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My teaching fosters an active and accessible learning environment where students critically engage with cultures, experiences, and ways of knowing beyond their own. Through the study of various artistic movements, marginalized art makers, art historical methodologies, and Indigenous frameworks, I encourage students to develop a curiosity and deeper understanding of art's social and cultural contexts.
My teaching fosters an active and accessible learning environment where students critically engage with cultures, experiences, and ways of knowing beyond their own. Through the study of various artistic movements, marginalized art makers, art historical methodologies, and Indigenous frameworks, I encourage students to develop a curiosity and deeper understanding of art's social and cultural contexts.
Introduction to Native North American Art
Introduction to Native North American Art
This course functions as an introduction to the range of artistic practices within Native American cultures throughout Turtle Island, today known as the United States and Canada. We will explore customary artistic practices as well as the continuities between ancestral practices and contemporary Indigenous art today. Considering various important themes, such as materiality, cosmology, cultural memory, and many others, this course focuses on the connections between Native American and Indigenous art practices along with Indigenous art historical research methodologies.
Abbreviated Introduction to Native North American Art Syllabus.pdfContemporary Native Art
Contemporary Native Art
This course explores the dynamic field of global contemporary Native art. Focusing on work produced in the last twenty years, we will explain the intersection of visual art, performance art, installation work, and film and digital media in order to analyze the ways in which artists create artworks rooted in their connections to Indigenous territory, identity, and cultural practices, while being in dialogue with the larger global art world. In this class, we will analyze how contemporary Indigenous art practices confront the histories and legacies of settler colonialism and consider Indigenous futures.
Abbreviated Contemporary Native Art Syllabus.pdfNineteenth Century Art
Nineteenth Century Art
This course considers the art and visual culture of the nineteenth century in Europe and the United States. We will discuss various art movements, from Neoclassicism to Art Nouveau. In this course we will explore the relationships between artmaking and social, political, and historical contexts through stylistic changes, recurrent and new themes, and the ever-changing social and political landscape present at this time.
Abbreviated Nineteenth Century Art Syllabus.pdfTwentieth Century Art, Europe and the United States
Twentieth Century Art, Europe and the United States
This course focuses on art and visual culture of the twentieth century in Europe and the United States. We will discuss various art movements, from Cubism to Surrealism to Land Art. In this course we will consider how artmaking is shaped by social, political, and historical contexts by exploring stylistic developments, recurring and emerging themes, and the evolving socio-political environment of the time.
Abbreviated Twentieth Century Art Syllabus.pdfThe Politics of Pictures
The Politics of Pictures
This course focuses on the link between artistic expression and politics. In this course, we will explore how visual art creates, challenges, and reinforces various power dynamics, political ideologies, and social hierarchies. We will consider how political thinking has impacted art subjects and styles and how arts have transformed history, politics, and social change. Through engagement with topics like political cartoons, war propaganda, climate change, gender violence, and representations of race, students will learn about the context of art and political representations by artists.
Abbreviated Politics of Pictures Syllabus.pdfThe Museum Object
The Museum Object
This course examines the history, philosophy, and practice of acquiring, researching, and displaying objects in art museums, gallery spaces, and online in the contemporary era. Students will organize an exhibition, from curation to creation, on an online exhibition platform, acquiring hands-on experience throughout each stage. Each semester, a different collection is selected for the exhibition, allowing the students to research and reflect on lessons intrinsic to the particular objects to be displayed, deepen their understanding of museum theory, and gain invaluable experience in designing, installing, and hosting an exhibition.
Abbreviated Museum Object Syllabus.pdfHistory & Criticism of Art II
History & Criticism of Art II
This course is an introductory survey from early Renaissance through modern and contemporary art history including developments in American art and throughout the globe. Through classroom lectures and discussions, readings, and written assignments, this course encourages students to engage with issues concerning the meaning and function of art objects with social, religious, political, and technological contexts surrounding them.
Abbreviated History and Criticism of Art II Syllabus.pdfPage updated
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