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Subject Code for Fine Art: ARTF
Subject Code for Fine Art (Visual Art): ARTV
World Wide Web Address: https://www.queensu.ca/bfa/
Departmental Office: Ontario Hall, Room 204
Departmental Telephone: 613-533-6166
Departmental Fax: 613-533-2834
Chair of Undergraduate Studies: Alejandro Arauz
Interim Program Administrator: Michaela Olesova
Undergraduate Office E-Mail Address: fineart@queensu.ca
Overview
Queen’s Bachelor of Fine Art (Visual Art) Program is a small visual art program admitting 30 students per year. The intensive studio training, taught by instructors that are active in their field, alongside visiting artists from across the country and internationally, is complemented by lecture and seminar courses in Art History. The small class sizes and high professor-to-student ratios create an interactive learning environment focusing on three main areas of fine art: painting, printmaking and sculpture/new media. The Fine Art (Visual Art) Program is well equipped with studios and workshops that create an atmosphere where learning and research can flourish. Optional field trips are made to exhibitions and workshops, including annual trips to New York.
With its tradition of scholarship and research, and an environment that both stimulates and challenges, Queen’s provides the ideal setting for the study and creation of Visual Art. Our program combines the technical, theoretical, and critical studies required in the practice of visual art in four interrelated areas: painting, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture/new media. These media are seen as broad, overlapping areas of experience, each containing many approaches and procedures. Studio training is complemented by studies in Art History and elective courses.
Advice to Students
Fine Art (Visual Art) Courses
Other than those students pursuing a B.F.A. or B.F.A.(Honours) and B.F.A.H/B.Ed degree program, no student in Arts and Science may apply more than 24.00 units in Fine Art (ARTF) courses towards their degree Plan. Only the courses ARTF 100; ARTF 101; ARTF 102; ARTF 125; ARTF 260; ARTF 265; ARTH 275 are open to non-B.F.A. students, and none of these courses may be used towards the requirements of a Visual Art Plan.
Material Costs
All courses require the purchase of materials in the production of art works. Students can expect to pay up to $1,200 per year for materials. An optional trip to New York City is scheduled annually for second-year B.F.A. students. Students who participate in this trip should expect to spend approximately $800 for the cost of accommodation, transportation, meals and gallery entrance fees. A $250 deposit for this trip is required to be paid in first year.
Faculty
For more information, please visit: https://www.queensu.ca/bfa/faculty/faculty
- Rebecca Anweiler
- Alejandro Arauz
- Sylvat Aziz
- Kathleen Sellars
Courses
A basic introduction to the principles of line and form, intended as a foundation for further studies in the visual arts.
NOTE Offered during Spring-Summer Sessions only. Not available for credit towards a B.F.A. program.
A foundation course aimed at developing basic skills in drawing and painting, embracing a variety of subjects, materials and techniques.
NOTE Also offered online, consult Arts and Science Online (Learning Hours may vary).
A foundation course in drawing and sculpture aimed at examining the visual, tactile and structural characteristics of various materials in relation to 3 dimensional space.
An exploration, through the processes of drawing and painting, of a wide variety of visual problems encountered by the contemporary artist.
NOTE Only offered at Bader College, UK.
This survey course introduces various Printmaking techniques including monoprint, relief, etching, digital and hybrid methods. Students focus on applying the various methods to personal research interests to create original print based imagery that demonstrates formal, conceptual, historical and contemporary consideration.
NOTE Materials: estimated cost $100.
NOTE Also offered online, consult Arts and Science Online.
A foundation course that offers two of the sections from the four media areas available at this level: painting, drawing, two-dimensional fundamentals, and three-dimensional fundamentals. One class per week will be devoted to learning safe procedures and technical skills in the wood-shop. There will be a half-day WHMIS safety training workshop.
NOTE Materials: estimated cost $600 (includes technical skills fee of $25).
A continuation of ARTF 127, this course offers two of the sections from the media available at this level: painting, drawing, two-dimensional fundamentals, and three-dimensional fundamentals.
NOTE Materials: estimated cost $500.
NOTE A $250 deposit is required by students who intend on participating in the voluntary 2nd year field trip to New York.
This course offers two of the sections from the four media areas available at this level: painting, drawing, print media and sculpture. Course content builds on concepts developed in ARTF 127 and ARTF 128. New techniques, skills and concepts are introduced.
NOTE Materials: estimated cost $400.
NOTE The voluntary field trip to New York is highly recommended; the estimated cost is $700.
This course offers two of the sections from the four media areas available at this level: painting, drawing, print media and sculpture. Course content builds on concepts developed in ARTF 127 and ARTF 128. New techniques, skills and concepts are introduced.
NOTE Materials: estimated cost $400.
NOTE The voluntary field trip to New York is highly recommended; the estimated cost is $700.
Non-B.F.A. students work with media, techniques and strategies of contemporary and earlier artists. Coursework includes drawing, painting, and studio visits. Discussion on artists' writings on studio practice/theory, and art practice as research. Emphasis on understanding process rather than skill development.
An intermediate studio practice course exploring the practical and pedagogical aspects of print-based artwork, processes and strategies, as well as the resulting theoretical implications that have accompanied recent technological changes in production and distribution.
In this introductory studio e-course, students will examine the current nature of digital media practices in relation to Contemporary Art. Through studio research, students will explore the context of digital practices and theories, and its effect on the production of images and objects within the digital landscape.
NOTE Only offered online. Consult Arts and Science Online.
In this advanced course students select one media choice from these areas: paint media, sculpture/new media or print media.
NOTE Materials: estimated cost $350.
In this second advanced-level course students choose two media sections from these areas: paint, media, sculpture/new media, or print media. The media area chosen must be different from that studied in ARTF 337. The course will include seminars introducing elements of professional practice.
NOTE Materials: estimated cost $350.
In fourth year, each student must submit a proposal for an individual program of creative exploration and research. This can be based on one or more of the following areas: painting, print media, 3-D media. Instruction at this level is through individual tutorials and critiques, although all students will meet once a week for a common seminar.
NOTE Materials: estimated cost $50 to $150.
In fourth year, each student must submit a proposal for an individual program of creative exploration and research. This can be based on one or more of the following areas: painting, print media, 3-D media. Instruction at this level is through individual tutorials and critiques, although all students will meet once a week for a common seminar.
NOTE Materials: estimated cost $50 to $150.
Exceptionally qualified students entering their third- or fourth-year may take a program of independent study provided it has been approved by the Department or Departments principally involved. The Department may approve an independent study program without permitting it to be counted toward a concentration in that Department. It is, consequently, the responsibility of students taking such programs to ensure that the concentration requirements for their degree will be met.
NOTE Requests for such a program must be received one month before the start of the first term in which the student intends to undertake the program.
Exceptionally qualified students entering their third- or fourth-year may take a program of independent study provided it has been approved by the Department or Departments principally involved. The Department may approve an independent study program without permitting it to be counted toward a concentration in that Department. It is, consequently, the responsibility of students taking such programs to ensure that the concentration requirements for their degree will be met.
NOTE Requests for such a program must be received one month before the start of the first term in which the student intends to undertake the program.