ARTS 5490 is also offered in Fall 2024
ARTS 5490 is also offered in Spring 2023
Fall 2024 | ARTS 5490 Section 001: Workshop in Art -- Japanese Narrative Design Lab (33782)
- Instructor(s)
- No instructor assigned
- Class Component:
- Laboratory
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 48 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 112
- Enrollment Status:
Open (4 of 10 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Selected topics and intensive studio activity. Topics vary yearly.
- Class Notes:
- How do Japanese narrative arts work and how might we reverse-engineer them to design stories of our own? The Japanese Narrative Design Lab blends critical analysis with creative work, prioritizing hands-on exploration to teach students about Japanese visual culture and the mechanics of dynamic storytelling. In this experimental seminar we will study Japanese art forms to glean techniques for fabricating new visual narratives. We will dissect medieval tales, noh and kabuki plays, illustrated handscrolls, paper-dramas, and manga to determine what makes them tick. Our close textual and artistic analyses will then guide creative projects where we generate narrative objects in the style of works like The Wondrous Origins of Mt. Shigi, The Tale of Genji Scrolls, Cardcaptor Sakura, and Akira. Through a range of individual and collective assignments, students will learn how to read original materials closely and then progressively translate their insights into components like plotting, scripting, tracing, layout, inking, coloring, and storyboarding. We will make use of analog (brushes, ziptone screens) and digital (Manga Studio, Procreate) resources for art creation as appropriate. The course will culminate in a public exhibition of our finished pieces. Ideally, a diverse mix of readers, writers, and illustrators will contribute their talents to the class. Students with backgrounds in Asian languages and literatures, creative writing, and visual arts welcome. No experience in Japanese language or culture required. The main goal of this course is to train you to become better critical readers of Japanese narrative through practice-based creative work. By the end of the course your skills of analysis and communication - written and visual - will have improved substantially. You'll also be a better artist!
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33782/1249
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