Fine Arts Seminars are intended to broaden and clarify students' perspective on contemporary art practice. Each semester these seminars shift in focus and subject matter. Seminars may concentrate on art from the perspectives of art history, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, psychology, and so forth, or may take the form of a discipline-based critique focusing on the history, theory, and practice of painting, sculpture, and photography, among others.____One of the oldest aesthetic traditions in the world, textile-based practices are currently on the cutting edge of contemporary art practice and critical inquiry. Artists working in interdisciplinary zones are picking up needle and thread to utilize a constellation of ideas embedded in textile making and thinking—which might be best described as “textilities.” The interplay of threads at multiple intersection points builds a cohesive whole from disparate, yet equal elements. This arrangement offers a blueprint for thinking about interconnectivity, relational experience, and nonhierarchical structures in creative, linguistic, and activist arenas. Textiles propose radical ways of thinking in a moment of return to wisdom practices. This seminar is designed and team taught by Hennessy and Valoma for students working in any discipline who are interested in investigating the sensorial, ephemeral, narrative, and performative underpinnings of the medium through making, extensive readings, discussions, lectures, written assignments, and critiques.Online course sections will be delivered mostly asynchronously, with some synchronous components that will be outlined in the course syllabus if applicable.

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