Course Home Page: Art and
Survival - II601
This
course empowers participants to use art in new ways, generating creative
solutions for environmental, social and economic problems. Participants
experiment with applying resources, approaches and key concepts in an
emerging field of interdisciplinary practice to issues in their home
communities. With the support of the instructor and the Islands
Institute community, they develop enjoyable, effective projects with
personal and real-world relevance.
One
focus of this course is the practice of artistic community mapping.
Using the text
Islands in the Salish Sea, students explore how maps are used to
communicate the history and character of the Gulf Islands. The work of
Patricia Johanson, as described in the course text
Art and Survival,
provides further inspiration for extending the work of art into creating
water-purification systems, parks and infrastructure projects.
Course
registration for this individualized study course includes full
instructor support for ten weeks, an
electronic "Course Guide," access to restricted online posting areas,
plus various electronic resources, assessment and transcripts.
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Course Texts for
Art and Survival
(students please order directly)
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eds. Sheila Harrington and
Judi Stevenson. Vancouver:
Touchwood Editions, 2005
This book presents a
fascinating and visually stunning picture of a region richly endowed
and inviting but also vulnerable. The “Islands in the Salish Sea
Community Mapping Project” engaged over 3000 people and involved
everything from oral history with elders through
reviews of scientific data to school kids with clipboards and
crayons. More than 30 local artists then brought together these
layers of information to life in unique and extraordinary maps.
Their work is showcased in this atlas, accompanied by accounts of
how each map came to be. Additional chapters describe the origins
and strength of the emerging practice of artistic community mapping,
the unfolding of this project over several years, and the history
and character of the islands.
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by Caffyn Kelley;
introduction by Lucy R. Lippard. Gulf Islands: Islands
Institute, 2006
For over forty years,
Patricia Johanson has patiently insisted that art can help to heal
the earth. For more than twenty years she has traveled around the
world creating large-scale public projects that posit her radical
yet utterly practical vision. Johanson works with engineers, city
planners, scientists and citizens’ groups to create her art as
functioning infrastructure for modern cities. Johanson’s graceful
designs for sewers, highways, parks and other functional projects
link fragmented ecosystems and create conditions that allow
endangered species to thrive.
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