NEW YORK
ALL MAJORS · MAY 2016
Trinity Western University Travel Studies
new york
MAY 2016 — Trinity Western University Travel Studies
Explore the Big Apple through the lens of art + faith.
The New York travel study welcomes students from all majors to explore
what some call the cultural and financial capital of the world. The Big
Apple’s impact on commerce, media, education, fashion, technology,
music, theatre, and, of course, art, is inestimable.
NYC is one of the most important centres for Modern and Contemporary
Art in the world. Emphasis is on experiencing world-famous works of art
and architecture directly, and contextualizing this engagement through
lectures, readings, and discussions.
It’s a perfect getaway for the travel-minded to prepare for travel abroad
to Europe and beyond. It’s the perfect academic adventure for those
who desire to be liberally educated and culturally aware, whatever their
chosen field.
COURSES
INSTRUCTORS
Erica Grimm, Ph.D.
ART 181 TR Visual Foundations of Design
This foundations level course cultivates visual intelligence
through carefully sequenced drawing exercises, illustrated
lectures, and readings. Perceptual, conceptual, and technical
skills are honed and elements of art and principles of design
are explored through drawing and composition projects that
give students an experiential understanding of a wide range of
art-making paradigms.
ART 237/8 TR History of Western Art I + II
This course examines the visual images, sculptural objects, and
architectural structures that have been produced throughout
history. It traces chronologically some of the major artistic
developments that have influenced both Western and Eastern
cultures from cave painting to the 15th century, and from the
Renaissance to the present. The course examines the ways
in which these participate in the political, social, religious, and
economic climates of which they are an integral part.
ART 328 TR Modern Art History
Art strategies (in traditional mediums such as painting,
sculpture, and architecture, as well as film, video, and
performance) and the critical debates that arose in Europe and
North America in the aftermath of the First World War to the
present day in their social, economic, and political context.
The rise and fall of modernism within the visual arts and the
development of post-modern practices. The role of art in
society, its relationship to mass culture, and what is at stake in
maintaining socially-engaged art today.
Erica is a Canadian artist, researcher, and
educator whose work is exhibited widely and
is in collections such as the Canada Council
Art Bank and the Richmond Art Gallery.
Invited Nash Lecturer and Distinguished
Alumnae from the University of Regina,
she is Associate Professor and Chair, Art +
Design Department, School of the Arts, Media and Culture
at Trinity Western University. Erica is passionate about how
the arts ignite understanding through integrating intellectual,
physical, sensory perceptual, intuitive and emotional
capacities. She particularly enjoys mentoring students in
discovering how generative is this reunification of body, heart
and mind.
Laurel Gasque
Laurel teaches Art History at TWU and
Christianity and the Visual Arts at Regent
College, where she pioneered the arts and
theology programme. She is the author of
Art & the Christian Mind, a biography of the
Dutch art historian Hans Rookmaaker, as well
as numerous essays, articles, and reviews.
She is associate editor of ArtWay.eu and contributing editor
of Radix. Laurel has traveled extensively since her own
undergraduate days and agrees with St. Augustine that, “The
world is a book and those who don’t travel read only a page.”
SAMC 420 TR Arts, Media + Culture: New York City
A three-week interdisciplinary fine arts study trip to New York
City in which students critically engage the culture, art, and
architecture of this world-renowned city. Visits to galleries,
performances, and cultural sites accompany lectures and
readings to encourage students to develop and deepen their
aesthetic understandings and integration with faith.
CONTACT
Erica Grimm, Ph.D.
Laurel Gasque
e: [email protected]
ph: 604-513-2121 ext. 3142
office: RNT 138
e: [email protected]
ph: 604-910-2350
office:
604-513-2067
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www.twu.ca/travel