HNAR-365: Type + Authorship

On day one students conjure, discuss, and write their way into a book of collective thematic interest. We then create and curate a supporting archive of suggested texts, images, film as research around the theme to find an editorial tone for the publication. Every week through the course of the first month we write deeper and fine-tune. Then the drawing begins. This class functions as a multi-disciplinary studio environment to draw, photograph, illustrate, and graphically impregnate a ripe topic (like hair, animals, the encyclopedia). It's about speed and follow-through, dedication to an idea. Writing in class, writing at home, rewriting, editing, analyzing. Developing new collaborative skills and trust. Students not only produce original writing and images but also learn how to work with secondary writing like a preface, captions, titling, colophon, marginalia; how to curate an overall tone for content; how to construct a narrative sequence; how to copy edit and proof. All read selected works out loud in a final crit.