Did you know there were two Michelangelos? Michelangelo Buonarroti and Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio, lived a century apart but both revolutionized art in ways still felt today.
Learn all the basic moves of commercial dance styles and how they draw on the aesthetics of traditions that originated in African American and diaspora communities.
Get your groove on! Learn the basics of the hustle- a partner disco dance from the 70s. Appreciate it's historical and cultural context and try out some new moves.
Resilience is the ability to overcome failure by learning from it and applying it to another effort. Here students identify obstacles to creativity and create strategies for overcoming them.
Examines the specific cultural, socio-economic, and political functions of aesthetic objects that serve utilitarian purposes such as clothing, architecture, furniture and functional design.
Online course examines creative research in the arts and the natural overlap with research in other fields. Explores research through lens of digital art, dance, science and theater.
It is exciting to see how Cézanne’s elimination of traditional perspective and even the notion of light shining in the imaginary space of painting emboldened Pablo Picasso and Piet Mondrian to push painting to the brink of abstraction and beyond.
Artists in the later 19th century created a radical style that came to be known as Impressionism. Post-Impressionism responded to the earlier style, with bolder colors and less naturalism.
Painting was important in 4th–17th century China. Topics include political forces, regional geography, social structure, gender, traditional philosophies, and religious/spiritual influences.
Is it possible to imagine a world without photography? It informs and impacts so much of our lives today. Learn its history from the early 19th century to digital imagery.