COURSE CATALOG
Liberal Arts
ENG 101 English Composition
This writing course fosters and focuses students' abilities to demonstrate and
document their evolving thought process on paper. Students use a "writing
process", which emphasizes personal commitment to one's own writing and
persistent, focused revision. This is a community of writers helping one another
be fully understood. This process encourages eloquence, freedom of expression and
audience awareness. The essays read, written and studied highlight social, political
and personal responsibility while teaching critical thinking.
ENG 102 English Literature
Designed primarily as a reading course, English Literature focuses on 19th and
20th century short stories, sudden fiction, poems, and novellas as windows into
familiar human experiences. This course emphasizes an understanding and appreciation
of the art of short fiction writing. Analysis of the ways in which our authors use
character development, point of view, plot, emotional tone, details, structure, and
narrative style. The writing consists of reader's responses, primarily in journal
form. Willingness to read and discuss the stories is essential for this highly
interactive course.
ENG 301 Peace Literature
Based on the Coleman McCarthy Peace Course this class will consider the lives
and works of a number of peacemakers including Dorothea Day, Gandhi, Mother
Theresa, Einstein, Schweitzer, King, and Annan. Jimmy Carter's Speaking Peace
will be a central text to our examination of practical conflict resolution methods.
HIS 301 History from 1850 to the Present
The period of the industrial revolution through modern times provides a framework
for investigating economic and political events that revolutionized work, society,
and culture. Course components will include the development of machines, economic
growth and challenges, and the interweaving of historical events on the development
of printing, weaving and the textile industry, pottery through time to mass
production, and the expansion of technology as a communication and graphic
technique. The course will culminate with synopsis and critique of historical
events and the impact on society.
MTH 201 Geometry
This course reinforces students' math skills in preparation for their use in the
mathematical foundations of perspective. Students learn to use fractions, decimals,
percentages and proportions useful in aspects of design and craftsmanship. Additional
topics include concepts in plane and solid geometry, transformations and
tessellations, constructions, and coordinate geometry.
MUS 301 World Music
Taken in concurrence with HIS 101 (World History 1800-Present), this course includes
an overview of music in a cultural context. Content will coincide with historical
periods studied in HIS 101. Topics will include traditional Chinese, Indian, Thai,
and Indonesian musical genres, European classical music, African drumming and dance
music and jazz, 1920-1950 traditions, folk of the Americas and rock.
PSY 101 Psychology of Perception
A scientific and mathematical understanding of how the visual world liberates the
artist. Science of Perception explores the fundamental properties of light and
geometrical optics and considers ways the human eye processes visual images and
color. The course explores the fundamental properties of the linear system of
perspective and geometry and draftsmanship relative to it.
REL 101 Comparative Religions
Worldwide, the development of art emerged from a religious base, whether spiritual
or theological. This course will investigate the tenets of Christianity, Judaism,
Islam, Buddhism, Confucianism, First World People beliefs, Hinduism, Shintoism, and
other ethnic beliefs (including a representation of African and South American tribal
beliefs), and will bring about an understanding of the intertwining of religion and
art forms. (To be taken concurrently with HIS 102, Global History, and ART III, Art
History.)
SCI 101 Creative Cuisine
This course embodies the essence of Heartwood's curriculum integration. Nutrition,
wellness, cuisine, and food presentation revolve around the 'art' of good health.
This course includes topics of lifelong nutritional planning, food chemistry, menu
planning, food preparation, and presentation aspects of food. International cuisine
is combined with artistic endeavors that stimulate all of the senses.
SCI 301 Environmental Science
Students will learn about environmental issues both locally and globally with a
look to the future. The course will begin with an introduction to environmental
problems which emphasizes that humans are part of the ecosystem with interdependent
cycles which involve other organisms, air, water, chemicals, and energy. This course
examines the relationships of humans to their environment from historical, economic,
scientific, aesthetic, and ethical perspectives. Once this course is completed, class
members will be left with a sense of hope for the future and an understanding of how
to become a part of its realization.
SOC 101 Global Roots
Students will examine commonalities and uniqueness of cultures between and among
peoples of the world. They will investigate emigration/immigration rationale and
patterns, focusing on the United States, with particular reference to Maine. They
will then delve into their own personal heritage researching family histories and
ancestry sources. The culminating topic will focus on immigrant artists and the
impact of their heritage culture on the art that each one produced.
