The Painting concentration embodies the significant cornerstones of studio practice: visual literacy, aesthetic understanding, and technical skills. The curriculum offers a broad range of materials, techniques, and processes in its representational and non-representational approaches to art making. A wide variety of media and genres are explored. Theories, method and studio practices representing recent trends in painting are emphasized. Our faculty is very diverse, spanning a broad range of styles and approaches in both their work and in their teaching. We encourage our students to participate in dialogues with faculty and each other.<br>Disciplines inherent in the Painting concentration include Drawing and Printmaking. Foundation-level courses focus on a greater understanding of pictorial principles and design through still life, landscape, interior and invented motifs. Observational analysis, spatial relationships, and compositional strategies are emphasized in the progressive stages of the curriculum. Intermediate life drawing courses focus on the human model and the representation of form and structure in a composed space. Advanced courses concentrate on the exploration of ideas and images to develop and encourage personal expression.