Outside Your Box: Responding to the world around you.

Conceptual Art Workshops

“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” Andy Warhol

“To be an artist is to believe in life. ”Henry Moore

Winter Semester 2016

February 1st – February 29th

Monday 1pm-3pm

Thursday 3-4pm

Lectures & Multi-Disciplinary Workshops.

Facilitator: Jade Foster, Guest Lecturer from Derby, UK.

Email: j.foster@unimail.derby.ac.uk

This course exists to enable you to understand how artists, galleries and institutions exist and thrive in alternative spaces around your city. It is crucial and very important as a contemporary artist that you can adapt and create work with limited resources and also make use of what’s around you. This will prepare you for establishing yourself as artists.

The workshops will equip you with the knowledge and courage to be creative and to make artwork in response to the refugee crisis. It is an ideal opportunity to use art as a medium to voice and express truths, realities and impact change. The refugee crisis in Syria and other Middle Eastern countries is questioned to be the biggest humanitarian crisis since World War 2! Working in groups you will make regular visits to refugee centres and homes and will in result produce a cohort of work collectively and individually.

Learning Outcomes :

Use an array of interpersonal skills. In English articulate yourself in group discussions, work successfully in groups to then produce and present a body of work to a high-level that is well thought out, original, shows evidence of risk taking and expresses clear themes that draws on political, cultural and social issues surrounding the refugee crisis. This body of work can be done in any chosen media, preferably your own speciality as these sessions are about building your level of thinking and ability to develop of concept.

Course Layout:

Course will be taught in different formats which includes;

-Seminars

-Gallery and City Visits

-Visiting Refugee Houses & Centres

-Lectures

-Art History Lectures

-Multi-media workshops in the form of Drawing and Time-based Art.

There will be an introduction in the beginning before the course begins to give you an overview and a timetable.

We will meet up twice a week for 2 hours and 1 hour and you are expected to work in your journals and complete tasks in the form of homework for the next class. I expect regular attendance as you will be working in groups and all group members need to be present in class.

The 2 hour sessions are for gallery visits, practical workshops, visiting refugee houses. The 1 hour sessions are for discussing, accessing work, presenting work, group discussions and lectures.

Course Requirements :

There needs to be evidence of exploration, evaluation, analysis, methodologies, theoretical and historical reference relating to contemporary artists and movements.

This all needs to be documented in an Art Journal, which should be preferably A5 and include your thoughts, sketches, drawings, pictures and anything you feel to add relating to your project or experience. Be creative! You will need to show me this at the end of the course as evidence of engagement.

You’re expected to do at least one journal entry a day but I encourage you to aim to fill one journal by the end of the course. These journals are good tools to use as you can look back in them for inspiration.

There will be tasks and assignments that will need to be completed as homework.