May 07, 2024  
2020-2021 Interim Catalog 
    
2020-2021 Interim Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ART 295-02 - Special Topic: Socially Engaged Art

4 credits (Spring Term 1)
Cross-listed as: AMS 295-02 .  This production focused course begins with examples from current practices and the history of socially engaged art including activist art, tactical media, social practice, art interventions, relational aesthetics, and institutional critique. This context frames each students’ own work to develop a series of socially engaged art projects based on contemporary social issues. The class consists of reading, writing, discussion, presentation, critique and portfolio documentation.

Prerequisite: ART 111 
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Chen