ART 274 - Painting II - Naturecultures

In this painting class, we will create work that is in conversation with the broader questions: Can we identify and follow specific naturecultures from our current surroundings as well as our ancestral lineages? How might we paint, map, and story such specificities as we engage with these environments as sites of knowledge production? In this class we will use a contemporary painting approach to create alternative mapping narratives, trace our diasporic human and ecological relationships, and question what a decolonial painting approach could look like. We will develop our personal relationships to the more-than-human world. This class will include lectures, readings, technical skill demos, discussions, field trips, and microscopic work. Students will create multimedia paintings in the studio and the field, and thoughtfully discuss their own and each other’s work.

Unit(s): 1
Group Distribution Requirement(s): Distribution Group I
Prerequisite(s): ART 170, ART 173, or ART 175
Instructional Method: Studio
Grading Mode: Letter grading (A-F)
Notes: Enrollment limited to 18.
Group Distribution Learning Outcome(s):

Understand how arguments can be made, visions presented, or feelings or ideas conveyed through language or other modes of expression (symbols, movement, images, sounds, etc.).
Analyze and interpret texts, whether literary or philosophical, in English or a foreign language, or works of the visual or performing arts.
Evaluate arguments made in or about texts (whether literary or philosophical, in English or a foreign language, or works of the visual or performing arts).