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...interviewed him a few days after the film screening and live performance that accompanied last Friday’s opening of “Retrospection Under Duress, Reprise”, the survey of his work currently on display in the main lobby gallery of the Carpenter Center, Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies Stephen Prina joked to me that he describes the evening as his quinceanera, a Spanish term used to describe the traditional coming-of-age ceremony for young women. Joking or not, the description is particularly apt; Prina, a formerly Los Angeles-based artist who was recently tenured...
When I was asked to write about how art is taught in Harvard, I initially set out to speak to as many faculty members and students as possible. It was obvious from the outset that pedagogy in the visual arts is a difficult subject. It involves on some level navigating a difficult paradox in which a student is instructed on how to create an individual...
...whole-hearted embrace warrants further investigation. I speak from the perspective of a junior joint concentrator in Social Studies and Visual & Environmental Studies. I have now followed both the video and the studio art tracks for several semesters, focusing on the role of arts within movements of social change. Looking back over my experiences in the department, I am filled with admiration and, I must admit, a few lingering questions. Is there an implicit direction in the transformative freedoms that are afforded to VES students as they explore their artistic media? Similarly, does the blessing of unfettered self-exploration stand...
...second semester of my freshman year, I enrolled in Alfred Guzzetti’s Visual & Environmental Studies documentary video class “Life Stories.” Within our first several sessions, we were given a camera, a list of a few essential videos to watch, and a simple assignment: to narrate the story of someone unaffiliated with Harvard in a five-minute video clip. In other words, within two weeks of beginning my first art class at Harvard, I had already been granted an exhilarating freedom—I found myself turned out into the world to make...
...have heard similar answers from painters and filmmakers alike. I hear two shared aims: to show students the options provided to them by the materials they use and urge them to find their own creative direction. Every teacher I spoke to agreed with recently tenured Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies Stephen Prina that the mastery of technique is not an end in itself. Instead, they argue that technique must be put to the service of an individual’s ideas. Teaching students to explore their personal directions through work with materials seems to be the paramount pedagogical goal...