Overview

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

Examines various art forms and aesthetic expressions of select Indigenous peoples of the Americas including Aboriginal poetry and poetic forms. A research and creation studio course. Students with credit for FNST 322 under the topic 'Poetics/Poetry: Bookmaking' or 'Indigenous Expressive Arts' may not take this course for further credit. Students with credit for FNST 363 may not take this course for further credit.

COURSE DETAILS:

A studio course (poetry, poetics, prose, prints). Review, analysis, and understanding of Indigenous poetry and poetics of the Americas including samples from oral traditions, ethnography, song poems, and the contemporary published record.  Practice of low-tech printing such as relief, cut/engraving, stencil, monotype, and/or multiple color technique to make multiple images, in direct democratic action.  May be offered in conjunction with a print exchange and/or exhibit, where students work cooperatively to create a display and exchange of their work.

COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:

Each week students will:

1. Attend every session;
2. Read, reflect, analyze, and discuss all assigned texts with one another as a community;
3. Research and share Indigenous poetics (poems and poetics-oral narratives, written records, recordings, others);
4. Speak to aesthetic verbal expression and the cultural role of Memorization, Right Speech, protocol, Oration;
5. Recognize various practices peoples have and do use to maintain a relationship with Mother Earth via aesthetic expressions;
6. Complete studio project(s) within consensus-agreed upon parameters;
7. Submit projects when due (no late submissions accepted);
8. Critique art Kindly, Critically, and Intelligently in a verbal manner;
9. Use critical art Lexicon in class in their speech;
10. Submit work when due (late projects not accepted; marked as 0), and at midterm and final in an online gallery format (webpage); and,
11. Perform other duties as revealed during the semester. 

Students must invest a minimum of 4 additional hours per week for project work.  Students must procure materials from diverse locations, such as forests, fields, and stores.  Materials costs approximately $100.00.

Grading

Materials

MATERIALS + SUPPLIES:

General Supplies:

• pencil, eraser, drawing/writing paper
• permanent marker, black Sharpie (not fine point)
• paper for printing, paper/acetate/cardboard to make a stencil and registration board
• scissors
• utility knife
• ruler
• paintbrush(es)
• lint-less cotton rags
• relief cut tools and handle
• nail, pin in a pen holder, or other etching tool(s)
• brayer(s) for picking up ink and laying it down
• WATER based inks (pick your colors please. suggested - yellow, red, blue, black, white)
• palette knife or other flat item to mix paint
• piece of plexi/glass or other non-porous surface to use as a palette and plate
• 8” x 10” EZ cut, or facsimile
• recycled Styrofoam (from grocery store)
• rubber gloves (optional)
• hand towel for clean up
• string (to hang your prints as they dry)
• clothespins or binderclips (to hang your prints from the line)
• painter’s tape
• scrap cardboard (to make registration boards)
• flat-backed wooden spoon, flat doorknob, or barren for rubbing paper and plate

REQUIRED READING: