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ARTS 1201 is also offered in Spring 2022
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ARTS 8420 is also offered in Spring 2024
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ARTS 8420 is also offered in Spring 2023
ARTS 8420 is also offered in Fall 2022
ARTS 8420 is also offered in Spring 2022
ARTS 8420 is also offered in Fall 2021
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ARTS 8450 is also offered in Fall 2024
ARTS 8450 is also offered in Spring 2024
ARTS 8450 is also offered in Fall 2023
ARTS 8450 is also offered in Spring 2023
ARTS 8450 is also offered in Fall 2022
ARTS 8450 is also offered in Spring 2022
ARTS 8450 is also offered in Fall 2021
Fall 2020 | ARTS 1201 Section 001: Art + Change: The Transformational Power of Art (34797)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Laboratory
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- Online Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/08/2020 - 12/16/2020Mon, Wed 09:05AM - 11:35AMOff CampusUMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (8 of 22 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Art+ Change: The Transformational Power of Art is an introduction to the complex and varied artist-centered approaches to the social, ethical, political, and environmental challenges of our times. As an emerging form of art, contemporary socially engaged art is not a monolithic practice and goals amongst practitioners exhibit a wide range of approaches. Artists may work towards changing dominant systems in order to foster more positive outcomes; other artists strive to acknowledge and call out complexity and contradictions of those same systems. While artists working in this field, commonly called social practice work, investigate a broad set of topics and media approaches, with varying motivations and intentions, what they share is a foregrounding of the subject and content that informs the work. This course examines the way engaged social art practice can lead to sustained connections and shared visions within communities and institutions; can create a more just and equitable culture; and can address many pressing environmental and social issues of our day. The class investigates the role of the art as a catalyst for social change. We will approach this through questions and dialogue, acknowledging that many of the tensions and contradictions cannot be resolved but are still worth the effort to recognize and address. This course combines a research-based learning environment with a strong studio- based component. Through readings, presentations, field trips, experiential and sensory opportunities, case studies, video presentations, and class project initiatives, we will explore the spectrum of contemporary strategies to a socially engaged approach to art. Students will create hands-on and a culminating collaborative creative project and will learn to identify themes, develop ideas individually, and collectively and execute these ideas through multiple ways of knowing and making of art projects. Through a variety of media, students will be encouraged to expl
- Class Notes:
- This course is completely online in a synchronous format. The course will meet online at the scheduled times.
- Class Description:
We could not have imagined that our focus on Art + Change would converge with our collective experience of global change in response to the physical health pandemic of COVID-19 and the social health pandemic of systemic racism. Art + Change is designed to create an inclusive and equitable learning experience that benefits from the diversity of each student's experiences, interests, and perspectives - a place that welcomes you to be you, all of you.
Art +Change focuses on art as a catalyst for change - individual change, community change, and systemic change. Inspired by examples of the varied ways that artists are responding to the social, political, ethical, and environmental issues of today, as well as the ways that artists have responded in the past, we will create art for change in our everyday environments. Art for change is a social process. You will be introduced to a range of materials and media while focusing on concerns that are important to you and your peers. During this course we will learn with and from one another as each person identifies how they want to focus art for change. Our individual visions will also contribute to a collaborative vision.
Over the course of the semester you can expect to imagine and create art as a catalyst for change that begins with yourself and expands to connect with community and globally actions. This is an experiential course where you are encouraged to be present with your whole self, gain confidence in sharing your ideas, experiment with varied forms of art making, and be energized by the collective visions and actions of artists who are committed to working with others for change. The course invites participation in individual, small group, and whole class activities as we expand the potential for learning together online and off line in ways that will also engage us with our immediate environments. Art will be our medium, message, and method
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34797/1209
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 7 July 2020
Fall 2020 | ARTS 5490 Section 001: Workshop in Art -- Introducing Solidarity Art Economies (35392)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Laboratory
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 48 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option No Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/08/2020 - 12/16/2020Tue 01:25PM - 03:55PMOff CampusUMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (11 of 15 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Selected topics and intensive studio activity. Topics vary yearly.
- Class Notes:
- Online and Synchronous
- Class Description:
- What are the art worlds and modes of participatory culture that we want?Introducing Solidarity Art EconomiesThis participatory workshop will introduce a range of processes that support you as you conceptualize, clarify, and articulate your visions for art worlds and forms of culture that you want to activate and share. Students from all disciplinesand life experiences, with varying kinds of creative and social practices, are invited to engage in this catalyst for individual and collaborative re-imagining. Inclusive modes ofteaching and learning will value the experiences, research interests, and knowledge generated by students, introduced by guest presenters, amplified through readings and interviews, and enacted in whole group, small group, and individual activities.Caroline Woolard, the 2020 Harlan Boss Visiting Artist for Art, Participatory Culture, Social Practice, and Critical Theory is the guest catalyst for this workshop and will be a guest presenter for five of our fifteen meetings. Caroline Woolard will introduce her work focused on solidarity economy as well as the work of other contemporary artists and designers who consider the entire life of their projects. These perspectives will ground our semester-long process within a global context. They will challenge you to identify art worlds and forms of participatory culture that are appropriate to your work and to your concerns, while drawing connections to a series of organizations, collectives and interconnected art and design worlds.Throughout the semester, we will also experiment the media, materials, and social modalities that interest you. With the intention of bringing you, your work, and your visions into closer relationship, we will conclude the workshop by sharing individually or collaboratively generated propositions, prototypes, iterations, and actions that begin to embody the art worlds and forms of participatory culture that you envision.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- This unique (offered only once) workshop is designed for graduate and advanced undergraduate students, in any discipline - truly any discipline - who are interested in participatory culture, envisioning social change, and participating in a community of learners interested in learning about solidarity economies, creative modes of activating participatory culture, and activating the art worlds that you want.
- Learning Objectives:
- Students will grow as artists and/or creative thinkers by engaging in processes through which they imagine, clarify, and articulate their visions for art worlds and modes of participatory culture that they want to participate in and activate.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/35392/1209
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 29 July 2020
Fall 2020 | ARTS 8420 Section 015: MFA Studio (16737)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Field Work
- Credits:
- 1-6 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 12 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Grade Sort
- Enrollment Requirements:
- Art MFA student
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/08/2020 - 12/16/2020UMTC, West Bank
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (2 of 2 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This graduate level directed study offers students the opportunity to work with individual faculty. Students arrange regular meetings and develop a proposal for the semester, which is approved by the instructor. Prior to registration, the student must contact the faculty member with whom they hope to work.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/16737/1209
Fall 2020 | ARTS 8450 Section 014: MFA Creative Thesis (16757)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Independent Study
- Credits:
- 1-9 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 18 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Grade Sort
- Enrollment Requirements:
- Art MFA student
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/08/2020 - 12/16/2020UMTC, East Bank
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (1 of 2 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Research/studio work in preparation for thesis exhibition. Third year students are required to complete 18 cr. of this course in their final year. Prior to registration, the student must contact the faculty member with whom they hope to work.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/16757/1209
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