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HMS-696A Writing for Art and Design Practice

1 Credits

This course is a one credit, graduate-level writing workshop designed to teach artist how to write through and about artistic practice. Through a series of readings and exercises, students are provided with creative approaches to meet writing required of them in school and more generally. Students will read and write about visual art, design, dance, money, news and politics, science, poetry. They will also write first person essays and collaborative texts about their own practice of making. Students will complete weekly assignments and cooperatively review work in class. For a final assignment, students will prepare a writing portfolio that includes a revised artists statement, reading journals and essay that makes textual citation to the course reader and outside texts. Students will be given the opportunity and support to publish their writing portfolios as an artist's book.