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According to anthropologist William Irwin Thomson, “Art is the last religion.” This class combines actual artmaking with research to explore how artists make use of their skills as a way of exploring “the spiritual” in their lives. The concept of artist as shaman is balanced with the idea of art itself as a spiritual experience, in work ranging from the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to the light installations of James Turrell.
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