Problems in: Painting, Narrative and the Contemporary Figure: Sarah Schuster

Triptych Narrative Assignment
Students were asked to make a copy of a favorite painting from the history of art. The painting needs to suggest a story to them. Once this painting is complet they make two paintings, one imagining a scene that proceeded the copy, and a second that imagines a scene following the copy.

Lindsay DuPertuis

Jordan Hymes

Noah Kalos


Rose Hermalin


Naomi Garber


Naomi Garber


Anna Arrays

Problems in: Painting, Narrative and the Contemporary Figure: Spring 2009

Current work from Sarah Schuster's narrative figure painting class.

Murder Mystery Assignment
Students were asked to create, or purchase a dollhouse, or use a scene from a favorite movie, or a photograph and to use this as a setting to set up a murder mystery. The idea is to use multiple scenes in one painting or several canvases to convey the passage of time.

Naomi Garber

Elizabeth Hibbard

Anna Arays


Noah Kalos

Lindsay DuPertuis