SVA Destinations, an ongoing series of short-term, domestic and international travel-based programs offered by the School of Visual Arts, offer participants the opportunity for in-depth study, ...

The great thing about drawing is you can do it anywhere! This course approaches drawing as a way of thinking and seeing. We'll introduce basic techniques while also encouraging experimentation, with a ...

That child’s drawing of a house, tree, or person may represent more than an element of the refrigerator-as-art-gallery. It may predict a child’s intelligence later in life. A child’s intelligence at ...

Portrait of a Young Man, 1944 by Lucian Freud, Black crayon and chalk on paper In a luminous self-portrait from 1947 intended as a book illustration, he uses a variety of marks to create the ...

Visual skills are essential for a sophisticated workforce, yet we offer so little education in the vital skills of learning to see and developing the ability to interpret and critique our ...

The Visual Arts Department at Bowdoin offers studio courses across a range of media, including drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, printmaking, and video. A variety of 1000-level courses ...