VMER 1613 - Cultivating Creativity: From City to Studio

Visual Merchandising
From where do creative ideas come? What makes some of them more compelling and innovative than others? In this course, students will utilize both the city and the studio as resources to expand creativity. Through exposure to looking and making, one develops visual literacy, generates new ideas, and is better able to filter and edit through a broad range of possibilities. This course will alternate between studio sessions and field trips held during class hours. Using New York City as an immediate resource, regular field trips to museums, galleries, public spaces, and artists’/designers’ studios foster the habit of curiosity and investigation. Moving from looking to truly seeing sets the stage for strong conceptual thinking and purposeful creating. In tandem studio work focuses on process, where students are encouraged to experiment and take risks.
credit(s): 3