Slide lists, optional readings, and future viewing lists are provided.
COMING AS A LIVE ONLINE SEMINAR IN MARCH 2022!
Wednesday nights at 8:00 pm (EST): March 2 to April 20.
How are sexual identities represented in television? In what ways have feminism and queer theory shaped popular culture and how we think about sexualities? What is sex positivity and how can we use it as a critical tool for interrogating representations of sexualities?
This course will examine how sex and sexualities are represented in 21stcentury television, including heterosexual, gay, lesbian, asexual, queer, trans, polyamorous, monogamous, pansexual, and bisexual subjectivities. Following the tradition of feminist cultural studies, we will consider a variety of television series as sites of struggle in which multiple and often-contradictory messages and mythsabout sexuality circulate. Through an analysis of documentaries, animation, reality TV, science fiction, fantasy, soap operas, comedies, and television dramas, we will discuss how popular culture depicts sexualities and how representations of sexualities intersect with gender, race, class, and culture.
This lecture & discussion non-credit seminar will take place online via Zoom.
Small enough to be completely participatory.
Your only homework is watching two television episodes prior to each class!
TOPICS:
Week 1: History of Sexuality on TV
Week 2: Heterosexual Representations with Sex and the City & This is Us
Week 3: Lesbian Representations with The L Word: Generation Q & Vida
Week 4: Gay Male Representations with Please Like Me & Sense 8
Week 5: Bisexual, Pansexual & Asexual Representations with Lost Girl & Bojack Horseman
Week 6: Polyamory and Monogamy with She’s Gotta Have It & Trigonometry
Week 7: BDSM & Kink with Bonding & Mercy Mistress
Week 8: Sex Therapy with Sex, Love & Goop and In Treatment
Each class is 2 hours, once a week. Tuesday evenings, 8:30 to 10:30 pm (EST)
$250 for 8 week course. $35 per class drop in fee
Slide lists, optional readings, and future viewing lists are provided.
Email kristen@kh1art.ca for a course syllabus and to reserve a spot for the entire seminar or a weekly topic.
By signing up for this seminar, you agree to the following terms and conditions.
Dr. Kristen Hutchinson is an art historian, visual artist, curator, and art consultant. She received her PhD in the History of Art from University College London in 2007. Kristen has taught art history, feminism, and popular culture courses at universities and colleges in Canada, the US, and the UK. She is currently writing a non-fiction book about supernatural creatures in contemporary art, film and television.
Dates & Times: TBA
An affordable online seminar about supernatural creatures in film, television and art from 2000 to the present.
The course will focus upon the ways in which 21st century art, television, and film explore and interrogate philosophical, ethical, aesthetic, and political issues in relation to the theme of the supernatural.
Small enough to be completely participatory.
This lecture & discussion non-credit seminar will take place online via Zoom.
Your only homework is watching one television episode and one film prior to each class!
TOPICS:
Week 1: Vampires with Angel & Only Lovers Left Alive, 2013 (Germany)
Week 2: Werewolves with Teen Wolf & Ginger Snaps, 2000 (Canada)
Week 3: Ghosts with Ghost Hunters & The Orphanage, 2007 (Spain)
Week 4: Demons with Supernatural & Cabin in the Woods, 2011 (US)
Week 5: Witches with Witches of East End & Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, 2009 (UK/US)
Week 6: Zombies with The Walking Dead & Shaun of the Dead, 2004 (UK)
Each class is 2 hours, once a week.
$250 for 6 week course. $45 per class drop in fee
Slide lists, optional readings, and future viewing lists are provided.
Email kristen@kh1art.ca for a course syllabus and to reserve a spot for the entire seminar or a weekly topic.
By signing up for this seminar, you agree to the following terms and conditions.
Dr. Kristen Hutchinson is an art historian, visual artist, curator, and art consultant. She received her PhD in the History of Art from University College London in 2007. Kristen has taught art history courses at universities and colleges in Canada, the US, and the UK. She is currently writing a non-fiction book about supernatural creatures in contemporary art, film and television.
