Mining Personal and Collective Histories
S07
Cadence Giersbach
Working in drawing, painting, and mixed media, students will investigate their own interests with the context of a collective history. Through a series of projects emphasizing the development of imagery from shared cultural and historical sources and experiences, the class will explore the reworking of historical art and folk motifs and techniques into a contemporary context. The relationships between material and formal concerns and subject matter will be stressed. Activity in the studio will be supplemented by reading, research, and writing projects. Weekly meetings will consist of group critiques, presentations, and discussion.