Course

Aesthetics - Ideas / Qualities / Acquired Expectations or Taste

Approaches - Mode / Theory / Tradition / Method / Technique

Cohesion / Fragmentation

Collaboration - Artist Working Together in: crafts production; staging and installations; performance; in conjunction with professional and business organizations; in works across media such as architecture incorporating other media; through commercial design studios and engineering firms or materials-based technology . . . . . . Artist Curators / Facilitators for events, spontaneous productions, studies and critiques, directing and motivating conceptual exploration, building artist communities, staging themes and issues or focus on artist approaches and/or the media, building education opportunities and collaborative exchanges.

Communication - Expression / Intentions / Dialogue . . . . Exchange and Transformation . . . . Platforms (Systems, Services, Access)

Consideration - Reflection / Perspective / Evaluation

Content - Materials / Qualities / Meaning / Association

Creativity - Productivity / Innovation / Transformation / Metamorphosis

Decoration - Abstraction / Embellishment

Description - Illustration / Narration / Embellishment

Design - Principles / Functions

Development - Clarification / Refinement / Expansion

Dimensions

Exercise & Practice - Confidence / Flexibility / Recourse

Exhibition - Formal and Informal Spaces / Public Meanings / Tools and Props

Expression - Depth or Emotion / Interest / Perception

Function

Independent / Collaborative

Inquiry

Interpretation

Measure & Proportion

Method - Exemplars / Standards / Innovations

Originality - Origins / Recapitulation / Ingenuity

Performance - Show / Event (multi-technical layers of production)

Perspective - Standards / History / Current Events . . . . In space and time

Platforms / tools / exchange - Sculptor / Educator / Journalist . . . . Collaborator / Juror / Blogger . . . . Painter / Media Installation / Critic . . . . Photographer / Journalist / Publisher . . . . Architect / Curator

Recapitulation - Revisit / Renew / Refresh / Reverse / 'Recursive'

Resolve & Flexibility

Standards - Guidelines

Technical - Materials, Processes, Methods, Techniques (Exemplars / Standards / Innovations)

Technique - Tool

Themes, Topics, Issues

Theory

Versions Process-orientated Documentation . . . . Materials-based Production in concert with Digital Media . . . . Reproduction and Preservation . . . . Narratives . . . . Layers . . . . Developments (clarification, abstraction, embellishment, refinement) and Interpretations . . . . Collaborations

Visual Literacy

Course

Review Programs and Course Listings at major professional art schools for a stimulating and educational perspective on endeavors through which to advance interest, understanding, and skills in the visual arts.