Chan/Taylor/Williamson

3 credits

An introductory course, divided into three segments, which serves as a prerequisite to all studio courses. In Drawing students will learn observational drawing and how visual thinking connects with the hand. The Conceptual segment will exercise creative problem-solving skills and teach students to engage in critical discourse. The Digital segment teaches basic technical skills and digital tools including still and moving image and sound.

Scheuren

3 credits

Focuses on gaining a working understanding of photographic processes and practice. Class assignments help students understand the visual language of photography using 35mm black and white film and printing their own photographs in the darkroom. In addition, lectures explore examples from the historical and contemporary worlds of fine art photography. Cameras are provided. Prereq: ARTS 2000

Moyer/Cuatlacuatl

3 credits

An art class that introduces the creative use of digital tools within the fine art context. Students will both learn processes and history of experimental art and practice the use of the computer as a tool for personal expression. Prerequisite: ARTS 2000p>

Cuatlacuatl

3 credits

An art class that continues the exploration of digital skills with an emphasis on artist’s media rather than mass media. Students will continue to learn about the history and practice of art to inform their own creative work. Prerequisites: ARTS 2220

Williamson, MW 12:30-3 in Ruffin 319

3 credits

In this interdisciplinary studio course students will investigate 'prior conditions of existence,' study critical theories, and produce artworks inspired by the archive. Students will research archive-related topics of their choosing, and synthesize readings and research through written and oral communication. They will develop critical thinking skills through the production of artwork and engagement in group critiques. Prereq: ARTS 2000

Everson

3 credits

The course introduces experimental 16mm film production as a practice of visual art. These courses include technical, historical, and theoretical issues that apply to cinematography and its relationship to the traditional visual arts.

TBD

3 credits

What can artists do in an age of ever more visible climate change? How is ecological loss bound up with other contemporary crises? And in the face of it all, how do we make do, make sense, make trouble, and make futures with all the plants, mushrooms, rocks, and animals we care about?

This interdisciplinary studio art class introduces students to new issues and ways of working at the intersection of art and ecology, moving through and beyond the canonical genres of environmental art, ecological art, land art, and sustainable design to engage with contemporary discourses around the Anthropocene, deep time, degrowth and defuturing, placemaking, and the colonial, racial, and gendered dimensions of ecology. Drawing on scholarship in art history, environmental studies, urban studies, geology, multispecies anthropology, and queer and feminist theory, we will seek to develop art practices in a variety of media that help us think our way through the environmental past and present and toward environmental futures.

Schoyer

3 credits

A continued introductory study of the materials and techniques of drawing. Provides training in the coordination of hand and eye and encourages development of visual analysis. Emphasizes understanding form, space, light and composition.

Schoyer

3 credits

Applies technical drawing skills to projects that delve into analytical thinking and idea-based work. Projects are designed to help students experiment and learn how to communicate meaning visually.

Taylor

3 credits

Creations of drawings of a living model in various media. Topics include artistic anatomy, figure and portrait drawing. Prerequisite: ARTS 2000 and 2610.

Taylor

3 credits

Creations of drawings of a living model in various media. Topics include artistic anatomy, figure and portrait drawing. Prerequisite: ARTS 2000 and 2610.

Rollando

3 credits

Introduction to intaglio printmaking and monotype techniques, including hard and soft ground etch, aquatint, and drypoint.

Taylor

3 credits

Introduction to intaglio printmaking and monotype techniques, including hard and soft ground etch, aquatint, and drypoint.

Chan

3 credits

Introduction to basic water painting techniques and materials (including acrylic, gouache, and water color), emphasizing perception and color. Assignments are designed to assist the student in understanding the creative process and interpreting the environment through a variety of subject matter expressed in painted images. Encourages individual stylistic development. Prerequisites: ARTS 2000 and 2610

Marlatt

3 credits

Introduction to Oil-based painting. Prerequisites: ARTS 2000 and ARTS 2610

How do we begin reimagining the stuff, the spaces, and the situations that make up our physical world? This course covers basic methods, materials, and issues in sculpture, from construction methods to essential contemporary issues. Through wide-ranging readings, viewings, discussions, and studio visits, students will develop core visual and spatial competencies, as well as an embodied understanding of how meaning and value emerge from artistic processes.

