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ART 605

High Desert Installation II

Catalog2026-2027
Credits3 units
LevelGraduate
StandardRepeatable up to 15 credits

Overview

Description

In the same series as ART 604, this is a fieldwork, studio course designed for students to create projects onsite in different high desert locations in the Great Basin. Students will explore large issues of sustainable practice, land use and alternative display by preparing and presenting artwork in the landscape.

Requirements

Prerequisites

  • formerly Sierra Nevada University Interdisciplinary Art MFA student.
Original catalog text

Prerequisites

Prerequisite(s): formerly Sierra Nevada University Interdisciplinary Art MFA student.

Units

Lecture2
Laboratory Studio1

Catalog Details

Offering

Offered: Every Fall and Spring

Terms

fall, spring

Related Courses

Formerly Known As SNU: NWGN 511

Restrictions

formerly Sierra Nevada University Interdisciplinary Art MFA student.

Attributes

StandardRepeatable up to 15 credits

Learning Outcomes

  • design and execute artworks from an ethical and sustainable practice within the environment with specific attention to how artwork exists under expansion.
  • posit multiple strategies for visionary practice as it relates to geologic time.
  • produce projects that juxtapose urban and wilderness art-making practice.
  • speak about their work from a collaborative perspective informed by the value of community and the extension of individually defined audience.
  • evidence a refined familiarity with what is at stake when presenting art outside of a gallery context and considering the specificity of history and geography in their projects.