Pratt Integrative Courses – Summer 2025
300s: At the Vangarde!
- PIC 300: Focus: Expand. SUMMER II. THURS 9-4:30. Chelsea Limbird.
- PIC 303: Bold/Rogue. SUMMER I. WED 4-8:10. Amir Parsa.
320s: Making Culture/Culture Making
- PIC 320: Big Impact. SUMMER II. TUES/FRI 2-6:20. Johnny Stanish.
Course Descriptions
PIC 300:
Focus: Expand
Chelsea Limbird
This course focuses on the development of integrative capacities through students’ own prior work, personal experiences, and future interests. Through exercises, activities, the examination of case studies, and projects that engage students in collaborative work and individualized and directed learning, students revisit their own aesthetics and connect their life experiences to academic work. They also examine connections across disciplines while engaging in extended reflection on their own learning.
PIC 303
Bold/Rogue
Amir Parsa
This course invites students to shake up their work, create new genres and forms, fuse disciplines, take aesthetic and stylistic risks, and balance individual work with collaborations and interventions. Through the study and making of avant-garde pieces, the questioning of canons, the cultivation of idleness (that’s right, doing nothing), and other radical actions, the class guides students to envision innovative paths for their future studies and projects. Go rogue. Be bold. And create groundbreaking work!
PIC 320
Big Impact
Johnny Stanish
This course will provide an opportunity to examine the impact artists and designers have in shaping the world. It will be an exploration of the interdisciplinary exchange between art and design that is focused on globalization. The course will provide historical context for culture and delve into the socio-political landscape of today by examining the ways artists and designers contribute to the greater good.