3 credits

Investigates the sculptural process through modeling, carving, fabricating and casting. Examines traditional and contemporary concerns of sculpture by analyzing historical examples and work done in class. Prerequisites: ARTS 2000 and 2610

How do we begin reimagining the stuff, the spaces, and the situations that make up our physical world? This course covers basic methods, materials, and issues in sculpture, from construction methods to essential contemporary issues. Through wide-ranging readings, viewings, discussions, and studio visits, students will develop core visual and spatial competencies, as well as an embodied understanding of how meaning and value emerge from artistic processes.

3 credits

Investigates the sculptural process through modeling, carving, fabricating and casting. Examines traditional and contemporary concerns of sculpture by analyzing historical examples and work done in class Prerequisties: ARTS 2000 and ARTS 2610

Scheuren

3 credits

This intermediate-level course expands technical possibilities available to students by introducing medium and large format cameras. Working in black & white, students learn advanced techniques with film and darkroom printing. Further explorations into historical and contemporary art issues via presentations, visiting artists, and readings. Students create a final portfolio culled from class assignments. Cameras are provided. Prereq: ARTS 2110

Moyer

3 credits

An intermediate art class that covers moving image and digital work as broadly defined. Students will focus on video and sound editing as well as installation. Prerequisites: ARTS 2220 and 2222.

XXXXXX

3 credits

A project-based art class that allows intermediate students the time to develop independent ideas in cooperation with the professor while participating in a class community. Prerequisites: ARTS 2220 and 2222.

Everson

3 credits

This course continues the practice of 16mm experimental film production with an increased emphasis on audio and digital video motion picture making. Student will complete assignments based on genres of experimental film making such as expressionism, naturalism, and realism. Prerequisite: ARTS 2370 and ARTS 2372.

Everson

3 credits

This course continues the practice of 16mm experimental film production with an increased emphasis on audio and digital video motion picture making. Student will complete assignments based on genres of experimental film making such as expressionism, naturalism, and realism. Prerequisite: ARTS 2370 and ARTS 2372.

Williamson

3 credits

In this interdisciplinary studio course students will investigate ‘prior conditions of existence,’ study critical theories, and produce artworks inspired by the archive. Students will research archive-related topics of their choosing, and synthesize readings and research through written and oral communication. They will develop critical thinking skills through the production of artwork and engagement in group critiques. Prereq: ARTS 2000.

Schoyer

3 credits

Exploration of contemporary drawing techniques and concepts with emphasis on the role of drawing in an interdisciplinary practice. Students are encouraged to broaden their definition of drawing into color, print, digital and other media. Projects are given as prompts that assist students in the development of their own visual language.

Rollando

3 credits

Includes relief printing, advanced lithography techniques, including color lithography, color etching, monotypes, and further development of black and white imagery. Printmaking professors and course content vary from semester to semester. Prerequisite: ARTS 2670 and ARTS 2672.

Rollando

3 credits

Includes relief printing, advanced lithography techniques, including color lithography, color etching, monotypes, and further development of black and white imagery. Printmaking professors and course content vary from semester to semester. Prerequisites: ARTS 2670 and ARTS 2672.

Marlatt

3 credits

Exploration of contemporary painting materials, techniques, and concepts, as well as a continuation of basic oil painting processes. Assignments are designed to assist the student in developing their perceptions and imagination and translating them into painted images. Direction is given to the formation of personal original painting styles. Prerequisite: ARTS 2710, 2712.

Marlatt

3 credits

Exploration of contemporary painting materials, techniques, and concepts, as well as a continuation of basic oil painting processes. Assignments are designed to assist the student in developing their perceptions and imagination and translating them into painted images. Direction is given to the formation of personal original painting styles. Prerequisite: ARTS 2710, 2712.

What is happening in sculpture today? And what is sculpture today, anyway? This course brings students to sculpture’s edges and beyond, asking how the genre's practices, theoretical influences, and interactions with larger cultural forces have resulted in the dramatic expansion and redefinition of its borders. Students will examine the ways sculpture has absorbed and been absorbed into other genres, including painting, video, performance, and social practice, and seek to develop familiarity with sculpture's contemporary contours and concerns. Along the way, students will engage in specialized and experimental skillbuilding and grapple with contemporary art and art-adjacent theory and criticism, with the goal of developing material and conceptual conversancy.

3 credits

Continuation of ARTS 2810 and ARTS 2812 with greater emphasis on the special problems of the sculptural discipline. Prerequisite: ARTS 2810, 2812.

