The Butte College Painting and Drawing Program is designed to provide students with a solid foundation in the technical and aesthetic aspects of two-dimensional art. We are committed to teaching the importance of overall artistic competency, and providing students with direction in commercial and independent artistic futures. Our studios are designed to foster creativity, and provide students with the tools, equipment, and facilities needed to build, prepare, and create their envisioned works of art. Our instructors offer a well-rounded art education, following curriculums that incorporate art history, theory, and a multitude of painting, drawing, and design concepts. We believe in the importance of a multidisciplinary study, and offer our students the ability to install art exhibitions, critique artworks, and prepare portfolios for employment and higher education purposes.
Our program consists of course offerings on the main campus, as well as the Chico Center every semester. Classes are offered on the main campus in two classrooms (ARTS 130 & 137) and in one classroom (rm 156) at the Chico Center and a class at the Glenn County Center. We have one full time instructor, and eight associate faculty members. The Painting and Drawing area of the Arts departmen provides the foundation and training for students to succeed in the two-dimensional studio arts. Our program offers courses that are part of the Art AA degree as well as transferring to other institutions to allow our students to receive higher degrees in the Arts. It also provides the training to assist students in finding careers in fields related to the two-dimensional arts. The eight courses in the Painting and Drawing program are designed to prepare students for either employment or transfer to a four-year college. Two of these classes are core requirements for our Studio Arts AA degree, and transfer and articulation into CSU, UCs, and specialized Art schools programs for the Studio Arts Degree (BA or BFA). The additional six classes that we offer are hands-on, studio lab experiences in various areas of the two-dimensional arts. These courses allow our students to experience numerous mediums and avenues in the field of Art, as they discover their desired career paths. Over the past years, we have deleted a number of peripheral classes that did not directly support the program learning outcomes and transfer degrees for the Painting and Drawing program. The remaining courses are central to our career and transfer preparation mission.
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This computer is being used as a replacement to the former non-working Macbook Pro. This computer is used for classroom powerpoints, research, email contact, and all related work necessities.
We have been actively conducting PLO/SLO assessments in our core AA degree, transfer and sequenced classes on an annual basis. We have gathered student performance information for our eight studio arts courses held in varying numbers at our three campus locations. Although these eight courses vary widely in subject matter and materials, we decided that it was possible to measure PLO/SLO performance if each instructor chose a specific objective and monitored that mirrored the chosen PLO/SLO. After the assessments were completed, the instructors met in person and had numerous email discussions about the significance of the results and what could be done to improve student performance based on the parameters of the specific course.
The eight Painting and Drawing associate faculty members and one full-time instructor meet formally twice each year in person and have numerous email discussions about the significance of the results and what could be done to improve student performance based on the parameters of the specific course and SLO/PLO findings. All instructors agreed that the assessment process is invaluable and plans are underway to increase the opportunities for shared faculty dialog based on data captured through formal and informal assessments of how well student accomplish the established PLO/SLOs.
Each course in the painting and drawing areas was evaluated using a course objective/SLO. The faculty who teach these courses met and compiled their findings to strategize a plan to create greater student success in each class. Following are two examples of these studies and their residual effects.
In Art 17 Beginning Painting, the instructor has increased the unit hours spent on developing the 4 C’s: Content, Composition, Color, and Contrast and implemented numerous new techniques to assist students in creating well-crafted representational/objective and non-representational/non-objective paintings. Students will also spend more time researching master painters’ works to further develop their own unique styles. In Art 8 (Basic Drawing), the three associate teaching instructors evaluated the SLO - Demonstrate drawing techniques through realism, illusionism, and abstraction. With their consequential findings, they have improved their classroomunit hours spent on practicing various techniques and improving observational skills with respect to these styles, to better assist the students in achieving overall success.
There have been no curricular changes made based on completed PLO/SLO assessments as there is no indicators that such changes are needed. However, if future assessments warrant such changes in our curricular design, then the appropriate adjustments will be made to insure that student learning opportunities are maximized.
| 2012FA | 80.12% | |
| 2013FA | 80.22% | |
| 2014FA | 74.64% | |
| 2015FA | 73.17% | |
| 2016FA |
73.21% |
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Our department is supporting the college to meet its student achievement standards by offering more courses in numerous time slots to build FTES. We have also been develpoing a certificate in Painting and Drawing for completion and success in non transferring students. We have been working on counselling our students within our department to help them build successful schedules and encourage degree completion and successful transfers to four year institutions.
We are currently at 73.21% on our success rates and plan to be well over the 74% goal this year.
The Painting and Drawing program supports the college’s mission with an ongoing commitment to student learning and quality instruction. Our program is designed to prepare students for careers in the Arts and related fields, as well as a life-long appreciation for the importance of creative thinking and hands-on production in innovation and self-realization.
Our program supports students in their progress toward their educational goals and helps set the conditions for completion by: offering many base-line courses that are core components of our AA degree and transfer programs in the Studio Arts. It also offers intermediate and advanced level classes in many areas to further prepare students for professional careers in related fields. We offer group and individualized instruction to insure mastery of basic skills, and design our program to allow students to obtain greater levels of understanding and excellence in their desired career paths.
Our program connects students to the campus community by: creating visual art shows in and around the Arts building and at other locations on campus to engage our students and their peers in visual diolgue.
