Section I
You may take this section if you placed into one of the following English classes:
- Thought Lab I
| 8:30–11 AM | Noon–2:30 PM
—or—
12:30–3:00 PM |
|
|---|---|---|
| Monday | ||
| Tuesday |
On campus |
Form and Figure
(Roske)
On campus |
| Wednesday |
On campus |
Contemporary Studio and Creative Action
(Den Hartog)
On campus |
| Thursday | ||
| Friday |
Design and Color
(Connelly)
Online |
Design and Color
(Connelly)
Online |
Foundation students will be enrolled in two Liberal Arts and Science classes in fall semester. These classes will be scheduled around selected studio classes.
Section Faculty
Moira Connelly
As a painter, drawer, and printmaker, I use color, line and materiality to explore the space between image making and abstraction. My work reflects on psychic space and how affects our physical realities, as well as different structures that organize temporality; mainly architecture and daily routine. In my class you’ll be encouraged to observe and research artworks and design from different time periods, and from around the world. The practice of looking will inform studio projects where you build technical and conceptual skills and are encouraged to develop your personal artistic voice. Experimentation and risk taking are promoted within a collaborative and student-centered classroom environment.
Through sculpture I examine the intangible, unstable and fleeting perceptual qualities of landscape, both as subject and form. My aim is to provide the viewer with a kinesthetic response to my work – an experience felt through the body as well as seen through the eyes. I choose to work with forms that appear to defy gravity and that use space in such a way that the viewer is compelled to use their body as they would in the larger landscape.
I received my M.F.A. from the Claremont Graduate University and my undergraduate degree at Linfield College. I am represented by the Rosamund Felsen Gallery, and have shown at galleries throughout the U.S. and abroad. In 2012, I was awarded a John F. Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.
I teach Contemporary Studio and Creative Action in the Foundation Studio program and I am the Program Director of the Sculpture/New Genres area of the Fine Arts Department where I teach Sculpture/New Genres classes.
My works on unprimed canvas are located somewhere between drawing and painting in terms of process. I render shapes of light and shadow on a canvas that functions as an object in addition to the traditional “window” of the picture plane. This object is a place for something to happen, like Rauschenberg’s white paintings or the cave of Plato’s allegory.
In my classes, I teach drawing as a common denominator among all forms of visual culture. Whether design, architecture, painting or sculpture, for example, drawing is the most immediate way to visualize your ideas. I also focus on perception as the basis of the drawing process, since learning to draw requires learning to see in a new way. At any level, drawing can be a profound experience that confirms our humanity, expresses the subjective nature of existence, and changes the way we see the world.