A wide shot of a ceramics studio, featuring students working with pottery wheels and other tools.
SAIC faculty member Andy Hall.

Andy Hall

Associate Professor

Bio

Associate Professor, Contemporary Practices (2001). BFA, 1995, University of Kansas, Lawrence; PostBacc, 1998, MFA, 2000, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Exhibitions: Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh; Roots and Culture, Chicago; Chicago Cultural Center; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Gavin Brown Enterprises, NY; Soap Factory, Minneapolis. Publications: Anp Quarterly, Interior Design. Bibliography: Public Art Review; New Art Examiner; Core77

Courses

Title Department Catalog Term

Description

Core Studio is a year-long course that introduces students to both disciplinary and interdisciplinary art practice. Students learn about the methods, materials, tools and concepts in the areas of Surface (2-dimensional), Space (3-dimensional), and Time (4-dimensional), both independently and in relationship to one another. Students develop their own ideas in relation to the materials and themes being presented by faculty. Core Studio integrates the formal with the conceptual, historical with the contemporary, and makes visible the possibilities and variety of approaches in contemporary cultural production.

Class Number

1269

Credits

3

Description

This studio course focuses on themes, practices, contexts, and questions undertaken by contemporary artists and designers. Research Studio I is a course that asks students to begin to develop and connect their own work and ideas with a diverse range of artists, designers, and communities. This course engages with cultural institutions including: museums, galleries, libraries and archives as resources of critical engagement.

Students will undertake various types of research activities: a) collecting and classification, b) mapping and diagramming, c) systems of measurement, d) social interaction, e) information search systems, f) recording and representation, and g) drawing and other notational systems.


Assignments in this course are faculty directed, open-media, interdisciplinary and idea based. The projects are designed to help students recognize their work habits, biases, strengths, and weaknesses. Students will experience a wide range of research methods and making strategies. Critique as an evaluative process used in art and design schools, is a focus in this course. Various methods and models of critique are used in order to give students the tools to discuss their own work and the work of others.

Class Number

1244

Credits

3