Students in the ART 163: Social Practice Projects (Fall 2015) organizing to create ART SCHOOL X, an alternative art school within the Art Practice Department.
The Library of Tactical Knowledge is a basic publication studio with a growing collection of artist and student-produced zines and booklets.
The Project Lab
The Project Lab is an experimental classroom space that focuses on social practice projects, semester-long sculptural projects, and materials investigations. This flexible, 1000-square foot lab includes a small-scale publication studio, a collection of student-produced books and zines (The Library of Tactical Knowledge), sewing equipment, and a DIY fiber and textiles dye lab.
Students in the ART 163: Social Practice: Critical Site and Context (Fall 2017) setting up a conceptual food stand project outside Bauer Wurster Hall.
Equipment:
Basic tool cart
Video monitor
Mac computer work station
Bookbinding machine
Sewing machines
Storage shelves
Rolling tables
Courses run out of The Project Lab have included:
ART 25: Graphic Novel
ART 136: Advanced Sculpture: Radical Wearables
ART 163: Social Practice: Critical Site and Context
ARCH 2019/ART 209: Borderwall Urbanism (Spring 2018)
HUM 295/ANTHRO 196: Tres Hornos: Earthen Ovens and Foodways of the Southwest (Spring 2022)
Location: Room 178 Bauer Wurster Hall
Faculty Organizer: Stephanie Syjuco, Associate Professor
MFA projects made in ART 163: Radical Wearables, Spring 2019.
Booklet and zine reprints included in The Library of Tactical Knowledge.
Event flyer for ART 163: Social Practice (Fall 2017) final semester project.
Students in ART 163: Social Practice (Fall 2016) after producing a pop-up alternative zine library.