Continuing Education at PAFA

Mondays, 8:30 a.m. – 3:50 p.m.
Instructor: Peter Van Dyck
Fifteen-Week Open Academy (BFA) Course (90 Hours)
Credit: Non-Credit or 3.0 Undergraduate Credits (See Below)

Note: No class meetings on September 2 (Labor Day) and October 14 (Indigenous Peoples Day). Two class meetings will take place the final week, Monday and Tuesday, December 9 & 10.

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.

An art education advances many explicit and implicit accounts of value in art making. A short list would include sensitivity, rigor, spontaneity and a sense of irony about the partiality of all perspectives. This class will be an all-day immersion in painting and drawing from life. Its most important requirement will be the faithful attendance of the students to work each and every class. In recent years practice or praxis has become an important synonym for artwork and the class will explore this as a discipline but, more importantly, as a source of ideas. Our deepest concern will be the discovery of the ideas that inhere in each student’s developing practice. A crucial question is whether the tastes and skills you are developing create demands within your work that open the way to a more personal and a more rigorous personal poetry.

Optional: This course is available for 3.0 undergraduate credits for $2,800. Select credit option with price adjustment during registration.

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Register by: August 23
Materials List
Open Academy Policy Guide, including withdrawal/refund policies