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The Found Object: Recycling as Art

X456 (2 semester units in Art)

Explore the possibilities of making art from used, discarded, discovered, demolished and recovered objects and materials. In this course, you create projects with found materials using a wide variety of approaches and methods including collage, assemblage, installation, video, photography, and performance. In addition, you learn about the historical and contemporary ideas behind the use of found materials in art, including social and political commentary, surrealism and the dream world, and nostalgia and memory.

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Mon. June 29, San Francisco

SARAH BARSNESS, M.F.A., exhibits her installations, sculptures, prints, and drawings in the Bay Area and nationally. She was a 2006 artist in residence at San Francisco Recycling and Disposal. Her work was featured recently in GenArt Emerge!, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and Arts Benicia.

Revised class schedule in red.

• 12 meetings
• June 29 to Aug. 6: Mon. and Thurs., 6:30-9:30 pm; also
  July 23: Thurs., 4-7 pm
  
• San Francisco: Room 217, Art and Design Center, 95 Third St.
• $445 (EDP 025049)

Note: Class on Thurs., July 23 will meet in Room 218.

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