May term at Regis Center for Art offers a unique Print course designed to use print as a supporting media for time sensitive artwork! This is a proposal based course, open to any traditional or contemporary practices that you choose, including, but not limited to, web media, theater, puppetry, social art, street art, video, animation, sculpture......basically if its legal, and it includes printmaking - it's good. The whole affair will be tracked with a blog and culminate with a public event.
ARTS 3490
Instructor: Benjamin Davis Brockman
Monday May 21 – Friday June 8, MWF, 9a-2p.
Regis Center for Art: W182-185.
Course Objectives: A. FUN. B. Kick Ass experimental media abounds!
Students in this course will learn basic printmaking techniques pertaining to relief and screen-printing in traditional capacities, and then choose a non-traditional, performative application for those mediums. With those two primary objectives in mind, students will learn the rules of fine art printing, and promptly find a way to break them by crossing into contemporary approaches to disciplines such as theatre, dance, performance, video or virtually any new media. Working in groups or as individuals, students will cultivate their own practice across creative disciplines. Starting with a background in the historical significance of print as a subversive political and social form of communication, the course will examine the relevance of the medium to street art, DIY culture, puppetry, commerce and performance. The importance of product is second to process in this course, as the print is merely a vehicle for a larger public endeavor. Material will primarily be disposable, such as cardboard and wheat paste, and the spirit of the lowbrow will be enthusiastically encouraged throughout the term. Student projects will be video taped on site, and developments will be documented online in the form of a class blog, which will publicize their efforts and act as a portfolio/resume building tool. Physical components such as masks will be displayed in tandem with a screening or performance event at the end of the course. Please peruse http://bloodvengeance2011.blogspot.com/.
