An introductory studio course developing the techniques of representational drawing. Students acquire skills in the fundamentals of drawing and explore form, content, subject and mixed media in a variety of exercises and assignments. This experience will help to develop the student’s confidence and creativity. Artistic awareness is achieved by introducing students to the language of art and to creative accomplishments of the past.

Studio 002 | Instructors: Kate Brown Georgallas, Gerry Hills, Sharron Jan, Margaret Nicholson, Julia Redgrave, Brian Segal, Odile Tetu
 

This course focuses on design principles and elements such as unity, balance, repetition, line, shape, and colour. It provides students with a working knowledge and vocabulary of visual communication. Through studio projects and class discussions students learn how Design functions as they develop their visual problem solving skills and exercise their creativity. Link to view student poster.

Studio 019 | Instructor: Ruth Young
 

Students will create small works in watercolour, oil, acrylic and egg tempera. The goal is a working knowledge of each medium’s properties, brush handling, supports, and preservation. 
 

This is a survey of the visual arts from prehistoric Europe to the late Gothic period.

Instructors: Linda Quigley, Bruce Sparks
 

This is a survey of the visual arts from early Renaissance to modern times. 

Instructors: Linda Quigley, Bruce Sparks
 

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This course deals with the vocabulary, nature and physical properties of colour: hue, value and intensity. Studio assignments provide practice in learning colour relationships in unified and contrasting colour schemes. 

Studio 018 | Instructors: Michael MacFarlane, Margaret Nicholson, William Rogers
 

This is an introductory studio painting course developing painting techniques. This course builds upon drawing, design, colour and compositional skills as it explores painting techniques.  

Studio 021 | Instructors: Kate Brown Georgallas, Michael MacFarlane, Gillian McCulloch
 

This course will cover the steps in the creation of theatre sets and lighting designs. Both sections of the course will be, principally, project based with ‘hands on’ experience at each stage of the growth from conception to finished project. Facts and theory, while covered, will be subordinate to the creative process. There will be a series of smaller projects each week, which in turn will lead to the completion of a major design project for a play chosen by the instructors.  

Instructor: Ian Pygott
 

Original design and colour compositions are combined with studio work in stained glass. 

Studio 018 | Instructors: Iris Delgado Roach, Janette Fecteau
 

Original design and colour compositions are combined with studio work in stained glass. 

Studio 018 | Instructor: Iris Delgado Roach
 

Batik, an art form dating thousands of years, is a method of making coloured designs on textiles by waxing the parts not to be dyed.

Studio 018 | Instructor: Janette Fecteau
 

The focus of this course for each term during the 2009/10 academic year will be “tapestry in the community”. L’Arche Antigonish works with people in our community who have developmental disabilities. In this course StFX students will partner with members of the L’Arche Horizons and Cornerstone Programs to create a community tapestry project that will become part of the art collection of L’Arche Antigonish. Students will initially learn the fundamentals of tapestry weaving in the art studio at StFX in preparation for producing the community tapestry. This course is offered in association with Service Learning. Please contact Murray Gibson for further information.  

Studio 019 | Instructor: Murray Gibson website
 

Students will learn the basic techniques of intaglio printmaking using hardground, softground, aquatint and drypoint. They will be required to produce a series of prints demonstrating competency in each technique. 

Studio 021 | Instructor: Gerry Hills
 

Students will complete a portfolio of prints using the techniques learned in Etching Studio I. The emphasis will be on creativity. 

Studio 021 | Instructor: Gerry Hills
 

Pastel is a crayon-like medium made of compressed pigment in either a chalk or wax binder. It is an expressive, direct medium that combines the best qualities of drawing and painting. The class will explore the drawing and graphic possibilities of pastels. Student will paint, learning direct colour mixing and colour theory, composition and problem solving while experimenting with the many types of pastels on a variety of paper surfaces. 

Studio 002 | Instructor: Odile Tetu
 

A survey of major developments in the art and architecture of the Middle Ages in Europe, from Early Christianity through the late Gothic period. The course will examine how works of medieval art and architecture reflect and respond to changing theological, devotional and societal needs. 

Instructor: Dr. Sharon Gregory    Website: people.stfx.ca/sgregory/
 

A survey of painting, sculpture and architecture and related visual arts in Europe during the 17th and early 18th centuries. The course will consider some of the major artistic centres of the period, in Italy, France, the Netherlands and Spain; and the work of major artists including Bernini, Caravaggio, Poussin, Rubens, Rembrandt, Vermeer and Velazquez. 

Instructor: Dr. Sharon Gregory    Website: people.stfx.ca/sgregory/
 

This course introduces students to the medium of watercolour. Colour mixing and watercolor techniques will be explored and students will complete a number of landscape and floral paintings. 

Studio 019 | Instructor: Anna Syperek
 

An important movement in French painting during the second half of the 19th century, Impressionism greatly influenced Modern Art. This course will critically examine the subject in an historical and international context. 

Instructor: Linda Quigley
 

This course examines the origins of modernist endeavor in the late 19th century and covers art up to the end of World War II. Attention will be paid to major movements and artists, parallel movements in literature and music, the social and political context, and new technologies. Prerequisite: a survey course in art history. 
 

