| Artist Archive and Legacy - SITE Galleries Archive |
4031 (001) |
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Thurs
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
In this interdisciplinary studio-seminar, students will work with SITE Galleries and its archive. Founded in 1994, SITE, once known as the Student Union Galleries (SUGs), is a student-run organization at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) for the exhibition of student work. SITE was created as a response to the lack of spaces on SAIC's campus to accommodate the display of student work. Since then, SITE has had the support of faculty advisors and staff and has supported the professional development of roughly 80 student staff members, produced over 260 exhibitions, and has served more than 850 student artists. For more details about SITE Galleries, visit the following link - https://sites.saic.edu/sitegalleries/# This class will join the legacy celebration of SITE's 30th anniversary and will work with SITE's archive to support the efforts of bringing it to a publicly accessible stage while understanding the archival needs of the paper-based collection of ephemera, promotional materials and digital documentation. The main aim of the class is to conduct assessments of the materials condition and physical and digital needs. The class will culminate in the creation of an exhibition, and based on conversations with the SITE staff, the class will work as a team to learn about approaches to managing collections, working with archives and developing an exhibition. Students will have hands-on experience in curating an archival exhibition while learning about installation techniques, exhibition design and art handling. The class is an opportunity to activate one of SAIC's archives while activating a network of past SITE members who are now key actors in the art ecosystem. The class will include an active participation of previous SITE members as guests to the class and field trips to the arts organizations where they currently work or their studios. The class readings and critical content will include material that addresses a range of curatorial approaches focusing on specific institutional examples alongside the work of particular curators and experimental interpretation approaches to presenting archival research.
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Class Number
1243
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Credits
3
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Department
Historic Preservation
Area of Study
Exhibition and Curatorial Studies
Location
Sharp 310
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| Better Homes & Gardens |
4512 (001) |
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Fri
8:30 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
This course explores the rich genre of vernacular art environments' combinations of art, architecture and/or landscape architecture, including religious grottos, spiritual, devotional and mystical sites, gardens, ephemeral yard shows, architectural inventions, expressions of loneliness and survival, artist-built sites of conscience, homes fully transformed, artist's museums, and other created spaces that are site and life specific. The course examines historical and contemporary art environments and issues impacting art from beyond the academic mainstream and its evolving definitions, environments in their social, political and cultural contexts, home and landscape as studios, the viability and longevity of specific sites, and site preservation. Artists explored in this class include women, people of color, economically disadvantaged makers, farmers/rural dwellers, urban dwellers, and immigrants, among others. Artists' sites examined range from Sam Rodia's Watts Towers, Emery Blagdon's Healing Machine, Kea Tawana's Ark, to Ferdinand Cheval's Palais Ideal, and many more. Lectures are supported by video, audio, and a broad range of readings. Developing an awareness and appreciation for vernacular expressions in architecture, architectural cladding and ornament, garden ornament and yard shows, and other ordinary or beyond-ordinary visual arrangements in our shared, adorned environment is a subtext. Students complete readings and exploration and research projects. Sign up for this class requires instructor consent and is by application to Professor Nicholas Lowe. For more details please email nlowe1@saic.edu.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement OR Graduate Student
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Class Number
2114
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Credits
3
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Department
Historic Preservation
Area of Study
Museum Studies
Location
Lakeview - 1507
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| Building Diagnostics |
5012 (001) |
Rachel Will |
Tues
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
Why do buildings get sick and how do we make them well? This course examines the deterioration (by man and nature) of building materials and their component systems. Through lectures and field studies, students will study the symptoms, diagnose the problem, determine what tests are needed, and how to remedy the effect . Field trips included.
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Class Number
1242
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Credits
3
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Department
Historic Preservation
Location
Lakeview - 1506
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| Preservation Planning Studio |
5015 (001) |
Charles Pipal |
Wed
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
A selected neighborhood or region is studied, researched, and analyzed. The tools of preservation planning are practiced in the field-including the analysis and history of individual buildings, the study of various building types and their place in the community, the impact of transportation and institutions on the historic fabric, and the history of the community over time. Students conduct surveys of historic resources, prepare a comprehensive report, and present their findings before the community.
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Class Number
2310
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Credits
3
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Department
Historic Preservation
Location
Lakeview - 1506
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| Physical Connections Across Time and Distance |
5017 (001) |
Charles Pipal |
Mon
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This studio class will explore and address themes and cultural connections which migrate across geographic boundaries and time. Do sites have memory? When all visible physical traces have disappeared, how can we evoke the past using design? When cultural practices (music, language, art, food, architecture, etc.) and people transplant to another place, what do they leave behind and what do they create a new? What links prevail over space and time?
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Class Number
2486
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Credits
3
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Department
Historic Preservation
Location
Lakeview - 1506
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| Preservation Law |
6008 (001) |
Richard Friedman |
Thurs
3:30 PM - 6:15 PM
In Person
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Description
Preservation Law concentrates on the legal framework of American cultural preservation. All professionals in the field should know the local and national laws protecting our cultural heritage and how to advocate on behalf of heritage preservation. The course explores such topics as the constraints under which local landmark commissions operate, the rights of property owners and the strengths and failings of federal protection laws. In addition, we will study the increasing acceptance of diverse views and how context affects our understanding of cultural artifacts. The classroom work incorporates the question and answer method, in which students and professor discuss the day?s topic and assigned readings. As much as possible, original documents and materials will be included in the assigned readings, such as the seminal United States Supreme Court Penn Central decision. Chicago is a center of cultural preservation activity, so we are able to invite a variety of outside speakers for practical and diverse viewpoints. There will be a long-term project in which each student selects a controversial cultural artifact, investigates its history and analyses the controversy. Students then give a class presentation of their findings and conclusions.
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Class Number
1245
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Credits
3
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Department
Historic Preservation
Location
Lakeview - 1506
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