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.
Facilities
Art Studio
The Art Department is located in Montgomery Hall Fine Arts Center. Most of the studio classrooms are interconnected, making for an intimate working environment. Studio spaces include a sculpture studio with equipment for welding, plaster, and woodworking, a painting studio, a drawing studio, a printmaking area with two presses, and two darkrooms. Art majors are allotted small individual work spaces in their senior year.
Digital Imaging Lab
There are two adjacent Montgomery hall computer labs: the Pro Lab and Learning Lab. The Learning Lab is equipped with 20 17" Intel iMacs with the Adobe CS3 Suite, iMovie, several flatbed scanners, and an Epson 9600 printer. The Pro Lab includes 10 22" Intel iMacs with the Adobe CS3 Suite, Maya, and Final Cut Pro. The department also has flipcams, tablets, digital cameras, lights, and tripods for student use. The lab serves many courses within the department, including scientific illustration, digital media offerings, and several art history courses. Students use the lab for creation of course assignments as well as independent projects.
In Addition, the Art Department also maintains a separate digital imaging lab that is primarily for Large format output. It houses an Epson 9880, two flatbed scanners, and a high-end multi-format film scanner. It also has DV deck and access to the Adobe Suite and Final Cut Pro for digital editing.
Curatorial Lab
The Curatorial Lab is a multi-purpose classroom for object-based instruction, curatorial projects and independent research in art history using artwork from the Teaching Collection of Art.
Image Resources
Students have access to over a 1,000,000 art images from around the world through the St. Mary's Library's subscription to ARTStor, the world's largest and most comprehensive image database. In addition to ARTStor, the library has a wide range of art resources and databases designed to support students' original research in different cultures, eras, and media. To see more, click here.
Boyden Gallery
The the college's art gallery significantly enhances the department's programming, hosting a range of exhibitions featuring contemporary and historical art, as well as the annual All-Student Show and the art studio students' St. Mary's Project exhibitions. Boyden Gallery also offers a variety of visiting artist talks, scholarly lectures, workshops and other activities.
Teaching Collection of Art
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