This studio-based seminar is open to all Fine Arts students working in any medium, designed as a catalyst for making art. Weekly studio-based writings, discussions, and studio prompts activate investigations into the formal elements of shape, form, and color, digging into studio processes that engage with the body. Questions and topics covered: What are the expressive qualities of shape and distortion, and how can time be captured through color? Vulnerability and anxiety as pathways to resilience and/ or resistance. Site specificity and tactile knowledge. We will explore the formal elements of painting language and practice as a bridge to social concerns, including gender, race and work, and public-private issues of visibility, and experiments that engage students with the forward momentum of their work. References include Amy Sillman’s The Shape of Shape exhibition at MOMA 2019, and the High Times/ Hard Times exhibition catalog by Katy Siegel and David Reed.--Fine Arts Seminars are intended to broaden and clarify students' perspective on contemporary art practice. Each semester these seminars shift in focus and subject matter. Seminars may concentrate on art from the perspectives of art history, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, psychology, and so forth, or may take the form of a discipline-based critique focusing on the history, theory, and practice of painting, sculpture, and photography, among others.This two hour course meeting block may be delivered synchronously or asynchronously. One additional hour per week of optional faculty office hours, for individual or small group meetings, will also be available by arrangement.

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