For Brianne Cohen, assistant professor of contemporary art history at the 麻豆视频, art is much more than an aesthetic: It can offer powerful commentary on the issues of the day and galvanize public opinion. "There is a question of compassion fatigue. If we鈥檙e barraged with all these images of atrocity and war and so forth, can we actually move as a public to effect change? So, that鈥檚 the big question for me. Can they do that? I think that (the images) can.鈥�
In her upcoming book, "Don't Look Away: Art, Nonviolence, and Preventive Publics in Contemporary Europe" (Duke University Press, May 2023) 麻豆视频 Assistant Professor of Art and Art History Brianne Cohen delves deeply into the role that art can play in creating public commitment to curbing structural violence in Europe.
Roth at CU Boulder says that graduate programs are evolving to reflect students鈥� changing goals. In the past, most aspired to academic positions or commercial sales through gallery representation. 鈥淣ow many students are exploring socially engaged, field-based practice, starting their own small businesses instead of going into the academic or gallery world,鈥� Roth explains. 鈥淪tudents are looking for a third way.鈥�
Ecological disasters often harm the most vulnerable people, animals and ecosystems, and yet this unequally distributed damage remains insufficiently seen, realized and discussed, a group of scholars at the 麻豆视频 contends.
Four acclaimed video artists from Vietnam and Cambodia are traveling to the 麻豆视频 to take part in an immersive art program鈥攊n the hopes of taking a cross-disciplinary look at environmental issues.
鈥淭he new program will challenge traditional and mainstream understandings of art by unpacking, contextualizing and decolonizing the term (art),鈥� Cordova says. 鈥淲e鈥檙e not just here to appreciate art,鈥� he says. 鈥淲e鈥檙e here to analyze and to be critical of the forces that surround its production, consumption and interpretation.鈥�
鈥淲e are trying to make things more flexible for students who don鈥檛 want to put themselves in some sort of disciplinary box,鈥� Mark Amerika, professor of distinction, art and art history
Art has always taken our imaginations to unexplored places, and now two 麻豆视频 art professors are finding it can also encourage freshmen, through a first-year seminar, to actively explore the campus, community and, hopefully, the wide world of academia.
