Writing Junior Seminar |
3900 (001) |
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Wed
6:45 PM - 9:30 PM
In Person
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Description
This class will have as its focus the development of support materials and methods for professional practice relating to the work of writers and artists who engage in interdisciplinary projects with writing as a central element. This section is open to both BFAW Program students as well as non-BFAW students who are interested in developing professional practices strategies from that perspective. Across the semester, you will work to generate and fine-tune professional practice support materials such as artist statements and artist resumes, tap into SAIC?s CAPX and research other current online resources for funding, publication and exhibition opportunities, and align and present your body of work in order to further define and articulate central lines of concept and inquiry. Additionally, we?ll discuss assigned relevant readings and meet and speak with a local writer/artist concerning their own body of work and professional practice Course work results in creating professional practice materials supporting a digital portfolio of your work and collaboratively participating in an exhibition and literary reading event.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: 2900 course
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Class Number
2174
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Credits
3
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Department
Writing
Area of Study
Books and Publishing
Location
Lakeview - 808
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The Artist Formerly Known as Starving: Freelancing Comics and Illustration |
3900 (001) |
Beth Kathleen Hetland |
Wed
8:30 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
This seminar introduces and develops professional practices for students pursuing a freelance career in comics, illustration, animation, or the like. By creating promotional material, portfolios, contracts, and invoices, students learn how to market themselves as freelance artists. In tandem with learning the ins and outs of industry standards, they have access to insight and advice from a variety of guest speakers whose careers and professional paths have paved the way for future creators. Readings will vary but typically include 'The Freelancer's Bible: Everything You Need to Know to Have the Career of Your Dreams- On Your Terms' by Sara Horowitz, 'The Graphic Artist Guild Pricing and Ethical Guidelines Handbook,' and 'Burn Your Portfolio' by Michael Janda. Students will create, revise, workshop, and submit a variety of professional documents that culminate in a compendium over the course of the semester. These are all documents that will prove to be necessary for a freelancing career. There will be weekly responses to readings, and rotating guest speakers to provide in-sight on their professional journeys.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: 2900 course
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Class Number
1752
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Credits
3
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Department
Arts Administration and Policy
Area of Study
Books and Publishing, Comics and Graphic Novels
Location
MacLean 816
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Self Care In The Age Of Hyper Productivity |
3900 (001) |
kg Gnatowski |
Wed
8:30 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
We all have something that we do to offset stress and practice care for the self, be it jogging, knitting, reading, or meeting with friends. Care is a radical action. This course will look at care for the individual and care for the community as a strategy for art-making in the studio. Students will discuss self-care strategies that work for them and bring those strategies into the studio. The culminating project will be presenting a plan of action for continued self-care at SAIC and beyond with concrete examples of these strategies at play in the student's studio work. Students will work on a series of small sample projects throughout the semester in preparation for a final presentation of a finished piece. We will look to alternative models of evaluation and build our own unique dynamic approach to critiquing these pieces. Students will practice self-care by participating in the class reading group to discuss texts including All About Love by Bell Hooks, Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Marie Brown, Conversation with Mike Kelley, Keith Harring's Journals, Eva Hesse's notes and more. Texts will be selected to best reflect the student's interests and studio practices. We will look at artists and practitioners who bring care into their work across disciplines including Shana Moulton (film and performance), Aram Han Sifuentes (craft and participation), H. Melt (poetry and writing), Adrian Piper (research) and more. Students will be asked to contribute significantly to an extended bibliography of care for the class to share beyond the Spring semester. This course includes weekly text discussions, small group critiques on sample pieces and culminates in a full class critique of a self directed final project. Ideas for this project will be supported through individual meetings with the instructor and visiting guest self care experts.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: 2900 course
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Class Number
1751
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Credits
3
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Department
Arts Administration and Policy
Area of Study
Art/Design and Politics, Community & Social Engagement
Location
Lakeview - 202
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Wearing Many Hats |
3900 (001) |
Maryam Taghavi |
Tues
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
