Visual Art Literacy Pilot.

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VAL is pilot program for High School aged students and/or drop outs. It is a free program bringing Art History to a woefully under-thought and taught area of interest. 

 

We have developed a course addressing representation around clusters of dates and/or major world events. Moving back and forth between 1453 (when the developing Ottoman Caliphate knocked off the Roman Empire in Constantinople), 1633 (when Gallieo was under house arrest by the Inquisition at the height of the Italian Baroque), 1969 (when the US landed on the moon…did we?)...you get the idea.

 

Classes meet once weekly for 10 weeks and will give participants an historically infused understanding of some major stylistic periods of largely Western Art. Participants will be responsible for one group presentation and there will be no tests or grades. The class is a non-accredited, extracurricular, opportunity to develop a more sophisticated understanding of history through the visual record. Exposure is the objective here.

There will be a simple advanced registration questionnaire to fill out, followed by a short home test to determine if this program is appropriate for both potential students and ourselves. Students will be notified shortly after about next steps.

Limited to 25. All classes remote.

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Instructor/Director according to AI.

 

Corey McCorkle, born in La Crosse, Wisconsin in 1969, is an American artist known for his spatial interventions, installations, sculptures, photographs, and films. His work often engages with utopian ideas related to nature and transcendence, and responds to specific sites, aiming to disrupt, mutate, manipulate, or enhance the environment. His practice is informed by the history of architecture and design, social sciences, and countercultures, exploring the human desire for perfection and notions of utopia.

 

McCorkle has an extensive exhibition history with numerous solo and group shows internationally including the Whitney, Montreal, and Berlin Biennales. Institutional exhibitions include the Pompidou Paris, Pompidou Metz, Kunsthalle Bern, KW Berlin, US exhibitions include PS1/MoMA, The Warehouse Dallas, Miami MOCA, Cleveland MoCA in addition to countless other commercial solo and group shows stretching back to 1995.

 

He holds a BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (1993) and an

MFA, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL (1995)