- Instructor: Amana Harris
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.
- Instructor: Taraneh Hemami
Course Overview
This course explores murals as public living spaces, visual geographical
multi-layered zones for political activism, expressing cultural identity and politics, 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. We ask, what is the role of mural art as it is displayed strategically in public spaces? Where does public space become available and to whom? Who claims public spaces and how? How do we define public space and who has the authority to have a voice and be heard in the public realm and why? Mural Project will provide a historical and current day lens of murals while providing hands-on experiences in public spaces by working on walls.
This course explores murals as public living spaces, visual geographical
multi-layered zones for political activism, expressing cultural identity and politics, 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. We ask, what is the role of mural art as it is displayed strategically in public spaces? Where does public space become available and to whom? Who claims public spaces and how? How do we define public space and who has the authority to have a voice and be heard in the public realm and why? Mural Project will provide a historical and current day lens of murals while providing hands-on experiences in public spaces by working on walls.
- Instructor: Jack Leamy
Course Description:
The course investigates how present-day Asian American artists are contesting societal assumptions and subverting stereotypes through their 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, 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.
The course investigates how present-day Asian American artists are contesting societal assumptions and subverting stereotypes through their 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, 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