SOC 301 Service to Humanity
Consistent with Heartwood College of Art's philosophy, students will participate
in a structured service learning activity that occurs within a designated social
milieu. Prior to the experience, topics will include the concept and types of
service learning, reciprocity between server and served empowerment and a systematic
reflection of the experience that includes introspective examination of other
aspects of the student's life. Readings in service learning, culturally relevant
orientations, journal writing and self-assessment will be components of this course.
PRO 201 Techniques and Materials
A practical "How To" course, addressing the best ways to present and
market artwork, including types of framing and new uses for everyday materials in
all mediums. Also considered are such practical matters as hazards and safety
procedures particular to artists, the varied quality of new art products on the
market, and ways for student artists to develop their own methods, and original
solutions to problems of presentation.
PRO 401 Promotional Design & Business Strategies
Promotional Design and Issues of Presentation is a course that provides the
opportunity for each student to learn and design a personal business card,
letterhead, resume, website, and issues of presentation. This course is to equip
the student with practical skills and tools to launch the student's artistic career.
This course also addresses concerns of presenting artwork, including techniques of
display such as framing, matting, mounting, display case construction, and lighting.
The photography of the work and presentation of slides for shows is another component
of this course. Learning various promotional techniques such as local and national
advertising, web site information, gallery opening announcements, and installing a
show will be covered.
FAH 101 Art History I
Students are introduced to painting, sculpture and architecture of major Western
and Non-Western cultures beginning with prehistory throughout medieval Europe.
This course examines the evolution of art and the artist, making connections and
comparisons between social and political roles the arts have played throughout art
history.
FAH 102 Art History II
Art History Survey II analyzes painting, sculpture and architecture from Western
and Non-Western traditions of the Renaissance to the present. Students study
formal and technical developments as well as the political, religious and social
effects on artists. A course goal is to link artistic influences of the past to
modern culture. Museum field trips are included.
Fine Arts
ACR 301 Acrylic Painting
Water-based polymer painting changed the course of modern art. Learn how to prepare
a surface, under paint and glaze, utilizing the transparency and opaque effects
unique to acrylic.
CER 101 & CER 102 Ceramics I & II
These courses provide students with an introduction to the basic techniques of hand
building, slab forming, wheel throwing, glazing, slip application, and firing
methods. These courses are prerequisites to advanced ceramic courses.
CER 201 Clay Bodies
Apply wheel throwing and slab building techniques to a variety of clay bodies
including terra cotta, stoneware and porcelain. Explore design possibilities,
glaze results and durability. Discover and gain the knowledge of the properties
of each unique body from low fire to high fire.
CER 202 Altered Forms
Students will learn how a variety of techniques to create altered forms, in hand
building and wheel thrown vessels. The use of carved stamps, natural materials
may be used for texture and decorative motifs. Modification of symmetrical forms
by pinching, scoring, and paddling add interesting components to the composition.
CER 203 Raku
Raku is a Japanese firing technique translated as 'happiness by chance.' Clay is
fired to 1900 degrees. It is then removed from an outdoor gas-fired kiln at full
temperature , buried in sawdust, and lidded to reduce the chamber of oxygen, thereby
creating copper lusters, turquoise blues, crackling, and iridescent glaze effects.
CER 301 Ceramic Sculpture
Using clay and plaster as the sculptural mediums, students develop an understanding
of the materials and their building capacities. Texture, scale, form, and function
will be explored as well as simple and multi-part molds.
CER 302 Glazing & Firing
Students pursue technical and visual mastery of glazing and firing clays from
Raku to high fire porcelain. Students will develop and analyze their own glazes
in small test kilns. Emphasis will be placed on the understanding of the chemistry
that determines color, texture and viscosity.
CAH 303 History of Ceramics
Students will research the historical aspects of ceramics from 6,000 BC to
contemporary times. A time line of ceramic development will be viewed and
correlated with substances, techniques, glazes, and production techniques.
Students will conduct individual research on a selected period and will produce a
substantial research paper with illustrations and citations.
CER 401 & CER 402 Advanced Ceramics
Senior-level students create and develop a body of work and a thesis paper
with the assistance of the Departmental Head, Faculty Advisor and Mentor. The
completed body of work, thesis paper and artist statement is focused on the
student's interest in relation to their major.
CFT 101 Glass Beads I
Using century-old techniques of lampworking, students will create a variety of
glass beads using a minor burner torch and 'soft' moretti glass rods. Techniques
include making basic bead shapes, decorating beads with dots, stringers, twisted
canes, foils and enamel powders.
