Spring 2023 Course Offerings

Art 2000

Encountering Contemporary Art

In this class, students will explore how and why contemporary artists make the work they do within a globalized art world. Through discussions, readings, virtual or in-person art excursions and related assignments, participants will apply critical written, oral, and visual communication skills as they analyze, interpret and respond to significant works of art, their contexts and histories.

Art 2100

Beginning Drawing

Students will explore fundamental freehand drawing techniques with a range of drawing methods, media and concepts; emphasis on drawing from observation and expressive experimentation. Students will apply written, oral and visual communication skills as they evaluate, interpret and respond to significant works of art and their own expressive goals.

Art 2200

Real and Recorded Time

Students will engage in informed observations, explorations and communication through time-based media methods and tools as a practical and theoretical foundation for creating original artworks in video, sound, installation, performance and screen.

Art 2300

Two-Dimensional Studies

Students will create aesthetic and interpretive studies exploring organizational elements and principles of 2D composition, visual perception, critical thinking, invention and material experimentation as they pertain to art practice. Students will advance written, oral and visual communication skills as they interpret and respond to significant works of art and their own expressive goals.

Art 2400

3-Dimensional Art

Basic concepts of three-dimensional art focusing on structure with the organization of space and form, using a variety of materials, processes, tools.

Art 2555

Introduction to Digital Photography and Contemporary Issues

Students will learn fundamental digital camera techniques and explore contemporary and historical issues in photography including the relationships between technique, concept, and aesthetics as well as the relationship between images, identity formation, and larger social structures.

Art 3000

Digital Image Manipulation

Students learn to use Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator software while creating digital media artwork and gaining knowledge of digital artists. Experiences include image capture, generation, manipulation, interpretation, critique, working with the fair use principle, and professional artistic output.

Art 3001

Internet Art

Students learn introductory programming skills to integrate image, video, animation, and audio for the creation of internet art. Techniques, concepts, and aesthetics of network culture are practiced, such as tactical media, virality, remixing, and identity construction.

Art 3002

Intro to Ceramics: Structure

Students learn introductory programming skills to integrate image, video, animation, and audio for the creation of internet art. Techniques, concepts, and aesthetics of network culture are practiced, such as tactical media, virality, remixing, and identity construction

Art 3003

Introduction to Glass Art

Introduction to skills used in molten glass forming, including; gathering, hot sculpting, and blowing. Studio practice is further expanded by experimentation with glass kiln methods. Emphasis on the development of original artworks.

Art 3004

Life Studio Drawing I

Students use a wide range of materials and processes to make drawings based on all aspects of life: the human figure, plants, animals, landscapes, interior spaces, etc. Students practice, appreciate and interpret drawing in relation to various traditions and as a basis for individual development.

Art 3005

Photography II: Introduction to Darkroom

Students will explore and learn analogue darkroom processes including manual 35mm camera techniques, black and white film development, and archival silver gelatin printing methods. Students will gain knowledge of historical and contemporary issues in photography and develop verbal and written language skills to critique the construction of images. Limited number of loaner film cameras available.

Art 3006

Introduction to Relief and Intaglio Printmaking

Students use a range of traditional processes in relief and intaglio, exploring the dynamics of their applications in the creation of unique works in print media. Students will apply oral and visual communication skills as they evaluate, interpret and respond to significant works of art, the work of their peers, and their own expressive goals.

Art 3009

Film/Video I

Students engage fundamental concepts and techniques in video including duration, framing, exposure, and sequence with an introduction to filming and editing. Students develop their videos through explorations of contemporary moving-image artwork.

Art 3012

Intro to Ceramics: Form and Surface

Students engage fundamental concepts and techniques in video including duration, framing, exposure, and sequence with an introduction to filming and editing. Students develop their videos through explorations of contemporary moving-image artwork.

Art 3014

Visual Studies: Color

Students investigate seeing and using color. Students develop projects dealing with color organization, phenomena, and interaction. Students integrate theory and practice to appreciate and interpret color as related to various traditions and as a basis for individual development.