Dates & Times: TBA How have feminisms both critiqued and transformed mainstream popular culture? What is feminist popular culture? What could it be? This lecture & discussion non-credit seminar will take place online via Zoom. Small enough to be completely participatory: 4 to 10 students per seminar. Your only homework is watching one film or TV episode prior to each class! TOPICS: Week 1: Feminism & Film with Miss Representation (2011) Week 2: Feminism & TV with The Truth about Female Desire (2015) Week 3: Feminism, Comics & Graphic Novels with She Makes Comics (2014) Week 4: Feminism & Music with My Prairie Home (2013) & Lemonade (2016) Week 5: Feminism & Video Games with GFTO: The Movie (2015) Week 6: Feminism & Supernatural Creatures with “Witches.” True Horror with Anthony Head (2004) Each class is 2 hours, once a week. $250 for 6 week course. $45 per class drop in fee Slide lists, optional readings, and future viewing lists are provided. Email kristen@kh1art.ca for a course syllabus and to reserve a spot for the entire seminar or a weekly topic. By signing up for this seminar, you agree to the following terms and conditions. Dr. Kristen Hutchinson is an art historian, visual artist, curator, and art consultant. She received her PhD in the History of Art from University College London in 2007. Kristen has taught art history, feminism, popular culture courses at universities and colleges in Canada, the US, and the UK. She is currently writing a non-fiction book about supernatural creatures in contemporary art, film and television. Dates & Times: TBA Affordable online seminar about feminism and film from 2000 to the present. This course will examine how gender, sexuality, ability, race, ethnicity, class, and status are represented in 21stcentury feature length films. Through an analysis of drama, romantic comedy, science fiction, animation, horror and crime/suspense films, we will discuss the similarities and differences of how tropes about gender, sexuality, ability, race, ethnicity, class, and status are constructed and represented across various genres. We will focus on films with female, women identified, non-binary, and trans protagonists. This lecture & discussion non-credit seminar will take place live online via Zoom. Small enough to be completely participatory. Your only homework is watching one film prior to each class! TOPICS: Week 1: Drama with The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018) Week 2: Romantic Comedy with Always Be My Maybe (2019) Week 3: Science Fiction with Arrival (2016) Week 4: Animation with Persepolis (2007) Week 5: Horror with The Babadook (2014) Week 6: Crime & Suspense with The Kitchen (2019) Each class is 2 hours, once a week. $250 for 6 week course. $45 per class drop in fee Slide lists, optional readings, and future viewing lists are provided. Email kristen@kh1art.ca for a course syllabus and to reserve a spot for the entire seminar or a weekly topic. By signing up for this seminar, you agree to the following terms and conditions. Dr. Kristen Hutchinson is an art historian, visual artist, curator, and art consultant. She received her PhD in the History of Art from University College London in 2007. Kristen has taught art history, feminism, and popular culture courses at universities and colleges in Canada, the US, and the UK. She is currently writing a non-fiction book about supernatural creatures in contemporary art, film and television. Dates & Times: TBA An affordable online seminar about the history of video art from the 1970s to the present. The course will trace the history of video art from the 1970s until the present through an examination of performance, installation, theatre, narrative, experimentation, feminism, identity, postcolonialism, interactivity, embodiment, surveillance, installation, and activism. We will also consider how technological changes have created shifts in the production of video art, particularly with the introduction of digital video and online streaming sites. This lecture & discussion non-credit seminar will take place online via Zoom. Small enough to be completely participatory. The first five classes will focus on a different decade. The last class will focus on student works in progress, presentations, and discussion. TOPICS: Week 1: 1970s Week 2: 1980s Week 3: 1990s Week 4: 2000s Week 5: 2010s Week 6: Group Critique, Presentations & Discussion Each class is 2 hours, once a week. $250 for 6 week course. $45 per class drop in fee Slide lists and optional readings are provided. Email kristen@kh1art.ca for a course syllabus and to reserve a spot for