Spring 2027

Drawing Foundations

Drawing Foundations explores exploratory drawing methods and concepts in Modern and Contemporary Art, providing foundational skills for drawing, painting, printmaking, and book art.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 No instructors listed

Summary

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Past student reviews · Derrick Buisch

Derrick Buisch was reported to be lenient regarding due dates and project ideas, suggesting a flexible workload structure.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Utilize the knowledge and experience acquired in previous art courses to create drawings that demonstrate increasingly more sophisticated technical and conceptual proficiency.

  • Demonstrate experimentation and investigation with a variety of drawing media.

  • Develop an index of ideas and research references to support the creation of drawing-based work.

  • Apply drawing skills and concepts more broadly as a vehicle for conveying ideas in other media such as printmaking and book art.

  • Analyze and critique drawing-based artworks using relevant concepts and terminology.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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ART 112, or declared in Art BS, Art BFA, or Art Education BS

    • ART 112
    • declared in Art BS, Art BFA, or Art Education BS
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ART 212 used by

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  • Any of
    • ART 112
    • declared in Art BS, Art BFA, or Art Education BS

Professors

Spring 2027

No instructors recorded for this selection.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

CLAIRE STIGLIANI is recorded teaching in Fall 2009, Spring 2010. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

MATTHEW MAUK is recorded teaching in Fall 2016, Spring 2017. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LAB 002Classroom Instruction0 / 180
LAB 003Classroom Instruction0 / 180
LAB 004Classroom Instruction0 / 180
LAB 001Classroom Instruction0 / 180

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Matthew Mauk

Students described Matthew Mauk as encouraging them to create art they enjoy, noting that his approach to pushing comfort zones often paid off.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.99 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=49 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.90 GPA, 95.8% A/AB (n=72 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.83 GPA, 94.6% A/AB (n=56 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Derrick Buisch

Derrick Buisch was reported to be lenient regarding due dates and project ideas, suggesting a flexible workload structure.

Past student reviews · Matthew Mauk

Matthew Mauk brought personal technologies for students to explore and provided good feedback, though he was noted as sarcastic at times.

Topics

  • Drawing concepts and applications in Modern and Contemporary Art
  • Foundational skillsets for drawing, painting, printmaking, and book art
  • Experimentation and investigation with a variety of drawing media
  • Analysis and critique of drawing-based artworks

Skills

  • Exploratory drawing methods and experimentation with various drawing media
  • Foundational skillsets for drawing, painting, printmaking, and book art
  • Analyzing and critiquing drawing-based artworks using relevant concepts and terminology
  • Developing an index of ideas and research references to support drawing-based work

Grades

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Spring 2027 · Projected

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About this estimate

The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 5 same-season terms, weighted toward recent results.

The range uses the finite-sample 80th-percentile rank of absolute errors from earlier same-season forecasts. Each forecast uses only records from earlier terms. At least four forecasts are required; bounds are rounded outward and limited to 0–4. This is an empirical estimate: changing instructors or grading policies can reduce its coverage.

8 earlier forecasts · 0.10 GPA average error.

Grades over time

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Where this course fits relative to

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About this comparison

1280 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

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Catalog observation history

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Selected offering source records
ART 212 · Spring 2027

Drawing Foundations

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Model outputs & technical records
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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Model & dataset provenance 
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