COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT

ART 699

Independent undergraduate work in advanced area of study under direction of art faculty.

ART 428

Explore current and historical practices in the digital fine arts while refining conceptual and technical understanding of digital art forms as powerful tools for generating and communicating images and ideas. Students will create and manipulate both static and moving imagery, with implications for digital drawing, painting, print-making, video editing/post-production, and narrative or non-narrative 2D animation in a fine art context.

LIS 655

Collection development designed to teach professional skills in selection and control of collections. Examines large societal forces affecting the ways librarians have traditionally built collections and contemporary changes in access and ownership.

ART 409

Introduction to the practice and application of digital fabrication technologies in an artistic context with an emphasis on extending and integrating with traditional material approaches to art production. Includes theoretical readings devoted to the implications of digital and machine technologies on art practice.

DS 529

Artists and designers' material choices influence the content, social meaning, and physical structure of their work, as well as leaving an environmental foot print and affecting social exchange. Consideration given to reuse and recycling, and critically engaging ideas of sustainability in art making and design practice with an emphasis on fiber related topics including textile and apparel design, soft sculpture, papermaking and book arts, as well as exhibition, installation, and/or the distribution of finished works.