ART100A

Just as cartographers seek to plot our volumetric world onto flat surfaces, the eye of the artist is also compressing height, width and depth into the picture plane when drawing from observation. Mapping will focus on drawing as an exploratory means of seeing and knowing the world. This process-emphasis art studio workshop gauges cumulative experience rather than performance on individual drawings. Progress and success will be evaluated through the assembly of portfolios gleaned from daily drawings; this structure encourages the essential risk-taking that drawing demands by de-emphasizing the criticality of any singular drawing. Process-oriented studio classes encourage good studio practice by making dedicated in-class work ethic difficult to avoid. This is an eight week course.