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 students an opportunity to bring clarified
questions into the materiality and content of their work, with a focus on production,
presentation, and the vision that informs the making of the work. By integrating the introverted
focus of studio projects with the practical methodologies of building an artistic life, the focus of
this class is to develop modes of working that embed creative resilience into the foundation of a
sustainable art practice beyond art school. Questions and topics covered: How can vulnerability,
anxiety, and pleasure be fuel needed to move your work forward? Why do experimentation,
risk, and failure create pathways to success? When can time management and goal-setting be
inspiring creative practices that align with your work?
Weekly writings engage the intersection of studio production, critique, and discussion.Visiting
artists will be brought into the topic-based discussions.The aim is to develop an open dialogue
about processes that engage students with the forward momentum of their work. Students take
a more conscious role in the building of their own visual language, understanding how it
communicates within the context of contemporary art and beyond.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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