In this course, students will analyze and report on art world and cultural ecologies and explore professional work opportunities while reflecting on their current creative and scholarly interests. The course will lead to an expanded understanding of professional opportunities and the tools to pursue them while starting to identify each of our strengths and interests in identifying possible pathways for our lives that include (work life - studio life - love - finances - passion - family - etc...). Toward the end of the semester, as a way to bring into practice what was covered in the course, each student will participate in a class exhibition/presentation of current work and a portfolio of professional presentation materials to support one of the following (grant or job application and an exhibition/project proposal). Readings will address issues in the class and will include, 'GETTING YOUR SHIT TOGETHER: THE ULTIMATE BUSINESS MANUAL FOR EVERY PRACTICING ARTIST', ART/WORK (Revised + Updated) by Heather Darcy Bhandari and Jonathan Melber, and selections from the follwing books; 'Living and sustaining a Creative Life by Sharon Louden, 'The Creative Habit: a Practical Guide' by Twyla Tharp, among others. The deliverables in this class will include the following: 1) An illustrated verbal presentation of your current creative portfolio. 2) Research on one of the visitors to the class. 3) Class Exhibition including the entire class in an On Campus Space. 4) Printed and Digital Professional Portfolio.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: 2900 course
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Class Number
1754
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Credits
3
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Department
Arts Administration and Policy
Area of Study
Art/Design and Politics, Community & Social Engagement, Exhibition and Curatorial Studies
Location
Lakeview - 1428
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Project Pragmatics: Getting Your Work Out Into the World |
3900 (001) |
Jordan Martins |
Fri
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This course will prepare students for developing project proposals in various contexts ranging from informal collaborations with artist run spaces to formal grant applications. We will focus not only the process of conceptualizing a project idea and persuasively organizing the necessary content around it, but also explore the pragmatic aspects of carrying it out and interfacing collaboratively with an art space, an institution, or other artists. In addition to workshopping the various elements needed for a hypothetical project, students will be required to conceptualize, propose and execute a proposal of some scale at the end of the semester to put into practice the skills and ideas explored in the course. In doing so, we will use the project proposal as a means to understand the broader ecosystem of the artworld and the different roles people play within them: artist, curator, programmer, institution, non-profit infrastructure, commercial and corporate factors, and more. Chicago?s landscape of artists, institutions and DIY spaces will provide ample case studies and first hand know-how for us to tap into as we build an understanding of the interrelationships between an artistic practice and the space within which it is presented or contextualized.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: 2900 course
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Class Number
1753
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Credits
3
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Department
Arts Administration and Policy
Location
MacLean 501
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Statements, Grants, Proposals |
3900 (001) |
Rosalynn Gingerich |
Tues
8:30 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
This interdisciplinary seminar introduces, deepens and extends writing skills and helps to develop concepts that can sustain, guide and propel artistic practice after graduation. Central to the class is the professional completion of two grant applications, followed by a mock jury event that simulates actual jurying procedure. In conjunction with the applications, students write artist statements and develop project proposals. We also discuss how the arts and the public intersect, whether in popular opinion, historic context or professional settings. This includes an assessment of the relations of artists and audiences, artists and administrators and curators, and artists and critics.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: 2900 course
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Class Number
1750
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Credits
3
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Department
Arts Administration and Policy
Area of Study
Public Space, Site, Landscape
Location
MacLean 617
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Internship as Professional Experience |
3900 (001) |
Lora Lode |
TBD - TBD
In Person
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Description
This course is designed to provide students an opportunity to gain experience as interns in professional arts and design environments and prepare for professional life after SAIC. During the semester, faculty provide in-depth mentorship and act as liaison with the internship site supporting students meet their learning goals as outlined for the semester. Through group meetings and online discussions, students engage with a peer cohort of students participating in a variety of internships. Students work at internships for a total of 140 hours (approx 14 hours per week) for the term. In addition to successfully completing the internship, students will conduct an informational interview with their employer, attend 4 class meetings and a meeting with the faculty and supervisor, complete an internship supervisor evaluation, revise their resume, and update their online portfolio, website, or professional profile. Students are required to secure an internship prior to the start of the semester. Internships must be approved by the Career and Professional Experience (CAPX) office. Students are encouraged to meet with a CAPX advisor for assistance with researching and applying for internships. In order to begin the internship approval process students should go to https://bit.ly/35vmTTM. Upon approval, course registration is managed by CAPX. Note that international students must receive CPT authorization prior to participating in an off-campus internship. Internships may be in-person, hybrid, or virtual; however all four class meetings are virtual. Class meeting day and time are determined by the faculty.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: 2900 course
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Class Number
1960
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Credits
3
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Department
Career and Professional Experience
Location
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Runway Meets Runway: Fashion Accessories and Designing Objects You Wear |