What is happening in sculpture today? And what is sculpture today, anyway? This course brings students to sculpture’s edges and beyond, asking how the genre's practices, theoretical influences, and interactions with larger cultural forces have resulted in the dramatic expansion and redefinition of its borders. Students will examine the ways sculpture has absorbed and been absorbed into other genres, including painting, video, performance, and social practice, and seek to develop familiarity with sculpture's contemporary contours and concerns. Along the way, students will engage in specialized and experimental skillbuilding and grapple with contemporary art and art-adjacent theory and criticism, with the goal of developing material and conceptual conversancy.

3 credits

Continuation of ARTS 2810 and ARTS 2812 with greater emphasis on the special problems of the sculptural discipline. Prerequisite: ARTS 2810, 2812.

Scheuren

3 credits

Explores advanced-level photographic techniques and concepts. Prerequisite: ARTS 2112 and 3110

Scheuren

3 credits

Assists students in preparing their required thesis exhibitions. Meets twice a week as a group to evaluate and discuss work in progress. Students participate in class portfolio and acquire a print from each member of the class. (Spring only.)Prerequisite: ARTS 3110

Moyer

3 credits

A project-based art class that allows advanced students the time to develop independent ideas in cooperation with the professor while participating in a class community. Prerequisites: ARTS 3220 or 3222p>

Moyer

3 credits

An advanced art class in which students design, propose and produce a semester-long thesis project that culminates in a public presentation of their work. Prerequisites: ARTS 3220 or 3222.

Everson

3 credits

Course continues the practice of 16mm film or digital video experimental production with an emphasis on a completed piece for public screenings or exhibitions. Prerequisite: ARTS 3370 or ARTS 3372.

Everson

3 credits

Course continues the practice of 16mm film or digital video experimental production with an emphasis on a completed piece for public screenings or exhibitions. Prerequisite: ARTS 3370 or ARTS 3372.

Chan

3 credits

Intensive independent work using either sculpture, photography, printmaking, cinematography, or painting as the primary medium, culminating in a coherent body of work under direction of a faculty member. Prerequisite: Admission to the Distinguished Major Program.

XXXXXX

3 credits

Intensive independent work using either sculpture, photography, printmaking, cinematography, or painting as the primary medium, culminating in a coherent body of work under direction of a faculty member. Prerequisite: Admission to the Distinguished Major Program. ARTS 4450 Prerequisite: Admission to the Distinguished Major Program.

XXXXXX

3 credits

New Course in the subject of studio art.

Rollando

3 credits

Designed for students who have completed two or more semesters of study of a specific printmaking technique (woodcut, etching, or lithography) and wish to continue their exploration of that technique. Prerequisite: ARTS 3670 or 3672.

Rollando

3 credits

Designed for students who have completed two or more semesters of study of a specific printmaking technique (woodcut, etching, or lithography) and wish to continue their exploration of that technique. Prerequisite: ARTS 3670 or 3672.

Marlatt

3 credits

The capstone of a three year study in painting. Continues the investigation of oil painting as an expressive medium and stresses the development of students’ ability to conceive and execute a series of thematically related paintings over the course of the semester. Painting professors and course content vary from semester to semester. Prerequisite: ARTS 3710 or 3712.

Marlatt

3 credits

Painting professors and course content vary from semester to semester. Prerequisite: ARTS 3710 or ARTS 3712.

What is happening in sculpture today? And what is sculpture today, anyway? This course brings students to sculpture’s contemporary edges and beyond, asking how the genre's practices, theoretical influences, and interactions with larger cultural forces have resulted in the dramatic expansion and redefinition of its borders, particularly as sculpture has absorbed and been absorbed into other genres, including painting, video, performance, and social practice. Guided by a series of independent-project prompts, students will grapple with advanced approaches to material, method, history, and theory, with the goal of developing individual practices that best serve their aesthetic, intellectual, and ethical interests.

3 credits

Continuation of the sculpture sequence with greater emphasis on developing a student’s individual voice. Advanced projects in moldmaking, metal casting, and non-traditional sculpture materials are assigned. The creation of a sculptural installation is also assigned. Sculpture professors and course content vary from semester to semester. Prerequisite: ARTS 3810 or 3812.

