Liquidities: Art & Water, 1800-Present (VMS-0123)

Spring 2026 · VMS 0123 · Tufts University · 3 credits · Undergraduate

Assess modern and contemporary artists who work with water as a subject, medium, and metaphor. Case studies examine the oceanic sublime; natural history and oceanography in art; water security and Indigenous water sovereignty; wetlands and shoreline ecotones; hydro-feminism and the hydrocommons; queer aquatic ecologies; globalization and sea level rise; the gyre and water contamination; the art of whaling, fisheries and aquaculture; and sites of labor and leisure at the water's edge. Recommendations: Prior enrollment in an HAA and/or VMS course.

Course codes: VMS-0123, VMS 0123, VMS0123, VMS-123, VMS 123, VMS123

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