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Shannon Stratton

Lecturer

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Bio

BFA, The Alberta College of Art and Design; MFA & MA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Curator, writer, and artist. Former chief curator at The Museum of Arts and Design, NYC; current executive director, Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists' Residency, Saugatuck, MI. Exhibitions (curated): Between You and Me, The John Michael Kohler Arts Center (2020); Roger Brown: Virtual Still Lifes, The Museum of Arts and Design (2019); Tanya Aguiñiga: Craft and Care, The Museum of Arts and Design (2018); Atmosphere for Enjoyment: Harry Bertoia's Environment for Sound (2016), among others (please see website). Publications: Roger Brown: Virtual Still Lifes (exhibition catalog); Faith Wilding: Fearful Symmetries (Intellect Books); essays and chapters including: Everlasting Plastics (Columbia University Press); Craft on Demand (Bloomsbury); and Collaborations Through Craft (Berg). Winner of Lois Moran Award for Craft Writing. Stratton co-founded the Chicago non-profit Threewalls in 2003 where she was director until 2015.

Courses

Title Department Catalog Term

Description

Designed to unify the experience of the post-baccalaureate studio program, this class explores how an artist develops a body of work. This includes discussions of working processes and issues in art, critiques and explorations of resourses of the School, museum and city.

Class Number

1788

Credits

3

Description

Studio Projects:Independent studio work under the guidance of a faculty advisor. Post-Baccalaureatee studio students receive a list of scheduled advisors. Writing Projects: Independent tutorial work with the guidance and encouragement of a faculty advisor. Post-Baccalaureate writing students receive a list of scheduled advisors. The student registers for 6 credit hours of Post-Baccalaureate Projects during each semester of study.

Class Number

2466

Credits

3 - 6

Description

Studio Projects:Independent studio work under the guidance of a faculty advisor. Post-Baccalaureatee studio students receive a list of scheduled advisors. Writing Projects: Independent tutorial work with the guidance and encouragement of a faculty advisor. Post-Baccalaureate writing students receive a list of scheduled advisors. The student registers for 6 credit hours of Post-Baccalaureate Projects during each semester of study.

Class Number

2166

Credits

3 - 6

Description

Taken every semester, the Graduate Projects courses allow students to focus in private sessions on the development of their work. Students register for 6 hours of Graduate Project credit in each semester of study.

Class Number

1749

Credits

3

Description

Taken every semester, the Graduate Projects courses allow students to focus in private sessions on the development of their work. Students register for 6 hours of Graduate Project credit in each semester of study.

Class Number

1312

Credits

3 - 6

Description

Guided Studies are intensive, self-driven courses of study that have a clear rationale for their configuration and articulate an expressed need in terms of a student's scholarly, material, and theoretical research. As a 3 credit course, a Guided Study constitutes 135 hours of study and production on the part of the student, including four meetings (virtual or otherwise) with a supervising faculty who has expertise in the research areas. On the Guided Study syllabus co-produced by the LRMFA student and supervising faculty, expected research accomplishments must be formulated, alongside a course description, learning objectives, evaluation criteria, a proposed timeline, a communication plan, and a suggested reading list or bibliography. Open to Low Residency MFA students only.

Class Number

1059

Credits

3