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Aug
16
to Aug 22

Indigo and Its Metaphors

Jovencio de la Paz

FIBER 614 001
1 credit hour
Lab Fee $50 

Indigo is the most utilized dyestuff on the planet. Both in its natural and its synthetic form, Indigo blue has a mysterious and contentious history: from the mystery cults of Indigo in Southeast Asia to the slave trade in the New World. This course will cover fundamental techniques in preparing both natural and synthetic indigo dye-vats, and we will use those vats to explore traditional Japanese tie-dye (Shibori) as well as traditional Indonesian resist dying (Batik). Furthermore, we will also utilize the metaphoric notion of "blueness" and "bluing," in relationship to the natural landscape. While surface design and the production of textiles will be emphasized, students will be challenged to consider how the production of color and cloth can manifest itself in performance, installation, and other alternative forms. This course is open to all levels of experience.

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Aug
2
to Aug 15

Environmental History at Ox-Bow

J. Elmo Rawling and Evan Larson

SCIENCE 603 001
3 credit hours 

The natural world is dynamic, with changes taking place across an immense spectrum of space and time. As people, our perspectives can be limited to what we see in our immediate surroundings and over our life spans. This course will use the Ox-Bow School of Art Field Campus as a natural laboratory to explore the application of methods in landscape evolution and vegetation dynamics. Students will gain a deeper comprehension of the campus’ current natural environment, how its landscape has changed over recent centuries and millennia, and how it may change in the future. This course will provide students a unique opportunity to combine classroom, field, and studio perspectives with scientific principles to create an environmental narrative of the Ox-Bow School of Art and its surroundings.

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Jul
5
to Jul 18

Fashioning Legacies

Anthony Romero and J. Soto

PERF 605 001
3 credit hours 

This class explores the theme of performing cultural legacies with regards to fashion and entertainment of the 1990’s. The era of the supermodel, robust multiculturalism, a decade edging towards a millennial landmark and further from the horrors of the AIDS crisis. Tracing different paths of identification and layers of history, students will create performances with these ideas in mind. This course will take the form of a studio-laboratory, where students will consider movement, duration, and experiment with the performing object, fashioned precisely to suit the work.

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Jun
21
to Jul 4

Off the Wall - Pulp Sculpture

Andrea Peterson

PAPER 606 001
3 credit hours
Lab Fee $150

Paper fiber has been used in many cultures to make clothing and costumes, house structures, ritual objects and elements. A paper cup holding hot coffee is an incredible feat of 3 – D paper ingenuity. Paper is an integral part of our everyday existence. It is strong, tough, and a master of disguises. This course will explore the possibilities of various paper fibers as sculptural medium. Non-traditional and some traditional armature structures specific to the capabilities of each fiber will be explored as well as making new to accommodate ideas brought to class. Pigments and surface treatment can suggest other materials were used while the paper maintains it’s lightweight and durable qualities.

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Jun
21
to Jul 4

If night is a weed and day grows less

David Hartt

PHOTO 606 001
3 credit hours
Lab Fee $100 

The title of this class posits a shift in balance:  of the natural order, of the built environment, of the body politic, of perception. The result is a creeping entropy that can either be embraced or redirected. Taking a morphological approach to image making students can use any variety of tele-visual image capture technologies. From analog to digital, satellite imagery to scanner. Time arrested or accelerated.Night for day and weeds for gardens, the work produced should ask us to slow down and reassess the objectives of form, language and image, to create new prototypes for engagement and new modes of understanding our environment. Readings, screenings, discussions and critiques make up the curriculum along with studio time.  Each student is required to complete a visual essay using image capture technologies.

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Jun
7
to Jun 20

Papermaking

Andrea Peterson

PAPER 604 001
3 credit hours
Lab Fee $150 

Paper as an art medium is exciting and elusive. Paper pulp can be transformed into sculptural works, drawings with pulp and unusual surface textures. It can allude to skin, metal, rock or something quite totally different. Explore all of these possibilities. Stretch your artistic and technical skills to create unusual works of art.

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