News, April 22, 2025

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Now Enrolling: Art & Environments Field School (ARTS 4444/5444)
Field session: May 19-June 6, 2025

LINK TO MORE INFORMATION ABOUT FIELD SCHOOL

The Field School is a 6-credit, 6-week intensive field arts program available each summer. The structure is 3-weeks of on-site fieldwork followed by 3-weeks of asynchronous online work and reflection. The program puts students in touch with various landscapes and is focused on teaching site and context-based approaches to art creation. The Field School is designed as an experiential course, meaning that students learn about places and context through being in the field and making artwork on-site. While living and working in the field, students create and discuss various art-making approaches with environments such as prairies, forests and waterways. Students may explore many mediums including: writing, photography, sculpture, drawing and video and sound recording.

Topics that are discussed and of which students work with in for this course are: nature and process; ecology; conservation; highways and byways; non-urban phenomenology; climate change; borderlands; pastoralism; wayfaring; waterways; pilgrimages; colonialism; ownership and identity; agriculture; idealized and ignored landscapes; and geomorphology. The 2025 session will travel to the San Luis Valley and Western Slope of Colorado, finishing with an exhibition at the Mountain Research Station near Nederland. Please note this course is off-campus and a signed university waiver and active health insurance is required.