Adult Lectures
These unique offerings reflect expanded opportunities to engage with contemporary artists and scholars on the subject of art and the artistic practice.
Constructive Anatomy:
Lecture Series with Atelier Instuctor Geoff Flack
This 6-lecture series will focus on the structural concepts that make up the figure’s complex construction and that are essential to understanding the figure’s unique form and design. This series is a crucial starting point for all artists studying the figure and its anatomy. Emphasis will be placed on the geometry of each structural concept and how each fit within the body’s proportion system, along with the key landmarks that help you create sophisticated figures from observation and memory.
Series offered in Fall Quarter. Check back for Registration.
Artistic Anatomy:
Lecture Series with Atelier Instuctor Mike Magrath
This is a 10-part asychronous, recorded lecture sereis exploring the aesthetics and biomechanical structore of the human form. The actual lectures and PowerPoints are available asychronously online. Weekly meeting times via zoom allow for discussions and follow-up sessions with Mike Magrath, Director of the Magrath Sculpture Atelier.
Series offered in Winter Quarter. Check back for Registration.
Lecture Topics:
- Bio-Mechanics and the Canons of Proportion
- Box and Egg, Pelivis
- Ribs and Spine
- Reach 1 : Should Girdle
- Reach 2: Forelimbs
- Locomotion: Buttocks and Lower Limbs
- Support and Manipluation: Feet and Hands
- Neck and Skull
- Facial Features and Musculature
- Surface Features, Reproduction and Aging
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