Painting and Drawing at UCLA
The Painting and Drawing Area at UCLA encourages innovation and experimentation while also addressing the history of the longest-standing practice in the visual arts. Within this area of study, students are encouraged to examine and explore all the creative possibilities offered by painting, drawing, and printmaking, while developing a critical and personal relationship to the discipline. Students are further encouraged to broaden their perceptual awareness through observation, translation, and invention of images, and to develop their critical skills through discussion of the historical and contemporary precedents for their work, assigned readings, group critique and visits to local museums and galleries. Excellent facilities and renowned faculty, both tenured and visiting, combine to create a rich and rewarding atmosphere for artistic production.
Painting and Drawing Faculty
Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Art
Rebecca Morris
Assistant Professor and Painting and Drawing Area Head
Cosmo Whyte
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Lecturer
Kim Fisher
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Alex Olson
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Camilla Taylor
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Lisa Diane Wedgeworth
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Lecturer
John Wu
Painting and Drawing Lab Supervisor
Ben Evans
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Location & Contact Information
Painting and Drawing Area Location
The Painting and Drawing Area is on the 5th, 6th, and 7th floors of Broad Art Center Tower
Beginning Drawing Studio Classroom – 7250
Beginning Painting Studio Classroom – 7230
Advanced Drawing Studio Classroom – 7240
Advanced Painting Studio Classrooms – 6220 and 6250
Painting and Drawing Lab Supervisor
Ben Evans
T: (310) 825-2882
Office: Broad Art Center Suite 6261
Faculty Office Hours
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Painting and Drawing Faculty
Rebecca Morris, Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Art
E: rebecca.morris@arts.ucla.edu
T: (310) 825-3281
Office: 7250A, Broad Art Center
Cosmo Whyte, Assistant Professor and Painting and Drawing Area Head
T: (310) 825-3281
Office: 2275 Broad Art Center
Kim Fisher, Lecturer
Alex Olson, Lecturer
Camilla Taylor, Lecturer
Lisa Diane Wedgeworth, Lecturer
E: lisadianewedgeworth@gmail.com
John Wu, Lecturer
Facilities & Equipment
The undergraduate painting and drawing facilities at the Broad Art Center consist of five spacious studio classrooms with natural and artificial lighting and spectacular views of Los Angeles. The two Advanced Painting studios are divided into individual work spaces, providing upper-division undergraduates with an opportunity to work in their own studio spaces for an entire quarter. Six individual senior studio spaces are also awarded annually by a portfolio review. Facilities include a library, a Wood Shop for building stretcher bars, and a Printmaking Studio.
Instructional Materials Fee
All students must pay an instructional materials fee each quarter they are enrolled in Printmaking. As of April 2024, the fee is $75 and is payable to UC Regents. The fee supports access to polishing and rubbing compounds, asphaltum, grounds, lacquer thinner, application brushes, community tools, mineral spirits, cleaners, talc, and methyl cellulose. There is an additional $20 fee for access to use the Painting and Drawing woodshop.
| Product/Service | Unit Measure | Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Printmaking Lab Use Fee | Per Quarter | $75.00 |
| Woodshop Lab Use Fee | Per Quarter | $20.00 |
| Printmaking Paper* | Per Sheet | $7.00 |
| Wood* | Per Foot | $1.22 |
| Canvas* | Per Inch | $0.31 |
| 18"x24" Zinc Plates* | Per Sheet | $202.00 |
| Nitrile Gloves* | Per Unit | $13.00 |
| Rags* | Per Unit | $10.00 |
| Gampi Paper* | Per Unit | $30.00 |
| 12"x18" Linoleum* | Per Sheet | $11.00 |
| Stretcher Bar Building* | Per Hour | $71.48 |
*denoted items are subject to price change based on current market price
Painting and Drawing Studio Classrooms: Rooms 7250, 7230, 7240, 6220, and 6250
Students enrolled in painting and drawing studio classes have twenty-four-hour access to their studio classrooms seven days a week during the quarter of their enrollment.
Painting & Drawing Critique Rooms: 6230 and 7260
The painting and drawing critique rooms are clean rooms used by the painting and drawing studio classes for presentations, lectures, and group critiques.
Painting and Drawing Individual Studios: Room 5230
Six individual studios are awarded to qualifying undergraduate art majors in two-quarter intervals. Studios are awarded by portfolio review and students may continue to apply until they graduate.
