Painting Courses
PAINT 2562-01
FLIRTING WITH RESEARCH, SWIMMING IN ARCHIVES
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This studio course mines the idea of research in contemporary art. It offers the students the space and support needed to cultivate their own methodology of research—one that is dedicated to their unique art practice. There is a porous and slippery space where visual arts and critical theory commingle. It is a space full of playful potential. Here, we move beyond the exhausted texts commonly thrown at art students. Instead, we imagine and find inspiration from intimate friendships among visual artists and thinkers—and all that they make possible for each other. In between the lines, in the corner of archives, in the silence of kind gossip; we honor and take inspiration from dinner parties, cafes, bars, and abandoned public libraries, where our elders found each other. Fred Moten sits with Julie Mehretu; Saidiya Hartman with Okwui Okpokwasili; Trinh T Minh-ha with Theresa Hakyung Cha; José Esteban Muñoz with Ana Mendieta: we keep imagining, smudging the lines between art and theory, reality and fiction, history and desire, now and the past. It all becomes blurry. Call it research, call it art: we have work to do.
Flirting is a studio class, a space dedicated to visual art, studio practice, visits, group crits, discussions, and time spent among artist students. Each student will work on their own body of work and be offered close guidance to explore research. We will brainstorm and find artists, texts, archives, histories, oral stories, and rituals in support of each student’s research and practice. Instead of papers, presentations, and reports, we will return to each student’s work. Exploring formats such as studio visits and group crit, we gather as a class to talk, dig deeper, and explore the artist’s terms, context, political urgency, archives, and history narrative. There will be periodic texts and artists introduced to help guide our path and ground our gathering: Saidiya Hartman, José Esteban Muñoz, Mariam Ghani, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Judith Butler, William Kentridge, Hans Haacke, Julie Mehretu, Wael Shawky, Cecilia Vicuña, to name a few.
Elective
PAINT 3361-01
GAMES WE PLAY/INTERPLAY: GAMES, PLAY AND COLLABORATION ACROSS FIELDS
SECTION DESCRIPTION
The course investigates play and collaboration as an integral component of the ideation and object-making processes and facilitates a range of radical, interdisciplinary approaches to artmaking. The course illuminates the structures, politics and principles of tabletop games, imaginative play and sports and explores games theoretically as mythology and metaphor for life and art-making, discussing a range of integral ideas such as aspiration, perseverance, practice, spectacle, individualism, teamwork, opposition, success, failure, vulnerability, obsession and desire. Students will play collaboratively and independently while making crucial inquiries into the profound meaning of games and play as tool, meaning and metaphor.
The class, currently led by Painting faculty Meena Hasan and Kelley-Ann Lindo, provides a model for a long-term program offering across departments. Intended to be collaboratively taught between at least two faculty members, the course’s open theoretical framework has the potential to expand into multiple mediums and methodologies and across student years from undergraduate to graduate to create a dynamic and evolving seminar that will work to heighten students’ awareness of concerns in contemporary and historic art practices as well as their own studio practice.
The course will be structured around three group critiques, frequent class discussions, individual meetings, presentations and in-class and out-of-class work both individual and collaborative. The first part of the course explores play and collaboration alongside introductory lectures. Mid-semester consists of research presentations and initial explorations that culminate in a final project designed by each student with the support of the class. The invited Visiting Artist(s) discuss how play and games function in their own practices, as material and method, and there will be at least one field trip during the second part of the semester to an exhibition, performance and/or competitive event.
Estimated Cost of Materials: $100.00
Elective
PAINT 3414-01
SOLO PERFORMANCE
SECTION DESCRIPTION
Solo performance is perhaps the oldest form of performance. Origins date back to a singular storyteller sitting around a fire sharing the histories of their people and linked to ritualistic forms of knowledge and self - expansion. This class focuses on the range of elements necessary to devise, develop and perform a durational solo work. Grounded in class readings, lectures and in class workshops, students will learn and use various tools, resources, and skills of performance to create their own pieces. A performance can be framed in so many ways. We will consider how various kinds of solo performances all rely on similar basic building blocks.
Estimated Cost of Materials: $100.00
Elective
PAINT 4415-01
COLOR WORKSHOP
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This studio-based course will provide the foundation necessary to understand basic color theory and practice in painting, art and design. A historical and cultural perspective will be introduced to inform ongoing color studies executed in the studio. Students will acquire the vocabulary to articulate color phenomena and the means to exploit the expressive potential of color in their work. Color studies will be principally created with gouache, and a variety of other materials and means will also be explored. lectures, demonstrations, and museum visits will supplement studio work. (An in class presentation is required).
Undergraduate students register for section 01.
Graduate students register for section 02.
Elective
PAINT 4415-02
COLOR WORKSHOP
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This studio-based course will provide the foundation necessary to understand basic color theory and practice in painting, art and design. A historical and cultural perspective will be introduced to inform ongoing color studies executed in the studio. Students will acquire the vocabulary to articulate color phenomena and the means to exploit the expressive potential of color in their work. Color studies will be principally created with gouache, and a variety of other materials and means will also be explored. lectures, demonstrations, and museum visits will supplement studio work. (An in class presentation is required).
Undergraduate students register for section 01.
Graduate students register for section 02.
Elective
PAINT 4501-01
PAINTING I
SECTION DESCRIPTION
An introduction to the basic language of the painting discipline. Emphasis on the plastic and formal considerations necessary for work that will become an increasingly personal statement.
Enrollment is limited to Sophomore Painting Students.
