ARTS 40
Intensive: Introduction to Drawing Winter 2025

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Seeing is one of the ways we experience the world. In today’s text-centric society, drawing can provide a vehicle for encountering and interpreting your surroundings. This course will heighten your awareness of the visual world, teach basic drawing skills, and demonstrate how drawing operates as a form of visual exchange. A variety of materials will be covered as you explore the 2-dimensional concepts of line, form, proportion, gesture, spatial depth, and value. Towards the latter part of the semester, more emphasis will be placed on the use of drawing as idea, and you will have the opportunity to express yourself through the visual language of drawing.
The Class: Format: studio; Intensive Winter Study. Class meets T, W, TH - 9:40-12:00 & 1:00-3:40
Limit: 18
Expected: 18
Class#: 1006
Grading: pass/fail only
Requirements/Evaluation: Art is a visual language, which speaks to us through our sense of sight, and you will be graded first and foremost on your ability to speak powerfully in this language. Grading also takes into account: attendance, effort, skillfully attending to the set challenges and the overall quality of work produced.
Prerequisites: Permission of a dean.
Enrollment Preferences: Students who need to make up a deficiency.
Unit Notes: This course is designed to count for both full semester and Winter Study credit. Once a dean approves enrollment, the Registrar's Office will register students in both ARTS 118 and ARTS 40.
Materials/Lab Fee: $350-$500 Lab and materials fees for all studio art classes are covered by the Book Grant for all Williams financial aid recipients.

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