A wide shot of a ceramics studio, featuring students working with pottery wheels and other tools.
SAIC faculty member Jill Lanza.

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Jill M. Lanza

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BA 2001 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, MFA 2008, Columbia College Chicago. Exhibitions: Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago; Smart Museum of Art, Chicago; Museum of Design Atlanta; Wisconsin Museum of Quits and Fiber Arts; O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA; Chicago Center for Green Technology; Contemporary Art Center of Peoria, IL. Collections: Columbia College Chicago, Center for Book and Paper Arts; Golda Meir Library, Special Collections at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; The Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection, School of the Art Institute Chicago; Minnesota Center for Book Arts; Special Collections at the University of Iowa Libraries. Awards: The Chicago Community Arts Assistance Program (CAAP) grant. 

 

Courses

Title Department Catalog Term

Description

This interdisciplinary critique seminar is designed to help students recognize patterns of inquiry within their studio work while proceeding toward an outward-facing practice beyond graduation. An assessment of previous projects will be the starting point for an ongoing critical examination of your creative practice, through which you will be asked to contextualize and position your work in the art-worlds of the 21st Century. This course is a forum for in-depth individual and group critiques with technical and conceptual discussions tailored to your practice and research. In addition to various readings, screenings, and field trips, class visits by local artists and curators will provide the opportunity for conversation about the lived experience of sustaining a creative practice. With an emphasis on faculty mentorship, class meetings will support the development of a focused, self-initiated Senior Project, a strong portfolio, and the tools for maintaining an independent studio practice.

Class Number

1173

Credits

3

Description

This interdisciplinary critique seminar is designed to help students recognize patterns of inquiry within their studio work while proceeding toward an outward-facing practice beyond graduation. An assessment of previous projects will be the starting point for an ongoing critical examination of your creative practice, through which you will be asked to contextualize and position your work in the art-worlds of the 21st Century. This course is a forum for in-depth individual and group critiques with technical and conceptual discussions tailored to your practice and research. In addition to various readings, screenings, and field trips, class visits by local artists and curators will provide the opportunity for conversation about the lived experience of sustaining a creative practice. With an emphasis on faculty mentorship, class meetings will support the development of a focused, self-initiated Senior Project, a strong portfolio, and the tools for maintaining an independent studio practice.

Class Number

2495

Credits

3