Ethnomusicology Visiting Artist Miguel Ballumbrosio shares the rich cultural traditions of Afro-Peruvian music and dance through class rehearsals, individual lessons and final performance.
Traces how American art has shifted, expanded, and contracted in step with the transforming nation from around 1650 to the present.
Explore the arts of Japan from prehistory to today with a focus on Buddhist art and architecture, sculpture, narrative handscrolls, ink painting, folding screens, and woodblock prints.
Did you know there were two Michelangelos? Michelangelo Buonarroti and Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio, lived a century apart but both revolutionized art in ways still felt today.
Artists in the later 19th century created a radical style that came to be known as Impressionism. Post-Impressionism responded to the earlier style, with bolder colors and less naturalism.
Painting was important in 4th–17th century China. Topics include political forces, regional geography, social structure, gender, traditional philosophies, and religious/spiritual influences.
Is it possible to imagine a world without photography? It informs and impacts so much of our lives today. Learn its history from the early 19th century to digital imagery.
Highlights of Chinese visual arts from Neolithic to present. Studies jade, bronze, lacquer, silk, Buddhist sculpture, ceramics, calligraphy, painting, architecture, film, installation arts.
From the tango to twerking, the watusi to wacking, investigate how popular dance is an ever changing reflection of cultural, social and political ideals and debates of its time.
A survey of indigenous art from the Columbia River in the south to Southeast Alaska in the north and from ancient through contemporary times. Historical and cultural context is provided.