Hi all:

Welcome to our course.

I am very excited that you will be joining me in UED 75200, Doing Visual and Arts-based Research, during the spring semester. This is only the second time the course is being taught, and it is the first time that I am teaching it, so I’m hoping the course will have the excitement of a new adventure in using imagery as central to the research process. It looks as if we will be a small class, so we will be able to get to know each other and our reasons for being interested in imagery (and imag-ination) as we look at arts-based projects together and work on our own projects. Many visiting artists and visual scholars will visit us throughout the semester to discuss their work.

I have attached an image of a drawing I am working on. It relates to a continuing project I have been involved in for well over year now, one that I will speak about further when I introduce some of my research to you in a few weeks. I have tentatively titled the piece “The demon of hope,”  but that could change as I continue to work on the drawing.