WGS158

This seminar examines the lives and contributions of womxn artists in multiple art forms and from a range of cultural and geographical settings. A series of case studies establishes a methodological foundation for subsequent student-directed investigations of womxn of particular interest to them, with an emphasis on contemporary artists and contemporary art forms. Topics may include: historiography of womxn; womxn's artistic products (music, visual art, street art, literature, (slam) poetry, drag performance, videos, (e)motion pictures); womxn's lives as fine artists in their respective historical, demographic, and cultural milieu; womxn's representations of themselves as artists in such documents as letters, self-portraits, videos, blogs, and other sources; and challenges of womxn fine artists both historically and in the present.

Willamette College

Salem

Odd Years

Spring Semester