This studio-based seminar is open to all Fine Arts students working in any medium, within a broadly defined painting language. Students get support on their individual projects through experiential investigations into the material of color behavior and perception that boost the forward momentum of their work. Presentations, side projects, and critiques support purposeful studio discussions that engage the language of color and material toincrease an understanding of how the work is communicating to the group and within the broader context of contemporary art. Weekly studio-based color prompts and discussions give students an opportunity to sort outintensified investigations into the formal and expressive elements of shape, color, form, distortion, and public and private issues of visibility. Questions and topics covered: How can time be captured through color? What is tactile knowledge? Site specificity and scale translations. Who are your art ancestors and what is their role in the building of a personal visual language? How can vulnerability, anxiety, and pleasure be active forms of resistance?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.

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