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“Take an in-depth, hands-on look at materials, techniques, and approaches to making abstract paintings. Through studio demonstrations and gallery walkthroughs, you’ll form a deeper understanding of what a studio practice means and how ideas develop from close looking. Readings and other resources provide a broader cultural, intellectual, and historical context around the era when these artists were active. The artists featured in the course—Willem de Kooning, Yayoi Kusama, Agnes Martin, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Ad Reinhardt, and Mark Rothko—serve as points of departure for your own abstract paintings.”

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“In the Studio” was an opportunity to experiment: if invited to do so, would learners enrolled in an asynchronous online course make their own artworks and share them with others in the discussion forums? The answer was overwhelmingly “yes” and the vibrant peer-to-peer community that resulted prompted us to supercharge efforts to support the learning community, including hosting an exhibition of learners’ artworks at MoMA. It also led us to incorporate creative art-making prompts into future and extant courses that would bring active learning into the online, largely asynchronous experience.

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My role: I worked with a team of educators, curators, and film and audio producers to edit texts, provide interpretive feedback on video and audio scripts and drafts, draft creative discussion forum prompts and assessments, craft newsletters, review and respond to learner feedback, and design community-building activations such as online Office Hours and Q&A’s.

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