Currents: Moving, Drawing, and Making

Course Description

Summary

In nature’s flowing forms, i.e. in water, air, and anything and everything that moves, there are currents that are discernible, energizing, and wondrous. When experiencing movement, making movement, performing movement, and observing movement, we can find the flow, work with it, draw it, and watch it evolve. How do we recognize and make fluid forms? How do we find the structural current? How do we experience time? And how does the surrounding environment influence it all?


Throughout the course, students will draw, design simple situations to move through, and make short scenes/movement studies. Using methodologies from visual and movement-based art forms, Currents provides an opportunity for students of any discipline to engage in trans-disciplinary research and practice. All students will be contributing their own perspectives and approaches and working toward their own understanding of the work at hand. Students will do both individual and team projects.