Art Studio 205sj - Topics: Studio Art Workshops: Drawing Social Justice
T-Drawing Social Justice
Fall
2025
01
2.00
Alexis A. Callender
TU TH 9:25 AM - 12:05 PM
Smith College
ARS-205sj-01-202601
Hillyer L18
acallender@smith.edu
This 7-week studio intensive engages topics of social justice as central to the discussion and visual inquiry. Through studio work, artist research, class excursions, and short readings, students use drawing as an expansive medium to conceptualize and relate their ideas. This course is experimental in nature and has no defined emphasis on traditional drawing techniques, instead the course takes an expanded/interdisciplinary media approach to drawing, to explore how critical questions of social justice can be developed into impactful artworks. Studio Art Workshops allow students with any level of experience to explore a thematic, expanded approach to art practice. When multiple workshops are offered, students may take different topics during the first and second half of the semester for a total of 4 credits. Up to 4 credits of workshops may count toward the Studio Art Major. No prerequisites. Majors and non-majors welcome. S/U only. Enrollment limited to 12.