Multi-Level Painting: Form, Process, & Meaning

with Magalie Guérin
PAINTING 605 001 | 3 credits
Online Classes: January 3 - 16, 2025
Monday – Saturday, 11:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. EST/10:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. CST

This course for beginning to advanced students will include extensive experimentation with materials and techniques through individual painting problems. Emphasis will be placed on active decision-making to explore formal and material options as part of the painting process in relation to form and meaning. Students will pursue various interests in subject matter. Students may choose to work with oil-based media. Demonstrations, lectures and critiques will be included.

Magalie Guérin (b. Montreal, 1973, pronoun she/her) lives and works in Marfa, TX. Her work is shape-based and abstract in nature although it employs strategies of representation (figure/ground relationship), which brings these invented shapes into an unknown yet seemingly familiar frame of reference. The experience of foreignness and discovery is at the core of Guérin’s practice.

Guérin holds an MFA in Painting & Drawing from SAIC (2011). She has had solo shows at Sikkema Jenkins & Co (NY), Corbett vs Dempsey (Chicago), Amanda Wilkinson (London), Chapter NY (New York), Galerie Nicolas Robert (Montreal), Schwarz Contemporary (Berlin), and Anat Egbi (Los Angeles). She is the author of NOTES ON, a compilation of studio writings (The Green Lantern Press, 2016/2019). Awards include Pace at FAWC (2019), Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant (2018), and Chinati Foundation residency (2018). She is represented by Sikkema Jenkins & Co in New York, Corbett vs. Dempsey in Chicago and Galerie Nicolas Robert in Montreal/Toronto.

Animal Behavior

with Dr. Dianne Jedlicka
SCIENCE 3523 001 | 3 credits
Online: January 3 - 16, 2025, Monday – Saturday, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. EST/1:00 - 3:30 p.m. CST

This course will incorporate field observations in the natural environment surrounding Saugatuck, Michigan into the study of animal behavior. Students will formulate and test hypotheses through the acquisition of data in the field.  Topics covered include: classical learning and instinct, reproductive behaviors, and interactions between and within species. Note: LIBSCI 3521:  Animal Behavior is a separate course and may be taken for credit in addition to this one.  NOTE: SAIC Students must have already taken English 1001 & 1005 in order to enroll in this course.

Dr. Dianne Jedlicka teaches numerous Biology courses at SAIC including Animal Behavior, Evolutionary Mammalogy, Ecology (Natural History), and Human Anatomy and Physiology.  Her primary research has been at the community level of organization focusing on the feeding strategies and predation of tree and ground squirrels based on their functional morphology. Observational data collected on nocturnal foraging of the eastern cottontail rabbit was published recently. All of these animals are found throughout the Ox-Bow region and offer Dr. Jedlicka’s students’ ample opportunity for scientific observations. Dr. Jedlicka has also presented and published articles on new teaching methods and labs in the college classroom.