What is happening in sculpture today? And what is sculpture today, anyway? This course brings students to sculpture’s contemporary edges and beyond, asking how the genre's practices, theoretical influences, and interactions with larger cultural forces have resulted in the dramatic expansion and redefinition of its borders, particularly as sculpture has absorbed and been absorbed into other genres, including painting, video, performance, and social practice. Guided by a series of independent-project prompts, students will grapple with advanced approaches to material, method, history, and theory, with the goal of developing individual practices that best serve their aesthetic, intellectual, and ethical interests.

3 credits

Continuation of the sculpture sequence with greater emphasis on developing a student’s individual voice. Advanced projects in moldmaking, metal casting, and non-traditional sculpture materials are assigned. The creation of a sculptural installation is also assigned. Sculpture professors and course content vary from semester to semester. Prerequisite: ARTS 3810 or 3812.

XXXXXX

3 credits

Investigation and development of a consistent idea or theme in painting, sculpture, or the graphic arts. May be taken more than once under the same course number by students who are sufficiently advanced in studio work. This course is not intended to be used for major credit. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Turner TR 12:30pm - 1:45pm Fayerweather Hall 208

3 credits

Where does Art come from? How do we come to know it? Experience! Using John Dewey’s Art as Experience as a theoretical launching point, this class will contextualize the masterpieces of modern art in the Phillips Collection such as Renoir’s Luncheon of the Boating Party, Braque’s Open Window, Matisse’s Quai St. Michel, Thomas Eakins, Mrs. Van Buren, Georgia O’Keeffe’s Ranchos Church, Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series, and Mark Rothko’s Room. Other works include Cezanne’s Bather and Matisse’s Joy of Life at the Barnes Foundation.

Goedde MW 3:30pm - 4:45pm Campbell 160

3 credits

Why are Renaissance artists like Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo so famous? What is abstract art about and how do you understand its meaning? What is Impressionism and why is it so popular? This course provides students with ways of thinking about questions like these, as it explores the story of art in Europe and America from the early Renaissance to the art of the contemporary world.

Paoletti MW 2:00pm - 2:50pm Campbell 160

3 credits

Regardless of time or geography, the human body is among the most widely represented subjects in art. In this course we will investigate how specific portrayals of the body related to their contexts of creation, as well as what power dynamics are inherent to forms of looking and representing the body. Topics include: the naked and the nude, gender and the politics of representation, representing race, health and hurting, the post-human body.

Wong MW 1:00pm - 1:50pm Campbell 160

3 credits

This course introduces the art forms, trade objects, and religions that flourished along the historical Silk Road.

Kreindler TR 11:00am - 12:15pm Campbell 160

4 credits

Following an overview of Etruscan art, the course examines the development of Roman architecture, urbanism, sculpture and painting from the Republic to Constantine. A focus is Rome itself, but other archaeological sites, such as Pompeii, in Italy and throughout the empire are also considered. Themes, such as succession, the achievements of the emperor, the political and social role of art, and the dissolution of classical art, are traced.

Smith TR 2:00pm - 3:15pm Campbell 160

4 credits

Introduces the history, theory, and field techniques of classical archaeology. Major sites of the Bronze Age (Troy, Mycenae) as well as Greek and Roman cities and sanctuaries (e.g., Athens, Olympia, Pompeii) illustrate important themes in Greek and Roman culture and the nature of archaeological data.

Skerritt MW 5:00pm - 6:15pm Campbell 160

4 credits

Located in Australia's tropical north, Arnhem Land has long been one of the epicenters of the modern Aboriginal art movement. The art of the region opens a window onto another world: a world in which ancestral spirits remain a constant presence in the land. Using the world-class holdings of the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, we'll explore the art of Arnhem Land from 1911 to the present.

Paoletti, TR 3:30 - 4:205 pm Campbell 160

3 Credits

This course will examine key artists, movements & theories of modern & contemporary art in Africa from the 20th century - present. Beginning with Modernism, we will explore some of today's most established artists working w/ different media. We will situate works within the continent's rich history of art making & the field's "global turn." Topics include Modernism, Post-colonialism, Pan-Africanism, Feminism, Afro-futurism, & exhibition histories.

Phillips, TR 12:30am - 1:45pm Campbell 160

3 Credits

The class is an overview of art made in the service of Islam in the Central Islamic Lands, Egypt, North Africa, Spain, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and South and Southeast Asia. 

