Drawing is the core of creative and design thinking. By presenting flexible curricular pathways, the minor provides students a means to explore their relationship to drawing and to investigate how drawing practice can strengthen their areas of creative focus, regardless of major.
The minor acknowledges drawing as both a method of image making but also as a generative and research practice. Along with building technical skills, the curriculum encourages students to use drawing as an extension of thinking, expression, experimentation and open-ended play in order to more fully engage with drawing’s capacity for ideation and discovery.
The drawing studio minor recognizes students outside of the drawing major who take a total of 15 credits from the Drawing Department and/or select classes from other majors approved by the Drawing Department Chair. Candidates for the minor should meet with the Chair of the Drawing Department when initially declaring the minor in order to discuss directions of interest and study and to decide on a track.
The drawing minor aims to be responsive to individual student needs, so students are also encouraged to meet regularly with the department Chair and/or faculty, especially during regular advisement periods, in order to sustain a conversation around their creative goals and to construct the best possible course schedule.
Students pursuing the Drawing studio minor can pursue one of the four following tracks. Please note that not all classes are offered every semester.
Rex Stevens is the chair of the drawing and general fine arts departments. He has exhibited along the east coast for 30 years and has been the recipient of MICA's LUCAS Grant in 2003 and the Trustees Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1992.
Focuses on the creative and practical uses of drawing to support the development and production of interdisciplinary 3-D work. In this course, students will explore the use of both traditional and computer-aided drawing processes as a means of ideation, research, pre-visualization, design development, and presentation for work that often finds its final form in another medium. A wide range of drawing methods and media will be covered, including traditional drawing techniques, schematic drawing, and Rhino CAD.