VM 642 - Conceptual Development

Credits: 4 credits
(Semester varies)

Focused on the development of individual creative voice. Helps students identify-through a series of reflective, research-based, and generative creative exercises-their understanding of both the content they feel their work explores as well as pathways to determine a potential mode(s) of creative practice that best serves that content. The course is designed around three developmental phases(1) An introspective and reflective processes of drawing from their own life experiences and broader personal perspectives to develop potential content focus; (2) Engaging in a process of interdisciplinary research to develop a depth of knowledge of relevant scholarship, history, and theory, coupled with an exploration of pertinent artworks; (3) Sketching and iterating artworks that express these cultivated terrains of creative expression. The goal of the course is to help students gain greater awareness of their creative voice, content interests, and to develop research skills and iterative process-based artistic strategies to actualize their near-term work, their thesis projects, and their future creative endeavors. Required of students waived through VM 613.