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Apr 25, 2024
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Goucher College 2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalogue PLEASE NOTE: This is an archived catalog. Programs are subject to change each academic year.
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CPEA 251 - Social Engaged Art Practice: Environmental Justice (4 Cr.) (GCR Arts area)
Art has historically been a powerful vehicle of political action and activism. In this course, we will create “after lives” for cast offs and discarded objects using basic hand tools, hardware, adhesives, sewing notions and scavenged materials. For inspiration, we will examine artworks, including creative mending and sewing, from activist-artists around the world. Students will have the opportunity to complete repair projects independently before working as part of a small group to create a project, through deconstruction and reconstruction, that expresses a perspective of a political, economic, environmental or social issue. This artistic process will give us new perspectives on how to repurpose the forgotten or broken into new forms, especially as a tool of political expression and activism. Tinkering becomes an investigation into the obsolescence of technology and how we can materially intervene in our environmental crisis. Restricted to first-year through junior students and others with instructor permission. Students are limited to one CPE course per semester. Thompson.
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