3900 (001) |
Stephanie Sims |
Tues
3:30 PM - 9:15 PM
In Person
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Description
Runway Meets Runway is an excursion into the intersection of fashion and object design via the accessories and technologies that we wear, carry on and carry with. Working equally in the Fashion Department and AIADO, the students use investigation, iteration and innovation to design and fabricate a collection of accessory designs using analog and digital tools from worlds of both fashion and of product design. This Junior Seminar course includes visits to studios of professional designers to supplement individual developments of objects, lines and looks. Students will develop a web presence appropriate to their emerging practice. Sample Class Activities: Built around the idea that culture is something we carry, carry on, carry with, and carry out, the students will conceive a 'galactic proposal', design and produce the objects, then integrate them into a social media campaign that introduces them as young independent designers to the outside world. Emphasis is placed on developing a professional mindset and mission to all aspects of their work. Students are introduced to this though guest professionals in design, fashion, materials experts, and social media gurus. The class is built around making a signature collection through studio work. The class will also explore- Strategies for developing a collection, Basics of a signature brand Understanding market categories, Positioning and differentiation through presentation, Material/ technique demonstrations (both analog and digital), Vendor field trips, Roles of Intellectual Property, Transforming a personal social media identity into a professional presence, Branding objects, How to meet impossible deadlines, Studio photography on a shoestring budget -through demos, field trips, invited guests, intense studio nights, and the knowledge and expertise of faculty with deep experience developing individual design practices.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: 2900 course
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Class Number
1920
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Credits
3
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Department
Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects
Area of Study
Product Design
Location
Sullivan Center 727
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Designed Object Portfolio Development Studio |
3900 (001) |
Mollie Edgar, Tobey Albright |
Thurs
3:30 PM - 6:15 PM
In Person
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Description
In this class you will engage in a wide variety of professional practice activities to help prepare you for life after SAIC. In this course, each student will focus on advancing the design (layout, graphics, narratives, flow) of their portfolio so that it best conveys their individual design skills, experience and interests. Students will produce materials appropriate for delivery of their work across multiple formats (print, digital, web, etc), will learn how to edit/ arrange their materials to suit the specific context of application, and will create consistent design elements that can be shared across the full range of professional materials from portfolio, website, business cards, and other promotional materials. The course emphasizes hands-on, real- world professional activities and opportunities for emerging designers. More information about Professional Practice and the Academic Spine curriculum can be found on the SAIC website: http://www.saic.edu/academics/departments/academicspine/
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: 2900 course
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Class Number
2226
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Credits
3
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Department
Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects
Location
Sullivan Center 1226
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Designed Object Portfolio Development Studio |
3900 (001) |
Mollie Edgar, Tobey Albright |
Thurs
3:30 PM - 6:15 PM
In Person
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Description
In this class you will engage in a wide variety of professional practice activities to help prepare you for life after SAIC. In this course, each student will focus on advancing the design (layout, graphics, narratives, flow) of their portfolio so that it best conveys their individual design skills, experience and interests. Students will produce materials appropriate for delivery of their work across multiple formats (print, digital, web, etc), will learn how to edit/ arrange their materials to suit the specific context of application, and will create consistent design elements that can be shared across the full range of professional materials from portfolio, website, business cards, and other promotional materials. The course emphasizes hands-on, real- world professional activities and opportunities for emerging designers. More information about Professional Practice and the Academic Spine curriculum can be found on the SAIC website: http://www.saic.edu/academics/departments/academicspine/
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: 2900 course
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Class Number
2226
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Credits
3
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Department
Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects
Location
Sullivan Center 1226
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How to be an Artist at Night |
3900 (001) |
Jess Atieno Ounga |
Tues
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This professional practice course that focuses on preparing for all things life after school. As scaffolding throughout the course we will explore the text, How to be an artist at night by Raqs media collective to explore a range of questions and themes in art practice at the intersection of contemporary life. What constitutes an education for the real world? How do we grow a community that supports and is in conversation with our work? What are the professional skills we need to sustain our practice outside the studio? How do we write about, talk about and present our work? What are the practices of self care we can cultivate to fuel our creativity? Other readings will include teaching to transgress- Bell Hooks, The Artist's Guide: How to make a living doing what you love- Jackie Battenfield, The Social Production of Art- Janet Wolff. We will also watch and respond to short films. Course work will vary but will typically include writing an artist statement, bio and exhibition proposal.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: 2900 course
