"Changing Environments - The field guide as visual practice and active research"
HUMN 305 +VAST-310/DRWG-304/ILUS-305
with Cameron Cartiere and Nick Conbere
In this linked academic and studio course, you will experience the intertwining of human activity and natural environments, responding to personal experiences and research through field journals. Together, we will explore strategies for on-site drawing and research as well as other approaches to capturing observations and experiences. Course activities will range from research in archives, expert interviews, exploring documentary, reportage, storytelling and new ways to consider the role of the artist as visual commentator. The range of artistic outputs can vary from photodocumentary to imagined illustrative visions. You will be creating artwork and writing as personal responses to the class investigations.
Field journals provide a methodology for documentation, research and personal expression. Throughout the class, you will develop a larger investigative project that could take forms such as artist books, illustrated journals, posters, narrative photographs, a photography series, or a series of paintings with texts.
- Teacher: Cameron Cartiere
- Teacher: Nick Conbere