Department of Art & Art History |
tel: (401)874-5821 fax: (401)874-2729 Email: artdept@etal.uri.edu |
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 Drawing classes are normally limited to 20 students |
 Professor Richman assists a student in relief printing |
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| UNIVERSITY of RHODE ISLAND |
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The Department of Art has spacious studios in the Fine Arts Center for painting and drawing, sculpture (plaster, clay, woodworking, welding), and printmaking, including an offset lithographic press. Photography, filmmaking and video arts are taught in newly renovated studios which include a screening room equipped with a digital projector, 16-mm and Super-8 projectors, darkroom, film editing room, shooting studio, and several computer stations with a printer and large format scanner. Classes in digital media, computer art, design, and animation are held in the Fine Arts Center Computer Lab or a specially equipped computer classroom we share with the Department of Computer Science. The Department of Art has a Slide Library with an extensive collection to support classes in art history and studio art. Employment opportunities are available for students in the Department as shop monitors, Slide Library, and Art Office assistants or to work with the Director of the Fine Arts Center Galleries as exhibition assistants or gallery guards. |
