AFVS 120: Thinking With Your Hand: Intermediate Painting

Miyoko Ito, Island in the Sun, 1978, oil on canvas.

WELCOME TO THINKING WITH YOUR HAND!

This class will support developing painters in their explorations of paints as powerful tools for engaging and questioning the world around them, guided by their senses.  Using the studio as a home base, students will be encouraged to expand their view of what is close at hand to transform everyday experience into art.  Commitment to an exploratory studio process will be encouraged through directed prompts and open-ended project work.

Instructor: Judith Belzer (judith_belzer@fas.harvard.edu)

Enrollment TA: Julia Sharpe (juliasharpe@g.harvard.edu)

Please visit our Info session on April 4 at 6:30pm to ask question and learn more about this class.

Download the course syllabus here

View introductory video here

Fill out the course questionnaire here

Enrollment Timeline: 

THIS IS A LIMITED ENROLLMENT CLASS. TO APPLY FOR A SPOT IN THIS CLASS:

• Submit this ONLINE QUESTIONNAIRE FORM. Questionnaires received by April 8 will be given first priority. All other applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis pending space in the class.

 ***The questionnaire serves as an application for this class, but you must also submit a petition on my.Harvard in order to officially enroll*** 

• Wednesday April 10: students notified if granted a spot in class or on the waitlist.
• Thursday April 11 by midnight: accept or decline offered spot. If slots open up, waitlisted students will be notified.
• April 12: Waitlisted students offered available spots; accept or decline spot ASAP.
• April 17, 11:59 pm: REGISTRATION COMPLETED.

The class roster will be filled with a community of students that offers the broadest possible range of interests and background, class years, AFVS concentrators and students from other areas of study.  See prerequisites in syllabus.