New Exhibition Confirmed: Calgary Banff Exposure Festival
Somewhere Beyond Elsewhere solo exhibition of new work.
http://www.exposurephotofestiv
Catalogue and Artist Talk TBA
http://www.exposurephotofestiv
Catalogue and Artist Talk TBA
Teaching NEW COURSES: Vancouver Island School of Art
I am again teaching some great new courses at VISA!
Photography, Painting and a Special Studies Course
Check out the link:
http://www.vancouverislandscho
Photography, Painting and a Special Studies Course
Check out the link:
http://www.vancouverislandscho
Teaching New Courses | Spring 2011
http://www.vancouverislandscho
Art History: The Ephemeral Landscape
What does landscape art look like within today's contemporary art practices? This six-week lecture and discussion class explores a wide-range of media and explores contemporary painting, photography, video, sculpture and installation practices concerned with depicting our ever-changing landscapes and complex relationship to nature. Issues of environment, resources extraction, cultural identity and the idea of wildness will be discussed through student presentations, group discussions and slide presentations. Related films and field trips will be incorporated into class time. This course is designed to strengthen and facilitate dialogue with project work completed within
Special Studies: The Fractured Landscape (Wednesdays, 2:00 – 5:00 pm). Wednesdays 10am - 1pm, May 11 - Jun 15
Tara Nicholson
Art History: The Ephemeral Landscape
What does landscape art look like within today's contemporary art practices? This six-week lecture and discussion class explores a wide-range of media and explores contemporary painting, photography, video, sculpture and installation practices concerned with depicting our ever-changing landscapes and complex relationship to nature. Issues of environment, resources extraction, cultural identity and the idea of wildness will be discussed through student presentations, group discussions and slide presentations. Related films and field trips will be incorporated into class time. This course is designed to strengthen and facilitate dialogue with project work completed within
Special Studies: The Fractured Landscape (Wednesdays, 2:00 – 5:00 pm). Wednesdays 10am - 1pm, May 11 - Jun 15
Tara Nicholson
Teaching a Course at Vancouver Island School of Art
Documentary Photography & Video (PHOT 210)
This course is designed to provide students with a strong understanding of the traditions of documentary photography and video work. The course explores photo-documentary traditions within North America from the 1930’s, to the present day placement of documentary work within contemporary art practices and the conceptual development of this genre within the digital age. The main focus of this class is to create a documentary based project from each student’s interests and research. A broad range of artists are covered from Walker Evans to Robert Frank, Garry Winogrand, Lee Friedlander, Diane Arbus, Larry Towell and Susan Meiselas. Emerging and current practices within photography and video are investigated including the work of Stan Douglas, Jeff Wall, Sarah Anne Johnson and Raymonde April.
Tue 6:30pm - 9:30pm, Jan 11 - Apr 5, 2011
Tara Nicholson
http://www.vancouverislandscho
This course is designed to provide students with a strong understanding of the traditions of documentary photography and video work. The course explores photo-documentary traditions within North America from the 1930’s, to the present day placement of documentary work within contemporary art practices and the conceptual development of this genre within the digital age. The main focus of this class is to create a documentary based project from each student’s interests and research. A broad range of artists are covered from Walker Evans to Robert Frank, Garry Winogrand, Lee Friedlander, Diane Arbus, Larry Towell and Susan Meiselas. Emerging and current practices within photography and video are investigated including the work of Stan Douglas, Jeff Wall, Sarah Anne Johnson and Raymonde April.
Tue 6:30pm - 9:30pm, Jan 11 - Apr 5, 2011
Tara Nicholson
http://www.vancouverislandscho
Teaching a Course at Camosun College, Victoria, BC Winter 2011
Further North: Studies Within Canadian Art New
Interested in learning more about Canada from the perspective of Visual Arts? Beginning with the roots of early Canadian Art, this course will survey works including the Group of Seven, Emily Carr and First Nations artists and then reference influential contemporary artists who continue to re-fabricate Canadian identity. Investigating a wide range of media including film, sculpture, painting and performance work we will explore Canadian Art from the bizarre to the most highly noted.
2011W VSAR 416G 001 • Feb 2-Mar 23 • 8 sessions
Tara Nicholson
Wed • 7-9pm • $145+HST • Lansdowne
http://camosun.ca/ce/arts-cult
Interested in learning more about Canada from the perspective of Visual Arts? Beginning with the roots of early Canadian Art, this course will survey works including the Group of Seven, Emily Carr and First Nations artists and then reference influential contemporary artists who continue to re-fabricate Canadian identity. Investigating a wide range of media including film, sculpture, painting and performance work we will explore Canadian Art from the bizarre to the most highly noted.
2011W VSAR 416G 001 • Feb 2-Mar 23 • 8 sessions
Tara Nicholson
Wed • 7-9pm • $145+HST • Lansdowne
http://camosun.ca/ce/arts-cult
