Explorations in the Arts (HUM 201)
EXPLORATIONS IN THE ARTS: HUMANITIES 20100
This course fulfills the Creative Expression requirement
Section 01: Future Art, Fridays 3:45-6:15pm (online)
Instructor: Patty Gaughan
If, as Toni Cade Bambara says, “The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible,” how?? How do artists shatter the past & reassemble it into a new future? In this class, we’ll look at contemporary visual, performance, & video artists who reframe, rewire, & rewrite art history & popular culture. In our Zoom chats & live-Tweeting sessions, we’ll crack open our personal definitions of what art should be, in order to imagine what art could be.
Contact: pg1197@hunter.cuny.edu
Section 03, Wednesdays 10:10-1pm (online)
Instructor: Tanya Marquardt
This course focuses on the experiencing and understanding of temporal and spatial arts, namely film, music, theatre, dance, and visual art. Our aim is to cultivate aesthetic appreciation and enjoyment of various art forms and, moving beyond subjective responses, to use diverse analytical methodologies as a means to form critical opinions about each work verbally and in writing.
Section 04, Fridays 1:10-4pm (online)
Instructor: Justin Beal
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This section of Explorations in the Arts will focus on art and architecture in New York City. The class will look at art in major museums, commercial galleries, nonprofit institutions, public spaces and artists’ studios.
This semester, special consideration will be given to recent political and ethical conversations surrounding the role of art institutions and questions about the long-term impact of the current pandemic on the culture of the city. Much of this course may need to be conducted online, but as institutions reopen, I hope to add in-person visits to museums and galleries into the syllabus.
Contact: justinbeal@gmail.com
Section 05, Thursdays 9:10-12:00pm (online)
Instructor: Alyson Greenfield
These sections of Hum 201 will be looking at the arts through the lens of storytelling, myth, adaptation, and social justice. Some highlights include virtually visiting Museo Frida Kahlo in Mexico City, and virtually attending MCC Theater’s Mean Girls; Or The African Mean Girls Play, and Panamanian modern dance choreographer Marlyn Attie’s Crush. We will also discover art that is currently being produced in NYC and across the world in response to both the Coronavirus and the Black Lives Matter movement.
Section 06, Wednesdays 2:35-5:15pm (online)
Instructor: Stephen Foglia
How does a painting tell a story? What about a song? Plays and movies usually have strong narratives, but what happens when they start to act more like sculptures or essays? In this section of HUM 201, we’re going to explore the arts scene of New York City through the lens of storytelling, myth, and adaptation.
Section 07, Fridays 3:45-6:15pm (online)
Instructor: Colette Robert
This section of HUM 201 engages with theater, music, dance, film, and visual art. With a global pandemic that has temporarily shut down most of our physical arts venues and a national uprising in response to systemic injustice, students can expect to (virtually) explore how artists and cultural institutions are responding to this current moment.
Section 08: Creation Curation (Re)invention Obsession Defacement Destruction, Thursdays 5:35-8:15pm (online)
Instructor: Gabriel Kruis
For these sections, poet and essayist Gabriel Kruis will be your guide. Together, online, you’ll explore museums, meet artists, experience dance performances and a Broadway musical all while considering the role of the artist as a creator/destroyer, and the challenge of the curator to bring it all together.
Section 09, Tuesdays 3:45-6:15pm (online)
Instructor: Bruce Payne
This section is a newly designed seminar focused on connections between the arts and the continuing quest for justice. Open to Hunter students who are hungry for compelling images and stories and who are looking for effective strategies of change, the course will be online.
Contact: Nigel Philip at nigel.philip@gmail.com
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