PHOTOGRAPHY: RESPONDING TO LANDSCAPE

Course list: Photography: Responding to Landscape

PHOTOGRAPHY: RESPONDING TO LANDSCAPE

FULFILLS:
ARTP 383, ACE 07

NOTE: Photography is an art course handled by the Art Department. Please visit their website for more info about enrolling.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:
Ms. Amanda Breitbach - Amanda was raised on a family farm and ranch in eastern Montana. Her multi-media work is deeply embedded in the western landscape and questions the ethics of land use. Prior to attending graduate school, she was a volunteer with the United States Peace Corps in West Africa and worked as a photographer/reporter for numerous newspapers and magazines. She is a graduate fellow with the Center for Great Plains Studies and was awarded the Joy of Giving Something Foundation fellowship in 2014 through Imagining America. Her work has been exhibited at the Hite Art Institute in Louisville, Kentucky, at the University of Kansas Art and Design Gallery in Lawrence, the Clarridge Gallery in Bellevue, Washington, and the Emerson Cultural Center and Lightwriter Gallery in Bozeman, Montana, as well as at the Great Plains Art Museum, the Eisentrager-Howard and Prescott Galleries in Lincoln, Nebraska.

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

Learn in a unique, natural setting
fostering Art & Science collaboration
Concentrated time for creative research
Far but near, exotic and local, broad and real
Immersion experience

Field school amenities: comfortable housing, dining facilities, over 900 acres of UNL-owned prairie and red cedar filled canyons on the shore of Lake Ogallala, library and classroom spaces, research labs, WIFI, a friendly, inviting atmostphere which leads to collaboration

"Photography: Responding to Landscape" Art at Cedar Point (ARTP 383) summer 2016 offers a unique, immersive two-week field school art experience. Photography will be introduced as a practice to facilitate visual observation of landscape, light, and color. Students will learn first to observe carefully, then to make photographs that recognize and record the diversity of plant and animal life , the of time , and the changing light from sunrise to sunset.

Artists have long been interested in landscape and environment. Students will consider how art can relate to the natural world through their own practice and through the study of artists, including photographers. whose work has addressed issues of environmental sustainability, ecology, and diversity.

Emphasis is on observation, perception, and awareness on multiple levels. The course will give students freedom to imaginatively explore the environment around Ccdar Point, to develop questions and ideas, and to interact with scientists and science students at the lab. The field-school environment will allow students to focus fully on developing an art practice responsive to place and to challenge themselves by creating work that expresses complex ideas.