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Art in America often shares an Emersonian impatience with received forms and a preference for the untried and true. Our hospitality to new ways and means of art made an immigrant of Marcel Duchamp and provided the right stuff for Robert Rauschenberg’s combines, Walter De Maria’s Lightning Field, Robert Irwin’s altered states of vision, James Turrell’s transformational interventions and, more recently, the virtual ingenuity of generations X, Y and beyond, surfing the wave of a digitally expanded universe. This workshop serves as a “laboratory” and crash course in the expanded fields of contemporary art practices, where lines between media may blur, boundaries between artist and audience vanish, and the works themselves defy the walls of galleries and museums. It provides an introduction to a wide-open landscape where art can be completely redefined, bounded only by will and imagination. You’ll explore new forms through a series of projects that may employ hybridity (the collision, for instance, of sculpture and video), social and interventionist strategies, installation/ephemeral modes, collaboration, and new technologies. Emphasis will be placed on concepts and communication, in addition to development of skills with new and familiar media. Along the way, we’ll make extensive use of local resources including visits to museums, galleries, and artists’ studios. We’ll also look closely at the work of contemporary artists such as Miranda July, Richard Long, Wolfgang Laib, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Michal Rovner, Olafur Eliasson, Jessica Stockholder, James Turrell, and Anish Kapoor, and collaboratives such as Preemptive Media and The Yes Men. Your own artwork/actions/performances will be documented to add to your portfolio. The class will conclude with a group exhibition for family and friends.
This 5-week program of learning by doing is open to students from the Houston metropolitan area who will be entering the 10th, 11th, 12th grades or college. To apply, complete the student section of the PDF form and give it to a teacher who knows you well or a counselor to fill out the recommendation section. Your teacher/counselor should mail the completed form along with an official transcript directly to:
To ensure full consideration, applications must
be received by 5 May; early applications are encouraged. All applicants will be notified by
2 June; early applicants will be notified sooner.
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