CFT 102 Glass Beads II
Students continue to study the many facets and possibilities of ancient bead
making. Layering and shaping may apply to beads, buttons, small vessels as the
student practices stripes, feathering, and advanced techniques.
CFT 202 Exploration of Crafts
This course is a 'travelogue' to countries where everyday objects are still
primarily hand made. Centuries of techniques and designs have preserved many
of the world's unwritten stories. Weaving begins not at the yarn shop, but with
the sheep shearing, wool carding, spinning, washing, and dyeing. Students will
experience such traditions as African drum-making, fabric weaving, and printing.
African and Indian jewelry, Far Eastern Puppets, and South American Pottery will
be studies as modern links with the past. The Exploration course leads to a respect
for and a sense of continuity with generations past.
DES 201 & 202 3D Design I
Through use of everyday materials, basic elements of 3D design are considered,
such as volume, mass, weights, light, gravity, form, structure, and space. Students
work through progressively more sophisticated problem-solving processes toward
creative solutions.
DRA 101 & DRA 102 Drawing
These prerequisite courses cover the fundamentals of drawing as well as the
exploration of materials. Instruction covers basic volumes, light and shadow,
idea and design, and composition and 3-D illusion. Emphasis is on gaining control
of the materials and techniques through subject studies including still life,
landscape and the figure.
DRA 201 Advanced Drawing/Anatomy
The hipbone's connected to the thighbone, the thighbone's connected to… Students
explore the human skeleton and muscular systems including connections, functions
and proportions. Close attention is paid to the way bones and muscles appear on
the surface of the body and the mode of expression they provide.
DRA 301 Life Drawing
For centuries, studying the nude figure has been a classical method of learning
how to draw. Using line and tone, students analyze the human form in terms of
planes, masses, light, shadow, action, rhythm, and proportion. Gesture, quick
sketch and long poses increase student's awareness of composition, design and
structure. Students study the figure as an organic whole rather than a series
of unrelated parts.
DRA 302 Rendering
To "render" means "to represent." This multi-media studio
course is designed to teach detail and accuracy in surface representation--skills
that are elemental to illustration, graphic design and the fine arts. Historically,
artists in every culture have maintained fine rendering and attention to surface
as a priority in their work. Making these beautiful drawings requires different
skills-subtlety of tone, finesse and meticulous observation.
DRA 303 Rendering/Illustration
This class defines the fine art end of commercial design, Assignments focus on
book illustration, short story illustration and children's book illustration,
The course encompasses the creation of images that accompany a narrative.
Illustration is the art of visual story telling.
FIB 101 & 102 Weaving I & Weaving II
This introductory course explores woven textiles and techniques for spinning
and dyeing. Frame, backstrap and inkle looms provide fundamental understanding.
Some of the most beautiful and sophisticated designs are still woven throughout
the world on these simple looms. Each student develops skills on a 4 or 8-harness
floor loom. Students also work with a variety of materials including rayon,
cotton, linen, wool, and silk.
FIB 104 Loom History & Construction
Students will study the history of looms from around the world, from early
finger weaving, to the mechanized looms of the industrial revolution, through
modern computerized looms. Students will learn to assemble and maintain a loom,
including inkle, table, jack, counterbalance, and countermarche looms.
FIB 204 Dyeing and Surface Design
Through the ancient process of shibori fabric dyeing, silkscreen, dye resist and
various painting applications, students will explore possibilities with natural
and synthetic fabrics. Development of an individual toolbox of techniques to
further expand the student's visual language to convey color to cloth is the
emphasis of this course.
FIB 302 Indigenous Weaving Design & Process
Indigenous weaving design and process will introduce students to weaving
processes from Ikat through native American designs. The dyeing and weaving
techniques to adapt a palette and graphic expression are included, permitting
students to employ ancient techniques.
FIB 303 Quilt Arts
Students will master the traditional art of piecing before venturing into design
and color schemes. The strong graphics of Amish geometrics, the exciting crazy
quilts of the 20th century and the possibilities beyond traditional patchwork will
entice students' creativity. Included in the course are opportunities for students
to complete pieces with contemporary dyeing techniques and tools inspired by designs
of the past.
JEM 101 & 102 Intro to Jewelry/Metals I & II
Fundamentals of metal techniques including sawing, soldering, stone setting,
casting and forging. This class includes weekly demonstrations and critiques.
Through the study of various methods, students explore ideas through design and
problem solving.
