ARTD450 – Senior Art Seminar
*Working Calendar

Week One:

Thursday 1/14

 Introduction -  
Nuts and Bolts:  select groups - select reception dates -  discuss class strategies

Week Two:

Tuesday 1/19

Reading and discussion for today:  Staniszewski, Mary Anne. Believing is Seeing: Creating the Culture of Art. Chapters 1-2 (pp. 1-110)

Discussion leaders for today:

Alison and Jack

Thursday  1/21

Due: First Draft of artist’s statement  (before you begin writing this see Chapter 5 (pp 71-114) in Lazzari, M. The Practical Handbook for the Emerging Artist (2nd ed.).
Discussion:
Your Artist's statements.
 

Week Three:

Tuesday 1/26

Reading and discussion for today: 
Staniszewski, Mary Anne. Believing is Seeing: Creating the Culture of Art. Chapters 3-7 (pp. 111-180)

Discussion leaders for today:
Kassi and Lindsay

Thursday 1/28

Reading and discussion for today: 
Staniszewski, Mary Anne. Believing is Seeing: Creating the Culture of Art. Chapters 8-9 (pp. 181-254)

Discussion leaders for today:
Rebecca and Aubreigh

Week Four:

Tuesday 2/2

Reading and discussion for today:
Staniszewski, Mary Anne. Believing is Seeing: Creating the Culture of Art. Chapters 10 (pp. 255-302)      

Discussion leaders for today:
Lauren and Joe

Thursday 2/4

Reading and discussion for today: 
Osborne, Richard and Dan Sturgis. Art Theory :For Beginners. (pp1-42)

Discussion leaders for today:
Allison and Kassi

Week Five:

 

Tuesday 2/9

Reading and discussion for today: 
Osborne, Richard and Dan Sturgis. Art Theory :For Beginners. (pp 43-98)

Discussion leaders for today:
Jack and Lindsay

Thursday 2/11

Guest Speaker: Dr. Jonathan Smith

Due:  Second Draft of Artist’s Statement

Week Six:

Tuesday 2/16

Reading and discussion for today:
Osborne, Richard and Dan Sturgis. Art Theory :For Beginners. (pp 99-152)

Discussion leaders for today:
Rebecca and Lauren
Thursday 2/18 Reading and discussion for today:
Osborne, Richard and Dan Sturgis. Art Theory :For Beginners. (pp 153-186)

Discussion leaders for today:
Aubreigh and Joe
Week Seven:

Tuesday 2/23

Reading and discussion for today:
Harrison and Wood: Daniel Bell from “Modernism and Capitalism” (pgs. 1117-1122)

Thursday 2/25

Reading and discussion for today:
Harrison and Wood: Lyotard, Introduction to The Postmodern Condition (1122-1123)
Week Eight:
   
Tuesday 3/1 Reading and discussion for today:
Harrison and Wood: Habermas, ‘Modernity – An Incomplete Project’ (1123-1131)
Thursday 3/4 MIDTERM EXAM

 March 8-12

Spring Break

Week Nine:

 

Tuesday  3/16

Due:  Final Draft Artist’s Statements 
Reading and discussion for today:

Harrison and Wood: Michel Foucault ‘What Is an Author?’ (949-953)
Harrison and Wood: Lyotard,’What is Postmodernism?’ (1131-1137)

Thursday  3/18

Reading and discussion for today:
Harrison and Wood:  Baudrillard “The Hyper-realism of Simulation’ (1018-1020

Week Ten:

 

Tuesday 3/23

Reading and discussion for today:
Harrison and Wood: Halley, ‘Nature and Culture’ (1042-1045)

Thursday  3/25

Reading and discussion for today:
Harrison and Wood:  Benjamin, ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’  (520-527)

Week Eleven:
 Saturday 3/27-Tuesday 3/30 Senior Exhibit "A" set up work in Len G. Everett Gallery

Tuesday, 3/30

Reading and discussion for today:
 Harrison and Wood: Said, from ‘Opponents, Audiences, Constituencies, and Community,’ (1057-1059)  

Wednesday, 3/31 Senior Exhibit "A" through 4/15/2010

Thursday, 4/1

Meet in Gallery for Discussion Group “A”

Friday 4/2-Monday 4/5 EASTER BREAK
Week Twelve:
Tuesday, 4/6  Reading and discussion for today:
 Harrison and Wood: Rose, ‘Sexuality in the Field of Vision,’ 1072 – 1076)

Thursday  4/8

Reading and discussion for today:
 Harrison and Wood: Spivak, ‘Who Claims Alterity?’ (1092-1096)

Saturday, 4/10 Senior Art Exhibition Group "A"  -Reception:  2-4 pm
Len G. Everett Gallery
Jack, Lauren, Lindsey, Kassi
Week Thirteen:

Tuesday 4/13

Reading and discussion for today:
Harrison and Wood:  Bhabha, on ‘hybridity’ and ‘moving beyond’ (1110-1116)

Thursday 4/15 Reading for today's discussion:
Bayles and Orland, Art & Fear: Observations On The Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking (Introduction - pg 36)
Thursday 4/15 Group "A" take down exhibition
 Friday 4/16 - Sunday 4/18 Group "B" set up work in Len G. Everett Gallery

 

Week Fourteen:
 Monday  4/19 Due:  Group A Portfolios to Meeker

Senior Exhibition "B"  through  May 4, 2010
 
Tuesday 4/20 FOUNDERS DAY (NO CLASS)
Thursday 4/22 Reading for today's discussion: 
Bales and Orland: Art and Fear (37-62)
Saturday 4/24 Senior Art Exhibition Group "B" Reception:  2-4 pm
Len G. Everett Gallery
Aubreigh, Joe, Alison, Rebecca
Week Fifteen:

Tuesday 4/27

Meet in Gallery for Discussion Group "B"

Thursday 4/29 Reading for today's discussion: 
Bayles and Orland:  Art and Fear (63-92)
Week Sixteen:

 Tuesday 5/4

Last Class Period
Reading for today's discussion:
Bayles and Orland: Art and Fear (93-118)

Group "B" portfolios due to Meeker

 Wednesday 5/5 Group "B" take down exhibition
Final Exam Period:

Saturday 5/8

1:00 p.m. – final Exam ARTD450
There will be a written essay final exam.  To prepare: read your course journals and bring your textbooks.

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