Core Seminar 5: Artist & Studio will focus on defining what a studio practice is, and communicating that practice to others. In this course, students together with peers and faculty discuss and critique each other’s works in progress as well as finished pieces. These in-depth critiques are designed to have students understand and reflect on each other’s artistic approach, ideas presented in their work, overall methodology, material and spatial realization, and to situate the work within contemporary cultural contexts. Students will also experience various institutional roles, including artist, curator and critical writer. The goal of the course is to provide a forum for productive and respectful engagement of ideas. To support this process faculty will introduce strategies for catalyzing interaction among group members. The Group Critiques are also supported by specific texts assigned primarily by students in relation to their work and on occasion by faculty for each meeting. Writing assignments, including mapping a genealogy of their studio practice and creating a curatorial essay that includes their own work, will chart student interests and influences, helping to contextualize their work in these group critiques, as well as in studio visits, exhibitions or other public events. The Visiting Artist Lecture series is also a key component of this course. By the end of this class, students will have critical tools to organize and present their work in a clear and compelling way within their chosen field.

Core Seminar 5: Artist & Studio will focus on defining what a studio practice is, and communicating that practice to others. In this course, students together with peers and faculty discuss and critique each other’s works in progress as well as finished pieces. These in-depth critiques are designed to have students understand and reflect on each other’s artistic approach, ideas presented in their work, overall methodology, material and spatial realization, and to situate the work within contemporary cultural contexts. Students will also experience various institutional roles, including artist, curator and critical writer. The goal of the course is to provide a forum for productive and respectful engagement of ideas. To support this process faculty will introduce strategies for catalyzing interaction among group members. The Group Critiques are also supported by specific texts assigned primarily by students in relation to their work and on occasion by faculty for each meeting. Writing assignments, including mapping a genealogy of their studio practice and creating a curatorial essay that includes their own work, will chart student interests and influences, helping to contextualize their work in these group critiques, as well as in studio visits, exhibitions or other public events. The Visiting Artist Lecture series is also a key component of this course. By the end of this class, students will have critical tools to organize and present their work in a clear and compelling way within their chosen field.

Core Seminar 5: Artist & Studio will focus on defining what a studio practice is, and communicating that practice to others. In this course, students together with peers and faculty discuss and critique each other’s works in progress as well as finished pieces. These in-depth critiques are designed to have students understand and reflect on each other’s artistic approach, ideas presented in their work, overall methodology, material and spatial realization, and to situate the work within contemporary cultural contexts. Students will also experience various institutional roles, including artist, curator and critical writer. The goal of the course is to provide a forum for productive and respectful engagement of ideas. To support this process faculty will introduce strategies for catalyzing interaction among group members. The Group Critiques are also supported by specific texts assigned primarily by students in relation to their work and on occasion by faculty for each meeting. Writing assignments, including mapping a genealogy of their studio practice and creating a curatorial essay that includes their own work, will chart student interests and influences, helping to contextualize their work in these group critiques, as well as in studio visits, exhibitions or other public events. The Visiting Artist Lecture series is also a key component of this course. By the end of this class, students will have critical tools to organize and present their work in a clear and compelling way within their chosen field.

Core Seminar 5: Artist & Studio will focus on defining what a studio practice is, and communicating that practice to others. In this course, students together with peers and faculty discuss and critique each other’s works in progress as well as finished pieces. These in-depth critiques are designed to have students understand and reflect on each other’s artistic approach, ideas presented in their work, overall methodology, material and spatial realization, and to situate the work within contemporary cultural contexts. Students will also experience various institutional roles, including artist, curator and critical writer. The goal of the course is to provide a forum for productive and respectful engagement of ideas. To support this process faculty will introduce strategies for catalyzing interaction among group members. The Group Critiques are also supported by specific texts assigned primarily by students in relation to their work and on occasion by faculty for each meeting. Writing assignments, including mapping a genealogy of their studio practice and creating a curatorial essay that includes their own work, will chart student interests and influences, helping to contextualize their work in these group critiques, as well as in studio visits, exhibitions or other public events. The Visiting Artist Lecture series is also a key component of this course. By the end of this class, students will have critical tools to organize and present their work in a clear and compelling way within their chosen field.