Visual Culture and Art Education

Catalog description

The study and creation of contemporary art forms as visual culture critiques provide curricular and pedagogical approaches to art education. A ED 323 Visual Culture and Art Education (3)This course is for Art Education majors in the Schools option. Students will: * Read, critically examine, and discuss postmodern "texts" in relation to the ways in which the works and the critical writing that surrounds them participate in, among other issues, the construction of race and gender, and the creation of power and control. * Reflect critically on contemporary writings that address the nature of art, visual culture, artmaking, exhibition, and interpretation as pedagogical processes for making meaning through art. * Create installations, videos, and performances or any combination of the three forms, individually and/or in groups. The purpose of this course is: 1. To assist students to insightfully interpret and create artworks through both writing and artistic media. 2. To provide students with the bases for understanding, interpreting, and critically analyzing contemporary visual culture, which can provide the content of curriculum outlines and unit and lesson plans that students develop in the course for use during internships, student teaching, and as art educators. 3. To provide students with opportunities to develop connections between artworks and their own lives, the lives of their prospective students, and the societies in which they will live. 4. To encourage students to consider race, class, sexual identity, age, and gender issues in art, art education, cultural production, exhibition venues, and career opportunities. TEXTS include popular arts, film, television, video/computer games, music, theatre, fashion, museums, contemporary art, and newsmedia.