GELCT-6700-1: Form[ing] Ideas
Fall 2023
- Subject: Grad Wide Elective
- Type: Workshop
- Delivery Mode: In-Person
- Level: Graduate
- Campus: San Francisco
- Course Dates: August 30, 2023 — December 12, 2023
- Meetings:
09/02: Sat 12:00-06:00PM, Main Bldg - N18/20 (Illustration Homeroom)
09/16: Sat 12:00-06:00PM, Main Bldg - N18/20 (Illustration Homeroom)
09/30: Sat 12:00-06:00PM, Main Bldg - N18/20 (Illustration Homeroom)
10/14: Sat 12:00-06:00PM, Main Bldg - N18/20 (Illustration Homeroom)
10/28: Sat 12:00-06:00PM, Main Bldg - N18/20 (Illustration Homeroom)
11/11: Sat 12:00-06:00PM, Main Bldg - N18/20 (Illustration Homeroom)
12/02: Sat 12:00-06:00PM, Main Bldg - N18/20 (Illustration Homeroom)
12/09: Sat 12:00-06:00PM, Main Bldg - N18/20 (Illustration Homeroom) - Instructor: Michael Wertz
- Units: 3.0
- Enrolled: 7/12
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Michael Wertz
Chair, Illustration Program
Associate Professor, Illustration Program
Description:
This studio course is designed for all creative disciplines across CCA—from writers to designers to artists—who want to explore how writing, artwork, and design meld to create meaning. Contemporary publication design practices as well as historic forms such as the manifesto will be explored as we interrogate how to place, align, squish, illustrate, and arrange image and text in space (in page, poster, book, or hybrid forms). This is an ideal course for Thesis students across the college, offering robust making sessions on Saturdays during the term. Conscientious and dynamic research is required outside of class meeting time to support the Saturday making sessions. These studio days will offer students the chance to establish a workflow focused on making physical work AND explore the intellectual and contextual underpinnings of their work in a multidisciplinary and discussion-based setting. The studio will focus on student thesis work (integral or corollary), exploring personal projects, and/or development of instructor-provided prompts through making. There will be 1:1 and class critiques to review student work, and a final show and discussion of student work at the end of the semester.
Pre-Requisites and Co-Requisites:
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