| Artist Archive and Legacy - SITE Galleries Archive |
4031 (001) |
Sarah Kathryn Skaggs |
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 continue 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 class readings and course content will include material that addresses a range of contemporary approaches to archive management and mediation focusing on specific institutional examples alongside the work of practitioners in the field of archival management and research.
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Class Number
2130
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Credits
3
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Department
Historic Preservation
Area of Study
Exhibition and Curatorial Studies
Location
Lakeview - 1507
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| Better Homes & Gardens |
4512 (001) |
Annalise Flynn |
Fri
8:30 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
This course explores the rich genre of vernacular-built environments - where personal spaces like homes, studios, and gardens have been fully transformed into continually evolving, site-specific, and life-encompassing endeavours. Frequently such spaces are understood as works or art because they include strong visual and crafted elements. Such structures include mosaic-covered homes, painted mountains, found object gardens, hand-built concrete compounds, and much more. In this course, we will explore the expansive ways that those creating environments push the canonical limits of artmaking and the idea of who the artist is through their interactions with material, landscape, and community. We will examine historical and contemporary art environments within their social, political, and cultural contexts, consider the 'lives' of ephemeral sites via preservation initiatives, and discuss where these artists and their work intersect (and do not intersect) with the mainstream art world. The artists included in this class present a demographic and geographic cross-section of America (and elsewhere), and readings, lectures, and class discussion will support the development of a more inclusive understanding of artmaking and placemaking in the United States. Artists' sites examined range from Sabato Rodia's Watts Towers in Los Angeles, California to L.V. Hull's home in Kosciusko, Mississippi. Students are expected to attend in-person class, complete a variety of readings and research-based projects, and participate in class discussion. Sign up for this class requires instructor consent and is by application to Professor Annalise Flynn. If you would like more information about this class, please email Annalise at aflynn2@saic.edu.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement OR Graduate Student
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Class Number
2131
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Credits
3
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Department
Historic Preservation
Area of Study
Museum Studies
Location
Sullivan Center 1241
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| Building Diagnostics |
5012 (001) |
Rachel Will |
Tues
8:30 AM - 11:15 AM
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
2358
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Credits
3
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Department
Historic Preservation
Location
Lakeview - 1507
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| Preservation Planning Studio |
5015 (001) |
F. Philip Barash |
Mon
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
One of the most significant sculptors of the postwar period, Richard Hunt left behind a vibrant legacy ¿ and a working studio. Hunt, a pioneering Black artist whose career spanned seven decades, is also an important and beloved figure in Chicago, where his work is displayed in institutional collections and public spaces. Since the early 1970s, Hunt¿s creative headquarters was in Lincoln Park, a converted electrical substation originally built at the turn of the 20th century. The site is now jointly stewarded by the Richard Hunt Trust ¿ which oversees the artist¿s estate ¿ and the Richard Hunt Legacy Foundation which ¿advances public awareness, education, and appreciation of the life and art¿ of Hunt. In cooperation with the Trust and Foundation, this advanced studio course will pursue a dual outcome: first, to document the current condition of the structure and produce architectural and planning studies; and second, to vision potential future scenarios for the former studio, that preserve and interpret the site¿s history.
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Class Number
2132
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Credits
3
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Department
Historic Preservation
Location
Sullivan Center 1241
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| Historic Interiors |
5543 (001) |
Anne T. Sullivan |
Fri
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
In this course the participants will explore and see historic American interiors either as on site visits in Chicago or as classroom powerpoint presentation.
Visiting appropriate Chicago interiors will give the participants an opportunity to stand in the interiors and discuss what makes them important time pieces of American history and preservation. This course is an examination of American interior design, furniture, and decorative arts from the mid-19c to the mid-1990s. The emphasis will be on the architectural and decorative interior styles (both high and common) as seen in person in Chicago but as representative of prevalent U.S. usage and their possible European, Middle Eastern, and Asian influences. Both public and private interiors will be visited and discussed. On site visits are essential.
Participants should expect to discuss the readings, on site visits, in class images as well as write three papers during the semester.
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Class Number
2222
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Credits
3
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Department
Historic Preservation
Location
Sullivan Center 1241
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| Preservation Advocacy, Ethics & Law |
6008 (001) |
Richard Friedman |
Tues
12:15 PM - 3:00 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
2093
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Credits
3
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Department
Historic Preservation
Location
Sullivan Center 1241
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