This course examines art from the end of World War II to the present day. Attention will be paid to major movements and artists, the social and political context, and the changing assumptions of what art should be and do.
 

This is a continuation of Painting 200 with emphasis on composition, technique and creativity.

Studio 002 | Instructor: Sharon Jan
 

330 Catholicism and the Arts see CATH 330
Six credits  
 

This course reviews Canadian art practice from the pre-contact period through World War II. Topics will include native peoples as producers and as represented, the development of landscape painting and the Group of Seven, Emily Carr, the Beaver Hall Group, war art, David Milne, the Canadian Group of Painters, and the development of abstraction in Quebec.
 

After examining the “crisis” of abstraction in sculpture and painting, we will look at the critique of representation and the question of reality as representation in the society of mass consumption. We will explore issues such as gender and feminism, contemporary aboriginal production, subjectivity, and the role of images in globalizing culture.
 

This course will be concerned with developing drawing to accurately reproduce plant forms. Non flowering and flowering plant form and diversity will be covered using pencil, pen and ink.

Studio 021 | Instructor: Sharon Jan
 

This course will be concerned with developing drawing to accurately reproduce plant forms. Non flowering and flowering plant form and diversity will be covered using pencil and watercolour.

Studio 021 | Instructor: Sharon Jan
 

This drawing course covers anatomical terminology and structure of the human skeleton and musculature. Drawings are done from the bone samples, skeletons, muscle models and charts in the Biology Department Anatomy Lab. There are several class sessions with live models. 

Instructor: Gillian McCulloch
 

Iconography is the identification and interpretation of images. This course is an introduction to the iconography of Christian art, with an emphasis on images of the Life and Passion of Christ. The course will examine how images develop over history, and how they may be understood in light of historical events, changes in theological thought, and in the artist’s own spirituality.  

Instructor: Jannette Vusich
 

This course is an introduction to the iconography of Christian art, with an emphasis on images of Mary and the saints. The course will examine how images develop over history, and how they may be understood in light of historical events, changes in theological thought, and in the artist’s own spirituality. Discussion will include how such images were used as objects of personal devotion but also for the conveying of important theological and social values.  

Instructor: Jannette Vusich
 

A continuation of the Art 100, this course covers the direct observation of stil life, figure drawing, composition, expression, and critical analysis. A variety of drawing media, both colour and black and white, will be used. Projects to be done outside of class will be assigned on a regular basis.

Studio 002 | Instructor: Anna Syperek
 

This course will concentrate on the development of individual expression. There will be greater emphasis on the expressive potential of the figure. Projects to be completed outside the class will be assigned on a regular basis.

Studio 002 | Instructor: Anna Syperek
 

A survey of the visual arts in Italy from the late 13th Century through the end of the 15th Century (from early Gothic painters such as Giotto to the precursors ofthe High Renaissance in Florence and Venice). The course will consider works of art from the point of view of artistic style and technique, and will also examine how the work of art functions within its social and cultural context.

Instructor: Dr. Sharon Gregory    Website: people.stfx.ca/sgregory/
 

A survey of the visual arts in Northern Europe from the 14th – 16th Centuries. This course will focus on painting, sculpture and the graphic arts in France, Germany, and the Netherlands, showing how works of art reveal what contemporary people found important.

Instructor: Dr. Sharon Gregory    Website: people.stfx.ca/sgregory/
 

A study of the visual arts in Italy during the 16th Century, beginning with the new grand manner developed by Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. With the development of the idea of artistic genius, problems linked to artistic license arose as the century progressed. The course will consider works of art from the point of view of artistic style and technique, and will also examine how the work of art functions within its social and cultural context.

Instructor: Dr. Sharon Gregory    Website: people.stfx.ca/sgregory/
 

This companion course to ART 115: Design I, provides an opportunity for students to build a porfolio of work based on their knowledge of visual communication design. Design process and creative problem solving will be emphasised. A working knowledge of Photoshop (or similar programs) would be helpful. Use of a laptop and digital camera are required. Projects will focus on 2D and website designs.

Studio 019 | Instructor: Ruth Young
 

See section 3.5.
 

A comprehensive introductory course for aspiring illustrators and cartoonists, this course will cover concept, structure, design and content. Included in the course will be character design, rendering techniques, and advanced drawing methods, layout and technical issues related to reproduction in both print and digital media. View full cartoon strip.

Immaculata 019 | Instructor: Brian Segal
 

Directed Study Seminar permits students of exceptional ability and motivation to pursue, on a tutorial basis, an individualized program of Study. 

 

This course will be an intensive investigation into an aspect of Italian Renaissance art. Topics may include: Michelangelo and his biographers; Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists; Raphael in Rome; Renaissance art in Venice; Italian Mannerism. Students will learn to use and assess important primary sources from the Renaissance period, and will also examine the secondary literature in some depth.

The subject will be Michelangelo, His Biographers and His Critics. The purpose of the course is to try to understand something about Michelangelo and his life and work as a painter, sculptor and architect, but also to understand how the entire critical reception of Michelangelo has been coloured by his Renaissance biographers, Ascanio Condivi and Giorgio Vasari.  

Instructor: Dr. Sharon Gregory    Website: people.stfx.ca/sgregory/
 

Directed Study permits students of exceptional ability and motivation to pursue, on a tutorial basis, an individualized program of Study.