At the first session, starting July 25, students will spend a week observing, documenting and assisting in the mounting of "Earth Matters," a group of environmental installations; the second week, they will create their own environmentally inspired works, in mediums ranging from paint to digital imagery.
They include Carole Naggar, who works in expressionistic ink and pastel with handmade and Japanese papers; Kathy Levitt, who makes environmental installations; and Erwin Chandler, a realist painter.
There are paintings, photographic works, sculptures, wall reliefs, fiber works, ceramic works, murals and environmental installations, according to the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, which manages the program for the state.
Part of the pleasure in watching the six documentaries that Albert and David Maysles made, beginning in the early 1970s, about some of the huge environmental installations by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, is seeing how the entire process of obtaining permits and winning over public opinion opens up a democratic debate on art.
She does not consider any exhibitions at galleries or museums that were exclusively devoted to Mr. Grooms's walk-in environmental installations, which he calls "sculpto-pictoramas," like "Ruckus Manhattan" (1975-76), his large-scale multimedia construction of lower Manhattan that has the character of a stage set.
Justin Lowe and Jonah Freeman create immersive environmental installations that play on ideas of drug culture, psychedelia, architecture, and film.
The artist Thomas Hirschhorn, whose environmental installation consumed the Swiss pavilion, also dealt with time.
His environmental installation forsakes the teenage bedroom format for the conventions of the natural history diorama and the period room.
Hoey cited a roadside motel that was actually an environmental installation, a work by the Melbourne-based artist Callum Morton, a roadside motel that was in fact a sculptural environment piece, as inspiration.
"Stork Club," including an environmental installation that mimics the floor plan of the club, photographs and memorabilia belonging to the family of Sherman Billingsley, the owner of the club; on view through Oct. 1. "Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America," images from the 1870's through the 1950's, through Aug. 13.
"Stork Club," including an environmental installation that mimics the floor plan of the club, and photographs and memorabilia belonging to the family of Sherman Billingsley, the owner of the club; on view through Oct. 1. "Jenny Lind: The Swedish Nightingale in America," through Oct. 29.
