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3.00 Credits
A studio course explores narrative or storytelling structures in video and new media through hands-on research and writing projects. Projects may include creating a narrative video, rich media web project, an interactive CD or DVD, an internet radio show, or an interactive 3-D art installation. Sound, video, web or multimedia applications and technologies will be covered, as well as methods and theories of story structures across cultures. Results in public presentation of student work. Two hours of lecture and three hours laboratory.
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An introductory studio course in performance art. Emphasis will be placed on, the body as the primary medium of performance, improvisational structures, sitespecific performances, and creating performances from a cross disciplinary perspective. This theory and practice course will consist of intensive practical experience, critiques of student work, and lectures and class discussions on contemporary and historical practices in performance art. The structure of the course is assignment-based with one public performance planned at the end of the semester. Two hours of lecture and two hours laboratory.
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An in-depth exploration of drawing as a medium of observation, expression and narrative. Provides exposure to historical and contemporary examples of drawing. Students will enhance their drawing skills and learn to experiment with the medium through hands-on studio practice. Development of conceptually strong and layered work is emphasized. Recommended Preparation: VSAR 130 and/or VSAR 131. Fieldtrips outside of class may be required. Course meets for four hours per week.
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Provides exposure to historical and contemporary examples of sculpture and an understanding of three-dimensional language as a medium of communication and expression. Students will expand their knowledge of sculptural techniques and engage in experimentation in order to explore the vocabulary of materials, space, and time. Students will be challenged to develop conceptually layered work and encouraged to try mixed media. Recommended Preparation: VSAR 110 and/or VSAR 131. Fieldtrips outside of class may be required. Course meets for four hours per week.
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Examines public art, government funding for the arts, the First Amendment, and censorship. Subject matter will be explored in both a historical and a social context through various case studies.
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Examines issues crucial to women as visual artists. Subject matter includes: How women use art as a means of self-expression and as a strategy for examining cultural values; the relationship between artistic production and women's traditional acts of reproduction; society's perception of women as artists; and provocative debates introduced into feminist thinking and art by reconsiderations of the charged arena of sexual difference.
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3.00 Credits
Survey of Chicano and Chicano-inspired art along the U.S.-Mexico border. Examines recent art forms and practices as represented in the work of individual artists, as well as, cultural groups and organizations. Looks at the influences which have inspired the invention of Chicano art within a community context.
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Examines crucial artistic production and debates that developed in the 20th Century in areas including the United States, Europe and Mexico through a re-examination of the traditional concept of the static "art object." Explores the provocative intersections between supposed high art and other visual forms of culture including cartoons, film, design, advertising and museum display. Focused consideration of gender, cultural, political and artistic issues that involve the relationship of the avant-garde to everyday life, changing concepts of modernism in contest with developing technologies, and the interconnections between dominant "art movements," little-studied examples of artistic production, developments in the larger visual culture and which peoples' histories are left out of the frame of art history. Course is based on discussions, lectures, on-site critical viewing, research papers and collaborative projects.
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Examines Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican art as it reflects social, structure, religion, social roles, ideology, economic and political organization, world view, and the family. The course will cover the preclassic, classic, and postclassic periods, focusing on four main cultural areas: the Olmec, the Maya, the Zapotec, Teotihuacan and Classic central Mexico, and the Aztec and Mixteca-Puebla style of highland Mexico.
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3.00 Credits
Critically examines what has been the taboo relationship of motherhood to feminist art and theory as they have developed during the late 20th Century. This interdisciplinary course focuses on the various ways feminist artists, writers, philosophers and other cultural theorists are addressing the dilemmas of representing feminist motherhood and how these approaches are interpreted in contemporary visual culture. Previous historical limitations and mutual exclusivities for women as mothers will be analyzed in relation to new revisionings of motherhood by women and men who have different ethnicities, classes and other varied life experiences.
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