Summer 2023
6 weeks total: June 05-23 (3 weeks in the field) & (3 weeks online - independent portfolio)
The Field School is an intensive 3-week summer program that puts students in touch with various rural landscapes while focusing on site and context-based approaches to art creation. The Field School is designed as an experiential course, meaning that students learn through the experience and process of understanding place, and through the process of making of newvartworks on-site. While living and working in the field, students create and discuss various approaches to art creation. Students may explore many mediums including: writing, photography, sculpture, drawing, sound recording, and land-based art; oral histories. Post-studio art practices such as dialogical and context-based actions are also artforms that work well in the Field School environment. Topics that are discussed and of which students have explored include: nature and process, phenomenology, borderlands, pastoralism, wayfaring, walking, pilgrimages, ecologies, colonialism, ownership and exploitation, conservation, cultural representation, settler-scapes, reconciliation, idealized landscapes, dualities, centers and peripheries.
Instructors: Aaron Treher / Kelly Yarbrough
Location: Mountain Research Station, Nederland CO
Dates & Times: June 05-23 (3 weeks in the field) & (3 weeks online - independent portfolio)
Credit: 6 credit hours in art (ARTS 4444/5444)
Tuition: $3600
For more information on the course please contact:
FIELD SCHOOL STAFF
Field School Faculty Director:
Richard Saxton
Artist/Instructor:
Aaron Treher
Artist/Instructor:
Kelly Yarbrough
Questions about staying at the Mountain Research Station during your course? See our Guide to Visiting and Living at the Station.
READ BELOW TO REGISTER FOR THIS COURSE ONLY (ART AND ENVIRONMENT HAS ITS OWN SIGN UP PROCESS)
To Register:
CU degree students may simply search for ARTS 4444/5444 (screenshot below) and register online via the Buff portal.
Make sure you are searching “Boulder Continuing Education”
Please review the Syllabus , understanding that this is a residential field program for 3-weeks.
For non-degree/1st-time students, or students transferring credits to other universities, please follow the below link and fill out a Summer 2023 Enrollment Application. https://ce.colorado.edu/resources/topics/enrollment-new-students/.
