Art Department Minutes, 1979-1981, 1979-1981

Art Department Minutes, 1979-1981

1979-1981

February 5, 1979

- Request for a workshop to be sponsored by the art department on watercolor techniques

- Art dept. involvement in the Auditorium renovation

- Glass slide mounting project

- High school art day

- Senior audits

- Applications for upper division

- Art dept. cooperation with the May Bowle Committee

- Senior seminar

- Art dept. slide projector

- Departmental accreditation review in 1981

- Slide withdrawal procedures

- Memo concerning "Observations about the January Term Offerings"

- Availability of an Art minor

- Begin a file on available speakers

October 11, 1979

- Current budget

- Exchange exhibition program with the U of M art faculty

- Individual jobs within the art department

- Looking at art facilities at other private colleges

- Bulk film available

- Current senior art major

- May Bowle scholarships

- Department book budget

October 16, 1979

- Itemized budget must be submitted

- Booth at the Department Fair

- Deadline for plans regarding the Art curriculum

- Foundations program

October 22, 1979

- Include 10% inflation costs in budget

- Don Bruno may be leaving art center

- Curriculum revision

- Suggested revisions to the Foundations program

- Mind of the Artists

October 26, 1979

- Class offerings

October 31, 1979

- Curriculum for introductory courses

- Discussion of photography

November 5, 1979

- List of enrollment figures

- Discussion of staffing

- Outlined sequence for the foundation level

November 7, 1979

- Students taking a trip to Minneapolis

- Outlined a sequence for the foundation, introductory, and

advanced courses

November 12, 1979

- Discuss gallery position at a later date

- Foundation level curriculum for freshmen

- Outlined curriculum for the introductory level for sophomores

- Art history should not be required at a certain time

December 5, 1979

- Christmas party

- Preliminary spring enrollments

- Courses cancelled for spring semester

December 11, 1979

- Course in calligraphy

- Chair persons meeting with the administration regarding objectives for the college

- Enrollment figures

- Revised curriculum for Studio art

February 12, 1980

- Objectives for the college for the next 5 years be reviewed at a faculty meetings

- Gloria Rosenthal will be the artist in residence

- Trip to the Walker

- Proposed curriculum presented to the EPC

- S. Firmin's resignation

- High School Art day and Artist in Residency

- APC criteria distributed and discussed

February 14, 1980

- Academic Priorities Committee Criteria Meeting

March 10, 1980

- Holding a department open house

- Special meeting to review and discuss the responsibilities of the gallery position

- Don Bruno submitted his resignation

- lecture of Gloria Rosenthal

- Academic Priorities Committee Criteria

- Two ad-hoc committees gave their reports

September 4, 1980

- Rough draft of the APC report

- Keeping records of faculty budgets

- High School Art workshop

- Types of grants that would benefit the department

- Party for incoming freshmen

December 2, 1980

- Art Christmas party

- Deadline for the APC report

- Senior critiques for record keeping

- Spring course enrollments

- Jewelry be offered in alternate years

- Procedure for advanced level courses

February 5, 1981

- Robert Sammons exhibition

- Go back to a set format regarding Senior Critiques

February 20, 1981

- Slide budget

- No possibility of hiring part-time help

- Moderator for students who need January Term makeup

- Senior Critique guidelines

- Outcomes of the chairpersons meeting for the APC

- New outcomes for General Ed

March 16, 1981

- Slide budget

- Prioritized list of supplies

- Two separate scholarships

- Need for student art work for May Bowle

- Courses turned in for General Ed designation

- Feedback from the Student Art Organization

April 8, 1981

- Current budget balances

- Sponsors for art students for funding assistance is not possible

- Tentative gallery schedule

- Art Department receives a decrease in budget

- Review of non-general ed and non-service courses

- Review the Art History courses for next meeting

April 14, 1981

- Model Account can be cut

- Information regarding Art History courses

May 5, 1981

- Enrollment figures for Fall 1981

- Student Art Organization planned a party in St. Joe

- Faculty to review all the courses that are not General education

May 6, 1981

- Discussion regarding the three candidates who interviewed for the position of Photographer/Graphic designer

- Response for the Art Workshops were good

- APC self-evaluation

May 16, 1981

- There will be 3 two-day summer school sessions

- Events involving alcohol

- Faculty evaluations

September 10, 1981

- Changes in this year's budget

- New funds for scholarships

- Evening seminars

- General education outcomes

- Faculty art work for campus

- Priorities for the year

October 7, 1981

- Continue to provide various magazines for students in lounge

- Agreed on holding faculty seminars one evening a month

- Ad-hoc committee formed to investigate the Art History courses

- 1982-83 budget has to be completed for review

- Nominations are open for election of chairman

November 11, 1981

- Anyone teaching a general ed course must submit new outcomes

- S. Thomas will be retiring after this year

- Faculty evaluations were discussed

- Submitting course syllabi

- Redesigning the color course

- Implications of a joint department

- Book orders have been taken care of

- Gallery purchases for the permanent collection

- Interest in expanding the photo slide collection