Visual Arts

Course System Home All Areas of Study Visual Arts

Select Filters and then click Apply to load new results

Term
Time & Day Offered
Level
Credits
Course Duration

Visual Arts Lecture Seminar — VA4218.01

Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Days & Time: TU 4:10pm-6:00pm
Credits: 2

This discussion-animated, readings-based seminar provides art historical, cultural, and critical contexts for the Visual Arts Lecture Series (VALS). In addition to our ongoing interrogation of the public lecture as such, students present their own work (in any field) and analyze the technical and stylistic aspects of structuring an effective and engaging 鈥榯alk.鈥 The course

Visual Arts Lecture Series — VA2999.01

Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Days & Time: TU 7:00pm-8:50pm
Credits: 1

Each term, Bennington Visual Arts offers a program of 4-5 lectures by visiting arts professionals: artists, curators, historians and critics, selected to showcase the diversity of contemporary art practices. Designed to enhance a broader and deeper knowledge of various disciplines and issues in the Visual Arts and to stimulate campus dialogue around topical issues in

Westworld Their World (Season 2) — AH4318.01

Instructor: Vanessa Lyon
Days & Time: TH 1:40pm-5:20pm
Credits: 4

Westworld (Season 2) HBO鈥檚 鈥渟cience fiction western thriller鈥 television series, drives a broadly-conceived visual culture/cultural studies course in which we identify and analyze various aesthetics and genres, histories and visions, typologies, theologies, and allegories on screen and off鈥攂oth inside and outside the show鈥檚 narrative. Possibilities

World Building: Designing Characters and World They Live In — DES2109.01

Instructor: Tilly Grimes
Days & Time: MO 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 2

Every fictional universe has its own history, culture, geography, and ecology that act as a backdrop to the narratives that inhabit it.  This course will investigate the relationship between such a fantastical place and its characters 鈥 with a particular emphasis on the philosophy and symbology of the characters and their clothes.<