Art 3017

Introduction to Sculpture

An introduction to the principles of sculpture, emphasizing basic forming processes and materials. Includes traditional and non-traditional sculpture making concepts, processes and materials through additive, subtractive, and assemblage sculpture making processes.

Art 3024

Painting I

Students explore the dynamics of painting. Students make paintings using a variety of approaches with attention to color, light, form, paint application, space and composition. Students practice, appreciate and interpret painting as related to various traditions and as a basis for individual development.

Art 3054

Painting II

Students explore a variety of painting mediums emphasizing technical, historical and conceptual fundamentals of constructing paintings or 'picture-objects.' Students manipulate spatial and thematic pictorial relationships through painting on various surfaces with a variety of processes and begin to develop the ability to pursue individualized research, processes, themes, and aspirations.

Art 3101

3D Modeling Sculpture

Students learn, practice, and utilize 3D modeling software for generation of form, character, and environment. Includes conceptualization, development, and creation of digital assets for output to formats such as digital prints, game art assets, 3D rapid prototyping, laser cutters and/or CNC mills.

Art 3104

Expanded Drawing

Students expand their definition of drawing by exploring an array of contemporary, historical and conceptual ideas. Students make drawings using a variety of methods and materials, from archival to ephemeral. Students manipulate spatial and thematic pictorial relationships. Students begin to develop the ability to identify and pursue individualized research, processes, themes and aspirations.

Art 3107

Life Sculpture

Students will gain abilities in modeling the human figure clothed and unclothed in clay with and without an armature. Students practice, research, and interpret sculpture in relation to various traditions and contemporary perspectives as a basis for individual creative development.

Art 4002

Intermediate Ceramics: Architectonics

Intermediate course focusing on the Architectural Ceramics; lab practices with various modeling and construction techniques with lectures covering a broad survey of the range of Architectural Ceramics, from structure to cladding to interior and exterior scale.

Art 4009

Film/Video II: Experimental Strategies

Students engage with a broad range of strategies related to experimental film and video art in order to produce their own film and video projects. Alongside those projects, students learn about major historical and contemporary issues and movements in avant-garde time-based media.

Art 4012

Intermediate Ceramics: Utility and Performance

Intermediate course focusing on the utilitarian uses of Ceramics; lab practices with various modeling and potter's wheel techniques with lectures covering a broad survey of the broad range of use, from a cup to a tool to performative gestures.

Art 4014

Advanced Painting and Drawing

This course is designed to assist and guide independent work. Each term will focus on special topics in painting/drawing, with a wide emphasis upon current directions, new media, techniques, social issues. Students will be encouraged to explore the use of a wide range of materials in experimental approaches to drawing/painting. Individual work will be augmented by lectures/discussions/field trips.

Art 4056

Upper Level Printmaking: Lithography + Silkscreen

Students practice/examine individual development and artistic creation through advanced exploration of lithography & silkscreen printmaking. They begin to develop the ability to identify/pursue individualized research, processes, themes and aspirations while they interpret and respond to significant works of art, work of peers, and their own expressive goals through rigorous production/critique.

Art 4101

Moving Image Art

The creation of 2D animations through the generation, manipulation, and montage of multiple media elements such as drawings, video, and audio. Students gain hands-on experience with software sequencing tools and knowledge of the context of time-based computer imaging within a studio art practice.

Art 4201

New Media Robotics

Students learn component level electronics and programming languages on microcontrollers to create kinetic and interactive art. Digital control of objects, projections, and sound allow for responsive environments, wearables, and multimedia experiences.

Art 4401

Computer Animation

Students learn and practice the concepts, aesthetics and processes of 3D computer animation. Conceptualizing, producing and integrating 3D renders and sound, with awareness of cinematography and narrative, will culminate in the completion of computer animations.

Art 4503

Intermediate Glass Topics

Continued exploration in a range of techniques for creating art using glass as a primary material. Projects will be introduced to prompt creative problem solving. Students encouraged to express conceptual concerns through the material and create original artworks.