the entire seminar or a weekly topic. By signing up for this seminar, you agree to the following terms and conditions. Dr. Kristen Hutchinson is an art historian, visual artist, curator, and art consultant. She received her PhD in the History of Art from University College London in 2007. Kristen has taught art history, feminism, and popular culture courses at universities and colleges in Canada, the US, and the UK. She is currently writing a non-fiction book about supernatural creatures in contemporary art, film and television. Photo credit: Kristen Hutchinson, Whispering Voices on the Phone, 2008 Dates & Times: TBA How and why do contemporary artists portray the body? We will be exploring numerous themes including gender, sexuality, illness, the environment, race, culture, globalization, and the absent body through a variety of media: painting, photography, sculpture, installation, drawing, video art, performance art, animation, and documentaries. Small enough to be completely participatory. This lecture & discussion non-credit seminar will take place online via Zoom. Week 1: Bodies, Gender & Sexuality with !Women Art Revolution (2010) Week 2: Bodies & Illness with My Name is Alan and I Paint Pictures (2007) Week 3: Bodies & the Environment with Waste Land (2010) Week 4: Bodies, Race & Culture with The Art Star & the Sudanese Twins (2008) Week 5: Bodies & Globalization with Manufactured Landscapes (2006) Week 6: The Absent Body with Here is Always Somewhere Else: The Disappearance of Bas Jan Ader (2007) Each class is 2 hours, once a week. $250 for 6 week course. $45 per class drop in fee Slide lists and optional readings are provided. Emailkristen@kh1art.ca for a course syllabus and to reserve a spot for the entire seminar or a weekly topic. By signing up for this seminar, you agree to the following terms and conditions. Dr. Kristen Hutchinson is an art historian, visual artist, curator, and art consultant. She received her PhD in the History of Art from University College London in 2007. Kristen has taught art history courses at universities and colleges in Canada, the US, and the UK. She is currently writing a non-fiction book about supernatural creatures in contemporary art, film and television. Photo credits: Zanele Muholi, Shirin Neshat, Yinka Shonibare, Ana Mendieta, Gregg Segal & Sarah Davies Dates & Times: TBA An affordable online seminar about supernatural creatures in film, television and art from 2000 to the present. Small enough to be completely participatory. This lecture & discussion non-credit seminar will take place online via Zoom. Optional readings are provided and there are no assignments. Week 1: Superheroes with Heroes & The X-Men, 2000 (US) Week 2: Woodland Creatures with Lost Girl & Pan’s Labryinth, 2006 (Spain) Week 3: Angels with Supernatural & Dogma, 1999 (US) Week 4: Sea Monsters with Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Gwoemul (The Host), 2006 (Sounth Korea) Week 5: Magicians with The Magicians & The Prestige, 2006 (US) Week 6: Aliens with Doctor Who & Attack the Block, 2011 (UK) Each class is 2 hours, once a week. $250 for 6 week course. $45 per class drop in fee Slide lists, optional readings, and future viewing lists are provided. Emailkristen@kh1art.ca for a course syllabus and to reserve a spot for the entire seminar or a weekly topic. By signing up for this seminar, you agree to the following terms and conditions. Dr. Kristen Hutchinson is an art historian, visual artist, curator, and art consultant. She received her PhD in the History of Art from University College London in 2007. Kristen has taught art history courses at universities and colleges in Canada, the US, and the UK. She is currently writing a non-fiction book about supernatural creatures in contemporary art, film and television. Dates & Times: TBA How have feminisms both critiqued and transformed mainstream popular culture? What is feminist popular culture? What could it be? This seminar will examine representations of women and gender identities in popular culture through the lens of feminism. We will look at how feminists have both critiqued and transformed mainstream popular culture. This lecture & discussion non-credit seminar will take place online via Zoom. Small enough to be completely participatory. Your only homework is watching films or TV episodes prior to each class! TOPICS: Week 1: Feminism & Film with Makers: Women in Hollywood (2014) & Status Quo? The Unfinished Business of Feminism in Canada (2012) Week 2: Feminism & TV with The Ascent of Woman: Revolution (2015) Week 3: Feminism & Animation with NFB Short