We have developed a student-centered schedule that fosters completionof educational goals in a timely and efficient way by: asking our students input on time preferences for our classes. We also changed our course time slots to align with the rest of the campus so that students could more easily enroll across campus while taking our classes.
We have been developing support to the development of the service area by: working on short term, specific certificates that show completion and sucess in individuals areas of the Arts, specifically Painting and Drawing.
The Validation Team noted that "... the Art Department lacks optimal levels of cohesiveness, as seen in the variances in style, quality and tone of the program review document, despite significant time and effort spent, and compelling results in some sections. It suggested that the Art Department would benefit from more collegiality within programs and within the department as a whole (including both faculty and staff)." The Validation Team recommended that "...the Art Department explore ways to enhance regularly-scheduled face-to-face communication and build collegiality and collaboration across the department."
Our department has addressed these concerns and recommendations by creating ongoing dialougue in person amongst the full-time faculty, associate faculty, technicians and staff. We are meeting more regulariy as a unified group to discuss Student Learning Outcomes, curriculums, class enrollment, new technology, and individual and group necessities. We are also spending more time meeting one on one and visiting eachother's classrooms to collaborate ideas. We will continue to meet even more as we progress on these recommendations.
The Painting and Drawing program offers students quality instruction in the two-dimensional arts. We focus on preparing students to succeed in their future. We concentrate on their educational goals and future employment possibilities in the fields of Painting and Drawing. We also help guide students to continue on with their education at four year institutions or specialized art schools before exiting into the job market.
Strategy 1 - Review Curriculum and Courses
Review curriculum for the entire area. Pursue the curriculum process with courses that have been drafted: Mural Painting, Figure Painting, Landscape Painting and Art Installation. Review and investigate the idea of separating water media (Acrylic) and oil media into separate classes and curriculums.
Maintaining core programs and services; Increasing student success and achievement; Meeting the college’s enrollment management objectives (i.e. FTES generation, student retention, recruitment, marketing, and outreach); Establishing innovative and scalable projects that support the Strategic Direction; Maintaining the appropriate program and service mix between the main campus and outlying centers
Strategy 2 - Encourage the aquisition of Degrees and Certificates
Facilitate students’ completing programs and earning certificates/degree in Painting and Drawing. Conduct advisory meetings with students and with Counseling/Advising staff. Update brochures and advising documents.
Maintaining core programs and services; Increasing student success and achievement; Meeting the college's enrollment management objectives (i.e. FTES generation, student retention, recruitment, marketing, and outreach).
Strategy 3 - Encourage students to sell and market their artwork
Assist students in preparing for our bi-annual Butte College Arts Faire. Further prepare students to market their creative products and locate gallery venues to show and sell their artwork.
Maintaining core programs and services; Increasing student success and achievement.
Strategy 4 - Support student access to live models
Continue to request an annual figure model budget on unit plan which has not yet been funded.
Maintaining core programs and services
Strategy 5 - Augment equipment
Ensure that all equipment and supplies are sufficient to maximize students’ success. We are needing to replace and update every two to three years which has become increasingly difficult on a fixed budget which has not kept up with the cost of inflation.
Maintaining core programs and services; Increasing student success and achievement
Strategy 6 - Advisory Committee
Create an Advisory Committee to help guide our Painting and Drawing Program in terms of course development and program viability as needed.
Maintaining core programs and services; Increasing student success and achievement; Meeting the college’s enrollment management objectives (i.e. FTES generation, student retention, recruitment, marketing, and outreach); Establishing innovative and scalable projects that support the Strategic Direction; Maintaining the appropriate program and service mix between the main campus and outlying centers.
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None. In the past, we peridically held 3 day painting workshops which typically generated about $1000 to $1500 each event. These workshops have not been conducted in a few years due to the colleges new insurance requirements for external non-employees. Any monies generated by these streams enters into a painting and drawing foundation account which in turn is used to subsidize materials and supplies needed for students in the classroom.
| Original Priority | Program, Unit, Area | Resource Type | Account Number | Object Code | One Time Augment | Ongoing Augment |
| Description | Supporting Rationale | Potential Alternative Funding Sources | Prioritization Criteria | |||
| 1 | Painting and Drawing | Equipment | 11-000-512-1-100210 | 56410 | $2,200.00 | $0.00 |
| 2 Artograph Flare100 Digital Art Projectors | These projectors are an integral part of our curriculum for projecting images onto paper and canvas for paintings and drawings. |
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| 2 | Painting and Drawing | Personnel | 11-000-512-1-100210 | 52468 | $0.00 | $2,500.00 |
| Figure Models | Models are used as part of the curriculum to draw the human figure. District funded student assistants are hired as models which currently comes out of the department budget each academic year. We are requesting an additional allocation to subsidize the district painting/drawing budget. We now offer five figure drawing courses each year due to demand, and the district allocated funding is not enough to sustain these courses. We have been forced to use projected images instead of live models which does not fully support our SLOs for these Figure Drawing Courses. Currently, $2500 of our $3000 budget is going to these categorized student assistants/models and there has only been a few hundred dollars left after this to spend on needed materials, supplies and equipment to operate three separate classrooms each semester with a large number of full courses. This problem needs to be rectified and supported financially so that the program can continue. |
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