Art Theory and Practice

Welcome to the Department of Art Theory & Practice (AT&P) at the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University. The department has both an undergraduate program, offering a baccalaureate degree, and a graduate program, offering a Masters of Fine Arts degree.

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2009-2010

Anna Biller | Mike Hoolbloom |
Theaster Gates

2008-2009

Coco Fusco is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist and writer who has performed, lectured, exhibited, and curated around the world since 1988. She is the author of English is Broken Here and The Bodies That Were Not Ours and Other Writings, and the editor of Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas and Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self. Her works have been included in such events as The Whitney Biennial, Sydney Biennale, The Johannesburg Biennial, The London International Theatre Festival, and Videobrasil. Her 1993 documentary about her caged Amerindian performance with Guillermo Gómez-Peña, The Couple in the Cage, has been screened in over 200 venues around the world. Her latest video, a/k/a Mrs. George Gilbert, was selected for the 2004 Shanghai Biennale and the Museum of Modern Art’s Documentary Fortnight in 2005. Her video installation, Dolores from 10 to 10, received an honorable mention from the 2003 Transmediale in Berlin. The exhibition that she curated for the International Center of Photography on racial taxonomy in American photography, Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self, is currently touring the U.S. She is the recipient of numerous grants, fellowships, and awards and has been, since 2001, an associate professor in the Visual Arts Division of Columbia University’s School of the Arts.