Academics
Faculty  Courses

Required Courses
Syllabi are for course approval and reference only. Students will receive up-to-date syllabi when their courses begin.

Students enroll in three required courses.

CAS AH 354 History of Italian Art, 4 cr.

CAS LI 112/211/212 Second-, Third-, or Fourth-Semester Italian, 4 cr.

CFA AR 381/382 Graphic Design I
(Required of graphic design majors.)
Focuses on editorial graphics and design. The course teaches students the technical foundations for transforming an idea into an editorial object, focusing on the magazine, the newspaper, and the book. Students also learn the essential elements necessary to creating logos, including how to create the final image, the visual material, the use of words to describe the product, and the realization. 4 cr.

CFA AR 341/342 Painting Major I
(Required of painting majors.)
Examines techniques of design, painting, and drawing. Students learn pencil, pastel, carbon, charcoal, ink, oil, wax, and mixed design techniques; tempera, acrylic, watercolor, oil, and mixed media painting techniques; and perspective, tonality, abstraction, chiaroscuro, and color in drawing. They also review different artistic genres, including still life, portraiture, nudes, and landscape as well as research into the figurative and abstract styles. 4 cr.


Elective Courses at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica
The following elective courses are also offered at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica. Students enrolled in the Venice program have the option of participating in the following electives with permission of the Scuola instructors.

Any student in need of specific course information or syllabi should contact the Scuola directly at: info@scuolagrafica.it.

Advanced Printmaking Intaglio
Bookarts (Venice and the Book)
Digital Photography
Intaglio
Glassblowing (At the Abate Zanetti School in Murano)
Lithography syllabus
Traditional Printmaking Intaglio
Watercolor
Woodcutting

Bookarts (Venice and the Book)
Provides students with the tools and direction to create an idea in the form of a handmade book. The course introduces students to the following techniques: illustration, calligraphy, editorial graphics, typography, printmaking, off-set, book binding, paper making, and conservation.

Intaglio Printmaking
Teaches students the fundamentals of Intaglio techniques while relating them to the history of printmaking. Techniques covered include drypoint, line etching, aquatint, softground, sugar lift, and white ground. Workshops with visiting artists play an integral role in this course. Each class participates in a portfolio exchange. Syllabus

Glassblowing
Introduces beginning to furnace glassblowing techniques. Includes lectures and research on ancient through contemporary glass making methods and allows students furnace time to gather, shape, heat and blow glass to create basic vessels. Advanced projects will be designed in both vessel and sculptural forms. Includes visits to glass factories and the Museo Vetrario. (At the Abate Zanetti School in Murano)

Woodcutting
Covers all relief printing techniques: traditional woodblock, linoleum, wood engraving, collagraphy, alternative matrixes, color printing, registration, reduction printing, and others. Projects are designed around various technical and conceptual approaches. A significant period of time near the end of the course is devoted to the development of a personal project. Each class participates in a portfolio exchange. Syllabus

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Faculty

Davide Battistin: Davide lives and works in Venice. He mainly focuses is Plein Air work. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, presenting a thesis on Italian Landscape Painting in the Eighteenth Century. He attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Athens on a year-long scholarship, where he deepened his studies in Figure Painting. He regularly exhibits in New York, London and Venice.

Pamela Berry: Pamela Berry is an art director/designer who has been living in Venice for the past 5 years. She has been working freelance from her own studio in Venice and is also an Art Director at Studio Berg in Treviso, Italy. She has been designing catalogs, books, magazines, wine labels, identities and packaging design. Before coming to Italy she worked in New York for various publications. She was the Creative Director at Travel + Leisure magazine for 7 years. Before that she worked as an Art Director for Us magazine, Savvy, Esquire, Regardie's and L.A.Style. She has won numerous awards from the Society of Publication Designers and her work was featured in a book called "Magazine Design that Works" by Rockport publishing.

Matilde Dolcetti: artistic director of the Scuola and teaches artist’s books, printmaking, and watercolor courses. She has taught and juried exhibitions in Brazil, Germany, the United States, and the former Yugoslavia. She has also shown her work in group and individual exhibitions in Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Switzerland, and the United States.

Marco Galiazzo: Marco Galiazzo has for years worked with the formation and optimization of the world of pre-printing, web publishing, digital photography and more generally with cross-media publishing. He also teaches at the Istituto Salesiano San Marco in Mestre, and is an Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop, Illustrator, GoLive, Acrobat, InDesign and FrameMaker. He has collaborated with Adobe Italia as a specialist for Digital Imaging products and for PDF technology. Galiazzo has also written for years for Applicando, including tutorials regarding the use of Adobe products. He has attended conferences around the world, and has authored the book Guida al Cross Media Publishing. He is "passionate about technology" and works to find and always maximize both human and technological resources.

Nelson Takahiro Kishi: graduated in Architecture from the Università DI Brasilia, in Brazil. After graduating, he worked as an independent architect until moving to Italy in 1989, where he expanded his work to graphic design and printmaking. He resides and works as a graphic designer, artist, and architect in Venice, and teaches graphic design at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica. He has exhibited his prints and drawings in Italy and Brazil.

Dr. Krystina Stermole: Dr. Krystina Stermole is an art historian specializing in the art of Renaissance Venice. She has been living in Venice since 2005 working on her research and teaching art history courses for study abroad programs offered through Boston University and her alma mater, Queen's University at Kingston, Canada. Her current research explores the relationship between early sixteenth-century Venetian art and the tumultuous War of the League of Cambrai (1509-17), which almost resulted in the destruction of the Venetian republic. Other interests include the use of the woodcut in Renaissance Italy, particularly in printed books, and the concepts of "high" and "low" in the visual culture of Renaissance Venice.

Franco Vecchiet: has studied and worked under Henry Goetz at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, at ISIA, in Urbino, at the Academy of Lubiana, Croatia, and in the studio of Avgust Cernigoj. He teaches printmaking at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica. He has also taught at the University of Trieste and the Academy of Fine Arts, Paris. He has published various portfolios and books as well as participated in several group and individual exhibitions of his work, both in Italy and abroad.

Marcello de Vecchi: is a master lithographer who works and teaches at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica. He has collaborated with Italian and International artists such as Simon, Plessi, Licata, Tito, Benetton, Morandis, Gianquinto, Vizzini, and Zarotti. He has been active in printing books and editions, as well as researching the history of lithography. He has exhibited as an artist and curated exhibitions in both the Veneto and other areas of Italy.