Description
[Social Practice minor] Socially Engaged Art is a studio elective designed to give students a conceptual and historical foundation of socially-engaged art practice while guiding them through a series of parameter-based assignments. This class will be comprised of lectures, required readings, and discussions, to familiarize students with concepts and trajectories of topics such as relational aesthetics, sustainability and social justice/art activism. Students will be required to begin their own research practice through class presentations. Topical areas and individual research will inform studio assignments that will address questions around the ethics of community engagement, effective methods of communication, and considerations of authority and power.