From your daily art practice to entering the art world at large, you will examine many approaches to making, showing, writing, and speaking about art. With ongoing critiques of your own self determined body of work and supplemental readings and projects, the class will culminate in a field trip to Los Angeles where you will visit galleries, museums, and artist's studios on and off the beaten path. You will look at issues of contemporary art making while concurrently considering topics related to larger art communities. In addition, we will examine the present pulse out there in national art centers like L.A. and N.Y. In addition to individual critiques, you will also begin to position yourself in context to art history. Who are your influences and who are your contemporaries? Why are you here? Where are you going? How do you get there from here? Most importantly, how do you keep making art and growing when you leave the institution: finding time, resources, community, and the will to keep making art. ***Field trip to L.A. first weekend of Spring Break, March 18th-19th, is mandatory. Students will fund and arrange their own transportation and lodging for the weekend.

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