Continuing Education
COURSE FINDER
Nine Ways To Skin a Cat
4 Sessions
$150
Faculty
Yam Chew Oh,
Fine artist
How do artists go about creating work? Where do they get their ideas from? What are their methods? This course explores numerous ways that artists engage with the creative process besides technical skills. We will unpack the seemingly mysterious concept of creativity and discuss examples of creative approaches, from Agnes Martin ("What am I going to do next?") to Brian Eno's and Peter Schmidt's Oblique Strategies cards that suggest a course of action or thinking to assist in creative situations. Alongside discussion, students will be given exercises that include drawing on stimuli (e.g., philosophy, music, language), leveraging social impetus and personal experience, and allowing play and experimentation, as well as letting the work/material inform where it wants to go. Students will be asked to surrender to chance and randomness to make works for weekly critique, based on creative "directions" communally picked out of a hat. We will be joined in the final session by a visiting artist, who will give a talk about their process and provide feedback on student work.
NOTE: This course is fully online and offered through synchronous sessions during the listed course hours.
NOTE: This course is fully online and offered through synchronous sessions during the listed course hours.
Course Number
VSC-2516-OL
