Seminar in Visual Culture & Theory: Text and Textiles

Catalog description

Course examining artists who make work at the intersections of text and textile focusing on modern and contemporary artists. The course will begin with a chronological overview of textile/fiber art (weaving, embroidery, knitting/crochet, samplers, quilting, etc.) and its relationship to text, and then continue thematically (for example, attending to issues of gender & identity, social justice, poetics, narrative, collage & montage, materiality & form, and the now-historical divide of craft/art) and include work by writers/artists from antiquity to the present. prerequisites: Not for credit if earned credit in ART 311a03.