This course encourages the artist to seek a deeper understanding and relationship with the Hawaiian landscape and environment through their art. Students will reconsider the landscape of Hawai'i through the lens of history and mo'olelo (stories), celebrate the wonder of our natural and cultural environment, and engage with contemporary environmental, social, and economic challenges we face, as well as the developing solutions and stewardship we see here in our 'paradise'. Artistic emphasis will be on issues of concept/narrative development, composition, and representation, particular to the landscape tradition. This open-media painting course is a follow-on to all of our introductory painting courses, allowing artists to work in oils, acrylics, watercolors, or pastels. Artists should have basic experience and know-how in their medium of choice.
C or better in an introductory-level class in related art media
- Depict particular features/places in the Hawaiian landscape that hold natural, cultural, and/or personal significance in a way that reflects an awareness of traditional Hawaiian knowledge, beliefs, values, or practices in a respectful manner.
- Develop a personal artistic process and approach to the landscape through experimentation.
- Create or complete artworks in the studio using a variety of reference materials from in-the-field activity (intentional observation, painted studies and sketching, photographs, presentation/lecture notes, etc.) and personal research.