Studio Areas } Painting
The Painting and Drawing areas are integrated and form the largest studio area with three and one-half full time faculty and numerous sessional and graduate student instructors. The faculty as a whole offers significant diversity and range in professional background, training and artistic directions.
The Painting and Drawing area strives to provide a curriculum which facilitates traditional and non-traditional approaches, with an emphasis on technical processes, conceptual and theoretical awareness, understanding, expertise and development. Students in Painting and Drawing courses are expected to develop a capacity to work independently; to analyze their own and others work; to understand their own areas of research; to demonstrate experimentation and investigation in a wide range of concepts and media; and to express and articulate their work verbally, technically and conceptually. The Painting and Drawing faculty are keenly interested in the flucuating debates within the realm of contemporary art and attempt to keep students informed about current, historic and contemporary art practices and concerns. Studio course instruction utilizes projects, demonstrations, critique sessions, slide presentations, video screenings and practical working studio time.
Classes in Painting are taught in a large studio classroom on thesecond level of the Department facilities in the Murray Building. Windows provide natural light on one side and wall space is available for critiques and display. Adjoining the painting studio are faculty offices, a tutorial classroom, a spray booth, storage shelving and small individual studio spaces for upper year students. The studio accomodates classes of 27 students with individual easels and and a still life and model area.