Art 311 - CultrlDiversty&EmancInquir/Art
Spring
2024
01
3.00
Christopher Spinozzi
TU TH 6:00PM 7:15PM
UMass Amherst
10569
Bromery Center for Arts Rm 465
cspinozzi@umass.edu
The course is designed to help students identify concepts, skills, dispositions, and emancipatory inquires as they create and respond to works of art, design, and culture, thereby applying these insights to the development of art curricula, creative practice, and research. The course will prepare students to be reflective practitioners and artists who can integrate visual art, social justice, and emancipatory inquiries into their teaching and plan to teach in multiple settings, including PreK to 12 schools and community centers, museums, and alternative learning environments. Topics include social justice issues in art education regarding curriculum design & creative assessments, learning theories, aesthetic development of children, adolescents, and adults, studio pedagogy, visual culture, and material inquiries. Sub-themes include accessibility, human rights, Black Lives Matter, politics of racial & ethnic representation, gentrification, displacement, Indigenous activism, public monuments, coloniality, racial capitalism, revisionist art education histories, self-reflexivity in art education.
This class is open to BA-Art and BFA-Art students only. Meets with ART 512.
Non-majors must request instructor permission.