Visual Culture Workshop

This program looks at the reasons for visual culture studies being integrated into our current curriculm and activities.

Reasons for it---Greater awareness, greater knowledge, greater integration of knowledge into everyday life choices.

Contents of a proposed curriculum

This is an interdisciplinary , integrated arts approach which builds on the disciplines of history, writing, art critisism and visual art inquiry to create a process of looking, describing, evaluating and reaching conclusions beyond the limits of the classroom making a link between daily thinking behavior and choice making into life.

To develop tools with which to evaluate the environment more clearly.
To develop careful looking
To realize patterns of influence
To see how we are conditioned to see only certain things and believe they are our own ideas
To see how we have been conditioned to see through others points of view
To understand what mediation and the Gaze are
To look at why we see what we see the way we do
To look at historical situations or biases that have caused this
To learn a process of criticism and aesthetic evalution to use in looking at significant works in art history and our pop visual culture
To understand that critical an aesthetic evaluation is useful when looking at visual culture and our daily lives
To help students become more careful lookers, thinkers and evaluators
To use Pop Culture and Media images in as subject matter brings information of gret relavance to the student into our process of inquiry. They can use the same critical process in their daily lives to become more discriminating consumers and members of society.