MULTIDISCIPLINARY BALANCE
ALC at Marianopolis balances creative and academic work across a wide range of fields from visual arts, creative writing, and filmmaking to art history, cinema, communications, and literature. The vision is in the mix: the academic component sharpens your critical thinking and prompts you to ask big questions that guide your creative work.
Alongside practical media studies in drawing, digital art, filmmaking, creative writing, and communications, you’ll take a sequence of three Arts & Ideas courses that give you a foundation in cultural history and an introduction to research, analysis and critique in the arts. Specially designed Humanities and English courses reinforce these academic skills, link the arts with broader social and cultural currents, and offer additional opportunities for creative expression. In your English classes, you could analyze a screenplay one semester and write a memoir the next. In your Humanities classes, you’ll study consumer culture and modernity, explore mythmaking and practice storytelling, and investigate ethical issues posed by artificial intelligence.
CURATE WORK FOR AN AUDIENCE
Creation doesn’t end with the finished work: curating work for public presentation is another skill you’ll practice as an ALC student. Working individually and in teams, ALC students edit, organize, and select works for portfolios, journals, screenings, and exhibitions. You’ll articulate your vision in an editorial or curatorial statement. You’ll learn practical skills such as framing and hanging works of art, compiling films for a screening, and designing an event program, developing your autonomy and leadership along the way. The highlight is our annual ArtsFest, a two-week festival that includes readings, screenings, installations, concerts, and an exhibition. In addition to sharing your own work, you can participate as a publicist, graphic designer, curator, event coordinator, installation technician, editor, emcee, journalist, photographer, or videographer.