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Class Number
1939
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Credits
3
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Department
Fiber and Material Studies
Area of Study
Exhibition and Curatorial Studies, Public Space, Site, Landscape, Social Media and the Web
Location
MacLean 818
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Sustainable Practice/Sustainable Life |
3900 (001) |
Stacia Laura Yeapanis |
Fri
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This professional practice seminar emphasizes sustainability (emotional, economic, and environmental) as key for living artists. Each student will develop a sustainable work flow for organizing opportunities, documenting expenses, and applying for exhibitions, grants and residencies. Emphasis will be placed on sustainable material sourcing, both for environmental concerns and our own economic needs. Discussions and readings will revolve around how to keep making art, even when life gets in the way. Students will learn practical skills that serve their work (tweaking artist statements for various opportunities, developing and maintaining a website, ongoing research ) along with stress-management techniques (organized work flow, time-management, knowing when to take a break and how to rest more effectively, peer-to-peer support, dealing with rejection). This course will address the myriad ways studio artists get paid outside the commercial gallery system via recorded interviews with living artists. Readings include 'Art and Fear' (David Bayles and Ted Orlando) and 'Artists Gotta Eat and Other Things We Forget to Remember' by Tempesst Hazel. Past Visiting Artists have included Selina Trepp, who uses and reuses the material in her studio, and Sadie Woods, who is an artist, curator and DJ. Similar Visiting Artists will be chosen in future semesters. Each student will create a personal opportunities database, create a submission for the opportunity of their choice, write an artist statement, bio and CV, build a portfolio website, give an artist talk and develop a sustainable plan for sourcing materials and managing stress.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: 2900 course
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Class Number
1938
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Credits
3
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Department
Fiber and Material Studies
Area of Study
Exhibition and Curatorial Studies, Public Space, Site, Landscape, Social Media and the Web
Location
Lakeview - 202
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Legacies of Punk and DIY Methods in Production |
3900 (001) |
Sid Branca |
Wed
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This production course will explore the legacies of punk and alternative cultures via DIY (do-it-yourself) methods across an array of mass media. Topics covered through case studies will include: self-publishing and organization; touring and DIY exhibition; remaining and reinventing forms; and connecting production to political empowerment, support and action. Case studies will include grass-roots movements like riot grrrl/queercore (1990's) and amateur cinema (1920's), alongside presentations by contemporary visiting artists. Projects will include producing and tabling for Chicago Zine Fest; collaborative motion picture production; and an end-of-semester exhibition.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: 2900 course
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Class Number
1641
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Credits
3
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Department
Film, Video, New Media, and Animation
Area of Study
Books and Publishing, Comics and Graphic Novels
Location
MacLean 518
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(Re)Defining Success as an Artist |
3900 (001) |
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Fri
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
In this course, students will explore and create their own definitions of success, starting with their preconceived notions of what it means to be a successful artist. We will break down outdated expectations and myths and will rebuild unique, personal, and fulfilling plans for a creative life. Through writing, mentoring, and research students will explore career paths and what it means to live the flexible and nuanced life of an artist. We will investigate a number of topics and tools that support a career in the arts, including: mind-mapping, goal-setting, creating professional materials (CV, statement, bio), applying to professional opportunities such as grants and residencies, studio visits, and working with galleries. Course material will include artists’ personal accounts of leading a creative life and tools they use to make projects more rich. This course involves numerous written assignments; students must be prepared to write and edit their work. Students will choose from a vast menu of short projects in order to tailor their experience in the class to their career goals. Final assignments will include 1) a clear personal vision of success; 2) steps for achieving short and long-term goals, and 3) refined professional materials suitable for application.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: 2900 course
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Class Number
1460
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Credits
3
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Department
Interdisciplinary Studies
Location
Lakeview - 203
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Professional Performance Practice |
3900 (001) |
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Mon
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
How does a performance artist create a sustainable career and create a sustainable community in the world after college? This course will provide the nuts and bolts of how to build a career as a performance artist. We will delve into the politics of curating and representing diverse practices. Students will create their own public performance festivals in public or in site-specific spaces learning the mechanisms of getting funding and writing proposals.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: 2900 course