Animated Films (2010-2016) Week 4: Feminism, Science Fiction & Fantasy with Advantageous (2015) Week 5: Feminism, Robots & AI with Ex Machina (2014) Week 6: Feminism & Social Media with Black Mirror: Nosedive & Hated in the Nation (2016) Each class is 2 hours, once a week. $250 for 6 week course. $45 per class drop in fee Slide lists, optional readings, and future viewing lists are provided. Email kristen@kh1art.ca for a course syllabus and to reserve a spot for the entire seminar or a weekly topic. By signing up for this seminar, you agree to the following terms and conditions. Dr. Kristen Hutchinson is an art historian, visual artist, curator, and art consultant. She received her PhD in the History of Art from University College London in 2007. Kristen has taught art history, feminism, popular culture courses at universities and colleges in Canada, the US, and the UK. She is currently writing a non-fiction book about supernatural creatures in contemporary art, film and television. Dates & Times: TBA This seminar will examine prevalent themes in contemporary visual culture through an analysis of contemporary art and television drama series produced during the last decade. This seminar will focus upon the ways in which contemporary artists and American, Canadian, and British television drama series explore and interrogate contemporary philosophical, ethical, aesthetic, and political debates. We will look at contemporary artists from around the globe who work in a variety of media, including sculpture, installation, video art, performance art, photography, painting, and drawing. This lecture & discussion non-credit seminar will take place online via Zoom. Small enough to be completely participatory. Your only homework is watching two TV episodes prior to each class! TOPICS: Week 1: Narrative & Language with Deadwood & The Wire Week 2: Identity, Gender & Sexuality with Vida & Grace and Frankie Week 3: Morality & Medicine with House & Nurse Jackie Week 4: Place with Lost & The 100 Week 5: Surveillance with Person of Interest & Mr. Robot Week 6: The Fantastical with The Magicians & Sense 8 Each class is 2 hours, once a week. $250 for 6 week course. $45 per class drop in fee Slide lists, optional readings, and future viewing lists are provided. Email kristen@kh1art.ca for a course syllabus and to reserve a spot for the entire seminar or a weekly topic. By signing up for this seminar, you agree to the following terms and conditions. Dr. Kristen Hutchinson is an art historian, visual artist, curator, and art consultant. She received her PhD in the History of Art from University College London in 2007. Kristen has taught art history courses at universities and colleges in Canada, the US, and the UK. She is currently writing a non-fiction book about supernatural creatures in contemporary art, film and television. Dates & Times: TBA This seminar will explore the history of furniture and interior design from Ancient Egypt to the present day. This lecture & discussion non-credit seminar will take place online via Zoom. Small enough to be completely participatory. TOPICS: Week 1: Egyptian to Renaissance Furniture Week 2: Baroque & 18th Century Furniture Week 3: 19th Century Furniture Week 4: Early 20th Century Furniture Week 5: Mid-century Modern Furniture Week 6: Contemporary Furniture Each class is 2 hours, once a week. $250 for 6 week course. $45 per class drop in fee Slide lists and optional readings are provided. Email kristen@kh1art.ca for a course syllabus and to reserve a spot for the entire seminar or a weekly topic. By signing up for this seminar, you agree to the following terms and conditions. Dr. Kristen Hutchinson is an art historian, visual artist, curator, and art consultant. She received her PhD in the History of Art from University College London in 2007. Kristen has taught art history, feminism, and popular culture courses at universities and colleges in Canada, the US, and the UK. She is currently writing a non-fiction book about supernatural creatures in contemporary art, film and television. Dates & Times: TBA The seminar will focus on the historical developments, trends, styles, and movements that have shaped our understanding of photography from 1839 to 1969. Topics to be discussed include science, colonialism, portraiture, pictorialism, modernity, movement, war, Dada, Surrealism, the cold war, social change, Pop Art and street photography. We will look out how photography informs our knowledge of history and talk about how the photograph as a documentary tool and a form of objective truth has been questioned and re-envisioned. This