Major Requirement | BFA Painting
PAINT 4501-02
PAINTING I
SECTION DESCRIPTION
An introduction to the basic language of the painting discipline. Emphasis on the plastic and formal considerations necessary for work that will become an increasingly personal statement.
Enrollment is limited to Sophomore Painting Students.
Major Requirement | BFA Painting
PAINT 4501-03
PAINTING I
SECTION DESCRIPTION
An introduction to the basic language of the painting discipline. Emphasis on the plastic and formal considerations necessary for work that will become an increasingly personal statement.
Enrollment is limited to Sophomore Painting Students.
Major Requirement | BFA Painting
PAINT 4501-04
PAINTING I
SECTION DESCRIPTION
An introduction to the basic language of the painting discipline. Emphasis on the plastic and formal considerations necessary for work that will become an increasingly personal statement.
Enrollment is limited to Sophomore Painting Students.
Major Requirement | BFA Painting
PAINT 4501-05
PAINTING I
SECTION DESCRIPTION
An introduction to the basic language of the painting discipline. Emphasis on the plastic and formal considerations necessary for work that will become an increasingly personal statement.
Enrollment is limited to Sophomore Painting Students.
Major Requirement | BFA Painting
PAINT 4501-06
PAINTING I
SECTION DESCRIPTION
An introduction to the basic language of the painting discipline. Emphasis on the plastic and formal considerations necessary for work that will become an increasingly personal statement.
Enrollment is limited to Sophomore Painting Students.
Major Requirement | BFA Painting
PAINT 4505-01
FUNDAMENTALS: PAINTING METHODS AND MATERIALS
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This course will provide the foundation for the creation of an archival painting practice for both traditional and contemporary painting methods. Topics covered will include tools, preparation process for both canvas and wood panels, sizes and grounds, drying oils, varnishes and resins, pigments, solvents, painting procedures, and the care of finished paintings. A historical overview of traditional methods and materials including egg tempera and oil paint will be covered, in addition to modern alkyd resins and acrylics. RISD's Environmental Health & Safety practices that pertain to painting practice and painting studio safety will be an integral part of this course. A short research paper is required to supplement studio work.
Major Requirement | BFA Painting
PAINT 4505-02
FUNDAMENTALS: PAINTING METHODS AND MATERIALS
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This course will provide the foundation for the creation of an archival painting practice for both traditional and contemporary painting methods. Topics covered will include tools, preparation process for both canvas and wood panels, sizes and grounds, drying oils, varnishes and resins, pigments, solvents, painting procedures, and the care of finished paintings. A historical overview of traditional methods and materials including egg tempera and oil paint will be covered, in addition to modern alkyd resins and acrylics. RISD's Environmental Health & Safety practices that pertain to painting practice and painting studio safety will be an integral part of this course. A short research paper is required to supplement studio work.
Major Requirement | BFA Painting
PAINT 4505-03
FUNDAMENTALS: PAINTING METHODS AND MATERIALS
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This course will provide the foundation for the creation of an archival painting practice for both traditional and contemporary painting methods. Topics covered will include tools, preparation process for both canvas and wood panels, sizes and grounds, drying oils, varnishes and resins, pigments, solvents, painting procedures, and the care of finished paintings. A historical overview of traditional methods and materials including egg tempera and oil paint will be covered, in addition to modern alkyd resins and acrylics. RISD's Environmental Health & Safety practices that pertain to painting practice and painting studio safety will be an integral part of this course. A short research paper is required to supplement studio work.
Major Requirement | BFA Painting
PAINT 4505-04
FUNDAMENTALS: PAINTING METHODS AND MATERIALS
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This course will provide the foundation for the creation of an archival painting practice for both traditional and contemporary painting methods. Topics covered will include tools, preparation process for both canvas and wood panels, sizes and grounds, drying oils, varnishes and resins, pigments, solvents, painting procedures, and the care of finished paintings. A historical overview of traditional methods and materials including egg tempera and oil paint will be covered, in addition to modern alkyd resins and acrylics. RISD's Environmental Health & Safety practices that pertain to painting practice and painting studio safety will be an integral part of this course. A short research paper is required to supplement studio work.
Major Requirement | BFA Painting
PAINT 4507-01
PAINTING WORKSHOP
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This is an intensive program designed to test the student's ability to design, organize, and complete a project of his or her choosing.
Open to Senior Painting Students.
Major Requirement | BFA Painting
PAINT 4507-02
PAINTING WORKSHOP
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This is an intensive program designed to test the student's ability to design, organize, and complete a project of his or her choosing.
Open to Senior Painting Students.
Major Requirement | BFA Painting
PAINT 4507-03
PAINTING WORKSHOP
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This is an intensive program designed to test the student's ability to design, organize, and complete a project of his or her choosing.
Open to Senior Painting Students.
Major Requirement | BFA Painting
PAINT 4507-04
PAINTING WORKSHOP
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This is an intensive program designed to test the student's ability to design, organize, and complete a project of his or her choosing.
Open to Senior Painting Students.
Major Requirement | BFA Painting
PAINT 450G-01
GRADUATE PAINT STUDIO CRITIQUE I
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This period is designed for the students to evaluate and analyze the directions he/she established as an undergraduate. Criticisms of the student's work will be aimed at identifying strengths and weaknesses and help the students clarify fundamental objectives. Group and individual critiques will occur by resident faculty and visiting artists and critics during the semester. Successful completion of this course is a prerequisite for continuance in the program.
Open to Graduate Painting Students.
Major Requirement | MFA Painting