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Emerging
Arts
The Emerging Arts
is a program of experimental courses designed to cultivate current
modes of creativity and identify contemporary sources of artistic
inspiration. These issues apply equally to all arts disciplines:
visual art, choreography, musical composition, filmmaking, writing,
performance, new media, etc. They derive from current cultural,
social, spiritual, and political circumstances. The courses are
designed to prepare students to produce vanguard work that might
contribute to the ever-expanding legacy of the arts. Innovative
didactic methods are employed to convey this material.
Courses
201. External
Sources of Inspiration 3 hours
All forms of artistic
expression involve determining motives, themes, styles, and processes.
Because contemporary culture is so expansive, the process of making
these determinations is no longer guided by tradition and precedent.
It must be invented by each participant, or chosen from the extensive
inventory of creative options currently being practiced. In this
course, students are guided through personal explorations of these
zones of creative decision-making. Projects are designed to help
students discover the means to clarify and communicate their intentions.
Innovation, as a product of necessity is encouraged.
203. Maverick
Artists/Visionary Educators 3 hours
First Semester.
Through a series of intensive, cross-disciplinary workshops directed
by distinguished guest artists, students will be introduced to three
kinds of innovative experience -- innovative concepts in the arts,
innovative creative processes, and innovative techniques of instruction.
Education is an essential component of each guest's creative activities.
Thus the term vanguard belongs to their roles in the classroom and
in the studio. The workshops will culminate in group or individual
projects in which students will apply their workshop experiences
to their own creative endeavors. Enrollment Limit: 15.
204. Current
Topics in Emerging Arts 3 hours
Second Semester.
"Eco-Arts" is an interdisciplinary, project-based course designed
to integrate the arts into the ecological mission of the Environmental
Studies Program. It is a component of an ongoing curricular program
in which course content and format are crafted to suit a timely
academic, political, ethical, religious, economic, or social issue.
This functional approach directs artistic creativity and innovation
toward useful outcomes and current conditions. Eco-Arts invites
students from all arts disciplines to work with students in environmental
studies to investigate ecological activism. Enrollment Limit:
15.
Ms. Weintraub
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