ARTH 373 Issues in Contemporary Canadian Art: Visual Culture in Canada 1960s to the Present

• Wednesdays, 15:00-17:30
• EV-1-605
• Instructor: Alex Tigchelaar

Visual Culture in Canada 1960s to the Present examines visual art through an activist lens. In this course, students will explore how disenfranchised groups such as people with AIDS, sex workers, people with disabilities, and negatively racialized populations, have used visual art as an apparatus for social change. Through a selection of texts, films, and personal records of those involved in these movements, students will learn both the histories and ongoing struggles of activists through their visual advocacy.