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Graduate Seminar in Visual Studies | Instructor: Anthony Dubovsky

This is a class about imagination and ideas. A road trip, perhaps—or a voyage. We begin each week with a theme—often a single word—as point of departure. Each person in the group does a project in response—a drawing, a painting, a collage—the medium is open. In the following class we look at the work, and a conversation ensues. And then, a new word.

Note that the hand is important throughout—how the sense of touch becomes a guide.

Following this format, the class develops a certain rhythm—a kind of opening. Not just in terms of skill (although skill can play a part), but more in finding the right visual language to give form to one's feelings about and understanding of the surrounding world. A challenge that carries over into any of the design fields—and beyond....

Required: One project each week, made with energy and commitment... Attendance at all class meetings, and a well-crafted book with reproductions of your work, including a short essay about your journey, due at the end of the term.

Hugo Bruley

Molly Franson

Long

Feel

Wander

Rejoice

Robert Glass

Eleanor Pries

Daniel Schmidt

Return

Range

Glimpse

Left: Forgive; right: Want

Ericka Veliz

Glimpse

Want

Touch

Long

Xinyu Wang