Contributed by Felicia Desimini
If You Can Draw Stick Figures Then Mat-Su College Has Art Courses For You
Have you finally come to the realization that Art Stirs Your Soul? Has your passion for art been sitting on the back burner or needing a little guidance? If so, the MatSu College Art Department has just what you need! Come and explore art and improve your art-making skills with us.
Are your paintings not catching your audience’s interest?’ If that’s the case, perhaps a beginning painting and/or a beginning drawing class can help sharpen your technique, help define your work’s perspective and value - and put some ‘POP’ in your style! Are your skills in painting and drawing good - but something still feels off? Perhaps our Color Design course is just the course for you! Color Design is a great course for anyone who doesn’t truly understand how colors react with and entice your audience. In 15 weeks, if you apply yourself, you will learn this life-time skill for artists - color mixing.
Our Intermediate Drawing and Intermediate Painting courses offer promising artists the opportunity to rethink their development and growth through exhibition. How do you turn a good drawing or painting into an exhibition-ready work of art?
Mat-Su College’s Three-Dimensional Design is a conceptual course, where one truly learns how to “think” like an artist. This is the gateway course for visual artists - Thinking in 3D Absolutely Inspires your work as an artist, no matter your preferred discipline.
If music strikes a chord with you, or if you think Broadway is calling, Mat-Su College offers 3 courses in these disciplines during the spring semester. Music and theater are fundamental - the Greeks used music as the framework for the educational system - and we all know about the great Greek myths and their playwrights.
Does learning a bit about why visual culture is so important in our lives interest you? It is everywhere, influencing (almost) everything we think, do, and say. For this reason, an Art Appreciation course will help you navigate the art world, from prehistory to Banksy and the Global Art Market. Want to delve even deeper into the History of Art? Or even, perhaps learn the significance of and how we have been influenced by cave paintings and the arts and artists of the 13th Century? Then the college’s offering of Western Art History I (from prehistory to the proto-Renaissance) is just the course for you.
Beginning Drawing, ART A105 Felicia Desimini (P) Jan 11-May 01 Online 3 Credits
Color Design, ART A112 Barbara Laucius 3.000 Jan 11-May 01 Online 3 Credits
3D Design ART A113 Felicia Desimini Jan 11-May 01 Online 3 Credits
Art Appreciation ART A160 Felicia Desimini Jan 11-May 01 Online 3 Credits
Intermediate Drawing ART A205 Jason Isley Jan 11-May 01 *Online/Collaborate 01:00-
3:45 pm- 3 Credits
Beginning Painting ART A213 Felicia Desimini Jan 11-May 01 Online 3 Credits
History of Western Art I ART A261 Barbara J Laucius (P) Jan 11-May 01 Online 3 Credits
Intermediate Painting ART A313 Felicia Desimini Jan 11-May 01 Online 3 Credits
Music Appreciation MUS A121 Meghan Aube Jan 11-May 01 Online 3 Credits
Music Appreciation MUS A121 Naomi Stamoolis Jan 11- May 01 Online 3 Credits
Theater Appreciation THRA111 Mattew Sale Jan 11- May 01 Online 3 Credits
Seasoned artists continue their studies - forging ahead, working day to day to add new tricks and techniques to their skill sets. A pandemic is the perfect time to hone your skills. Apply yourself to art studies at MatSu College during the spring semester. Don’t sit still! Think about and Make Art. You’ll be glad you did.
Questions? Contact Felicia Desimini at fdesimini@alaska.edu or by telephone (907) 745-9755.
See you in the spring!