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Class Number
2193
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Credits
3
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Department
Performance
Location
MacLean 2M
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Junior Seminar: Professional Practice |
3900 (001) |
Rachel Herman |
Fri
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This six-hour seminar is a professional practice class for life after graduation, focusing on how each student can build a sustainable practice based on their own strengths and working style. Students create a website, CVs, write grant proposals, artist statements, and statements of purpose, learning the different content and uses of each. Readings on contemporary artists and 'best practices' for editing, exhibition, and installation of artwork will support class work. This course embraces the understanding that developing a sustainable practice outside of school includes building creative community, developing an independent research practice and other activities related to each individual’s work. As such, the highlight of this course will be bi-weekly visits and workshops from a diverse range of working artists, curators, residency staff and others to speak about these opportunities, as well as how to build a fruitful creative life. For example, we will develop strategies for talking about your work that fit your own personal style with a Chicago curator, and present grant materials to a mock panel to get productive feedback. The Junior Seminar is one of four required classes intended to function as a 'spine,' providing guidance and structure for SAIC's open and interdisciplinary curriculum.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: 2900 course
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Class Number
1775
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Credits
3
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Department
Photography
Area of Study
Digital Imaging
Location
280 Building Rm 207
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Printmedia Platforms |
3900 (001) |
Nia Easley |
Mon
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
Students will develop professional practices including collaborative and independent work situations, via roles as commissioned artist, master printer, or artist-designer. Students will seek real-world clients to complete assignments, foster relationships with graphic designers, small presses, or their artist peers. Contemporary alternative print production and distribution models such as the integration of art, music and publishing prevalent in DIY scenes (1990s and 2000s), to emerging artist multiple/subscription programs and book/print fairs will be also be studied.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: 2900 course
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Class Number
1783
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Credits
3
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Department
Printmedia
Area of Study
Books and Publishing, Collaboration, Community and Locality, Comics and Graphic Novels, Social Media and the Web
Location
280 Building Rm 203
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PTDW Professional Practice Topics |
3900 (001) |
Sam Jaffe |
Thurs
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Prerequisites
Prerequisite: 2900 course
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Class Number
2146
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Credits
3
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Department
Painting and Drawing
Location
280 Building Rm 120
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Multi-Level Painting Studio |
3900 (001) |
Paola Cabal |
Mon
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This course investigates painting materials, application, color, form, and ideas through contemporary and traditional methodologies. Designed to accommodate many skill levels, students can explore various creative strategies through a skill-based curriculum as well as individual projects. This course serves as a requirement and preparation for topic-based Painting Studio Multi-Level B classes. This course also fulfills the 3900 Professional Practice course requirement. http://www.saic.edu/academics/departments/academicspine/professionalpracticeexperience/
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: 2900 course
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Class Number
1911
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Credits
3
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Department
Painting and Drawing
Location
280 Building Rm 321
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(Re)Defining Success as an Artist |
3900 (002) |
C. C. Ann Chen |
Tues
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
In this course, students will explore and create their own definitions of success, starting with their preconceived notions of what it means to be a successful artist. We will break down outdated expectations and myths and will rebuild unique, personal, and fulfilling plans for a creative life. Through writing, mentoring, and research students will explore career paths and what it means to live the flexible and nuanced life of an artist. We will investigate a number of topics and tools that support a career in the arts, including: mind-mapping, goal-setting, creating professional materials (CV, statement, bio), applying to professional opportunities such as grants and residencies, studio visits, and working with galleries. Course material will include artists’ personal accounts of leading a creative life and tools they use to make projects more rich. This course involves numerous written assignments; students must be prepared to write and edit their work. Students will choose from a vast menu of short projects in order to tailor their experience in the class to their career goals. Final assignments will include 1) a clear personal vision of success; 2) steps for achieving short and long-term goals, and 3) refined professional materials suitable for application.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: 2900 course
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Class Number
1461
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Credits
3
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Department
Interdisciplinary Studies
Location
MacLean 816
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