Simon Fraser University
Engaging the World

Course Outlines

Spring 2024 - INDG 363 B100

Indigenous Poetry, Poetics, Printmaking (4)

Class Number: 4472

Delivery Method: Blended

Overview

  • Course Times + Location:

    Jan 8 – Apr 12, 2024: Wed, 9:30 a.m.–12:20 p.m.
    Burnaby

  • Prerequisites:

    45 units and permission of instructor; no previous artistic training and/or experience are required.

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

A studio course. 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 colour technique to make multiple images, in direct democratic action. Students with credit for FNST 363 may not take this course for further credit.

COURSE DETAILS:

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 $130.00.

Please see materials list and have all materials gathered together prior to start of class.

Grading

  • Weekly Participation (2 x thirteen weeks) 26%
  • Weekly Journal and sketchbook (2 x thirteen weeks) 26%
  • Poem Prints (4 Poem Print projects x 9 each) 36%
  • Print exchange (compiling and sorting prints) 2%
  • Mandatory attendance midterm 5%
  • Mandatory attendance final review 5%

NOTES:

Grading/Assessment:

26 Weekly participation (2 x thirteen weeks)
   In class work: Presence, full attendance, discussions, preparedness, helpfulness to others
26 Weekly Journal and sketchbook (2 x thirteen weeks)
   outside class work: sketches, post-class introspective writing, poems, all compiled in one binder
36 Poem Prints (4 Poem Print projects x 9 each)
   1. Single colour relief print; 2. Two colour print; 3. Puzzle print; 4. wallet print and 2 print exchange (compiling and sorting prints)
5 Mandatory attendance midterm
   (5 point deduction for missing reviews)
5 Mandatory attendance final review: comprehensive
   (5 point deduction for missing reviews)

REQUIREMENTS:

Each student is responsible to know all about the class at all times and fulfill the requirements as stated herein and in class. ****Please note, to accommodate the complexities inherent in life, this syllabus is subject to modification in order to meet student needs and interests. The syllabus may be modified as semester progresses to accommodate the complications inherent in life and in order to create a community of learners who create consensus together. Students are responsible to remain informed at all times.***

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

Below are different art supply stores where you may find these materials:

DeSerres Art Supplies: https://www.deserres.ca/pages/find-a-store#British%20Columbia.  Online link for printmaking materials: https://www.deserres.ca/search?q=printmaking&page=1&resultsPerPage=48&bgfilter.ss_is_published=1&bgfilter.ss_hide_from_collection=0 

Opus Art Supplies: https://opusartsupplies.com/pages/opus-a-student-membership 

Dick Blick: https://www.dickblick.com/categories/printmaking/ 


REQUIRED READING:

As listed in extended syllabus AND TBA.

REQUIRED READING NOTES:

Your personalized Course Material list, including digital and physical textbooks, are available through the SFU Bookstore website by simply entering your Computing ID at: shop.sfu.ca/course-materials/my-personalized-course-materials.

Registrar Notes:

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: YOUR WORK, YOUR SUCCESS

SFU’s Academic Integrity website http://www.sfu.ca/students/academicintegrity.html is filled with information on what is meant by academic dishonesty, where you can find resources to help with your studies and the consequences of cheating. Check out the site for more information and videos that help explain the issues in plain English.

Each student is responsible for his or her conduct as it affects the university community. Academic dishonesty, in whatever form, is ultimately destructive of the values of the university. Furthermore, it is unfair and discouraging to the majority of students who pursue their studies honestly. Scholarly integrity is required of all members of the university. http://www.sfu.ca/policies/gazette/student/s10-01.html