ART 102 - Drawing I: Visual Language

Semester Offered: Fall and Spring
1 unit(s)

This introductory course engages drawing as both a tool for seeing and a language for thinking. Students cultivate perceptual awareness through observational practice and critical dialogue—working from still life, the human form, and the surrounding environment—while also exploring how drawings can arise from ideas, memory, imagination and inquiry. Through a series of projects that move between direct observation and conceptual investigation, students examine line, value, form, space, and composition as tools for translating experience into image. Emphasis is placed on experimentation, sustained attention, and the development of a personal visual language. Critiques, discussions and a wide range of historical and contemporary examples frame drawing as both a material and intellectual practice, bridging process, perception, and creative thought. Padma Rajendran, Gina Ruggeri, Christina Tenaglia.

Open to all classes.

Two 2-hour periods.

Course Format: CLS