ILLUS-3048

VOICE + VISION

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Course Level: Junior, Senior, 5th Year

3 CREDITS

CONCEPTS ELECTIVE REQUIREMENT: This course fulfills the additional concepts elective requirement for Illustration majors.

Writing and image-making are both important languages to process and communicate personal ideas and experiences with immediacy. How can they be used most fruitfully together? In this class, we will examine the relationship between the voice and vision of the artist-writer through a series of projects that intertwine written and visual communication. Projects may include image-making which is stimulated by writing (or vice-versa), blogging and visual journalism for the artist-writer, as well as creative writing projects which possess a significant visual element. We will look to artist’s books and notebooks, developments in literature, blogs, and on-line communications. Students will be encouraged to mine areas of personal interest in the development of a body of work.

This class explores the intersection of two languages: verbal and visual. Our primary aim is to liberate your creative process with the use of these two languages in tandem, exploring how verbal language (whether something as simple as titling an image, or as complex as poetic verse or a story written by you) may play a significant role in not only what you create but how you create. You’ll be working with both verbal and visual vocabulary—sometimes together, sometimes apart from each other—with the goal of forging provocative, communicative art.

Capacity: 15

Registration Restriction: Major elective; restricted to Illustration juniors and seniors; open to non-majors pending seat availability and permission of instructor. 

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