Art 5000

Art and Professional Practices Seminar

Students explore, practice, and analyze a range of approaches to presenting their artistic practice in visual, oral and written forms. Students explore multiple options, methods and strategies related to career choices and professional development. Students develop a variety of skills to sustain their practice after graduating with their BA or BFA.

Art 5001

Aspects of Art and Technology I

Students explore and practice the technical, aesthetic, and theoretical topics in the field of Art and Technology. Includes interactive installation, biological, surveillance/telepresence, narrative, algorithmic, and performative art.

Art 5006

Alternative Printmaking

Students explore various reproduction technologies including analogue, digital, mechanical, photographic and hybrid approaches. Students engage in a rigorous practice of production, critique and interpretation of the conceptual, theoretical and aesthetic properties of these methods as a means for developing advanced, individualized research.

Art 5009

Film/Video III

Students explore in depth one technology or strategy related to experimental film and video art. Topics have included 16mm film, expanded cinema, and cameraless filmmaking.

Art 5101

Aspects of Art and Technology II

Students explore topical art science relationships while building connections between micro and macro, plants and humans, local and global, anthropocentric and eco-centric. Both scientific and artistic methods are used in creative projects surrounding climate stress & adaptation, biotech/bio art, constructed ecosystems, biomimicry, hyper-nature, symbiosis.

Art 5205

Large Format Photography

Advanced photography projects with emphasis on aesthetics, mechanics, and psychology of large format photography, including zone system controls.  Advanced B&W wet lab experience.

Art 5254

Painting Now

Students expand approaches and definitions of painting in relation to the chosen topic for the semester. Topics range from studies in abstraction, figuration, conceptual approaches, materials and techniques, landscape/light/space, installation, etc. Independently and in groups, students challenge themselves to make paintings through rigorous experimentation, research and critical reflection.

Art 5335

Digital Imaging: Input/Output

Do you know how to manage color calibration from camera, computer monitor, Photoshop, to various fine art printing papers? Interested in hybrid digital/analog workflows, film and digital? Techniques include individual RGB channels within levels and curves, masks, scanning with Imacon Hasselblad and Epson scanners, converting digital color to black and white with maximum tonal range. Short experimental projects and technical tutorials will support a student’s self-directed photo project for most of the semester.  The course will also consider exhibition strategies for photography. Experiment with the inherent nature of photography– collapsing 3D to 2D, flatness, fixed focal point, conceptual and physical filters, framing, cropping, seriality– truth and fiction, illusion and the Real, the punctum, surface, representation, repetition, and the copy. Artists and readings will expand upon the professor’s areas of research which include imaging/imagining self and other, issues of race and gender, constructed environments & performances for the camera, as well as the interconnected relationships between photography, sculpture, and moving image. Students from all areas of emphasis are welcome! While the course emphasizes photography technical skills and concepts, this is an interdisciplinary course.

Art 5502

Special Projects – Ceramics

Students explore ceramics through individualized projects to cultivate, develop and refine ideas, research, experimentation, critical thinking. Students explore and interpret contemporary issues in ceramics and develop a body of ceramics objects as well as a ceramic practice.

Art 5903

Advanced Glass Studio Practice

Group studio course designed to facilitate independent work using glass as a primary material for expressing conceptual concerns and creating original artworks.

Art 2000

Encountering Contemporary Art

In this class, students will explore how and why contemporary artists make the work they do within a globalized art world. Through discussions, readings, virtual or in-person art excursions and related assignments, participants will apply critical written, oral, and visual communication skills as they analyze, interpret and respond to significant works of art, their contexts and histories.

Art 2100

Beginning Drawing

Students will explore fundamental freehand drawing techniques with a range of drawing methods, media and concepts; emphasis on drawing from observation and expressive experimentation. Students will apply written, oral and visual communication skills as they evaluate, interpret and respond to significant works of art and their own expressive goals.

This course is available for EM credit. GE VPA course. GE foundation lit, vis and performing arts course.

