Upcoming Events
May 03 - 12:00 PM
Bottom County Festival at Chancellor's Point
May 29 - 12:00 PM
Bottom County Festival at Chancellor's Point
Jun 09 - 12:00 PM
Bottom County Festival at Chancellor's Point
Contact Us
Carrie Patterson, Chair
Associate Professor of Art
Phone: 240-895-4252
Email: ccpatterson@smcm.edu
Office Staff: 240-895-4225
Alumni Where are they now?
Hannah Piper Burns (studio art, 2006) achieved her MFA in 2009 from the San Francisco Art Institute. She currently lives and works in Portland, OR as a freelance art writer, communications director for the Museum of Pocket Art, and a social media and blog coordinator for artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson. Her recent work can be found at www.hannahpiperburns.com.
This
course explores the world of nature from the perspective of the artist
naturalist in history and in studio practice. Key figures in the history
of natural history study such as
Aristotle, Pliny, Robert Hooke, John James Audubon, Mark Catesby, Ernst
Haeckel, Maria Sybilla Merian, and Charles Darwin, provide examples of
the diverse approaches to documenting and learning about nature. In
studio projects students learn drawing and painting
techniques that have direct applications to illustration including the
use of pencil, pen and ink and watercolor painting. Throughout the
semester each student will keep a nature journal of writing and art.
This course includes a project in collaboration with
the SMCM Arboretum that will culminate in an online pictorial guide to
local species of trees. The final independent project is self-proposed
by each student in a special area of interest. Lecture and discussion,
writing and research, studio projects and fieldwork.
This course satisfies an Environmental Studies Area requirement. Meets
Museum Studies Requirements.
