PCC/ CCOG / ART

Course Content and Outcome Guide for ART 197F

Date:
20-JUL-2011
Posted by:
Curriculum Office
Course Number:
ART 197F
Course Title:
SAI: Moldmaking
Credit Hours:
2
Lecture hours:
0
Lecture/Lab hours:
40
Lab hours:
0
Special Fee:
$12

Course Description

Explores the art studio basic skills and techniques in the design and production of rubber molds. Addresses historical and contemporary issues regarding editions, multiples, and object transference. Technical processes are considered in the context of the conceptual and experimental nature of making art. Audit available.

Addendum to Course Description

 

An ongoing workshop designed especially for the PCC Summer Arts Institute

Intended Outcomes for the course

On completion of this course the student should be able to:

Continue to use and to build on newly-acquired skills in the making of sculptural art

Go forward applying new cognitive and technical processes in sculptural art making

Further employ multiple production techniques in subsequent art endeavors

 

Course Activities and Design

  • Participate in studio work sessions, class discussions, and critiques
  • Apply one's knowledge of material and techniques to understanding the art and artistic process
  • Make creative, appropriately crafted, challenging sculptural solutions to given provocations using molding
  • Demonstrate novice skills in theory and practice
  • Bring all human senses to the experience of art
  • Apply one's knowledge of material and techniques to understanding the art and artistic process
  • Establish self-critiquing skills so as to develop autonomous expression through sculpture while recognizing the standards and definitions already established by both contemporary and historical works of art from different cultures
  • Express the relationship of art to society and culture to style
  • Assess the ways in which an art object is affected by our own vantage point

 

Outcome Assessment Strategies

The student will:

  • Participate in studio work sessions, class discussions, and critiques
  • Examine aspects of the conceptual process such as experiencing, visualizing, symbolizing, playing, and imagining
  • Develop conceptual ideas through the practice of creative research and preparatory studies (e.g. sketchbooks, journals, maquettes, models, writing assignments, presentations, technical practice tests, etc.).
  • Make creative, appropriately crafted, challenging sculptural solutions to given provocations using molding
  • Analyze formally works of art and appreciate the interrelationship of its elements

Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)

 Theoretical

  • Theory and criticism of art
  •  Various interpretations of art
  • Creativity and the impulse to make art
Stylistic and Interpretive
  • Visual literacy
  • Art media and artistic technique
  • Seeing and knowing
  • Formal elements of art
Social and Cultural
  • Other peoples and their histories, values, and culture
  • Art and the social fabric
  • Relationship of culture and style
  • Art and cultural transmission
  • The influence of art on one’s own culture
  • The influence of art on relations with other cultures
Art and Artists
  • The impulse to make art
  •  The Gestalt of art
  • The role of the artist in society
  • Biography