Word: vesã
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...addition to Mitchnick’s departure, current visiting professor Andrew Beattie—VES?? only other studio painting teacher—is slotted to depart at the end of the 2009-2010 school year. In the absence of definitive plans for filling either opening, the fate of the painting program in the department remains ambiguous...
...perceived inaccessibility of the administration leaves students unsure of how to address major issues, such as the painting curriculum, a lack of stable advising, the dearth of student art shows, inadequate supply of high-end materials and the disconnect between various sections within VES?? problems they feel are detrimental to the learning environment and hinder VES?? development...
...semester VES studio classes. Each class voted on the piece of work they would like to exhibit. Some artists whose work was on display, however, did not even know they had been chosen to participate. The art gave a broad sampling of what goes on in the world of VES??often secluded from more traditional concentrations—with pieces in a range of media, including sculpture, photography, oil paintings, silk screening, music, and video. The exhibit as a whole provides visitors with a new sort of intellectual engagement distinct from lectures and paper writing, asking students...
...film] program socializes film and...integrates it into the rest of my learning,” said Isidore M. T. Bethel ’11, a VES concentrator who recently completed his first feature film, “Terminus.” Students said that VES??s approach to film allows them to acquire both the competence and the resolve necessary for cinema and that the department encourages students to take responsibility for their work. “From beginning to end, what you make is yours,” said Rachel M. Douglas...
...despite such contemptuous attitudes towards the department, the content of VES courses and the skills that VES students develop may well prepare concentrators for life outside of Harvard—perhaps even more so than other fields of study.Indeed, if the stories of some of VES??s most successful graduates and the words of its teachers are to be taken as evidence, the specific creative skills an undergraduate develops in VES can often be directly applied to a career after graduation. With VES producing graduates in everything from documentary filmmaking to executive management, it seems that a focus...