Topic for Fall 2022: Collage
Prerequisites: None
Spontaneous, irreverent, personal, and political, collage is the ideal artistic medium for our time. This course provides an introduction to the art of collage, photomontage, and assemblage. Students explore approaches to creating meaning through combining and transforming images and materials. Projects, lectures, readings, class discussions, and critiques examine historic and contemporary tactics and methods. Emphasis is placed on developing the practical and critical conceptual skills required in visual expression.