Visual Narrative

Catalog description

This fine art studio course explores storytelling through visual expression. The practice and history of visual storytelling will be examined from a variety of intertextual perspectives and will include a chronological exploration from the earliest mark-makers, artists, architects, designers, illustrators to its present-day integration into illustration, storyboarding, graphic novel, social media, and VR/AR technologies. The course will explore visual storytelling with regard to concepts, form, mediums, methods, techniques, markets, technologies and will evaluate and compare works from a variety of cultures and perspectives. This fine art course will pay special attention to issues and influences with regards to gender, race, culture, as well as industry. Fine art studio-based projects, exercises, readings, and writings will be assigned as well as quizzes and a final project in which students will demonstrate critical analyses of storytelling for a variety of markets.