| Place-based Cultural Strategies:Advancing Arts, Culture, & Creativity Across Cook County Communities |
4018 (001) |
F. Philip Barash |
Fri
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This course will consider a continuum of policies, incentives, and governance models that support arts and culture in place. Students will support community goals by researching best practices in district- and community-scaled arts administration. In consultation with local stakeholders, students will assess community needs and develop models for local and regional arts support. The course will culminate with a presentation of findings to Arts Alliance Illinois leadership.
Partners include: Arts Alliance Illinois, Cook County, Selected communities, Legacy Consulting, Public Sphere Projects
Reading include Arnold Alanen and Robert Melnick, ¿Preserving Cultural Landscapes in America¿; Americans for the Arts, ¿AEP 6¿; Jeff Speck, ¿Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time.¿
Assignments will be both group driven and based upon individual research interests within the overarching topic and in relation to the partner/ client organization Arts Alliance Illinois. Students will prepare initial draft strategy proposal documentation as a group and then based upon review they will develop a specific part of a final project strategy document. While the work will stem from conversations with Arts Alliance Illinois as a 'client' the finished material will be presented 'as live' with the potential for adoption rather than as a live consequential proposal.
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Class Number
2411
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Credits
3
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Department
Historic Preservation
Area of Study
Class, Race, Ethnicity, Community & Social Engagement, Public Space, Site, Landscape
Location
Lakeview - 1506
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| Artist Archive and Legacy - SITE Galleries Archive |
4031 (001) |
Sarah Kathryn Skaggs |
Thurs
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
In this interdisciplinary studio-seminar, students will work with SITE Galleries and its archive. Founded in 1994, SITE, once known as the Student Union Galleries (SUGs), is a student-run organization at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) for the exhibition of student work. SITE was created as a response to the lack of spaces on SAIC's campus to accommodate the display of student work. Since then, SITE has had the support of faculty advisors and staff and has supported the professional development of roughly 80 student staff members, produced over 260 exhibitions, and has served more than 850 student artists. For more details about SITE Galleries, visit the following link - https://sites.saic.edu/sitegalleries/#
This class will join the legacy celebration of SITE's 30th anniversary and will continue work with SITE's archive to support the efforts of bringing it to a publicly accessible stage while understanding the archival needs of the paper-based collection of ephemera, promotional materials and digital documentation. The class readings and course content will include material that addresses a range of contemporary approaches to archive management and mediation focusing on specific institutional examples alongside the work of practitioners in the field of archival management and research.
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Class Number
1456
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Credits
3
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Department
Historic Preservation
Area of Study
Exhibition and Curatorial Studies
Location
Lakeview - 1507
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| Better Homes & Gardens |
4512 (001) |
Annalise Flynn |
Fri
8:30 AM - 11:15 AM
In Person
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Description
This course explores the rich genre of vernacular-built environments - where personal spaces like homes, studios, and gardens have been fully transformed into continually evolving, site-specific, and life-encompassing endeavours. Frequently such spaces are understood as works or art because they include strong visual and crafted elements. Such structures include mosaic-covered homes, painted mountains, found object gardens, hand-built concrete compounds, and much more. In this course, we will explore the expansive ways that those creating environments push the canonical limits of artmaking and the idea of who the artist is through their interactions with material, landscape, and community. We will examine historical and contemporary art environments within their social, political, and cultural contexts, consider the ¿lives¿ of ephemeral sites via preservation initiatives, and discuss where these artists and their work intersect (and do not intersect) with the mainstream art world. The artists included in this class present a demographic and geographic cross-section of America (and elsewhere), and readings, lectures, and class discussion will support the development of a more inclusive understanding of artmaking and placemaking in the United States. Artists¿ sites examined range from Sabato Rodia¿s Watts Towers in Los Angeles, California to L.V. Hull¿s home in Kosciusko, Mississippi. Students are expected to attend in-person class, complete a variety of readings and research-based projects, and participate in class discussion. Sign up for this class requires instructor consent and is by application to Professor Annalise Flynn. If you would like to register for this class, please send a brief description of your interest in the above content and any questions you may have to aflynn2@saic.edu.
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: Art History Survey Requirement OR Graduate Student
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Class Number
2243
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Credits
3
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Department
Historic Preservation
Area of Study
Museum Studies
Location
Lakeview - 1507
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| Restoration Design Studio |
5010 (001) |
Suzi Reinhold, Chris Enck |
Mon
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This studio and lecture course focuses on the restoration design of existing historic buildings (following the Secretary of the Interior's Guidelines) using historic photographs, working drawings, and descriptions; stylistic analysis; and similar building topologies. Historical structural systems, construction methods, and mechanical systems are also studied and researched. Restoration drawings are prepared to document the changes needed for restoration.
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Class Number
2265
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Credits
3
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Department
Historic Preservation
Location
Lakeview - 1506
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| Restoration Design Studio |
5010 (001) |
Suzi Reinhold, Chris Enck |
Mon
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
This studio and lecture course focuses on the restoration design of existing historic buildings (following the Secretary of the Interior's Guidelines) using historic photographs, working drawings, and descriptions; stylistic analysis; and similar building topologies. Historical structural systems, construction methods, and mechanical systems are also studied and researched. Restoration drawings are prepared to document the changes needed for restoration.
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Class Number
2265
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Credits
3
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Department
Historic Preservation
Location
Lakeview - 1506
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| Building Diagnostics |
5012 (001) |
Rachel Will |
Tues
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
In Person
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Description
Why do buildings get sick and how do we make them well? This course examines the deterioration (by man and nature) of building materials and their component systems. Through lectures and field studies, students will study the symptoms, diagnose the problem, determine what tests are needed, and how to remedy the effect . Field trips included.
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Class Number
1919
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Credits
3
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Department
Historic Preservation
Location
Lakeview - 1507
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| Preservation Law |
6008 (001) |
Richard Friedman |
Thurs
3:30 PM - 6:15 PM
In Person
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Description
Preservation Law concentrates on the legal framework of American cultural preservation. All professionals in the field should know the local and national laws protecting our cultural heritage and how to advocate on behalf of heritage preservation. The course explores such topics as the constraints under which local landmark commissions operate, the rights of property owners and the strengths and failings of federal protection laws. In addition, we will study the increasing acceptance of diverse views and how context affects our understanding of cultural artifacts.
The classroom work incorporates the question and answer method, in which students and professor discuss the day?s topic and assigned readings. As much as possible, original documents and materials will be included in the assigned readings, such as the seminal United States Supreme Court Penn Central decision. Chicago is a center of cultural preservation activity, so we are able to invite a variety of outside speakers for practical and diverse viewpoints.
There will be a long-term project in which each student selects a controversial cultural artifact, investigates its history and analyses the controversy. Students then give a class presentation of their findings and conclusions.
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Class Number
1921
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Credits
3
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Department
Historic Preservation
Location
Lakeview - 1506
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