module specification

FA7054 Sustainable Art Practice is a studio practice module offering you an opportunity for making art in studio, using wider peer group interaction and collaboration towards a specific art goal – an art exhibition under a socially responsible and environmentally sustainable ‘umbrella’ curatorial theme prescribed by the course. The module provides you with the opportunity to combine agility and adaptability in your own art-making with a core underlying course philosophy around sustainability in art, while establishing a working relationship with the other artists on the course. You will draw upon new aspects of your own art practice to generate a professional opportunity via the art exhibition. The module contributes to the MFA award it serves by providing the first show in a formal sequence of three art exhibitions over the duration of the course.

The aims of the FA7054 Sustainable Art Practice module are to:

• ground your art ambitions in a socially responsible framework;
• provide you with a themed context ‘umbrella’ context under which you can help your peers build a group art project;
• foster a team ethic in which all group members participate in group art project tasks inclusively, equally and fairly;
• give you the collaborative opportunity to organise a live event.

The overall aim of the module is to establish and embed common studio practice principles around and towards art display in a way that is environmentally sustainable and collaborative.

Available for Study Abroad? NO

The syllabus will begin with an explanation of the FA7054 Sustainable Art Practice module’s aims, learning outcomes and assessment. This first session will outline what is expected of the First Exhibition Display as a Coursework assessment that develops over the 12 teaching weeks. Between Weeks 2 and 5, the module will seminar four sessions on planetary sustainability in art (LO1). In Week 7, we shall form the exhibitor group(s) and set out the underlying principles for exhibition under an ‘umbrella’ curatorial theme briefed by the course (LO2), establishing roles in the art team(s) that will then plan for group presentation of a written and designed slideshow in Week 9, involving each team member, of the group art project proposal and the show’s curatorial brief (LO2). Weeks 10-13 will be spent making the art, building and installing the show for a Week 14 display (LOs 3 and 4) to the general public.

Scheduled teaching provides the guidance and foundation to ensure that independent study is effective in addressing the module’s learning outcomes and assessment tasks.

In-class activity makes use of varied student-centred approaches such as active, flipped and blended learning, so that a range of learning strategies is deployed, and individual learning styles are accommodated. Information is provided through a range of means and sources to minimise and remove barriers to successful progress through the module. The course team seeks to embed the University’s Education for Social Justice Framework in fostering learning that is enjoyable, accessible, relevant and that takes account of the social and cultural context and capital of its students.

Activities foster peer-to-peer community building and support for learning. Reflective learning is promoted through interim formative feedback points that ask students to reflect on their progress, receive help where they identify the opportunity for improvement in learning strategies and outcomes and make recommendations to themselves for future development. Throughout the module, students build a body of work, including written reflections on progress and achievement.

The School’s programme of employability events and embedded work-based learning within the curriculum supports students’ personal and career development planning. Through these initiatives, students are increasingly able, as they progress from year to year, to understand the professional environment of their disciplines, the various opportunities available to them, and how to shape their learning according to their ambitions.

By the end of the FA7054 Sustainable Art Practice module you will:

1. appraise art concepts and media within the social, commercial, cultural and interdisciplinary framework of environmental sustainability;
2. collaborate in the presentation, communication and dissemination of a group art project and its underlying principles;
3. participate in group art project tasks equally, effectively and with impact;
4. organise, contribute to and complete an art exhibition.

There is only one portmanteau assessment component in the art studio practice module FA7054 Sustainable Art Practice. This component is thus weighted at 100%, meaning no aggregation of any other assessment components. The component’s title is First Exhibition Display, served by the Coursework assessment method.

In summative assessment, assessors will measure your coursework contribution to this collective effort. “Your contribution” means not only your artwork displayed (LO4) at the exhibition that ends this module, but also your demonstrable understanding of the prescribed ‘umbrella’ curatorial theme for the group art project (LO1); your participation in the presentation of the written, designed and published group art project proposal and in the publicity for the art exhibition event (LO2) and your part in the teamwork required to take the group art project from inception to completion over the course of the module (LO3).

Assessors will use the published table of grade descriptors and assessment criteria to mark your contribution, to a moderated marking scheme as set out in the module’s virtual learning environment (Weblearn) and in accordance with the University’s Academic Regulations.

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