Semester:
Fall
Offered:
2018
Street Art as Visual Text
Seminar (3 credits)
- Visit street art sites in person to interpret cultural implications grass-roots arts interventions
- Study aesthetics of street art as a form of decolonizing visual design, including issues of power, privilege, social justice, creative activism
- Reading: Crimes of Style: Urban Graffiti and the Politics of Criminality, Jeff Ferrell
- Place new, temporary Communication Design interventions into the city landscape:
- Graffiti writing (legally, of course)
- Public art installation in downtown Tempe with ~40 local volunteers
- Grand Avenue Festival 2018 / Exhibit of students’ wheat-paste posters
- Designs for large-scale billboards installed in the Phoenix region
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Tempe Downtown Foundation $2,500 cashCommunity Partner:
Corporate Supporters:
- Clear Channel Outdoor ~$25,000 in-kind
- Silicon Valley Bank ~40 volunteer hours $24.14/hour = $965 (according to independentsector.org)
Guest Critics:
- Julie Kent, Placemaking Coordinator, Downtown Tempe Authority
Guest Speakers:
- Todd Broeker, Regional Creative Leader, Clear Channel Outdoor
- Such & Champ Styles, Father and Son Artist-team | Graffiti Lettering Workshop
- Mario Durok, Artist | Spray Painting Demonstration
Field Trips:
- Roosevelt Row Arts District
- Grand Avenue Arts District
- Unexpected Art Gallery
- Downtown Tempe