Vick Quezada

The Art Barn Studio Colloquium will address and ask participants to critically negotiate the importance of curatorial thinking. The colloquium is mandatory for students who were granted individual studio space in the Arts Barn;, students who maintain an independent studio practice may apply to the colloquium for a limited number of additional spaces.* Students will learn through readings, reviews of exhibitions/sites, and studio visits, how to best take advantage of their studio spaces and also apply gained knowledge to their projected final thesis exhibitions. During this course, students will have the opportunity to attend discussions and visit museums, galleries, and exhibitions across the Five Colleges. As part of the course, students will develop their artist statement and photograph their work in order to advance their professional practice skills. The colloquium will culminate in an Open Studio show curated by participants in the final week of the semester. * In order to guarantee students planning certainty, the Art Barn Studio application process will be held during preregistration in the Spring 2024 semester. For more information about this process, email Greg Kline at gkline@hampshire.edu.

Through performance, sculpture, and theory, this course explores queer subjectivity, colonialism and the constraining structures that shape people's lives. In this course, students will work in multimodal forms to create sculptural objects, or props crafted out of wood, found objects, and assemblage art to incorporate them into self-choreographed movement(s), performances, happenings or political actions throughout the semester. As a method of presentation, students may integrate components of video, sound, site-specific work and installation. We will examine how contemporary artists and activists use their bodies/objects and performances as a tool of subversion, activism, and storytelling. We will look at the important work ranging from ADAPT and the "Capitol Crawl, NYC Ballroom Culture, Marisela Escobedo, ACT UP, Bread and Puppet Theater, artists such as Lorraine O'Grady to trans performance artist Keijaun Thomas. As Diana Taylor coined the term "Acts of Transfer," we can examine the ways in which these artists, groups and students can utilize their bodies to perform an action or series of actions in order to create urgency and attention while transmitting social knowledge, memory, and identity Keywords:queer performance sculpture activism

As part of this course, students will learn traditional- expanded sculpture techniques, from, assemblage, found object, wood and ceramics. This course is an inquiry into spatial realities through tools, objects, and beyond. The students will begin to critically analyze objects. Scholar Lisa Lowe points out, "artifacts appear to abbreviate the whole course of history into a finite object", while simultaneously refusing to yield this infinite multiplicity." In Material Worlds, students will engage in embodied learning and making that situates them within their worlds and raises questions of existence and social responsibility. Keywords:ceramics, found object, sculpture, wood, cardboard

As part of this course, students will learn traditional- expanded sculpture techniques, from, assemblage, found object, wood and ceramics. This course is an inquiry into spatial realities through tools, objects, and beyond. The students will begin to critically analyze objects. Scholar Lisa Lowe points out, "artifacts appear to abbreviate the whole course of history into a finite object", while simultaneously refusing to yield this infinite multiplicity." In Material Worlds, students will engage in embodied learning and making that situates them within their worlds and raises questions of existence and social responsibility.

This course integrates performance, sculpture, and histories of queer and feminist art. In this course, students will work in multimodal form to create sculptural objects, or props crafted out of wood, metal, found objects, molds, fabric and incorporate them into self-choreographed movement(s), performances, happenings or political actions throughout the semester. As a method of presentation, students may integrate components of video, sound, site-specific work and installation. We will examine how contemporary artists and activists use their bodies/objects and performances as a tool of subversion, activism, and storytelling. We will look at the important work ranging from ADAPT and the "Capitol Crawl, NYC Ballroom Culture, Marisela Escobedo, ACT UP, Bread and Puppet Theater, artists such as Lorraine O'Grady to trans performance artist Keijaun Thomas. As Diana Taylor coined the term "Acts of Transfer," we can examine the ways in which these artists, groups and students can utilize their bodies to perform an action or series of actions in order to create urgency and attention while transmitting social knowledge, memory, and identity. Keywords:Sculpture, performance, queer, found object The content of this course deals with issues of race and power.

As part of this course, students will learn traditional sculpture techniques as well as expanded sculpture that incorporates Rasquache art, Folk art, readymades, and ceramics. This course is an inquiry into spatial realities where settler colonial history, tools, objects, and human bodies interact. The students will critically analyze objects that have condensed and abridged meanings and histories. Scholar Lisa Lowe points out, "artifacts appear to abbreviate the whole course of history into a finite object", while simultaneously refusing to yield this infinite multiplicity." In Material Worlds, students will engage in embodied learning and making that situates them within their worlds and raises questions of existence and social responsibility. Keywords:Sculpture, Rasquache art, settler colonialism and ceramics