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Visual workshops in Guanajuato, Mexico and Mexico City
May 10 to May 24, 2006
6 credits
Program Leader: Clifford A. Harvey, Professor Graphic Design
Juan Giraldo, Visiting Assistant Professor, West Virginia University
Focus: All Visual Art majors, photo majors and students with comparable art, art history or design interests.
The following description is for the Division of Art’s international study program in Mexico from May 10 to May 24, 2006. Students can come from West Virginia University’s Division of Art and/or surrounding universities. Participants can receive 3 credits for a Digital Photography Workshop, 3 credits for a 200 level Art History course, non W, or 6 credits for both. The class is available for all levels.
The courses will focus on three objectives: first, to experience the art, design, architecture, and culture of Mexico; second, to begin the digital photography workshop, planning for a series of photographs based on a pre-arranged theme or focus; third, to visit historic sites such as the Diego Rivera home, the Alhondaga and other architectural sites to introduce to the students the art of Mexico and to allow the art history students an opportunity to specifically see Mexico’s famous muralists. While accomplishing these objectives, we will travel to surrounding villages and cities such as Dolores Hildago,Valenciana, Atoltonico, and San Miguel Allende. We will also continue the collaboration that has been established in previous visits with educators, artists, and designer, in Guanajuato and Mexico City, as well as to build new relationships in Oaxaca. In the past, two students have come to the Division of Art for study from the Universidad de Guanajuato, one on the graduate level and one on the undergraduate level. Students from the 2004 program have also re-visited Guanajuato on their own.
