{"id":38413,"date":"2025-12-05T13:35:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T19:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themesh.art\/?post_type=learning&p=38413"},"modified":"2025-12-05T13:35:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T19:35:43","slug":"critical-cultural-practice","status":"publish","type":"learning","link":"https:\/\/themesh.art\/en\/taller-curso\/critical-cultural-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical + Cultural Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bridge critical theory and artistic practice.<\/h2>\n
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A degree designed to give you the best of both worlds, Critical + Cultural Practice provides a liberal arts education where your critical work is informed by your material practice\u2014 and vice versa. This rigorous academic program allows you to combine humanities courses with hands-on creativity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Critical + Cultural Practice is\u00a0not<\/u>\u00a0accepting applications for the Fall 2026 matriculation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

What You Will Learn<\/a><\/h2>\n
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In this program, you will study art history, design history, English, humanities, media history, social sciences, and writing. While academic courses make up between 30 to 50 percent of other programs at ECU, they comprise a majority of credits for Critical + Cultural Practice.<\/p>\n

These courses are designed with your practice in mind, in order to bring modern and contemporary approaches to your creative process. This interdisciplinary approach allows you to chart your own path while fostering connections between theory and practice. Throughout, you’ll be taught by academics and artists who are leaders in their fields.<\/p>\n

You will become part of a community of highly skilled practitioners, visionaries, and creative problem-solvers, with the knowledge to enter the visual arts and culture sector and to contribute from a variety of perspectives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI think that\u2019s the practice of community… To offer a form of liberation by not hiding one’s lived experience. To connect into and from those exact spaces of our identity, that we are so often told to keep silent and not disclose in direct and indirect ways. But to speak them out loud with one another in relationship.”<\/p>\n