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Academic Year 2004/2005

Topics in Studio Art
ARST 400 FA

Artists in all media have historically responded to common, formal, and ideological motivations. These motivations encompass the very fabric of a liberal arts education. This course is intended to strengthen such a liberal conversation among the various studio art disciplines, as well as to develop that conversation as the foundation for making art. In this course we examine various aspects of the relations between the public and private realms to inform our own practice as artists. We will create artworks in response to readings and specific cultural artifacts and phenomena.

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

A semester-long topic will be broken into several short problems and one final project. Course structure emphasizes work in the studio concomitant to individual and group discussions.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

Course fee: $50. PERMISSION OF INSTRUCTOR REQUIRED: This course is primarily intended as an opportunity for art program majors who wish to expand developing interests into investigations in - or in collaboration with - other studio disciplines. "Permission of Instructor" will be granted to those students whose work exhibits maturity in both the skills as well as conceptual acumen in their previous studio courses. Permission will also be granted to non-art program majors whose interests the inst ructor perceives as sympathetic to the objectives of the course and who show adequate skills necessary to translate those interests into visual form.

COURSE FORMAT: Studio

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: HA ART    Grading Mode: Graded   

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-21-2005

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