ART 430 - Capstone 1: Creative Practices in Art

Credit Hours: 4
Capstone 1 is the first semester seminar in a cumulative Capstone Experience for the Art Major. The content prioritizes creative practice methodologies and strategies in which students create and present a cohesive body of independent, self-proposed and self-generated studio art work carried out within a seminar context. Throughout the course, students also produce reflective and research-based assignments that analyze, synthesize and articulate knowledge of the field of art contextualizing the student’s creative art works. The seminar’s collaborative framework and integrated set of experiences directs the student’s production of creative art work, which includes assigned readings and discussion, research and writing, visiting artist presentations,and formal critiques with faculty and visiting artists. Personal accountability and effective work habits are developed through the combination of process and product in each student’s creative practice. The semester culminates in a public open studio where students exhibit their artwork along with related written material, showing evidence of their learned creative skills. To facilitate the ambition and focus required of advanced-level independent work, each student will be provided with and will be expected to effectively make use of assigned studio spaces in the department’s communal senior studios

Prerequisite(s): Successful completion of all the following courses, as specified, with a C- or higher; Four courses - ART 205, one course in art history chosen from ARTH 225 or ARTH 226 , and at least TWO of the following upper-level courses: ART 304, ART 306, ART 309, ART 311, ART 312, ART 314, ART 333, ART 339, ART 346, ART 347, ART 367, ART 369, ART 390.