

The College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning at the University of Cincinnati seeks to attract, enroll, and graduate academically talented students of varied and diverse backgrounds.


Learn from makers working with clothing every day-and, in some cases, reinventing it for the future. Complete the Specialization with Fashion as Design, and investigate the choices you make about fashion in relation to expression, sustainability, labor practices, identity and more. This course addresses the gap between seeing and truly understanding photographs by introducing ideas, approaches and technologies that inform their making.Įxplore artworks made since 1980 in What Is Contemporary Art? Ranging from 3-D–printed glass and fiber sculptures to performances in a factory, the works in this course introduce you to the diverse materials, motivations and methods of artists working today. Next, take a deep dive into Seeing Through Photographs, exploring photography from its origins in the mid-1800s through the present. Start with Modern Art & Ideas to learn how artists have taken inspiration from their environment and responded to social issues over the past 150 years. Enroll to receive invitations to virtual events, gain exclusive access to MoMA resources, and share ideas with an international learner community. This Specialization is for anyone who would like to learn more about modern and contemporary art. Through original films and audio, you will go behind the scenes to look closely at artworks and into studios to hear directly from artists, designers, curators and others. This Specialization will introduce you to the art of our time. Understand more about the lifecycle of clothing, from its design and production to its marketing, distribution, and consumption.īetter comprehend the choices you make about fashion with respect to the visual language of dress, individual and collective identities, and issues such as labor practices, sustainability, and body politics. Investigate garments through multiple lenses including politics, identity, and economics. Trace the history, development, and impact of garments over time, and explore how they may be reinvented. Studio visits, interviews, and other resources introduce the history and development of each garment and their changing uses, meanings, and impact over time.ĭevelop critical tools to appreciate and contextualize fashion design-from everyday clothing to couture garments-through many different perspectives. You’ll hear directly from a range of designers, makers, historians, and others working with clothing every day-and, in some cases, reinventing it for the future. Through these garments, we’re going to look closely at what we wear, why we wear it, how it’s made, and what it means. It exists in the service of others, and it can have profound consequences-social, political, cultural, economic, and environmental.įashion as Design focuses on a selection of more than 70 garments and accessories from around the world, ranging from kente cloth to jeans to 3D-printed dresses. Like other kinds of design, fashion thrives on productive tensions between form and function, automation and craftsmanship, standardization and customization, universality and self-expression, and pragmatism and utopian vision. Among all objects of design, our clothes are the most universal and intimate.
