MIXED MEDIA & SCULPTURE
Special Topics: The Fractured Landscape (MMED 223)
A mixed-media studio class investigates elements of the fractured landscape while exploring both urban and rural territories. Course content considers the concepts of urbanization, resource extraction, deterritorialization, eco-sculpture, and land art. Students are encouraged to work in a variety of media within class exercises incorporating, drawing, photography, video and writing. Hands-on technical demonstrations include camera operation, photoshop and basic video editing to build upon gathered ideas and discussion topics. Assignments and lectures are designed to inspire new work while investigating our own back alleys, rural communities and local issues surrounding protected landmasses, parks and re-zoning. The use of found materials and low-tech options, (including pin-hole camera construction) are mixed together with digital media to explore this vastly important topic.
Thursdays 10am - 1pm, Jan 10 - Apr 4, 2013
Tara Nicholson
Tuition: $395.00 (36 hrs)
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Special Topics: Street Art & Voice of the City (MMED 224)
This studio course scrutinizes the social practice and placement of art in the public sphere. Supporting the philosophy that art making is available to everyone, this class dives further into the language of the everyday environment and offers creative response to public spaces. Students will be using the urban environment as part of their studio practice. The course explores diversity of art making processes while probing intersections between accessibility, culture and art. Projects involve drawing, photography, video and installation as well as text based work.
Fridays 2pm - 5pm, Sep 14 - Dec 7, 2012
Tegan Forbes
Tuition: $395.00 (36 hrs)
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Special Topics: Installation Art (MMED 227)
This course will explore installation art incorporating a range of diverse media, such as painting, sculpture, drawing, video, light, sound, text, and photography. Students develop independent projects through exploratory research, analysis of ideas and hands-on activities. There is also emphasis on how to write proposals for installation projects and do proper documentation. The course will combine production, readings, lectures, discussions, and field trips to stimulate discourse around the history of installation art in a contemporary context. Assignments will encourage experimentation, with a focus on transforming a "specific site" to create structure and meaning for a work. No previous experience is necessary.
Thursdays 10am - 1pm, Sep 13 - Dec 6, 2012
Tracey Nelson
Tuition: $395.00 (36 hrs)
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Special Topics: Art and Activism (MMED 228)
This course presents opportunity for hands-on civic engagement, with two guiding questions: 1) Can art instigate social change? 2) It might be activism, but is it art? Students read theory and examine examples of artistic activism in the larger context of social and political issues informing artistic action. In the studio students execute their artistic action plan. Students will complete, present, and hand in written assignments reflecting on and connecting theories of artistic action with their own practice of creating activist art. Course includes visual presentation, discussion, hands-on work to be done both inside and outside of the classroom.
Fridays 2pm - 5pm, Jan 11 - Apr 5, 2013
Tegan Forbes
Tuition: $395.00 (36 hrs)
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Sculpture: An Introduction to Materials (SCLP 100)
This course offers an in-depth exploration into a variety of traditional and contemporary sculpture materials. Emphasis is placed on construction techniques and understanding the physical possibilities and limitations of each material. A range of imaginative projects are accompanied by visual presentations to introduce students to the dynamic world of three-dimensional design.
Thursdays 10am - 1pm, Sep 13 - Dec 6, 2012
Danielle Hogan
Tuition: $395.00 (36 hrs)
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Sculpture: Ideas and Process (SCLP 200)
A studio-based course that investigates contemporary concerns involved in creating sculpture. The course emphasizes the development of meaning in sculpture and involves a more intensive exploration of techniques and materials. Importance is placed on relating sculpture to our physical environment; how actions, materials, and forms from our everyday world can influence the creation of sculpture. Students are also taught the importance of scale, space, placement and physical associations when presenting sculpture. Prerequisite: Sculpture: Introduction to Materials or previous sculpture experience.
Thursdays 10am - 1pm, Jan 10 - Apr 4, 2013
Danielle Hogan
Tuition: $395.00 (36 hrs)
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