Everyday Creativity: Craft, Making, Language and Community

Course Number: 82-182

This course explores ideas of creativity, language, culture and learning through making. Students will enjoy taster workshops in drawing, printmaking, sculpture and pottery, with occasional digital elements such as audio, animation and film. We will meet makers in Pittsburgh's artist and craft communities, and see how their work carries language, culture and a sense of place.

A sketchbook will hold notes, drawings, writing and reflections on learning. Theoretical readings will draw on playful learning, community education, folk art history, outsider art and Appalachian craft, and we will be inspired by artist educators such as Faith Ringgold, Lynda Barry and Sister Corita Kent. Students will create new work drawing on their own cultural and linguistic backgrounds and communities. The course will culminate in a small public show for guests and community makers. No drawing or craft experience is required, only interest, attention and an openness to play.

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Degree: Undergraduate
Concentration: Undergraduate Seminars
Semester(s): Spring
Units: 9
Prerequisite(s): None