Special Topics Courses
Spring 2025
VMAP 279
Taught by GM Keaton
The Art of Queering-
This special topics course is both an art survey and an art studio. Central to our exploration is the concept of "queering" as a verb—an active process of subverting or troubling norms, reshaping perceptions, and opening to plural and sometimes contradictory meanings. Students will explore the works and creative practices of queer artists whose work challenges and redefines the boundaries of their mediums and the context in which they exist.
Through discussions and analyses, we will examine the themes of performance and ritual, archives and ancestors, form and transformation, and resistance and rebellion. In response to these ideas, students will create their own artwork, fostering a deeper, more embodied engagement with the material. By the end of the course, students will gain a richer understanding of queer artistic expression and develop their unique creative voices through the act of queering.
This class is open to Art majors and non-majors and has no prerequisites.