Painting/Drawing/Sculpture

Margo Margolis, Department Chair
Penrose Hall, Room 303
215-782-2870
margom@temple.edu

The Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture Department emphasizes artmaking as an ongoing discipline rooted in rich history. We provide our students with a rigorous experience of the disciplines of drawing, painting, and sculpture. This experience ranges through the aesthetic, the technical, and the well-formed idea. We are committed to providing our students with the understanding of the broad cultural and historical context in which art is made and experienced.

The Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture Department has a weekly schedule of visiting lectures. Our lectures include practicing studio artists, museum curators, and critics, all of national standing. Special effort is made to put the visiting artist in contact with our graduate students.

Painting/Drawing

Margo Margolis, Department Chair, Painting Area Head
Penrose Hall, Room 303
215-782-2870
margom@temple.edu

Tyler's Painting and Drawing program provides the skills and concepts essential to artistic growth.  The faculty has designed studio and seminar courses that foster the development of pictorial concepts realized in the tangible form of painting and drawing.

The course offerings range from Figure Drawing to Senior Painting Studio, a capstone course for Painting majors.  Advanced level courses offer a range of technical, topic, and theory based exposures to contemporary approaches to painting.  The faculty advises each student to participate in a variety of studio experiences to facilitate the integration of technique with personal vision.   

Major Requirements for B.F.A. in Painting 

SOPHOMORE REQUIREMENTS: 

JUNIOR AND SENIOR REQUIREMENTS: 

Eight courses totaling 24 credit hours. These courses must satisfy the following grade level requirements. Two Painting courses must be taken at the 3000-level, and two Painting courses must be taken at the 4000-level. Two Drawing courses must be taken at the 3000-level, and two Drawing courses must be taken at the 4000-level.

Any Painting or Drawing courses taken in excess of the required eight courses will count as studio electives.  This is a common practice encouraged by the Painting Faculty.

Sculpture

Winifred Lutz, Area Head
Elkins Hall, Room 007
215-782-2809
wlutz@temple.edu

The Sculpture Program provides the skills and concepts essential to creative growth.  Courses are designed to integrate the development of technical skills with critical discourse and theory, and knowledge of contemporary sculpture.  Students are encouraged to explore a broad range of sculptural strategies through studio courses including installation, sound, video, robotics, public art, and wood and metal fabrication.  All courses provide intensive studio experience and intense critical dialogue combined with exhibition opportunities and field trips.  All majors are provided with studios in the sculpture shop starting in the junior year.  The sculpture area includes a metal shop, wood shop, plaster and mold making facilities, a small sound studio and individual studios for undergraduate majors and for graduate sculpture students.

Major Requirements for B.F.A. in Sculpture

SOPHOMORE PREREQUISITE: 

Students are encouraged to take Installation or Mold Making in the second semester of the sophomore year after Sophomore Sculpture.

Note: A "B" grade or above is required in Sophomore Sculpture in order to enter the major.

JUNIOR AND SENIOR REQUIREMENTS: