This is a profoundly significant moment at CCA, its final academic year as an institution. This time provides a significant opportunity to consider the history, present, and legacy of the school’s nearly 120 years of existence while it is still an entity of which we are a part. Everything Must Go! uses this unique opportunity to creatively digest and respond to this condition by creating new works based on research into CCA’s history, soul searching, and innovative gestures. The course will result in public exhibitions, activations, and events to take place on and off-campus. The course will give students the experience of making responsive, site specific works, engaging curatorial strategies, programming, and archiving. The complexity of the situation makes it one that can be addressed by all media (art, film, architecture, writing), and a range of emotional tones– the course title’s roots are in the rhetoric of the clearance sale, an energized moment of shift. Note: Some short brainstorming assignments may be given late summer so we can hit the ground running during the fall semester. 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.

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