JEM 201 & 202 Jewelry/Metals III & IV
Jewelry/Metals continues the emphasis in the mastery of skills; students create
more complex ideas in functional and nonfunctional designs while incorporating
challenging approaches in the making of each piece.
JEM 203 Casting
Students will explore a variety of casting techniques including lost wax, deft
clay, sand and others. Students will participate in critiques, demos and weekly
technical discussions.
JEM 204 Color Exploration
Students will explore different methods of coloring metal, such as traditional
patinas, enamel, and resins, to avant-garde. Students will be expected to push
and blur the boundaries of interdisciplinary media.
JEM 301 & 302 Alternative Methods in Jewelry/Metals I & II
Students will explore alternative processes to add to their "toolbox"
of skills. They will learn how to use natural, synthetic and "new
materials" such as Precious Metal Clay, found objects and color on metal.
JAH 303 History of Jewelry
Students will study the origins of jewelry including the physical and psychic need
to adorn the body. Value and status will be investigated in various cultures.
JEM 305 & 306 Metal Sculpture I & II
Students will investigate model making, bronze casting and cold connections.
They will also explore audience and presentation.
JEM 401 & 402 Advanced Jewelry/Metals III & IV
Senior-level students create and develop a body of work and a thesis paper with the
assistance of the Departmental Head, Faculty Advisor and Mentor. The completed body
of work, thesis paper and artist statement is focused on the student's interest in
relation to their major to be presented to the faculty and student body.
PHO 101 & 102 Black and White Photo I & II
A basic course for all photography students. Participants gain familiarity with the
camera, the photographic process and the tools of the trade. Exposure and focus
techniques are explored and aesthetics are employed in designing photographs.
Darkroom instruction covers film processing and enlargements. Students participate
in weekly group and solo assignments.
PHO 201 & 202 Black and White Photo III & IV
In this black and white photography course students work toward the mastery of
film processing and the art of the fine print. Personal expression is encouraged
through a variety of assignments, including use of studio lighting, and electronic
flashes. Instruction includes matting, framing and the development of a portfolio.
Critiques, conferences and a group show are integral to the photographic learning
process.
PHO 203 History of Photography I
This course traces the history of photography from the camera obscura and the
early processes developed by Daquerre and Talbot, through subsequent techniques,
to the current state of the art processes, and tools. While studying the evolution
of photographic techniques, the photographers of the corresponding eras also are
looked at in terms of their visions in their social context.
PHO 301 & 302 Color Photo I & II
With a strong understanding of black and white value scales and composition, the
concept of photography can be brought to full spectrum. This photo experience in
temperature and density will enhance a student's vocabulary.
PHO 304 Photography: Alternative Methods
Students will explore variety of techniques such as photo transfers, photo lift
off, gum Bichromate Bromile, hand coloring and toning. Students will discuss/critique
processes and outcomes.
PHO 305 Photography: Nature & Landscape Photography
Students will learn techniques that enable them to translate impressions of nature
to film and create unique powerful prints. Students are encouraged to find their own
voice within the genre and will discuss issues raised by contemporary landscape
imagery.
PHO 306 Digital Photography
Built on the skills gained in previous photography classes, students learn Photo
Shop as a basic tool for manipulating images and developing concepts. Art ethics
will be discussed.
PHO 401 & 402 Advanced Photography
Students create and develop a body of work and a thesis paper with the assistance
of the Departmental Head, Faculty Advisor and Mentor. The completed body of work,
thesis paper and artist statement is focused on the student's interest in relation
to their major to be presented to the faculty and student body.
PHO 403 Photography: Portrait
This course will teach you the skills to produce portraits that reflect the
subject's emotion and the student's style as an artist. Students will participate
in discussion, critiques and demos.
PHO 404 Photojournalism
Learn the basic skills of journalism. This class will cover a variety of topics
and the presentation of them. Students will engage in technical and moral issues.
PRT 101 & 102 Intro Printmaking I & II
This course is an introduction to selected printmaking techniques including: relief
intaglio, embossing, collagraphs, chine colle, and monoprinting. Experimentation and
combinations of techniques are encouraged. Preparing papers and plates, editioning
and print preservation is also covered.
PRT 103 Reduction Woodcut
This is a process by which all of the color printing is done from a single block of
wood rather than multiple blocks. Colors are printed from light to dark, creating
an overlay effect. Participants will explore image planning, block cutting,
registration, and printing techniques.
