Studio Practice

This part-seminar, part-studio based course welcomes new Fine Arts 3D majors into the practices and dialogues centered within material and object-based disciplines. By integrating making and dialogue, and focusing on what it means to develop a practice in the studio, the course offers a platform for organizing the learning of electives, studio and seminar courses to come. Students are exposed to the wide breadth of artistic practices of the department’s full-time faculty across all areas. Particular attention will be brought to unpacking the complex inheritances and hierarchies of our fields, including post-colonial thinking and role of craft within contemporary discourse.Through dialogue with students across all areas, a shared understanding and differentiated vocabulary is cultivated.