Art 2200

Real and Recorded Time

Students will engage in informed observations, explorations and communication through time-based media methods and tools as a practical and theoretical foundation for creating original artworks in video, sound, installation, performance and screen.

Art 2300

Two-Dimensional Studies

Students will create aesthetic and interpretive studies exploring organizational elements and principles of 2D composition, visual perception, critical thinking, invention and material experimentation as they pertain to art practice. Students will advance written, oral and visual communication skills as they interpret and respond to significant works of art and their own expressive goals.

This course is available for EM credit. GE VPA course. GE foundation lit, vis and performing arts course.

Art 2400

3-Dimensional Art

Basic concepts of three-dimensional art focusing on structure with the organization of space and form, using a variety of materials, processes, tools.

Art 3000

Digital Image Manipulation

Students learn to use Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator software while creating digital media artwork and gaining knowledge of digital artists. Experiences include image capture, generation, manipulation, interpretation, critique, working with the fair use principle, and professional artistic output.

Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 2500.

Art 3001

Internet Art

Students learn introductory programming skills to integrate image, video, animation, and audio for the creation of internet art. Techniques, concepts, and aesthetics of network culture are practiced, such as tactical media, virality, remixing, and identity construction.

Repeatable to a maximum of 6 cr hrs.

Art 3101

3D Modeling Sculpture

Students learn, practice, and utilize 3D modeling software for generation of form, character, and environment. Includes conceptualization, development, and creation of digital assets for output to formats such as digital prints, game art assets, 3D rapid prototyping, laser cutters and/or CNC mills.

Repeatable to a maximum of 6 cr hrs.

Art 4101

Moving Image Art

The creation of 2D animations through the generation, manipulation, and montage of multiple media elements such as drawings, video, and audio. Students gain hands-on experience with software sequencing tools and knowledge of the context of time-based computer imaging within a studio art practice.

Prereq: 3000 (2500), 3001, 3009, or 3101. Repeatable to a maximum of 6 cr hrs.

Art 4201

New Media Robotics

Students learn component level electronics and programming languages on microcontrollers to create kinetic and interactive art. Digital control of objects, projections, and sound allow for responsive environments, wearables, and multimedia experiences.

Repeatable to a maximum of 6 cr hrs.

Art 4401

Computer Animation

Students learn and practice the concepts, aesthetics and processes of 3D computer animation. Conceptualizing, producing and integrating 3D renders and sound, with awareness of cinematography and narrative, will culminate in the completion of computer animations.

Prereq: 3000 (2500), 3001, or 3101, or permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 6 cr hrs.

Art 5001

Aspects of Art and Technology I

Students explore and practice the technical, aesthetic, and theoretical topics in the field of Art and Technology. Includes interactive installation, biological, surveillance/telepresence, narrative, algorithmic, and performative art.

Prereq: Permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 9 cr hrs.

Art 5101

Aspects of Art and Technology II

Students explore topical art science relationships while building connections between micro and macro, plants and humans, local and global, anthropocentric and eco-centric. Both scientific and artistic methods are used in creative projects surrounding climate stress & adaptation, biotech/bio art, constructed ecosystems, biomimicry, hyper-nature, symbiosis.

Prereq: Permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 9 cr hrs.

Art 3002

Intro to Ceramics: Structure

Students learn introductory programming skills to integrate image, video, animation, and audio for the creation of internet art. Techniques, concepts, and aesthetics of network culture are practiced, such as tactical media, virality, remixing, and identity construction.

Repeatable to a maximum of 6 cr hrs.

Art 3012

Intro to Ceramics: Form and Surface

Students engage fundamental concepts and techniques in video including duration, framing, exposure, and sequence with an introduction to filming and editing. Students develop their videos through explorations of contemporary moving-image artwork.

Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 5501.

Art 4002

Intermediate Ceramics: Architectonics

Intermediate course focusing on the Architectural Ceramics; lab practices with various modeling and construction techniques with lectures covering a broad survey of the range of Architectural Ceramics, from structure to cladding to interior and exterior scale.

