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Description:
This studio art course introduces and involves students in painting a large-scale collaborative community mural project. Students will generate ideas, plan preliminary mural sketches, design compositions, research cultural symbolism, scale images, and paint a large-scale collaborative community painting. In addition, students will learn basic painting techniques and how to mix acrylic paint. This course will discuss how murals can be used to create social change, as well as explore the use of themes such as humanity, empowerment, community, and personal and cultural identity. Lectures will analyze historical and contemporary events and movements depicted in murals, as well as significant mural artists.
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Prerequisite:
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Corequisite:
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Advisory:
Advisory: ART 5A; not open to students with credit in ART 18 or 80.
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Repeatability:
Not Repeatable.
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Hours:
3 hours lecture per week, 3 hours lab per week. 72 hours total per quarter.
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Foothill GE Area:Arts & Humanities
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Transferability:
Both
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Transfer GE:
Information regarding how this course is applied toward CSU GE/Breadth or IGETC certification is available at:
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Foothill Transfer GE Guide
Department Note:
TO CONTACT AN INSTRUCTOR VIA EMAIL: lastnamefirstname@foothill.edu
For more information about the Art Program, contact: Hilary Gomes at gomeshilary@foothill.edu or call 650.949.7585. The website can be found at: https://foothill.edu/art. For information on how to clear a prerequisite please go to: https://foothill.edu/reg/prereqs.html
