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James Keith Nicholls
ART 334
Seattle Campus
Topics vary, centering on issues of public art and professional practices.
Class description
Winter 2001 The Public Context: Out of Site Part of the Public Art course series but relevant to students of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Design.
The concern of the course is to interweave pressing issues of land, culture and place with the possibility of creating an art boasting stronger contextual ties and audience access. The students will be introduced to, and make use of, the multiple tools of investigation and documentation that can be constructively applied to forming an understanding of locale necessary to produce a place-specific public art.
Student learning goals
General method of instruction
Physical contexts in the public realm will be examined from a variety of perspectives; historical, cultural, physical, and temporal. Readings, lectures, and guest speakers will introduce ways of analyzing site. Students will conduct their own informed fieldwork and compile collective portraits of given locations.
Recommended preparation
The course will build off a student’s experience in Art, Architecture, Landscape Architecture or Urban Design.
Class assignments and grading
A class reader prepared from the field’s literature will provide the background for a set of assignments each exploring a different method of research and communication. A mix of individual and group assignments will include captioned photographic essays, maps, documentary videos, posters, and three-dimensional collages. Assignments will be exhibited and critiqued.
Group and class participation, 5 assignments ranging in duration from 1 to 3 weeks.
