Taught by: Jovanny Leon and Melissa Quizhpe
Identity is a complicated combination of how we know and express ourselves as individuals and how we are shaped by and perceived through positions including race and ethnicity, gender, economic class, age, physical ability, and many other categories. Artists have always presented themselves in their work – sometimes directly in self-portraits and sometimes indirectly by including autobiographical elements and experiences. These works often critique the systems that stereotype, marginalize, or categorize people in harmful ways. In this class, students investigated the complexity of identity and the possibilities for connecting the self to the community in transformative ways through multimedia art activities that included performance and public work.
The following is the curriculum map students followed throughout the course:
