How can we, as artists, more deeply connect with ourselves, each other, and the world at large? And how can these relationships help us navigate towards the world we want to see? This course is inspired by interdisciplinary and intersectional artists, writers, and activists including James Boggs who wrote,"It is only in relationship to other bodies, and many somebodies, that anybody is somebody." Through workshops, field trips and field work, exchanges, readings, discussions, and critique, we will experiment with strategies for making meaning. This includes meals, movement, and play. This course is open to graduate students who are curious about expanding their practices into social forms as well as those with socially engaged practices. We will also discuss professional practices, community safety, and tools for sustaining collaborative work. The first curriculum in social practice was launched here at CCA in 2008. It was in direct response to the broad activities of artists and designers at the turn of the 21st century that invited critical exchange, imagined new social relationships, and provoked individual and collective actions.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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