Painting and Drawing Library: Room 6261
Wood Shop: Room 6269
The Wood Shop is available for all enrolled Art students who want to build large canvases and panels. Access is by appointment only.
Printmaking Lab: Room 6260
A small intaglio Printmaking Lab used by the Printmaking class during class time only.
Printmaking Seminar Classroom: Room 6260A
The Printmaking Seminar Classroom is used by the Printmaking class for critique, and also by other seminar and critique classes.
Painting and Drawing Undergraduate & Graduate Courses
Undergraduate Painting and Drawing Courses
Art 1A. Drawing
Units: 4
Studio, eight hours; five hours arranged. Course in basic drawing skills, history, and conceptual concerns, intended as preparation for work in variety of media. P/NP or letter grading.
Art 11A. Painting
Units: 4
Studio, eight hours; five hours arranged. Basics of painting: introduction to technical procedures, tools, and materials. Discussion of fundamental conceptual and formal concerns. P/NP or letter grading.
Art 130. Advanced Drawing
Units: 5
Studio, eight hours; seven hours arranged. Requisite: course 1A. Drawing as both independent expressive medium and as means of visualization. May be repeated for maximum of 20 units. Letter grading.
Art 133. Advanced Painting
Units: 5
Studio, eight hours; seven hours arranged. Requisite: course 11A. Varied media and subjects to further develop students’ technical and expressive means to implement their ideas. May be repeated for maximum of 20 units. Letter grading.
Art 133A. Advanced Painting: Topics in Anti-Racism, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Units: 5
Studio, eight hours; seven hours arranged. Requisite: course 11A. Varied approaches to painting media and content to develop students' technical, expressive, and conceptual tools to understand and explore anti-racism, equity, diversity, and inclusion. Combination of courses 133 and 133A may be repeated for maximum of 20 units. Letter grading.
Art 140. Advanced Printmaking
Units: 5
Studio, eight hours; seven hours arranged. Requisite: course 11C. Selected studies in fine printmaking, historical and contemporary: woodcut, etching and engraving, lithography, silk screen, mixed media. May be repeated for maximum of 20 units. Letter grading.
Painting and Drawing Graduate Studies
The Painting and Drawing Area is one of six areas of study in the M.F.A. art program. Within this area, graduate students are encouraged to examine and explore all of the formal and conceptual possibilities offered within the discipline, while continuing to refine their own personal modes of expression. The development of critical skills is emphasized and addressed through individual meetings with faculty, group critiques, and seminar classes. Students are encouraged to arrive at a greater awareness of the historical precedents and theoretical bases of their work.
Painting and Drawing Area faculty Silke Otto-Knapp, Rebecca Morris, and Patty Wickman serve as the primary advisors to students admitted to this area of study. Students may also work with faculty from other areas within the Department of Art or other departments across the university.
All M.F.A. students are offered the use of off-campus individual studios in the UCLA Margo Leavin Graduate Art Studios, located in Culver City. In addition to individual studio spaces, the studio building houses photography, sculpture, ceramics, and computer labs, as well as open spaces for exhibitions, lectures, and group critiques. Although the Department of Art does not offer graduate-level courses in the summer, the graduate studios are open year round.
Graduate Painting and Drawing Courses
Art 271: Graduate Painting
Units: 2 to 8
Studio, eight hours. Study in painting and associated media. May be repeated for credit with consent of adviser. Letter grading.
Art 276. Graduate Group Critique
Units: 4
Discussion, four hours; tutorial, to be arranged. Group critique/discussion of students' research. Additional tutorial meetings by arrangement with instructor. May be repeated for credit. Letter grading.
Art C280. Graduate Seminar
Units: 4
Seminar, three hours. Advanced topics in critical theory and study of contemporary art, with emphasis on individuals, issues, and methodologies. Possible areas of study include structuralism, deconstruction, feminist and psychoanalytic theory, commodification, and censorship. May be repeated for credit. Concurrently scheduled with course C180. Letter grading.
Painting and Drawing M.F.A. Candidates
Haniko Zahra
Jarvis Boyland
salim green
Nehemiah Cisneros, www.nehemiahcisneros.com
Rachel Hakimian Emenaker
Marisa O’D-L
Maren Karlson
Sheng Lor, shenglor.com
Yezi Lou, yezilou.com