Students enrolled in First Year Colloquium were assigned to make an artistic rendition one of their reading assignments. On Monday, Feb. 27, students were invited to attend a workshop at the University of Wyoming Art Museum to develop their ideas and create their projects.
“This is part of an integrated assignment,” Raechel Cook, Curator of Academic Engagement, said.
“It can be in any medium, it can be in music, graphic design, digital art is an option. So, for people who want to do visual art or they’re interested and don’t have supplies or don’t know where to get started or have ideas and they’re not sure how to get started, they can come in, and I just tend to help people find what they need and brainstorm.”
Students working on these projects are expected to analyze a piece of writing and turn it into a piece of art of their choosing. Students generally will interpret the writing in the form of a song, a poem, or a painting.
“Both in the fall semester and for the spring semester, one of the assignments is to basically translate an interpretation of a text that’s assigned in the class into an artistic medium,” Hosanna Krienke, Ph. D, said.
“The creative project is really open ended. So, yeah, we’ll do poetry, somebody will do photography. It just really depends on what students want to achieve from this project.”
Grace Sanford, a freshman in First Year Colloquium, described her project as a Zine interpretation of the short story “The Way We Live Now” by Susan Sontag.
“My colloquium instructor was like, ‘if you guys want to get creative, you can make these little book things’, and we look through them, and a lot of them are just like, little texts, like little news pamphlet type things,” she said,
“I think it’s really fun. You never know what class is going to look like or what people are going to talk about.”
