Fall 2026 Current term

Learn what a livre d'artiste (artist's book) is — how Miró, Picasso, and Dalí turned a book into art you can hold, page through, and read.

Practice "reading" a painting like a story — who, what, when, where.

Learn how Rembrandt used light and dark (chiaroscuro) to focus attention and create mood.

A tree can be painted as a believable tree, a pattern, a feeling, a symbol, or almost pure structure.

Understand the woodblock printmaking process and how it shapes bold line and flat color.

Explore how autumn light, color, and shadow can make a place feel calm or stir other feelings.

Learn how three powerful pharaohs used art and image-making to build their public power.

Learn how Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters used unusual composition — cropping, diagonals, scale, and framing — not just loose brushwork, to change how a picture feels.

See how jewelry has communicated status, culture, and identity across 4,000 years.

Study Sargent's confident, "bravura" brushwork and how it creates a sense of life and movement.

Understand Surrealism as an art movement inspired by dreams, chance, and the unconscious.

Explore how Suzanne Jackson layers unconventional materials to build abstract paintings.