ADE675 - Art in Social Context / Faculty of Education

This course encourages students to have a first hand experience with visual art, artist, craftsmen, organizations within both regional and local community, and to implement plans for more community involvement. To achieve this goal, exploration of aesthetic, socio-cultural, political, and ecological issues in creating art that engages community and affects positive change are explored. Study of exemplary artworks and creation of proposal of new ones are needed, emphasizing on creative and critical thinking, community involvement, collaborative enterprise, research, and creation of art works honoring aesthetic, ecological and cultural values. Through a series of lectures, workshops and individual research projects, students will gain skills and understandings of the theoretical, performative and evaluative knowing of art practices and art criticism.