Art 382: Installation/Participation
An advanced sculpture/multi-media course investigating research-based and social art practices including the intersection of art, craft and society. Students may make work in any craft-based medium including textiles fabrication and printing, clay and casting, wood, and any other including processes that are craft based. Each student will be asked to choose a craft they know and hope to practice and gain a better understanding of or one they hope to learn. The first project will feature the craft you are focused on and be presented in any format. The second project/presentation may be an event with and or for others, a performance or an installation-based works that immerse the viewer. All sculpture construction shops and tools are available including ceramics, glass, textile printing, weaving, sewing, wood working, laser cutting, 3-D printing and casting. Weekly readings will begin with craft-based artist working with installation and participation, we will focus on contemporary art theory on craft, feminist theory and will center on artists working directly with craft, as well as social and political issues at the intersection of art, craft and society. You will all keep a research notebook/sketchbook in which you will respond to all readings and research 1 artist. You will each present this artist in the second half of the class.
