Thursdays, 8:30 - 11:20 a.m. (includes option to add afternoons, 1 - 3:50 p.m., for full-day attendance -- see description)
Instructor: John Horn
Credit: Non-credit or 1.5/3.0 undergraduate credits (see description)

NOTE: This is an Open Academy (PAFA BFA) course.  The full schedule of regular Continuing Education courses will be posted shortly.

PAFA’s Open Academy provides the opportunity for Continuing Education (CE) and non-matriculated students to enroll in select BFA courses for credit or non-credit.  Open Academy students enrolled in PAFA’s renowned studio arts courses learn technical skills, creative expression, and critical thinking from master artist-teachers while working amongst dedicated full-time students in PAFA's classrooms.

Students taking Open Studio this semester will have several choices of studio work to make as they see fit. The course is designed for half-day/morning-only or full-day attendance. The morning session will be dedicated to making an écorché.* However, students not interested in making an écorché may sculpt in clay directly from the model. The afternoon session will be dedicated to applying the lessons from the écorché to the model.

For students opting to make an écorché, the semester will consist of making one flayed figure on a 24” wire armature in plasteline. The class will begin by making the axial skeleton and then adding on the appendicular components. To the finished skeleton structure, the student will begin by first placing the deep muscles and continue for the rest of the semester building up muscular form to the surface. The model the class will use was made by the French sculptor A. Houdon (1741-1828) as a study for his sculpture of St. John preaching (1766) now in the Galleria Borghese in Rome, Italy. It is considered one of the finest anatomical models in the history of sculpture.

* Écorché - (Fr.)flayed figure. Écorché is the three dimensional study of human form. For contemporary artists this study has its roots in the Italian Renaissance. Artists in conjunction with the medical college in Bologna began to study anatomy in depth in order to further understand human proportions that Italian art theory demanded as essential to the creation of art.

Optional: This course is available for half-day for 1.5 undergraduate credits for $1,400. For full-day (morning, 8:30 - 11:20 a.m. and afternoon, 1 - 3:50 p.m.), this course is available for $2,300 non-credit or $2,800 for 3.0 undergraduate credits. Select length and credit choice with tuition adjustment during checkout.  

Image: John Horn

Register by: January 11
Materials List
Open Academy Policy Guide, including withdrawal/refund policies

Thursdays, 1 - 3:50 p.m. 
Instructor: John Horn

Credit: Non-Credit or 1.5 Undergraduate Credits (see description)

NOTE: This is an Open Academy (PAFA BFA) course.  The full schedule of regular Continuing Education courses will be posted shortly.

PAFA’s Open Academy provides the opportunity for Continuing Education (CE) and non-matriculated students to enroll in select BFA courses for credit or non-credit.  Open Academy students enrolled in PAFA’s renowned studio arts courses learn technical skills, creative expression, and critical thinking from master artist-teachers while working amongst dedicated full-time students in PAFA's classrooms. 

The goal of this course is to strengthen and hone a student’s foundational skills of drawing through a series of one and two-day drawing projects. The major topics of concern will be gesture, design, perspective, structure and space. Students will be encouraged to experiment with different media and to develop a personalized drawing practice. Subjects for this exploration will be the life model, anatomical models, the city and the observable environment in general. The course includes field trips to the Wagner Free Institute of Science, the Academy of Natural Sciences, the Reading Terminal and the Observation Deck at Liberty One.

Optional: This course is available for 1.5 undergraduate credits for $1,400. Select credit choice with tuition adjustment during checkout.

Image: Larry Day, [Nude in Armchair] (detail), 1975, graphite on cream wove paper, 21 x 17 1/2 in. Collection of PAFA, Accession #1987.13. Gift of Christopher K. and Barbara A. Bullard. Copyright © artist or artist's estate.

Register by: January 11
Materials List
Open Academy Policy Guide, including withdrawal/refund policies