Introductory Painting offers an in-depth exploration of contemporary painting processes and practices using traditional and non-traditional materials, techniques, and concepts.

 Students will engage in a series of research and painting projects that will examine contemporary aspects of painting as a distinct discipline. Students will be expected to complete a portfolio of paintings suitable for in class critical analysis and public group exhibition.

 Course Description: Painting as an expressive medium is premised on knowledge of contemporary art combined with a technical mastery deployed within a personal practice that evokes formal as well as conceptual innovation. In this course, students will engage in an in-depth exploration of contemporary painting processes and practices using traditional and non-traditional materials, techniques, and concepts.


Music and Theatre Welcome to FNAR 1743 Music Literacy for Actors and Dancers!

Music Literacy for Actors and Dancers is a course for the performer who has not yet developed a robust connection between his or her musical experience and standard aspects of musical performance, with a special focus on the acquisition of fluency reading the notated score and the development of effective study and practice habits. FNAR 1743 Music Literacy for Actors and Dancers is a co-requisite of FNAR 1733 Intro to Musical Theatre.

Welcome to Acting for Film and TV! 

  This course trains performers to tailor their acting skills for the screen.  We will share and study brilliant examples from films, learn what an actor's relationship to the camera should be, cultivate positive mental approaches and attitudes to film performance, and learn the nuts and bolts of working in a film environment.


Through exploring electronic art and experimenting with microprocessors students will learn to make artwork using light, sound, and movement. Controlled by writing simple computer code, microprocessors are the components students will use here to make time-based objects. In tracing the history of electricity’s development and its evolution we will explore how humans evolve with our technology. In following the path of historical development for computer technology the class will also read philosophy that accounts for the agency of objects.