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Rebecca Cummins
ARTS 350
Seattle Campus
Collaboratively taught workshop for students from multiple artistic disciplines involving interactive development of a performance work.
Class description
Students will be introduced to the history of sundials, the fundamentals of their construction and to the range of contemporary approaches to sundial and environmental public art-making. In this interdisciplinary studio art course, participants will create giant sundials from existing objects and structures across the University of Washington campus in conjunction with Spheres, The University of Washington Summer Arts Festival, May 21-July 19, 2003.
Student learning goals
General method of instruction
Lecture, discussion, critique and studio practice.
Recommended preparation
No pre-requisites; however, significant experience in the arts or sciences will be valuable.
Class assignments and grading
Individually and in collaboration, participants will conceptualize, design, construct and install site-specific sun markers across the University of Washington campus.
Participation in discussion and critiques; quality of studio artwork produced.