Goedde TR 11:00am - 12:10pm Fayerweather 206

3 credits

Study of the life and work of the great Dutch seventeenth-century master. Topics include Rembrandt's interpretation of the Bible and the nature of his religious convictions, his relationship to classical and Renaissance culture, his rivalry with Rubens, and the expressive purposes of his distinctive techniques in painting, drawing, and etching.

Flores TR 9:30am - 10:45pm Campbell 160

3 credits

Africans have been in the Americas since 1502, if not earlier. They were crucial to building the region’s infrastructure, to the degree that colonial expansion could not have happened without them. Centuries later, it was primarily Black people’s labor that built the Panama Canal (1903-1914), the greatest infrastructural project of the twentieth century. Despite this, Afro-Latin Americans’ contributions to history and culture have been diminished, if not outright erased. This course centers the art and visual culture pertaining to the Black experience in Latin America. As Afro-Latin American art history is an emerging field, the course will draw from scholarship in other disciplines, including history, anthropology, and cultural studies. The semester begins with a methodological introduction to the key issues around the construct of Latin America, Blackness, racial hierarches, and anti-racist activism. Ensuing topics include the role of Spain and Portugal in the expansion of the slave trade, Africans in the early colonial period, Afro-Indigenous solidarities, rebellions and revolutions, nation building and modernization, Afro-Atlantic cultural expressions, and the consolidation of a global Black consciousness. Please be aware that some of the images discussed in this course include offensive, controversial, or otherwise difficult content..

Ramirez-Weaver TR 12:30pm - 1:45pm Fayerweather 206

3 credits

We explore ways medieval mystical practices joined the human body with nature, transcended the cosmic harmonies of divine proportion, and attempted to fashion the world according to medieval belief. We examine purifying practices such as the Eucharist or baptism, as well as the manipulation of cosmic forces for personal or political reasons, with strategies ranging from horoscopic astrology to necromancy, ending with Harry Potter.

Vargas TR 2:00pm - 3:15pm Fayerweather 215

3 credits

In this class, we will reflect on the production, research, and community engagement of ecocinema. We will study a selection of films produced in the last years to reflect and discuss climate change, environmental/man-made decisions, ecojustice, environmental racism, consumerism, and waste. The selection of the films will present cases happening in the Global South to study how decisions taken outside wealthier countries directly impact the Global exchange.

Wong MW 5:00pm - 6:15pm Monroe Hall 110

3 credits

This course introduces the concepts on nature in East Asian traditions--Daoism, Shinto, Buddhism, Confucianism, their impacts on the relationship between human and their natural environment, and the art forms in which the theme of nature predominates, from landscape paintings to religious and garden architecture. It also explores how these ideas can contribute to the modern discourse on environmental ethics and sustainability.

Kreindler W 2:00pm - 4:30pm Fayerweather 208

3 credits

The city of Rome, with its rich history and mythology, is an excellent case study for investigating how people create art and architecture to cultivate memories.  The urban environment memorializes the past while existing in the present.  Furthermore, memorialization does not create a fixed, immutable past, as people conceptualize and remember places in different ways, and memories may change over time.  In this class, we will examine how inhabitants, visitors, and scholars of the eternal city have understood, navigated, created, and altered a physical Roman landscape in ways that regularly recalls and makes use of the past.  Progressing from Rome’s foundation to the present day, we will examine the mythology, history, and changing politics that have shaped how Romans conceptualized and remembered their city, illustrating that there are very real stakes in how we remember and interpret the past.

Fordham M 10:00pm - 12:30pm Fayerweather 206

3 credits

This course examines key developments in the history of caricature and graphic humor in Western Europe and America from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Closely aligned with printmaking and publishing developments, graphic satire and humor often existed on the edges of artistic practice. While humor was frequently local and parochial, publishing became increasingly global in distribution and outlook. And while satire relied on assumptions about “us” and “them”, the representation of cultural and ethnic difference became more varied and complex. Pursuing these and other tensions students will choose research topics from a rich archive of material here at UVA including satirical prints in the Fralin Art Museum, the Iselin collection of humor in Special Collections, and the Pat Oliphant archive in Special Collections.  

Love F 10:00am - 12:30pm Fayerweather 208

3 credits

This is the second semester internship at either UVA Art Museum or Kluge Ruhe. Students will work approximately 100 hours per semester in the museum, and will participate in three training sessions and three academic seminars. ARTH/GDS 4951 and instructor permission, by application; deadline May 1. 

