Art Studio: Perspectives on Art Making

Introduction to contemporary art practice in various media. Explores method and meaning in art making, the role of experimentation, and the translation of experience into artwork. Credit not awarded for both ARTS 1400 and ARTS 1014.

Fee: $145.00 Open to Degree and PACE students

Contemporary artists create work across various approaches, materials, and media, often tackling complex, nuanced, and sometimes provocative topics via diverse creative, aesthetic, and gestural processes. This course surveys a range of artists, practices, and issues prevalent in art today as a means of deepening student understanding of the art world, its debates, and how to situate oneself as an artist. This is a hybrid class in which you will make work, and learn about contemporary artists, engage in discussions, critiques, and research all in order to develop your skills as a contemporary artist. There will also be field trips, visiting artist presentations, readings, and workshops.

Through studio practices, critique, and seminar this course investigates considerations of concept, content, context, form, and technique; introduces vocabulary, skill sets, formats, and models of making; utilizes a variety of media that may include drawing, painting, color, photography, video, three-dimensional construction, digital imaging, sound, video, and performance. This course will promote the development of each student’s individual sensibilities; demonstrate how reading, writing, talking, and looking are integral to making; and introduce students to artists, culture producers, various artistic methods and cultural opportunities in contemporary art today.