HFA Day Open Classroom: Drawing in Color (AH 725)

On Tuesday, April 9, Professor Kurczynski will invite the community into her seminar class, Drawing in Color, as part of the HFA Days program. To see which other classes will be available for visitors, please visit the HFA Days: Open Classrooms webpage.

About this course:

This graduate M.A. seminar considers histories of race, colonialism, and categories of social identity in relation to the medium of drawing in global contemporary art from the 1990s and later. Once a preparatory format, drawing destabilizes mid-century modernist theories of artistic medium. This course examines processes of drawing that connect disparate media, such as printmaking and animation; genres, such as art and design; and communities, such as art audiences and political activists. Given its historical associations with intimacy and writing, drawing is uniquely suited to discussions that connect the personal to the political. Through specific artist case studies, the course explores current frameworks of race as it intersects with gender, sexuality, class, ethnicity, decolonial politics, and history, as it develops materially in relation to open-ended and interdisciplinary drawing practices.