Course Description

This course is meant to be a space for you to examine and deepen your relationship to the field and your own practice through readings, discussions, and presentations.  The readings are meant to expand your perspective on the field of jewelry and metalsmithing, to define its particularities and concerns in relation to the discourses of the contemporary art world.

Together we will explore a series of seminal theoretical texts, seeking ways to relate them to our own practice.  Through these texts we will encounter a series of themes and historical perspectives that are crucial to the field of jewelry, while also delving into fields and areas of inquiry, that have not commonly been related to our field, but perhaps should or could be.  Our aim is to get a historical and interdisciplinary perspective on where we are as artists/makers today, how we got here and where we could go from here. The course aims to bring up critical questions on why we make, whom we make for and the meaning of our practice beyond the studio and the jewelry and metals world.

This is a chance to practice your skills in connecting theory, reading and writing to your work and to build a vocabulary and ground of reference around your ideas, interests and intentions. It’s a chance to take part in an intense discourse around your field, which you might be asked to do many times in the future of your career.

The Wednesday meetings will adopt the form of a reading/talking circle. Your role in the group is important and the success of our conversations will be based on your participation and engagement. We will all take turns in presenting and leading the discussion and also examine what “research through practice” might mean for us, by exploring some ways of connecting theory and making. 

Oct 28, 2009

Christo and Jeanne-Claude.. site specific work












Christo is a Bulgarian American and Jeanne-Claude is an French born American. For years their professional artist "name" was just "Christo", but in 1994 they decided to change it and be honest in representing the teamwork and amazing partnership they have by then becoming the artists "Christo and Jeanne-Claude". They create art for themselves because they have this desire to make these things they wrap, and they feel that if the public enjoys them as well, that it is just a "bonus", but they don't make it for the public.

I think their work is amazing and something I could never bring myself to do (but never say never). They make an incredible team and I applaud them for being able to accomplish some of the things they have done. Their wrappings of natural landscapes and trees I find to be the most beautiful.
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