This studio-based seminar is open to all Fine Arts students working in any medium, designed to be a catalyst for making art. Weekly studio-based prompts and discussions give artists an opportunity to sort out intensified investigations into the formal elements of shape, form, and color, digging into amplified studio processes that engage with the body. Questions and topics covered: How can time be captured through color? What is tactile knowledge? Site specificity and scale translations. Who are your art ancestors and what is their role in the building of a personal visual language? What is the role of art in a healthy society? How can vulnerability, anxiety, and pleasure be active forms of resistance?Weekly writings engage the intersection of language and material. The aim is to develop an openness to experimental processes that engage artists with the forward momentum of their work. This process creates a deeper and more articulated understanding the role of physical perception in the building of their own visual language, and how it communicates within the context of contemporary art.  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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