Tuesday, July 31, 2012

SNC TNNUA 台南藝術大學材質創作與設計系 Exchange

Our intention is to develop a summer exchange program that will provide our students with the opportunity to study abroad. SNC and TNNUA will offer a three-week, three-unit course. The course will be team-taught by faculty members from TNNUA and faculty members from SNC. SNC and TNNUA will alternate hosting responsibilities.

While the SNC students are at TNNUA they will have the opportunity to work along side students and faculty from TNNUA. In this unique art making environment students will be in a three week intensive course that meets for six hours a day in the ceramics, metal and fiber studios. This course allows students and faculty to work along side each other while having discussions about art and culture. There will be lectures, hands-on demonstrations, and slide presentations addressing both contemporary and historical trends in art. This class will also incorporate a two-day trip to Taipei to visit museums and galleries. This course not only exposes students to different techniques and philosophies in art and art making while exposing students to different cultures.

While the TNNUA students are at SNC they will have the opportunity to meet and work with students and faculty from SNC. This course is designed around SNC’s summer art studio workshop model. In this unique art making environment students will be in a three week intensive course that meets for six hours a day in the ceramics and sculpture studio. This course allows students and faculty to work along side each other while having discussions about art and culture. There will be lectures, hands-on demonstrations, and slide presentations addressing both contemporary and historical trends in art. This class will also incorporate a two-day trip to San Francisco to visit museums and galleries. This course not only exposes students to different techniques and philosophies in art and art making while exposing students to different cultures.

You will find student reflections, images, videos and art listed on their personal page on the right =>. 

Heath Pierson, Flor Widmar, Rachel Livingstone, Bianca Del Cioppo, Molly Allen, Amanda Dabel, Sheri Leigh O'Connor, Anza Jarschke, Rick Parsons, 森 アリス (Alice), Kerrigan Leijon, Sally Hammel, Matt Mattson, Karl Schwiesow, Po-Ching, Madeline Blair, Fang Wang Shinyu

The participants were challenged on day one to "Pick Something Up And Take It With Them" either physically, mentally, or emotionally. My goal on trips like this is for the participants to learn something about themselves. The itinerary of the trip creates structure, while the act of being in a new place challenges them to use their values, morals and personal perceptions to navigate their new surroundings. It's this space that creates a place of hyper-awareness. Students use everything they know up to this point to comprehend and position themselves, not only where they are, but also where they are from. 

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