Oct 31, 2024  
Baltimore City Community College’s 2024 - 2025 Catalog 
    
Baltimore City Community College’s 2024 - 2025 Catalog
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ART 122 - Introduction to African American Visual Arts

(3 credits)
Meets Category I General Education Requirements
45 lecture hours
Prerequisites: REN 092  or ELI 082G  and ELI 082W   or ENG 101  
Students are introduced to African American arts and crafts from Colonial times to the present. The course briefly covers the evolution of the visual arts as a means of expression among this group of Americans, focusing on artistic form, functional application, and aesthetic merit. The impact of economic, political, and racial issues will be addressed as several influential forces that helped shape African American artistic creativity. Slides, lectures, discussion, gallery and museum visitations, written and appropriate art studio projects are all components of this course.



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