Lifecycles in Art

This interdisciplinary hands-on course covers the lifecycle of an Artwork in which we work together as a class to imagine, create, and document a temporary public installation at the Anderson Collection alongside a guest artist. We subsequently publish an Artist's zine to share our process and documentation of our completed public artwork. We place a significant emphasis on recording our process throughout the quarter. Documentation is vital in preserving and researching Art, and a document is typically considered evidence supporting a fact. In art documentation, that "fact" is generally a given artwork or an aspect of an artist's life and how the work is remembered long after it has been removed from public view. In this course, we focus primarily on sculptural installation, photography, writing, and design.