CA Capstone

Catalog description

CA Capstone is an opportunity for graduating students to produce original interdisciplinary works of art that allow them to reflect and expand on their practice, skills, knowledge and insights they have gathered during their time at Collaborative Arts. While the works can take any form, we encourage collaborative projects and expect a collaborative process. Students as a group will be responsible for curating a final group show that brings all their work together into a cohesive narrative and engaging community experience. Throughout the semester students will compose and give feedback to each other’s individual artist statements and project “maps”, produce a curatorial statement, press-release, and invitation for the show. Works in the show should reflect the artist's playfulness, experimentation, curiosity, openness, originality and mastery of the tools employed. Agility in reason, intellectual rigor, attention to detail, contextualization, references and documentation - as well as final presentation - will all be important aspects of how the work will be assessed and evaluated. The class will be a combination of in-class workshops, review of weekly assignments, critique of work in progress, guest lectures, 1-on-1 sessions, and art outings.