Art Studio

This course introduces students to practical and experimental aspects of user interface design and programming, with the intention of demystifying the digital products we use in everyday life. Students will learn the fundamental principles of user interface design; use UI Design software such as Figma to make interactive prototypes, and write basic HTML/CSS/Javascript to create web interfaces. In addition to creating conventional user interface designs, students will be challenged to create interfaces that have conceptual and non-traditional outcomes that speak to their personal interests and motivations. In response to a partial history of User Interface design, students will be compelled to situate their work in the context of the development of Human Computer Interaction for art and design. This context will be given via in-class lectures, hands-on exercises, guest lectures, and a workshop.  

In Studio 3 students will produce a body of work that is conceptually, technically and aesthetically of exhibition quality that also demonstrates a rigorous process of research analysis and critical awareness. 

This course teaches how to create 2D art using drawing, ink paintings, collages, and photos. Creating 2D art includes figurative and non-figurative painting and drawing, such as figure paintings, still life drawings and landscape work. This course encourages self-expression by setting subject matter through mixed media and enhances one’s understanding of contemporary art and Korean art. 

This course teaches basic construction principles of clothing through flat pattern production and basic sewing and clothing cutting methods. Specifically, the course explores the structural characteristics of clothing products through pattern making, sewing, and ready-to-wear analysis. 

In this course, students discuss the "extreme internationalism" of Conceptual art shows since the late 1960s, and the "global contemporary" framing of survey exhibitions - notably art biennials - since the late 1980s. Students consider the roles played by concepts such as national representation, multiculturalism, and anti-imperial nationalism. They analyze how numerous factors - for example: artist networks, curatorial agency, installation serendipity, national backing, educational experience, and cultural identity - may affect visibility, especially when exhibiting "at large" rather than "at home" (however many places may be counted as "home"). Visibility afar, or critical engagement in a distant locality, is prioritized above successful commercial access to new art markets, when thinking about exhibiting abroad.

Sumi-e is the Japanese traditional art of ink painting.  The art of Sumi-e captures the essence of the subject and expresses emotions on a sheet of paper. Although the subject is the same, emotions are not; thus, everyone can paint the same subject but none of the paintings would look the same.  Students are expected to paint subjects according to a theme given in each class. As a final project, students will choose their subject and showcase their art in a weeklong class exhibition at the end of the semester. The course aims to instruct various ways of expressing different points of view through Sumi-e. 

This course for non-art major students introduces basic techniques of Asian brush and ink painting.  The course instructs on the basic theory of Sumukhua and the Sagunja; Four Gracious Plants (plum, orchid, chrysanthemum and bamboo) as well as painting in the literary artist style. This course also emphasizes a proper understanding of the relevant aesthetic concepts and practices to broaden students' perspective on traditional art. 

This course examines life drawing to explore the human body as a subject. It will explore how we visually perceive the human body, how we think about the body and how we theorize the body within art practice. Within the practical studio classes students will be introduced to drawing through the foundational skills of observation and drawing techniques. These skills will be developed and extended so that students are able to explore and visually articulate their observations of the human body with increasing sophistication and complexity. Lectures will introduce the history of the human body in art, focusing on the particular role that drawing the human body has played from pre-history to the present day. 

Introduce the history of Chinese book collection and explain the genealogical editing style.

Introduce papermaking plants and traditional papermaking technology, and learn about papermaking plants on campus.

Introduce traditional Chinese paper and ink, printing technology, watermark printing techniques.

Teach traditional engraving techniques and create engravings (genealogy charts, library tickets).

Experience traditional papermaking in the paper workshop.

Lecture on traditional printing methods, printing works on homemade handmade paper.

Introduce traditional Chinese binding art, ancient book layout, and paper dyeing art.