A wide shot of a ceramics studio, featuring students working with pottery wheels and other tools.
Selfie of Isaac Vazquez, an adult person with a medium skin tone and black curly hair.

Isaac Vazquez

Lecturer

Bio

Isaac Vazquez (b. Cleveland, Ohio, the unceded territory of the Erie, Kaskaskia, Mississauga nations) (he/him) has black curly hair, brown skin, and a pair of eyes that question what has been declared as true. Born into a working class Puerto Rican and El Salvadorian family, he is an interdisciplinary artist who seeks how we discern the past through form.

Courses

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Description

This studio course focuses on themes, practices, contexts, and questions undertaken by contemporary artists and designers. Research Studio I is a course that asks students to begin to develop and connect their own work and ideas with a diverse range of artists, designers, and communities. This course engages with cultural institutions including: museums, galleries, libraries and archives as resources of critical engagement.

Students will undertake various types of research activities: a) collecting and classification, b) mapping and diagramming, c) systems of measurement, d) social interaction, e) information search systems, f) recording and representation, and g) drawing and other notational systems.


Assignments in this course are faculty directed, open-media, interdisciplinary and idea based. The projects are designed to help students recognize their work habits, biases, strengths, and weaknesses. Students will experience a wide range of research methods and making strategies. Critique as an evaluative process used in art and design schools, is a focus in this course. Various methods and models of critique are used in order to give students the tools to discuss their own work and the work of others.

Class Number

1266

Credits

3