How can drawing help us see, engage with, and even create community? This seminar requires no prior experience with drawing. We explore how graphic novelists, nature artists, cartographers, and researchers use drawing to understand the lives of others, make sense of place and history, explore their own identities, and envision a better world: new relationship between us and what we draw.
Community-engaged component includes drawing on site and off-campus to practice anthropological observation, interact with communities around us (which may include local organizations), and gain a deeper understanding of Durham. The self-designed final project asks students to “draw community” in at least two locations, reflecting on their methods and choices in carrying out that vision. The class will discuss and implement a plan for sharing this work with the public.
Instructor: Rosenblatt
Cross Listings: ARTSVIS 89S, EDUC 89S, ETHICS 89S, VMS 89S
This course is part of the Kenan Institute for Ethics “What Now?” program.
Reserved for first-year students, transfer students, and students with a first-year exception
