Alternative Spring Break, a Diversity Studies studio class, focuses on aesthetic, cultural, and geographic changes and culminates in working on a community art project.

The class begins with a series of seminars held in class/studio at CCA. During spring break, the class travels to a distant location and engages in an art project there. The projects are collaborations with established institutions local to the destination.

Projects

	Black Carnival Traditions of New Orleans in the Aftermath of Katrina 2006 Instructor: Marcel Diallo
	Multiplicities 2004 and 2005 Instructor: Julio Morales
	El Otro Lado/The Other Side 2003 Lead Artists: Jason Engelund, Julio Morales, Sergio de la Torre
	Elkhorn City, Kentucky 2002 Lead Artists: Suzanne Lacy, Susan Steinman, Yutaka Kobayashi

What Students Learn

CCA students learn . . .

• Critical skills in contextual thinking regarding the relationship between aesthetics and culture, ideology and environment
• How to investigate, engage with, reflect on familiar and diverse contexts and meaning, style, and utility of aesthetics in relation to culture and ideology of origin
• Skills of collaboration, diplomacy, and social activism
• Interdisciplinary aesthetic skills