Course Syllabus
Course: ART 1001
Division: Fine Arts, Comm, and New Media
Department: Visual Art
Title: Summer Snow Workshops (formerly Summer Snow Master Classes)
Semester Approved: Summer 2018
Five-Year Review Semester: Summer 2023
End Semester: Summer 2024
Catalog Description: Summer Snow is offered each June as two, one-week intensive workshops. Participants choose from 5-6 courses offered each week, which are taught by professionals working in a wide range of mediums. Each unique workshop curriculum is designed by the artist invited to teach in their discipline of expertise. Courses are designed for participants with skill levels from novice through professional. Each participant will create work based on their individual artistic performance, skill level, and studio discipline. A collective gallery exhibition and a daily lecture series by all Summer Snow instructors provides insight into process, studio practice, and philosophy of each artist participating each week. This course is repeatable for credit.
Semesters Offered: Summer
Credit/Time Requirement: Credit: 1; Lecture: 0; Lab: 2
Repeatable: Yes.
Justification: Summer Snow workshop participants spend many hours in preparation, practice, attending classes, viewing demonstrations, and working on individual studio projects during workshop sessions and in the evenings. Participants may use earned credit toward Snow College graduation or transfer this credit as an art elective to any higher education institution. Many public educators utilize earned credit towards license renewal. In addition to a dynamic community outreach and recruiting tool, Summer Snow also provides professional development and networking opportunity for art faculty, current visual art students, and art alumni.
General Education Outcomes:
5: A student who completes the GE curriculum can respond with informed sensitivity to an artistic work or experience. Summer Snow workshops are designed to expose participants to a variety of interesting artists, innovative processes, new materials, altered concepts, and unique philosophies in the visual arts. Each workshop will promote a renewed sensitivity and foster renewed insights into making, viewing, responding to works of art. With this newly honed sensibility, it then becomes each participant’s responsibility to filter this knowledge to improve current work and inform future work.
Student Learning Outcomes:
Material Proficiency: Workshops expose participants to unique material possibilities depending on an instructor’s expertise. During each one-week intensive workshop, participants will gain a new or renewed understanding of the materials and techniques through the process of demonstrations, slide lectures, and studio production. This knowledge will be integrated into their creative vocabulary upon completion.
Conceptual Principles: Each workshop is designed as a unique experience for participants according to each instructor’s course design and studio discipline. The principle of concept is distinct for each instructor’s philosophy and practice. This exposure to new ideas and sensibilities will be present in the work conducted in each workshop and may be evident in future work.
Historical Context: All studio art disciplines have a rich history of evolution, production, and contemporary application. Each visiting instructor will provide demonstrations of historical method, discuss historical relevance of process, and lecture on historic influences on their own work. This adds to each participant’s working knowledge and context of the discipline being taught and will be consciously or unconsciously evident in works created during and following the completion of the workshop.
Critical Analysis: Students will practice the process of critical analysis as it applies to the specific discipline being taught in each workshop. This process takes place fluidly and frequently in a collective studio environment. Organized group critiques create a forum for formal analysis and is part of all workshops. This feedback provides a mechanism for immediate improvement and continued creative development.
Process: Invited faculty are carefully selected knowing that each will provide unique insight into their creative process and studio practice. Aspects of this process become a permanent part of each participant’s oeuvre.
Content:
Content and rigor of each workshop will be determined by the instructor. Because of the broad spectrum of studio disciplines offered as workshops each year it is impossible to list specific content. These unique courses will contain instruction in technique, composition, theory, history, process, and studio practice. Instruction will include variations of the following generic pedagogies: demonstrations, slide lectures, and studio practice. Each week will also include a daily lecture series with participants from all classes in attendance.
Key Performance Indicators:
Applied Studio Practice 60 to 80%
Attendance and Participation 20 to 40%
Representative Text and/or Supplies:
Any text and/or art supplies will be determined at the discretion of the instructor.
Pedagogy Statement:
Instruction will include variations of the following generic pedagogies: demonstrations, slide lectures, and studio practice.
Instructional Mediums:
Lecture/Lab
Lecture
Maximum Class Size: 16
Optimum Class Size: 10
