Humanities Arts Cultural Stu 0365 - Five College Advanced Studio Art Seminar: Material, Process, and Poetics

This course will encourage students to cultivate strong relationships to material and process in their individual studio practices. What histories and associations do our materials carry, and how might we address them? How can our materials and processes situate us in social or historical space? Students will engage in research, experimentation, and critique to explore these questions and will establish their own poetic languages through a dialog between themselves and their materials. Meanwhile, we will discuss readings and the work of contemporary artists to better understand the wider social and cultural contexts of our work. Students will build on these foundations to create long-term independent projects to exhibit at the end of the seminar.

Students are expected to spend a minimum of 6-8 hours of work outside of class time per week