College Courses for Credit 2013

Open to rising high school seniors, qualified juniors, and recent high school graduates as well as current college students, all courses are taught by Sarah Lawrence faculty—ranked #1 in the country by The Princeton Review.

All classes are three credits and offered with the option to stay on campus or commute.

Applications can be submitted by mail, email or fax only. No online application is available for these courses.

Applications for these courses being accepted until June 10!

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20th and 21st Century Art around the World

July 8 – August 2, 2013
Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays 10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (once per week, class will be extended for conferencing)
Instructor: Susan Kart
Tuition: $3,442
Housing and Meal Plan: $2,200

This course will explore 20th and 21st century artworks and the cultures that produce them. Students will learn about these works in historical and cultural context, and then travel to New York City museums and galleries to view and analyze them in depth. Topics will include contemporary painting, sculpture, and architecture of Europe and America, China, and Native Africa, among many others. Art theory, iconography, and formal and contextual analysis will be explored.

Students will produce a series of weekly papers that utilize art historical methodologies to explore what they are learning in class. Two museum visits are part of the scheduled summer curriculum.

Note: In the college environment surveys of world art are either taught as large lecture classes or else eliminated from the curriculum in favor of smaller colloquia and seminars. Summer provides an opportunity for college students to obtain the survey of contemporary world art they may not have had in high school or college, and for high school students to be introduced to more advanced topics in art history. This is not a preparatory course for the Art History AP exam, nor does it duplicate AP art history course methods or topics.

SUSAN KART (BA, Smith College; MA, MPhil, PhD, Columbia University) specializes in 20th century African art, arts of the African diaspora, Islamic arts in Africa, and colonial period African art, including religious arts, which encompass indigenous traditions, Christianity, Islam, Santéria and Vodou. Her primary research is based in Senegal, West Africa. In 2002, while in graduate school, she cofounded Project Momentum, a not-for-profit organization for the promotion of contemporary African arts and to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS among artistic communities in African countries. Concurrently she served as research director of the James J. Ross Archive of African Images 1800–1920: A Database of Published Images of African Art, a comprehensive database and interactive catalog of 19th century figurative African sculpture with Yale University. She has published articles and reviews in Critical Interventions, African Studies Review, exhibition catalogs (SCAD, Bruce Museum), and the H-Net for African Art. Professor Kart frequently travels to Senegal, West Africa for research, and is fluent in four languages, one of which is Wolof, a major trade language in West Africa. Her additional academic interests include pre-Columbian and Latin American art.

Rapid Game Lab

July 9 – August 1, 2013
Tuesdays and Thursdays 4:15 – 7:30 p.m.(once per week, class will be extended for conferencing)
Instructor: Angela Ferraiolo
Tuition: $3,442
Housing and Meal Plan: $2,200

Do you like playing casual games and wonder how they are made? This course leads students through the production of a small Web game from start to finish with no prior programming knowledge required. You’ll learn small game design and develop­ment along with the basics of Processing, a free and open source graphics programming environment that can be used on Windows or Mac computers. You’ll begin by prototyping some of the design concepts behind small games, then move on to program­ming graphics, motion, timers, and effects. Finally, you’ll learn how to add sound and music. Skills are taught step by step in an arts-friendly environment.

Introduction to Animation

July 8 – 25, 2013
Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays 9 – 11:40 a.m.(once per week, class will be extended for conferencing)
Instructor: Robin Starbuck Tuition: $3,442
Housing and Meal Plan: $2,200

This course focuses on the building and understanding of the main principles of animation as demonstrated through hand-drawn animation. The work produced in this course will serve as a tool for comprehending the underlying process of any animation technique. All work will be drawn by hand, digitized, and presented as movie files.

The class will serve to develop and demonstrate an understand­ing of basic animation principles that include but are not limited to line quality, color, timing, overlap and follow through, exaggeration and expression, weight, staging, repetition, and storytelling.

Over the course of four weeks, students will improve and enhance their drawing skills as they relate to animation, create a filmography and journal record of movies and drawings that document the conceptual and technical aspects of the course, and receive both technical and aesthetic reviews of the work produced in class. The course will feature a special workshop by Academy Award nominee and critically acclaimed animator Bill Plympton.

ROBIN STARBUCK (BA, Salem College; MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago) received multiple awards and grants for her work and exhibits, both nationally and internationally. Her current studio orientation is video installation with elements of comic image painting and sculpture. For the past several years, her studio work has included an application of Freudian theory to American culture and identity.