Evening and weekend Summer Courses at DCAD
DCAD – Delaware College of Art and Design
– A creative partnership between Pratt Institute and the Corcoran College of Art and Design
INSPIRED BY NATURE: DRAWING ORGANIC PATTERNS AND FORMS
Instructor: Susan Benarcik
SIX SESSIONS
Thursday, June 11 – July 16; 6 PM – 9:15 PM
Non-Credit Tuition: $230; 2 CEUs
Are you inspired by the natural world – its forms and patterns? In this course, students will identify an organic form found in nature, including but not limited to a sea urchin, bird feather, coral, seed pod, or spider web and make detailed records of its characteristics, habits, and other attributes. These observations will inform preliminary sketches from various perspectives. Based on the sketches, students will express the nature of their form in several comprehensive drawings with a single
or variety of mediums. The second half of the course will focus on the design of a continuous pattern based on collected observations, sketches, and drawings. This design will consider color, repetition, size and placement of the organic form in the layout with as much consideration one would use to design textile prints. This class is open to students of all experience levels.
ART IMPROVISATION: NEW MEDIUMS / NEW PERSPECTIVES
COURSE ID: FA0261
Instructor: Susan Benarcik
SIX SESSIONS Sunday, June 14–July 26 (no class July5) ;1PM–4PM Non-Credit Tuition: $230; 2 CEUs
Artists produce solutions, manage uncertainty, experiment, explore, transform, collaborate, problem-solve and take risks every day. In this 6 session course, you are invited to experiment with a practicing studio artist with a variety of creative mediums that will activate your risk-taking, and problem-solving skills. Explore processes such as paper-marbling, photo collage, and a collaborative sculpture project- based on the Exquisite Corpse parlor game to improve your capacity to trust your intuition and think outside the box. Each session will be full of surprise and excitement, with equal time for creating and reflection on the materials, process, and inventive results.