ARTS 457

Fall 2025 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 25-Dec 10

Art in Context

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Credit: 3 hours.

Focuses on the relationship between artworks and their historical, institutional, spatial, geographic, architectural or other contexts for the purpose of engaging in a critical analysis of artworks, as well as developing informed, intentional studio production. Students will encounter topics related to a critical and ethical understanding of context including site-specificity, phenomenology, public art, Situationism, relational aesthetics, and the production of space through social and political process such as building and mapping. The goal is to investigate and understand the dynamic relationship between art and its context.

Additional fees may apply. See Class Schedule. 3 undergraduate hours. No graduate credit. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 hours. Prerequisite: Junior standing.

A student registered in one or more Art & Design course(s) exhibiting this message, will be assessed a $95 facility use fee once each term.

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ARTS 457 class schedule data for fall 2025
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	70037	Studio	1	5:00PM -7:40PM	TR	9 Art and Design Building	Bakker, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/25-12/10/25 Section Info: Art & Context: The Everyday is a studio/seminar focusing on the politics and poetics of the ordinary, the routine, The Everyday—as a critical concern for contemporary artists. Tracing the emergence of The Everyday as a subject of modernity, as a structure for 1960s conceptual art practices, and including creative projects and contemporary artworks up to our present moment, this course will examine the manifestations of The Everyday as a generative force capable of exposing hierarchies of time and space, reorganizing social and political infrastructures, giving purpose to poetic reveries, and revealing The Everyday as a potential force that can startle, surprise, and teach us how to see the world anew. Art & Context: The Everyday will include readings for discussion, a weekly film series, creative exercises, and a semester long project—all of which are intended to augment and/or fold easily into one’s existing creative research and practice, regardless of medium or expertise. Some seats are reserved for specific Art & Design majors and minors. If you receive a "reserve closed" error, all seats for your major are filled, check back on July 18. Any available seats left on July 18 will be made available to all A&D majors and minors. GRADUATE STUDENTS: please enroll in section AG1 of ARTS 499. Contact foellme1@illinois.edu with any issues. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graphic Design or Crafts or History of Art or Photography or Industrial Design or Painting or Sculpture or Art Education or Art and Design or Art Undeclared or New Media or Studio Art or Art and Art History or Industrial Design major(s).