Pat Guthrie Special Exhibitions Teaching Gallery Fall 2024

ART 1130: Foundation Color

Foundation Color is one of three foundation courses (along with Foundation 2D and Foundation 3D) that investigate the fundamentals of design. Students will explore color theories based on the color wheel/light spectrum including hue, value, chroma, and aesthetic color relationships. Optical color, emotional/psychological color, and color symbolism are also covered. Structured critiques are employed to provide students with the experience of assessing formal, conceptual, and technical aspects of art.

Image: Richard Anuszkiewicz (American, 1930-2020), Plate 3 "Inward Eye," 1970, color serigraph on paper, 25-1/2 x 19-1/2 inches, Friends of the UW Art Museum Purchase, 1980.27.4A

ENGL 5230: Studies in English Renaissance Literature: Early Modern Historicisms

As part of the English Department's new Ph.D. program in the Public Humanities, this course will consider early modern literature as a living constellation of artifacts that record historical ideas and material conditions. Students will learn how early modern books were made, how editions of Renaissance literature are compiled today, and how historicist literary scholars do their research. But, further, this course explores how historical expertise is communicated to ever-widening publics who always have expertise in their own right. By analyzing museum exhibits, theatrical productions, and digitized literatures, students will see that "expertise" is best understood not as something held only by "experts" but as a product of reciprocal transactions among scholars, the public, and the vibrant past.

Image: Adolf Nauer (German, 1893-1966), In the Studio, not dated, oil on canvas, 27 x 31 inches, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Millman, 1973.54.1

FREN 2030: Second Year French

French 2030 uses a variety of language-teaching approaches to help students work toward mastery of all four basic language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. To acquire these skills, the course is delivered in French and follows a communicative approach. The overall emphasis is on communication and language use in realistic situations that could prove useful in a practical sense. Topics such as technology, art and employment will be covered, as well as films related to French-speaking communities.

Image: Henry Eugene Moret, (French, 1856-1913), Saint Guenole, Penmarch, 1905, oil on canvas, 24 x 28-1/2 inches, gift of Mr. M. Mitchell Gruhn, 1977.14.1