How does the art form become a vessel for the embodiment of knowledge, and what does that reveal to us about our complex relationships with place, space, and each other? By viewing artworks as uniquely situated bodies, we will explore their complex relationships to space from the physical place/s they occupy. Through individual and collective exercises, somatic prompts, site visits, readings, and studio practice, we will question the ways in which an art object may serve as a dynamic conduit for exploring relationships with the self, the subject, and the environment. This class provides an inclusive and dynamic approach to media that may include sculpture, installation, painting, performance, video, dance, theater, sound, drawing, photography, and social practices... 

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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