ART 430 - Photography Portfolio

Credits: (3)
Prerequisite(s): ART 331
Domain (Anchored): ALV
This course is designed to help you transition from art student to artist. You will create the work that you desire to create as an artist. You may use any format and any process from color to black & white, darkroom to digital. Material and process choices are made with the end artworks purpose in mind. This course will introduce principals of the photography portfolio, exhibition, publishing, best practices for a beginning photographic arts career and/or graduate school preparations. Additionally, you will work towards a better understanding of your work within the context of contemporary art. Class time will be divided between slide presentations and discussions in contemporary photographic practices, portfolio planning, artist presentations, and critique. This course may include field trips to see regional exhibitions of contemporary photography. The culmination of this course is a well-developed, cohesive portfolio of your work. This is an advanced photography seminar with an emphasis on the development of your ideas.
Course may be repeated it topic varies, up to 9 credits.