There will also be a
meeting before the trip to discuss such things as equipment, clothing,
food, duties, and safety. (Lists of art supplies and personal camping
gear will be provided).
Course: The High Road to Taos: Desert
Adventures in the American Southwest
Professor James Schietinger & Professor Annette Russo
Course ID: AR320, cross-listed as
IN250 and AR260
Description:
Professors Jim Schietinger and Annette Russo
offer an exciting outdoor art and travel course for adventurous
students interested in experiencing the desert southwest and
Taos/Santa Fe.
This travel course will explore the art and
architecture around the
four corners area of Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado, known as
the desert
Southwest region. We will hike, camp and make art in some of the
Southwest's most
beautiful landscapes and cities.
Our trip will include visits to historic sites
such as Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde, which hold some of the most
important ruins of the great civilization of Ancient Puebloan peoples,
also known as the Ancient Anasazi.
We will then travel the high road to Taos and photograph 18th and 19th
century
Spanish mission churches. Our trip will conclude with a stay in one of
New Mexico's
beautiful mountain campgrounds, from which we'll make day trips to
Santa Fe,
home to hundreds of art galleries, museums, historic buildings, and
restaurants.
As part of the course requirement, art
students will meet before the trip begins for demonstrations and
discussions of techniques in landscape photography and drawing.
Lectures and on-site demonstrations will continue throughout the
course. Students enrolled in AR (art studio courses) will be required
to work on either photography or on watercolor/drawing. They will also
need to find time to complete a daily prose/poetry journal and
required readings.
Students enrolled in
IN 250 (U.S. Studies will also be assigned required readings and must
complete a daily prose/poetry journal. U.S. Studies students are also
encouraged but not required to document their trip with photography or
drawing.
There will be several
required texts for students in this course, dependent on the enrolled
section and specific interest of the student. Students enrolled in the
AR sections must supply their own photo or drawing supplies.
Costs:
- meals, camping fees, and permits $450
- transportation $100
- tuition $795.00 for the three credit course
