Thesis Forms: Artist's Book

Course Description

Summary

Through individualized meetings, the course will support students in developing and completing written components of the thesis artist’s book. These meetings will be opportunities for discussion and feedback, aiming towards the composition, annunciation, vision, and eloquence of each artist’s written and critically expressive voice. As another component of the course, each student will be frequently sending their drafts of writing to the professor and to the thinking partner so that ongoing conversations between the student’s ideas and expression of those ideas through writing can be collaboratively worked through together.

Each student in the MFA LR program proposes and develops a thesis/research project alongside a thinking partner. There are three components to the project which must be completed to graduate.  They are the portfolio & its companion artist’s talk, the artist’s book, and the research action. Students must also submit a precis at the conclusion of all three components. Each of these has its own demands. Thinking Partners work in support of the student’s progress and process.