lecture & discussion non-credit seminar will take place online via Zoom. Small enough to be completely participatory. Your only homework is watching one film or TV episode prior to each class! TOPICS: Week 1: Origins of Photography, Science & Colonialism Week 2: Early Portraiture & Pictorialism Week 3: Modernity & Movement Week 4: Early War Photography, Dada & Surrealism Week 5: WWII, The Cold War & Social Change Week 6: Pop Art & Street Photography Each class is 2 hours, once a week. $250 for 6 week course. $45 per class drop in fee Slide lists and optional readings are provided. Email kristen@kh1art.ca for a course syllabus and to reserve a spot for the entire seminar or a weekly topic. By signing up for this seminar, you agree to the following terms and conditions. Dr. Kristen Hutchinson is an art historian, visual artist, curator, and art consultant. She received her PhD in the History of Art from University College London in 2007. Kristen has taught art history, feminism, and popular culture courses at universities and colleges in Canada, the US, and the UK. She is currently writing a non-fiction book about supernatural creatures in contemporary art, film and television. Dates & Times: TBA Affordable online seminar about feminism and film from 2000 to the present. This course will examine how gender, sexuality, ability, race, ethnicity, class, and status are represented in 21stcentury feature length films. Through an analysis of drama, romantic comedy, science fiction, animation, horror and crime/suspense films, we will discuss the similarities and differences of how tropes about gender, sexuality, ability, race, ethnicity, class, and status are constructed and represented across various genres. We will focus on films with female, women identified, non-binary, and trans protagonists. This lecture & discussion non-credit seminar will take place online via Adobe Connect or Zoom. Small enough to be completely participatory. Your only homework is watching one film prior to each class! TOPICS: Week 1: Comedy with Suicide Kale (2016) Week 2: Musicals with Anna and the Apocalypse (2017) Week 3: Action & Adventure with Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Week 4: Documentaries with The Red Pill (2016) Week 5: Superheroes with Captain Marvel (2019) Week 6: Fantasy with The Love Witch (2016) Each class is 2 hours, once a week. $250 for 6 week course. $45 per class drop in fees. Slide lists, optional readings, and future viewing lists are provided. Email kristen@kh1art.ca for a course syllabus and to reserve a spot for the entire seminar or a weekly topic. By signing up for this seminar, you agree to the following terms and conditions. Dr. Kristen Hutchinson is an art historian, visual artist, curator, and art consultant. She received her PhD in the History of Art from University College London in 2007. Kristen has taught art history, feminism, and popular culture courses at universities and colleges in Canada, the US, and the UK. She is currently writing a non-fiction book about supernatural creatures in contemporary art, film and television. Dates & Times: TBA This seminar will examine prevalent themes in contemporary visual culture through an analysis of contemporary art and television drama series produced during the 21st century. We will focus upon the ways in which contemporary artists and American, Canadian, and British television drama series explore and interrogate contemporary philosophical, ethical, aesthetic, and political debates. We will also look at contemporary artists from around the globe who work in a variety of media, including sculpture, installation, video art, performance art, photography, painting, and drawing. This lecture & discussion non-credit seminar will take place online via Zoom. Small enough to be completely participatory. Your only homework is watching two TV episodes prior to each class! TOPICS: Week 1: Home with Dowton Abbey & American Horror Story: Murder House Week 2: Memory with Unforgettable & Dollhouse Week 3: Crime & Forensics with Dexter & Da Vinci’s Inquest Week 4: Artificial Intelligence with Black Mirror & Humans Week 5: Sex with Masters of Sex & Work in Progress Week 6: Apocalypse with Survivors & Jericho Each class is 2 hours, once a week. $250 for 6 week course. $45 per class drop in fee Slide lists, optional readings, and future viewing lists are provided. Email kristen@kh1art.ca for a course syllabus and to reserve a spot for the entire seminar or a weekly topic. By signing up for this seminar, you agree to the following terms and conditions. Dr. Kristen Hutchinson is an art