Creative Practices for Visual Artists

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Chapter 7

Creative Practices

Like many art spaces at colleges and universities, the studio used for Creative Practices class at Bethel University in St. Paul is an appropriated one, occupying an abandoned gymnasium in a 1970s-era building tucked away on the edge of campus. Inside, painted basketball court lines still mark the floor and the netless basketball hoops, occasionally pressed into service hanging sculptural works, still hover at each end. To the outside observer the space feels a little out of control. The outside walls are lined with individual student studios created with moveable walls that constantly seem to be in a state of remodeling. Piles of art stacked in the corners threaten to topple, and hundreds of photographs, paintings, ...