Multiple

3 credits

Writing of a thesis of approximately 50 written pages undertaken in the spring semester of the fourth year by art history majors who have been accepted into the department's Distinguished Majors Program.

Ramirez-Weaver M 10:00am - 12:30 pm Fayerweather Hall 215

3 credits

A recent efflorescence of scholarship has problematized anew the ways medieval realms of knowledge were activated through ritual, computistical reckoning of the feast of Easter, technical drawing, robotics and automata, astrological prediction, magical performance, alchemical research, medicinal intervention, botanical observation, manipulation of gemstones, and conceptualized schemas such as maps and diagrams. This seminar takes a holistic approach to our topic exploring hegemonic, non-hegemonic, orthodox and heterodox western medieval perspectives. As a result, the semiotics of relics and reliquaries are considered alongside necromancy. Late medieval astronomical innovation supplies a pendant to astrological practice, and the performative aspects of thinking through schemas of visualized knowledge will be explored for both their experimental and historical value. This course takes as its premise that medieval manuscripts, magical experimenta, technical trials, medieval scientific discoveries, therapies, and arguments realized in rota or other diagrammatic forms, required the active engagement of readers, celebrants, sages or mages, and transformed their users as they at times also transformed their courtly worlds.

Turner M 2:00pm - 4:30pm Fayerweather 208

3 credits

American Modernisms locates and highlights the sites such as New York, Chicago and Harlem as well as practices and theories of a range of artists (and writers) working and exhibiting in the United States grappling with issues of modernity between 1900 and 1950.  The range of meanings for the terms "American" and "Modern" will be considered—from abstract, formal language of modern inventions to symbolist correspondences and equivalences as well as new metaphors gleaned from popular culture as a way being in the modern world.  A close examination of artist communities and institutional power structures as well as the strategic relationship between exhibition, publication and critical reception in support of American modernists will provide the basis for our analysis and discussion of the weekly readings. Special emphasis will be placed upon New Mexico as a site for complex and layered exchanges between Spanish, Indigenous and Anglo communities especially upon the arrival of New York modernist seeking an escape from industrialization and an “authentic” connection between art, craft and life. The overriding goal for this course is to engage in original archival research and written analysis.  It also will include field trips to museums, first-hand experiences with art objects, as well as curation in a student led exhibition at Special Collections (topic to be discussed).

Skerritt T 3:30pm - 6:00pm Fayerweather 206

3 credits

This course introduces graduate students to the complexities and range of methodological approaches to the exploration of global indigenous cultures and their artistic traditions.

Flores W 10:00pm - 12:30pm Fayerweather 215

3 credits

This course explores the distinctive themes and critical issues that characterize Latinx art and cultural production. As an emerging field, Latinx art history is being conceptualized through multiple approaches, including curatorial practice, interdisciplinary scholarship, the art market, and artists’ voices. It is impacted by regional concerns, demographic changes, generational priorities, and shifting identities, challenging attempts to fix its contours. We will consider artistic production of the 1960s to the present through an interdisciplinary lens, putting field-defining texts in dialogue with emerging scholarship. Topics to be covered include representation, race, borders, community, fugitivity, and futures.

Sampson TR 3:00pm - 4:30pm, Fayerweather HAll 206

3 credits

This class examines trending topics in music, film, theatre, art, and fashion while contextualizing them through the lens of arts administration. We take a look at the careers within these fields and help students gain knowledge of the inner workings of these industries.

Sampson TR 12:30pm - 1:45pm, Fayerweather 215

3 credits

This course explores techniques and rationales behind the giving and the raising of funds; and the closely related skills of leading and managing trustees, boards and volunteers. The course will examine these fields using both theory and practical applications. Both in-class discussions and distinguished guest speakers will be utilized.

Sampson TR 3:30pm - 4:45pm Fayerweather 215

3 credits

This course will be a unique course of research and discovery. The thesis is that UVA as an institution has played an underappreciated role in American artistic and cultural history. This is due to contributions made in that sphere by alumnae and other former UVA students who attended but may lack a formal degree. Some contributions were by direct action, some by reflected actions taken by a person’s influence on others. This could be said for many fields but this course is in the Arts Administration curriculum, so will focus on the arts aspect of American culture. In part it is designed to provide evidence for further support for UVA arts. There has been more than Edgar Allen Poe.