Sacred Spaces Residency
This course will provide students the opportunity to interact and learn from international Bahamian artist Antonius Roberts in a residency format. The curriculum will explore site-specific sustainable interdisciplinary art through the exchange of materiality, knowledge, and research. Visits to sacred spaces, museums, galleries, students will explore a multiplicity of histories in relation to land and a sense of place. Curriculum will create a process of ongoing reflexivity to include social justice, critical methodologies, and Indigenous knowledge more prominently in our art-making processes. The residency curriculum will culminate with an exhibition and community gathering of work in process.
Research activities will include
*Visiting Sacred Sites as spaces of artistic inspiration and creative impetus
*Incorporating decolonial thematics into conceptual motivations
*Considering land-based and sustainable approaches to studio production
*Creating connections between art movements in the Bahamas and those in Canada
*Understanding and interacting with community-based approaches to art through visiting local arts organizations
At the end of the course, participants will be able to
*Use sustainable materials in effective and substantive ways within one’s studio practice
*Connect one's artistic practice to place-making, historical context, and site specificity
*Understand the role and responsibility of the artist in community-based professional practice
*Create and express studio writing that takes into consideration the creative process as a foundation of production
*Install, promote, and curate a group exhibition in a collaborative and consensus-based format