Prereq: 3002 (2502) or 3012 (2602). Not open to students with credit for 3502

Art 4012

Intermediate Ceramics: Utility and Performance

Intermediate course focusing on the utilitarian uses of Ceramics; lab practices with various modeling and potter's wheel techniques with lectures covering a broad survey of the broad range of use, from a cup to a tool to performative gestures.

Prereq: 3002 (2502) or 3012 (2602). Not open to students with credit for 3602.

Art 5502

Special Projects – Ceramics

Students explore ceramics through individualized projects to cultivate, develop and refine ideas, research, experimentation, critical thinking. Students explore and interpret contemporary issues in ceramics and develop a body of ceramics objects as well as a ceramic practice.

Prereq: 4002 or 4012, or permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 9 cr hrs.

Art 3003

Introduction to Glass Art

Introduction to skills used in molten glass forming, including; gathering, hot sculpting, and blowing. Studio practice is further expanded by experimentation with glass kiln methods. Emphasis on the development of original artworks.

Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 2503. Repeatable to a maximum of 6 cr hrs.

Art 4503

Intermediate Glass Topics

Continued exploration in a range of techniques for creating art using glass as a primary material. Projects will be introduced to prompt creative problem solving. Students encouraged to express conceptual concerns through the material and create original artworks.

Repeatable to a maximum of 6 cr hrs.

Art 5903

Advanced Glass Studio Practice

Group studio course designed to facilitate independent work using glass as a primary material for expressing conceptual concerns and creating original artworks.

Prereq: Permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 12 cr hrs.

Art 3004

Life Studio Drawing I

Students use a wide range of materials and processes to make drawings based on all aspects of life: the human figure, plants, animals, landscapes, interior spaces, etc. Students practice, appreciate and interpret drawing in relation to various traditions and as a basis for individual development.

Prereq: 2100. Not open to students with credit for 2504. Repeatable to a maximum of 6 cr hrs.

Art 3014

Visual Studies: Color

Students investigate seeing and using color. Students develop projects dealing with color organization, phenomena, and interaction. Students integrate theory and practice to appreciate and interpret color as related to various traditions and as a basis for individual development.

Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 2514.

Art 3024

Painting I

Students explore the dynamics of painting. Students make paintings using a variety of approaches with attention to color, light, form, paint application, space and composition. Students practice, appreciate and interpret painting as related to various traditions and as a basis for individual development.

Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 2524.

Art 3054

Painting II

Students explore a variety of painting mediums emphasizing technical, historical and conceptual fundamentals of constructing paintings or 'picture-objects.' Students manipulate spatial and thematic pictorial relationships through painting on various surfaces with a variety of processes and begin to develop the ability to pursue individualized research, processes, themes, and aspirations.

Prereq: 3024

Art 3104

Expanded Drawing

Students expand their definition of drawing by exploring an array of contemporary, historical and conceptual ideas. Students make drawings using a variety of methods and materials, from archival to ephemeral. Students manipulate spatial and thematic pictorial relationships. Students begin to develop the ability to identify and pursue individualized research, processes, themes and aspirations.

Art 4014

Advanced Painting and Drawing

This course is designed to assist and guide independent work. Each term will focus on special topics in painting/drawing, with a wide emphasis upon current directions, new media, techniques, social issues. Students will be encouraged to explore the use of a wide range of materials in experimental approaches to drawing/painting. Individual work will be augmented by lectures/discussions/field trips.

Prereq: 3024 and 3054. Repeatable to a maximum of 9 cr hrs.

Art 5254

Painting Now

Students expand approaches and definitions of painting in relation to the chosen topic for the semester. Topics range from studies in abstraction, figuration, conceptual approaches, materials and techniques, landscape/light/space, installation, etc. Independently and in groups, students challenge themselves to make paintings through rigorous experimentation, research and critical reflection.

Prereq: 3054. Repeatable to a maximum of 6 cr hrs.

Art 2555

Introduction to Digital Photography and Contemporary Issues

Students will learn fundamental digital camera techniques and explore contemporary and historical issues in photography including the relationships between technique, concept, and aesthetics as well as the relationship between images, identity formation, and larger social structures.

Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 3555. GE VPA course. GE foundation lit, vis and performing arts course.

Art 3005

Photography II: Introduction to Darkroom

Students will explore and learn analogue darkroom processes including manual 35mm camera techniques, black and white film development, and archival silver gelatin printing methods. Students will gain knowledge of historical and contemporary issues in photography and develop verbal and written language skills to critique the construction of images. Limited number of loaner film cameras available.

Prereq: 2555 (3555). Not open to students with credit for 4005.

Art 5205

Large Format Photography

Advanced photography projects with emphasis on aesthetics, mechanics, and psychology of large format photography, including zone system controls.  Advanced B&W wet lab experience.

Prereq: 5105 and 5115; or permission of instructor. Concur: 5215. Not open to students with credit for 524.

Art 5335

Digital Imaging: Input/Output

Do you know how to manage color calibration from camera, computer monitor, Photoshop, to various fine art printing papers? Interested in hybrid digital/analog workflows, film and digital? Techniques include individual RGB channels within levels and curves, masks, scanning with Imacon Hasselblad and Epson scanners, converting digital color to black and white with maximum tonal range. Short experimental projects and technical tutorials will support a student’s self-directed photo project for most of the semester.  The course will also consider exhibition strategies for photography. Experiment with the inherent nature of photography– collapsing 3D to 2D, flatness, fixed focal point, conceptual and physical filters, framing, cropping, seriality– truth and fiction, illusion and the Real, the punctum, surface, representation, repetition, and the copy. Artists and readings will expand upon the professor’s areas of research which include imaging/imagining self and other, issues of race and gender, constructed environments & performances for the camera, as well as the interconnected relationships between photography, sculpture, and moving image. Students from all areas of emphasis are welcome! While the course emphasizes photography technical skills and concepts, this is an interdisciplinary course.

NOTE: The Pre-reqs listed are not correct - they are outdated from the quarter system: Students only need Photo 1 or instructor permission. TO ENROLL Email: osterloh.2@osu.edu

Art 3006

Introduction to Relief and Intaglio Printmaking

Students use a range of traditional processes in relief and intaglio, exploring the dynamics of their applications in the creation of unique works in print media. Students will apply oral and visual communication skills as they evaluate, interpret and respond to significant works of art, the work of their peers, and their own expressive goals.

Prereq: 2100 or 2300. Not open to students with credit for 2516.

Art 4056

Upper Level Printmaking: Lithography + Silkscreen

Students practice/examine individual development and artistic creation through advanced exploration of lithography & silkscreen printmaking. They begin to develop the ability to identify/pursue individualized research, processes, themes and aspirations while they interpret and respond to significant works of art, work of peers, and their own expressive goals through rigorous production/critique.

Prereq: 3056. Repeatable to a maximum of 9 cr hrs.

Art 5006

Alternative Printmaking

Students explore various reproduction technologies including analogue, digital, mechanical, photographic and hybrid approaches. Students engage in a rigorous practice of production, critique and interpretation of the conceptual, theoretical and aesthetic properties of these methods as a means for developing advanced, individualized research.

Prereq: 4006 or 4056, or permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 9 cr hrs.

Art 3017

Introduction to Sculpture

An introduction to the principles of sculpture, emphasizing basic forming processes and materials. Includes traditional and non-traditional sculpture making concepts, processes and materials through additive, subtractive, and assemblage sculpture making processes.

Prereq: Not open to students with credit for 2507.

Art 3107

Life Sculpture

Students will gain abilities in modeling the human figure clothed and unclothed in clay with and without an armature. Students practice, research, and interpret sculpture in relation to various traditions and contemporary perspectives as a basis for individual creative development.

Art 4007

Sculpture: Topics in Experiential Making: Structure, Space, and Material – Wood

Exploration of a range of technical and conceptual concerns of Sculpture using primary materials with a focus on research and experimentation. Metal in AU, Wood in SP.

Prereq: 3017. Repeatable to a maximum of 9 cr hrs or 3 completions.