historian, visual artist, curator, and art consultant. She received her PhD in the History of Art from University College London in 2007. Kristen has taught art history, feminism, and popular culture courses at universities and colleges in Canada, the US, and the UK. She is currently writing a non-fiction book about supernatural creatures in contemporary art, film and television. Dates & Times: TBA The seminar will investigate the vast array of styles, artistic practices, and movements in the medium from 1970 to the present. We will examine how the photograph has been positioned as a documentary tool and a form of objective truth. We will look at how this approach has been questioned and re-envisioned. We will explore the question of how our relationship with the photograph has changed given digital technology, and whether or not this technological influence has affected our attitudes towards the photograph. This lecture & discussion non-credit seminar will take place online via Zoom. Small enough to be completely participatory. Your only homework is watching one film or TV episode prior to each class! TOPICS: Week 1: Conceptual Photography Week 2: Appropriation & Postmodernism Week 3: Race, Gender, Sexuality & Culture Week 4: Photojournalism & Documentary Photography Week 5: Landscape, Environmentalism & Globalisation Week 6: Digital Photography Each class is 2 hours, once a week. $250 for 6 week course. $45 per class drop in fee Slide lists and optional readings are provided. Email kristen@kh1art.ca for a course syllabus and to reserve a spot for the entire seminar or a weekly topic. By signing up for this seminar, you agree to the following terms and conditions. Dr. Kristen Hutchinson is an art historian, visual artist, curator, and art consultant. She received her PhD in the History of Art from University College London in 2007. Kristen has taught art history, feminism, and popular culture courses at universities and colleges in Canada, the US, and the UK. She is currently writing a non-fiction book about supernatural creatures in contemporary art, film and television. Photo credit: Mike McGlothlen Dates & Times: TBA Affordable online seminar about feminism and television from 2000 to the present. This course will examine how gender, sexuality, ability, race, ethnicity, class, and status are represented in 21stcentury television shows. Through an analysis of drama, comedy, reality TV, animation, horror and fantasy, we will discuss the similarities and differences of how tropes about gender, sexuality, ability, race, ethnicity, class, and status are constructed and represented across various genres. We will focus on TV series with female, women identified, non-binary, and trans protagonists. This lecture & discussion non-credit seminar will take place online via Zoom. Small enough to be completely participatory: 4 to 10 students per seminar. Your only homework is watching two TV episodes prior to each class! TOPICS: Week 1: Drama with Grey’s Anatomy & Unbelievable Week 2: Comedy with Broad City & Fleabag Week 3: Reality TV with Queer Eye & Are You the One? Week 4: Animation with Bertie and Tuca & Steven Universe Week 5: Horror with The Exorcist & Channel Zero: Dream Door Week 6: Fantasy with The Handmaid’s Tale & Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Each class is 2 hours, once a week. $250 for 6 week course. $45 per class drop in fee Slide lists, optional readings, and further viewing lists are provided. Email kristen@kh1art.ca for a course syllabus and to reserve a spot for the entire seminar or a weekly topic. By signing up for this seminar, you agree to the following terms and conditions. Dr. Kristen Hutchinson is an art historian, visual artist, curator, and art consultant. She received her PhD in the History of Art from University College London in 2007. Kristen has taught art history courses at universities and colleges in Canada, the US, and the UK. She is currently writing a non-fiction book about supernatural creatures in contemporary art, film and television. This seminar will examine representations of women and gender identities in popular culture through the lens of feminism. We will look at how feminists have both critiqued and transformed mainstream popular culture.
We will cover major furniture styles and interior design from the classical to the contemporary in Europe and North America; the relationship of art, architecture and the decorative arts to historical furniture and interior design styles; and social, political and economic forces that influenced the periods of interior design and furniture styles.