History of Art and Visual Culture

HAVC 65 Native American Art and the Environment

Introduces students to the work of Native American artists that either reflects environmental knowledge or which reacts against threats to natural resources. By studying current issues such as fossil fuel extraction, invasive species, and wildfires, students learn how artists contend with threats to their ancestral homelands and how art functions as a powerful medium for raising awareness of these challenges.

Credits

5

General Education Code

ER

Instructor

Yve Chavez