AH4257 Modern and Contemporary Fiber Art

Academic year

2024 to 2025 Semester 2

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

30

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SCQF level

SCQF level 10

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Availability restrictions

Not automatically available to General Degree students

Planned timetable

TBC

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Module coordinator

Dr J C Gerschultz

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Module Staff

Dr Jessica Gerschultz

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Module description

This module introduces students to textiles and fiber art in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Organized thematically, we explore a diverse range of materials, techniques, and creative practices. What shared visions and experiences draw artists to experiment with the medium of fiber? What are its tactile, metaphoric, and poetic associations? How and why do artists engage craft histories and ecologies? The module interweaves the study of art, gender, and politics from a transregional perspective. We study modes of expression that include embroidery, weaving, new tapestry, soft sculpture, felting, jute cloth, and performance. With an emphasis on understudied artists and regions, the module asks students to reflect on the sensory, kinetic, and visual possibilities of the fiber medium.

Assessment pattern

Coursework - 100%

Re-assessment

Coursework - 100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

1 lecture (x 11 weeks), 2 seminar (x 11 weeks)

Scheduled learning hours

33

The number of compulsory student:staff contact hours over the period of the module.

Guided independent study hours

270

The number of hours that students are expected to invest in independent study over the period of the module.

Intended learning outcomes

  • Identify and discuss the work of a range of fiber artists from the 20th and 21st centuries
  • Analyze textiles, fiber art, materials, and process in various social, political, and cultural contexts
  • Consider artistic and social hierarchies as they relate to gender, sexuality, race, and class and explain how relationships of power can shape understandings of art/craft
  • Discuss the significance of textiles and fiber and what attracts artists to the medium using specific examples
  • Conduct independent research through the use of library resources, the study of artworks and sources, and other forms of art historical investigation
  • Participate in constructive group discussion and activities and present their ideas to others