planning, art handling, installation, and hands-on experience in galleries. Students will install exhibitions in the teaching galleries and spaces on campus, including (but not limited to) Hartnett Gallery and Frontispace Gallery. Studio Art lab fee applied. *Instructor permission is required for this course.  Use the “Request Course Section Prerequisite Override” task found on your academics dashboard under the Planning & Registration section to request this permission.*

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(T 11:05AM - 1:45PM)

Printmaking is a non-digital, non-photographic manner of visual communication which emphasizes re-production. This course will introduce procedures and techniques for creating multiple works on paper.
Suites of prints will be made from linoleum cuts, woodcuts, drypoint etchings, monotypes and mono-prints. Drawing is key in the development of the reductive, visual language required in printmaking.
Exercises which focus on print-based drawing skills will be assigned throughout. Not open to Seniors.
Studio Art lab supply fees apply.  If the course fills and you would like to be added to the wait list, please go to https://www.sageart.center/resources.

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(MW 4:50PM - 7:30PM)

Intro to Studio Practice provides a broad framework for contemporary art making through creative production, discussion, presentation, and critique. Scheduled class time will be a combination of lecture, technical demonstration and studio/work time. Rather than focusing on a single medium such as drawing, this course gives students the opportunity to try out a broad range of art approaches and media which, depending upon the instructor, might include a combination of drawing, printmaking, sculpture, performance, sound art, conceptual art, and/or media that are not traditionally used for making art. Practice and critique, readings and discussion combine to place emphasis on the visual investigation necessary to create educated and challenging art. Not open to seniors.  Studio art lab supply fee applied.

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(TR 2:00PM - 4:40PM)

The evolving continuation of painting with serious emphasis on independent proposals, research and production. The broadest examination of painting and related media is expected. Group discussion and individual meetings are on a weekly basis. Permission of instructor only. Studio art lab fee applied.

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(MW 2:00PM - 4:40PM)

This class examines and interrogates the multiple roles that photography and related media play within our cultural moment with an emphasis on hybrid and multidisciplinary approaches to the medium. Class projects employ 
interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches, and explore screen and print-based photographic collage, appropriation, found imagery and remixing. 

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(TR 2:00PM - 4:40PM)

This course uses video and moving images to explore the intersectional roots of the ecological crisis, from pandemics to racial justice and climate disruption. Guided by Felix Guattari's "The Three Ecologies," students will develop 
Eco-cinematic consciousness through projects involving installation, sound, and networked media, examined within a critical environmental arts framework. Permission of instructor. 

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(MW 2:00PM - 4:40PM)

This studio art course invites students to explore contemporary art's potential to engage with societal issues through performance projects and socially engaged initiatives. Throughout the semester, students will draw inspiration from a diverse range of artists while collaboratively addressing themes such as identity, activism, and environmental awareness. No prior experience in performance or socially engaged art required. 

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(MW 10:25AM - 1:05PM)

This course explores the boundaries of conventional studio production through experimentation with nontraditional materials and invented approaches. It investigates the act of making a mark and probes the motives and impulses inherent in that process. The projects demand formal consideration as well as thoughtful content; along with class participation, they act as documents of an engagement in creative thought, research, and problem-solving. Individual and group critiques occur throughout the course. Makings, Methods, and Materials can be viewed as an extension of any 100-level studio course and provides an opportunity to exercise and explore techniques and cognitive processes that are utilized and applied in art production and adjacent fields of learning.

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(TR 9:40AM - 12:20PM)

This course will utilize the resources of New York City as a starting point for creative production. Projects will encourage students to explore urban spaces, histories, and systems using a variety of media such as drawing, photography, video, sound, bookmaking, printmaking and/or installation.

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( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)

As an integral part of the internship program, all students participating in ANY will meet weekly with the program's resident director. The class will visit museums, art galleries, film & media screenings, & learn from these visits through readings, papers, presentations & discussions. The colloquium will also serve to provide an intellectual framework for understanding the operations of the NY art world & to allow students to discuss with one another their experiences at the various institutions where they intern. Each student will be expected to make a presentation about their internship to the ANY group. There will be an entrepreneurial component which will introduce the students to a wide variety of entrepreneurial activity & innovative practices within arts and culture. Through guest speakers, seminars & field trips the students will learn how entrepreneurial endeavors develop. By the end of the semester, the students will create their own proposal for an entrepreneurial project.

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( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)

This course offers undergraduate students a structured, credit-bearing opportunity to gain experience in supervised teaching within a college-level classroom setting. Under the mentorship of a faculty member, students assist in course delivery, lead discussions or labs, support instructional design, and participate in pedagogical reflection. Responsibilities and expectations vary by course and department.

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( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)

This course offers undergraduate students a structured, credit-bearing opportunity to gain experience in supervised teaching within a college-level classroom setting. Under the mentorship of a faculty member, students assist in course delivery, lead discussions or labs, support instructional design, and participate in pedagogical reflection. Responsibilities and expectations vary by course and department.

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( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)

This course offers undergraduate students a structured, credit-bearing opportunity to gain experience in supervised teaching within a college-level classroom setting. Under the mentorship of a faculty member, students assist in course delivery, lead discussions or labs, support instructional design, and participate in pedagogical reflection. Responsibilities and expectations vary by course and department.

Location

( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)

This course offers undergraduate students a structured, credit-bearing opportunity to gain experience in supervised teaching within a college-level classroom setting. Under the mentorship of a faculty member, students assist in course delivery, lead discussions or labs, support instructional design, and participate in pedagogical reflection. Responsibilities and expectations vary by course and department.

Location

( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)

This course offers undergraduate students a structured, credit-bearing opportunity to gain experience in supervised teaching within a college-level classroom setting. Under the mentorship of a faculty member, students assist in course delivery, lead discussions or labs, support instructional design, and participate in pedagogical reflection. Responsibilities and expectations vary by course and department.

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( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)

This course provides undergraduate students the opportunity to pursue in-depth, independent exploration of a topic not regularly offered in the curriculum, under the supervision of a faculty member in the form of independent study, practicum, internship or research. The objectives and content are determined in consultation between students and full-time members of the teaching faculty. Responsibilities and expectations vary by course and department. Registration for Independent Study courses needs to be completed through the Independent Study Registration form (https://secure1.rochester.edu/registrar/forms/independent-study-form.php)

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( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)

This course provides undergraduate students the opportunity to pursue in-depth, independent exploration of a topic not regularly offered in the curriculum, under the supervision of a faculty member in the form of independent study, practicum, internship or research. The objectives and content are determined in consultation between students and full-time members of the teaching faculty. Responsibilities and expectations vary by course and department. 

Location

( 7:00PM - 7:00PM)

This course provides undergraduate students the opportunity to pursue in-depth, independent exploration of a topic not regularly offered in the curriculum, under the supervision of a faculty member in the form of independent study, practicum, internship or research. The objectives and content are determined in consultation between students and full-time members of the teaching faculty. Responsibilities and expectations vary by course and department.

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(TR 4:50PM - 7:30PM)

This course provides undergraduate students the opportunity to pursue in-depth, independent exploration of a topic not regularly offered in the curriculum, under the supervision of a faculty member in the form of independent study, practicum, internship or research. The objectives and content are determined in consultation between students and full-time members of the teaching faculty. Responsibilities and expectations vary by course and department.

Location

(TR 4:50PM - 7:30PM)