Survey of World Theater - Arts Activism

This survey course (open to MFAs) will explore the
work of radical collectives, community
artists, guerrilla performers, and other modern
and contemporary troublemakers and active agents
whose artistic practices are fundamentally
committed to social justice through the arts. We
will
investigate theoretical and historical references
as they relate to public and context-based work
within
and outside of institutional environments. We will
explore work as it pertains to the performance
arts,
visual arts, writing arts, community
building/organizing and other practices that
eloquently question/
examine the dynamics between artists and their
communities. Theory and praxis come together
through
participation in student-designed projects.