Upper Division Interdisciplinary Studios extend a student's cross-school experience from Core Studio up into their upper division years. 3 units of Interdisciplinary Studio are required of all majors and must be completed in the junior or senior year. This advanced level studio is thematic in nature. Technical demonstrations are paired with thoughtful readings, seminar discussions and ambitious projects. Collaboration, experimentation and presentation skills are developed in concert with critical thinking.Section Description: Diachronic is about our visual relationship to the past. Across ceramics, stitch, and paint or film students will explore vessels, domestic architecture, stitch n’ bitch, and the everyday quotidian as we draw on the past to build a new present. Students will apply their art historical skills across multiple studio disciplines to explore their relationship to two or more time periods in history. Purely visual, unmediated by production of text as authors, the students will "write" new interactive art histories in mixed media. A deep dive into Art History, this course will take theories and methods from Visual Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Archaeology, and History more broadly to think and publish in new materials. Historically feminist analogue tactile forms produce new modes not only of understanding the visual past, but also of critiquing the Art Historical canon.The first half of this course will focus on ceramics, and the second half on embroidery, and either paint or filmmaking. You will need to buy your own set of oil paint, but clay and embroidery supplies will be provided. You will have the opportunity to work digitally in the last assignment if you prefer instead of paint. Readings and research support will be provided via Moodle. This hands-on course is multi-modal project-based learning, with a focus on tactile analogue making. Students should also come prepared to direct their own relationships to history through art historical research. The stitch project will be entirely community based and collaborative.

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