This course explores murals as public living spaces, visual geographical multi-layered zones for political activism, social/cultural awareness and aesthetic advancement. Starting with Mexican social realist painters from the early 1930’s to the present murals brought forth from the BLM movement, we will look at these installations as sources of meaning and forms of social justice activism.
As a final and culminating project students will be asked to create a virtual mural designs within assigned collaborative groups. Students are challenged to make claims and defend them through writing exercises, research, and design. Subject matter and content will guide course work and discussions including an exploration of composition and design elements as they relate to delivery. What political and social issues inform your voice? What message do you need to communicate? Previous examples will be available.
As a final and culminating project students will be asked to create a virtual mural designs within assigned collaborative groups. Students are challenged to make claims and defend them through writing exercises, research, and design. Subject matter and content will guide course work and discussions including an exploration of composition and design elements as they relate to delivery. What political and social issues inform your voice? What message do you need to communicate? Previous examples will be available.
- Instructor: Jack Leamy
Telling Stories takes an experimental approach to storytelling, exploring ways of narrating personal and collective stories in visual media, while focusing on the development of collaborative projects and artistic initiatives that involve the community on various levels from process to presentation. Emphasis will be on interdisciplinary processes from assemblage and installation, to sound and performance, from animation to video, creating projects that use research into histories of place and people as their inspiration and conceptual grounding. Presentations, guest lecturers and field research will examine ways in which art has contributed to the articulation of ethnic identity, exploring the power of storytelling in bringing communities together, expanding understanding and creating social change. (Image: Shimon Attie: Night Watch)
- Instructor: Taraneh Hemami
- Instructor: Shalini Agrawal
Catalyst for Change
ETHST-2000-4, Spring 2023
Subject: Critical Ethnic Studies – Studio
Delivery Mode: In-Person
Level: Undergraduate
Campus – San Francisco
Units:3.0
Meetings: Mon/Thu 8 am to 11 am, Main Bldg.- N19
Pallavi Sharma, Ph.D.
pallavisharma@cca.edu
ph. 925 964 7374
Prerequisites
You need to complete the following first year CORE and H&S requirements before advancing further in your major; Drawing 1, 2D, 3D, 4D, Writing 1, Foundations in Critical Studies, Intro to the Arts and Intro to the Modern Arts. Junior standing.
DIVST - 300 - General Course Description
Diversity Studies Studios introduces students to the interrelations between race/ethnicity, art-making, and design practices. These courses complement the Diversity Studies Seminars with their hands-on approach in which themes of ethnic identity are incorporated into studio and community practices.
Course Description: The course investigates how present-day Asian American artists contest societal assumptions and subvert stereotypes through socially engaged art practices and participation in local and global social movements. The students will create art projects with strong sociological and political bends, which address the undercurrent problems related to, but not limited to, class, gender, and ethnicity. Through virtual gallery/studio visits, reviews, online exchanges, and discussions with the members of cultural and artistic Asian American collectives, students will learn a critical and conceptual framework to examine the body of works of selected artists and will learn to understand the strategies of resistance and empowerment movements.
ETHST-2000-4, Spring 2023
Subject: Critical Ethnic Studies – Studio
Delivery Mode: In-Person
Level: Undergraduate
Campus – San Francisco
Units:3.0
Meetings: Mon/Thu 8 am to 11 am, Main Bldg.- N19
Pallavi Sharma, Ph.D.
pallavisharma@cca.edu
ph. 925 964 7374
Prerequisites
You need to complete the following first year CORE and H&S requirements before advancing further in your major; Drawing 1, 2D, 3D, 4D, Writing 1, Foundations in Critical Studies, Intro to the Arts and Intro to the Modern Arts. Junior standing.
DIVST - 300 - General Course Description
Diversity Studies Studios introduces students to the interrelations between race/ethnicity, art-making, and design practices. These courses complement the Diversity Studies Seminars with their hands-on approach in which themes of ethnic identity are incorporated into studio and community practices.
Course Description: The course investigates how present-day Asian American artists contest societal assumptions and subvert stereotypes through socially engaged art practices and participation in local and global social movements. The students will create art projects with strong sociological and political bends, which address the undercurrent problems related to, but not limited to, class, gender, and ethnicity. Through virtual gallery/studio visits, reviews, online exchanges, and discussions with the members of cultural and artistic Asian American collectives, students will learn a critical and conceptual framework to examine the body of works of selected artists and will learn to understand the strategies of resistance and empowerment movements.
- Instructor: Pallavi Sharma
- Instructor: Breena Nunez