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COMMUNITY ARTS PRACTICES – INTRODUCTORY STUDIO/SEMINAR
Art Education 3911.01
Days/Times: Tuesday & Thursday, 11am to 12:20pm
Professor: Billy Yalowitz
CRN: 39004
About: Community Arts Practices bring artists, activists and urbanists together with people of a community of location, spirit, or tradition, to create art that is based in the life of that community. The course will engage students in issues including:
* Collaborative Art Making as a means of Community Organizing
* Arts as social justice intervention
* Arts as a vehicle for building relationships across lines of race, class, religion.
Come join us as we create site-specific installations and inter-disciplinary performances with Philadelphia communities. Bring your own arts practices and interests, and your passions for social justice, urban histories and futures, working with Philadelphia community-based organizations and families, and your own communities of origin. The course is the first in a sequence that prepares students to become involved in the field projects in Community Arts that are offered through Tyler/Temple’s Arts in Community Certificate Program.
UNEASY PIECES: CENSORSHIP & CONTROVERSY IN MODERN ART
Art History 2990.0
Days/Times: Tuesdays, 5:30pm to 8pm
Professor: Gerald Silk
CRN: 36258
About: The course focuses on works, subjects, and artists related to censorship and controversy. We investigate what makes artists/pieces problematic, examining concepts such as iconoclasm, obscenity, “publicness,” cultural appropriation, and pornography, and address issues of religion, race, sexuality, identity, nationalism, politics, animal rights, ethics, consent, and chronicling and intervention. While we concentrate on the visual arts, we also consider film, literature, music, theater, and other forms of expression. The class combines lecture, discussion, readings, presentations, and papers. We screen films, invite outside speakers, and culminate in a trip to the Philadelphia Museum of Art to discuss provocative art first-hand. The class generates passionate and robust discussion as we work together probing the balance between offensive expression and freedom of speech. This past year several student projects resulted in presentations at the TURFCreWS undergraduate symposium.
SEARCH & DESTROY: PUNK’S DIY REBELLION
Days/Times: Tuesday & Thursday, 5:30pm to 6:50pm
Professor: George Alley
CRN: 31219
About: This course examines the far-reaching phenomena of punk music, fashion, and DIY culture that originated in the late 1970s, and its influential effects in later decades. Punk embodied an in-your-face class-consciousness mixed with the anti-aesthetics of negation and unbridled creativity. This class examines the formal manifestations of punk in music, fashion, graphics, and publishing, while attending to the ways that punk broke down the raced, classed and gendered barriers associated with traditional notions of beauty and form. Topics covered will include the shift away from 1960s idealism into 1970s nihilism; the performance of gender in Punk and New Wave, DIY publishing; the relationship of 1970s culture to class conflict and politics; the implications of unskilled production; critical theory of subcultures; and the influence of philosophy and theory on punk practice (Marquis de Sade, Marx, Nietzsche, Bataille, Brecht, Debord, and others).
Professional Development Opportunities
Submit a proposal to have an art exhibition in the Honors Lounge!
Want to stretch your curatorial wings? Have an exhibition idea you would like to see come to fruition?
We aren't the Guggenheim, but we would love to hear your ideas for exhibitions in the Honors Lounge Art Gallery. It is a great way to put together a show for your resume. Fill out this form and let us know you are interested. Questions? Want to talk over some ideas for a show? Contact Zach at zmartin@temple.edu.
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