Lois Hetland and Saul Nava of the Liberal Arts Department will be leading MassArt’s new travel course to India, called India Now: Contemporary Art, Craft, Ecology, and Culture. This course can be taken either as a studio elective in Art Education or for Liberal Arts  math/science credit, and the deadline to apply is April 1st.  In the fall semester the class will meet Thursdays 7:00-9:00 pm; then the trip to Bangalore and the Andaman Islands will take place January 2-19, 2015.

Students can expect to make art in response to their experience in India; observe and carry out service work in community learning centers for impoverished students, where art propels the curriculum; and use art to investigate a tropical archipelago with a unique ecology. The course facilitates exploration of the aesthetics, ecology, educational innovations, and contradictions of India’s culture-in-rapid-transition. It is hosted by Srishti College of Art, Design, and Technology–one of the few Indian art colleges based on the indigenous instead of the colonial model of art education imported from Britain.

More information:
Overview with trip itinerary
AETE 210 India Now: Contemporary Art, Craft, Ecology, and Culture
LAMS 210 India Now: Tropical Ecology, Arts, and Culture