Michigan Technological University: Vienna - Prague - Dresden
ART3950: International Arts Immersion
Taught by: Lisa Gordillo, Mary Cyr, and Kent Cyr
This immersive travel course is focused on experiential arts learning. We’re studying theatre, art, music, design, architecture, and arts engagement. We'll consider local traditions and international contexts. Our experiences will include gallery exhibits, museums, design festivals, and live performances, as we participate in and reflect on international arts and culture.
THEA3850: Decorative Arts: Costume and Textiles
Taught by: Mary Cyr
An exploration of clothing and textiles with an emphasis on traditional embellishment techniques, aesthetics, and cultural context. Students will study details of dress and decorative embellishments in museums and theatrical performances. Projects include research, discussions, creating a costume/textile field journal, and creating embroidered designs.
THEA3850: Technicalities: Form and Function in Scenic Elements
Taught by: Kent Cyr
Students will record images and drawings of the toys, tools, furniture, food, mechanics, and architectural details seen during their travels. Students will research these items while learning about their social and cultural significance. Class will focus on methods of fabrication, with an emphasis on the key details required to create facsimiles for theatre and entertainment events.
ART3850: The Bohemian Art Studio
Taught by: Lisa Gordillo
This class is part studio and part seminar. We'll study traditional and contemporary works of art from the region known as Bohemia, and we'll study the idea of “bohemian” - dynamic, artistic, socially unconventional.
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We’ll immerse ourselves in local art, talk about it, ask questions about how it's made, and think it through. We’ll look at street art, gallery exhibits, museums, pop-up art, interventions, and other creative ways of making and sharing.
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Then, we'll consider which Bohemian ideas resonate with us, as we make our own works of art in the heart of the cities we visit.