2024-25 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Art
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Faculty
Kris Cohen
Modern and contemporary art history, media studies.
Daniel Duford
Ceramic sculpture, block printing, drawing and graphic novels.
Juniper Harrower
Painting, drawing, and print media.
Dana E. Katz
Renaissance, baroque, and colonial Latin American art and architecture; Jews and the visual arts; methodologies of art history.
Akihiko Miyoshi
Photography and digital media.
Geraldine Ondrizek
Sculpture, installation, drawing, artists’ books.
Jennifer Sakai
Early modern Northern art, urbanism, decay, iconoclasm, reception and the uses of art, the status of representation, materiality, and the relationship between power and painting.
Master Artist Michael Bernard Stevenson Jr.
Social practice, sculpture, and installation.
Shivani Sud
South Asian art, colonial eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Barbara Tetenbaum
Book arts and printmaking.
Michelle H. Wang
Art and archaeology of early China.
Curriculum
Art majors at Reed study both art history and studio art, which the department sees as complementary disciplines. Introductory courses provide a foundation and an intensive experience in the practice of art or creative scholarship for both prospective majors and nonmajors.
In studio art, alternative 100-level introductory courses lead to 200- and 300-level courses in the general fields of drawing, painting, and printmaking; sculpture, installation, and image and text; and photography, digital media, and internet literacy. In art history, the introductory course introduces students to the discipline of art history through a detailed, methodologically based examination of a particular body of art. Advanced courses acquaint students with selected periods, movements, or issues in art and in the various methods of art-historical research, as students learn to refine their powers of critical observation by looking, talking, and writing at length about individual works of art and other art-historical questions.
Art history facilities include a large conference room equipped with digital projection equipment, a visual resources collection, and a first-class gallery. These offer students the possibility of working closely with original objects.
The studio arts building contains classrooms for painting, printmaking, letterpress, bookbinding, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, photography, and digital media; a gallery/critique space; a seminar/projection room; faculty offices and studios; senior studios; and a lounge.
The Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery shows art of national and international stature through traveling exhibitions and those curated by the gallery director and faculty members. For more complete information on the gallery, see “The Educational Program.”
Senior Thesis
The senior thesis encourages students to pursue a significant, clearly defined project through individual initiative and independent work, culminating in a unified body of art or historical study.
ProgramsMajorsCourses- ART 151 - Introduction to Visual Narrative
- ART 171 - The Figure
- ART 172 - Painting I - Imaginary Worlds
- ART 174 - Decolonial Natural History Illustration and Printmaking
- ART 176 - Beginning Bookbinding
- ART 177 - Drawing in Many Forms
- ART 181 - Architectonic Structures
- ART 182 - Material Objects
- ART 183 - Art and the Printed Word
- ART 188 - Object and Social Context
- ART 190 - Art and Photography I
- ART 196 - Digital Video and Coding Interactivity
- ART 201 - Introduction to the History of Art
- ART 251 - Making Graphic Novels
- ART 270 - Experiments in Painting, Drawing, and Printmaking
- ART 274 - Painting II - Naturecultures
- ART 276 - The Artist Book
- ART 282 - Sculpture in the Expanded Field
- ART 284 - Craft and Culture
- ART 288 - Engaged Objects
- ART 291 - Art and Photography II
- ART 293 - Internet Literacy, Culture, and Practice
- ART 301 - Ecocritical Art Histories
- ART 305 - The Camera in South Asia
- ART 325 - Appropriation and Transformation in Early Modern Art
- ART 327 - Colonial Pasts, Decolonial Futures: Museums and the Global South
- ART 328 - Nonextant Art and the Early Modern World
- ART 332 - Art and Archaeology in Early China
- ART 334 - Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art
- ART 335 - (Trans)Nationalism and Indian Cinema
- ART 336 - Art and Cartography
- ART 337 - Queer Arts After Stonewall
- ART 350 - Oceans, Rains, Rivers, Pools: Histories of Water
- ART 351 - Making Space
- ART 354 - Performing Mediation (Video Art, 1960-2000)
- ART 365 - Intersection: Architecture, Landscape Sculpture
- ART 368 - Image and Text: The Book as a Sculptural Object
- ART 370 - Environmental Art
- ART 372 - Intermediate Experiments in Painting, Drawing, and Printmaking
- ART 374 - New Media/Old Media-Experiments in Optical Media and Computation
- ART 376 - Photography as Daily Practice
- ART 388 - Socially Engaged Art Forms
- ART 393 - Art of Writing
- ART 470 - Thesis
- ART 481 - Independent Projects or Independent Reading
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