Academic Activities

Course Description
“Collaboration among the Arts”

Artists have worked collaboratively throughout the ages, yet there have been few attempts to offer instruction that is based in the process and practice of artistic collaboration.  This course places such collaboration among the arts at the center of its exploration. 

Through a combination of lectures, discussions, and extensive practice, Collaboration among the Arts will enable students to investigate the collaborative process—providing both an intellectual foundation for such endeavors and extensive supervised and guided practice in collaborative efforts.  The course will involve four faculty members, one from each of the following departments: Art, Creative Writing, Music, and Theatre. Twenty students - five from each discipline and all selected through an application process - will be assigned to a small group, each led by one of the faculty.

Collaboration among the Arts will meet both as a whole and in its smaller individual units. Large class meetings will provide an orientation for the collaborative process, and also serve as vehicle to discuss specific examples of collaboration. Each small group, working closely with its supervising instructor, will focus on a chosen collaborative project to be completed by the semester’s end. A final presentation and reflective critique of the each project will conclude the course.