dpstudiolab

Art can be intellectually controlled as well as emotionally expressive.

The following lists are of classes that have been defined for a studio or classroom environment, meeting every other day for a semester. This is based on a typical college semester, but for secondary education lessons can easily be extended, shortened or eliminated.

I teach, or intend to: (pdf format)

• The Gamut
  A run on the history of art from the cave to the 18th century
• 18th and up (coming soon)
• Renaissance (coming soon)
• Bauhaus (coming soon)

• Color Cubed
  A color theory class planned in three dimensions
• General Critique
  Standard rules of review
• Line Circle Line
  2D design
• Materials & Processes
  The basics of building
• Paper Works (coming soon)
  This is why paper beats rock
• Perceptual Drawing
  Charcoal isn’t just for barbeque anymore
• Prototypography
  A noun is an object, literally.
• Re: Upholstry
  What would a ball covered in thumb tacs (pointy side out) look like…or even mean?
• Themes of Form: Iterative Sculpture
  Take one thing and use it to make something else…that’s much larger.
• Themes of Form: Resolution of Shape
  A cube is just a sphere at 72dpi
• Themes of Form: String Theory
  Does a chair have a skeleton?

Presentations/Lectures/Workshops

• The Aesthetics of Time (coming soon)
  We have become clever enough to know what we are not seeing
• Duchamp Workshop
  How to go out, find something, and call it art.