PRT 201 & 202 Etching I & II
Learn the craft and presentation of intaglio, dry point, and aquatint while
exploring light, form and design. Students will work with zinc and copper plates.
PRT 203 Folio Book
A folio book is a beautiful art journal which records the artistic voyage of
the student artist's past year and becomes a treasured gift in future years.
Folio Book is a course which presents students with a broad variety of skills:
they make the paper for the pages, photograph their works, write copy, weave fabric
for covers, and hand stitch bindings. Students may choose to reflect in writing on
who they are, where they've been in the past year and where they're going. They may
choose to work collaboratively, to represent their impressions by collage, sketches
and watercolor.
PRT 204 Papermaking
Discover methods of making paper from natural fibers and color. With your handmade
paper, students create a sampler of experiments in folding, fluting, piercing,
impressing, and weaving. Decoration of paper with paste, color, spattering,
spraying, block printing, and monotype. Paper is used to compose sculptures,
frames, folders, papier-mâché, and simple books.
PRT 205 & 206 Introductory Internship in Printmaking
Students receive a 'hands-on' learning experience in their field of interest.
This is an opportunity for the students to focus and learn beyond the
classroom/studio environment. Internships build connections and references
for the student to further develop their own career. HCA encourages students
to find artists within the community that challenge and inspire them. Students
must submit an internship proposal that will be considered for approval by Heartwood
College of Art.
PRT 301 & 302 Advanced Printmaking
Students focus in small studio departments developing, pursuing technical, visual,
and personal dialogue within printmaking. Juniors and seniors create and develop a
body of work and a thesis paper with the assistance of the Departmental Head, Faculty
Advisor and Mentor. The completed body of work, thesis paper and artist statement is
a focused on the student's interest in relation to their major to be presented to the
faculty and student body.
PRT 303 History of Printmaking
Throughout history, printmaking has been a vehicle for communication and a reflection
of social change. Beginning with Durer in the fifteen hundreds, printmaking was
pioneered as an independent art form, not merely as a way of printing text.
PRT 401 & 402 Printmaking
Students create and develop a body of work and a thesis paper with the assistance
of the Departmental Head, Faculty Advisor and Mentor. The completed body of work,
thesis paper, and artist statement is focused on the student's interest in relation
to the major. The senior project will be presented to the student body, faculty,
and community residents in a gallery exhibition.
PTG 101 & 102 Painting
Students study visual perception through fundamental principles of painting.
They examine composition, color, structure, and spatial dynamics through opaque
painting media (oil). Course work includes sustained studies of figures, still
life and landscape.
PTG 201 & 202 Landscape Painting
This course explores the landscape. It offers beauty and roughness as a
stepping-stone for our own metaphors, lessons in color and composition and a
path to exhilarating horizons. This course includes field trips to painting sites
as well as museums and galleries.
PTG 301 & 302 Painting
Advanced Painting encourages students to work toward developing a related body of
work while nurturing self-analysis and critical thinking. Individuals and groups
are encouraged to establish a dialogue between artist and their audience. Students
will work in oils, acrylic and mixed media. Students are expected to develop a
direction within medium. Projects will be both assigned and self designed.
PTG 401 & 402 Advanced Painting
Seniors create and develop a body of work and a thesis paper with the assistance
of the Departmental Head, Faculty Advisor and Mentor. The completed body of work,
thesis paper and artist statement is focused on the student's interest in relation
to their major to be presented to the faculty and student body.
WTC 101 & 102 Watercolor
This course is a basic introduction to traditional watercolor techniques, including
clean wash, wet on wet, and dry brush with an emphasis on light and color. Studies
will focus on subject matter from the exquisite landscape of Maine.
WTC 201 & 202 Watercolor
Continuing with experience from watercolor I and II, we will build on an
introduction of wash and paper surfaces. The student will further explore color
harmony, its theory and practice.
WTC 301 & 302 Advanced Study in Water-based Media
Advanced study in water-based media, will include egg tempera, casein, and a
variety of transparent and opaque techniques.
WTC 303 History of Watercolor Painting
From Durer to Magee, students will investigate styles and messages. Between these
two powerful artists, lie carefully constructed works that are unique to their
times.
WTC 401 & 402 Advanced Watercolor
Students create and develop a body of work and a thesis paper with the assistance
of the Departmental Head, Faculty Advisor and Mentor. The completed body of work,
thesis paper, and artist statement is focused on the student's interest in relation
to the major. The senior project will be presented to the student body, faculty,
and community residents in a gallery exhibition.
