Joanna Cortez trained in printmaking, metalwork and ceramics. In her practice, she draws imagery from plants, patterns and motifs found in the American Southwest, Jordan and Palestine. Her work attempts to be one more contemporary voice among many, unweaving narratives relegating her cultures to ancient times, propaganda, myth or as vanished. Her practice is in part record keeping, but she hopes it remains a vehicle for storytelling and continued conversations about heritage and our shared humanity.
As a printmaker, Joanna has worked with printmakers in Johannesburg, South Africa, New York, Tokyo, Japan and Rhode Island. They’ve worked with artists such as William Kentridge, Kiki Smith, Alfredo Jarr, Korakrit Arunanondchai and many more. They currently work as a master printer at Current Projects in Queens, NY.
Courses
Fall 2024 Courses
FOUND 1003-01 - STUDIO: DESIGN
LevelUndergraduate
UnitExperimental and Foundation Studies
Subject Foundation Studies
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
FOUND 1003-01
STUDIO: DESIGN
LevelUndergraduate
UnitExperimental and Foundation Studies
Subject Foundation Studies
PeriodFall 2024
Credits3
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: F | 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM; F | 8:30 AM - 12:00 PMInstructor(s): Joanna CortezLocation(s): Chace Center, Room 506Enrolled / Capacity: 20Status: Closed
SECTION DESCRIPTION
Studio: Design promotes multidisciplinary studio experimentation across an array of media and processes. Students explore the organization of visual and other sensory elements in order to understand perceptual attributes and the production of meaning. Using various methods of expression, students may create objects, spaces, and experiences that demonstrate their analysis of composition, color, narrative, motion, systems, and cultural signification. Assignments allow for inquiries into scientific, social, cultural, historical, philosophical, technological, and political topics. Critical and experimental utilization of design principles, which underpin all of the arts, are emphasized. Students are guided through progressive investigations, in which the act of seeing is amplified by the study of physiological and cognitive factors that generate perception. Examined subjects are taken through stages of representation, abstraction, and/or symbolic interpretation to reveal essential communicative properties.
Enrollment is limited to First-Year Undergraduate Students.
Major Requirement | BFA
Spring 2025 Courses
PRINT 4698-01 - SENIOR DEGREE PROJECT: CRITIQUE
LevelUndergraduate
UnitPrintmaking
Subject Printmaking
Period Spring 2025
Credits 6
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
PRINT 4698-01
SENIOR DEGREE PROJECT: CRITIQUE
LevelUndergraduate
UnitPrintmaking
Subject Printmaking
PeriodSpring 2025
Credits6
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2025-02-13 to 2025-05-23
Times: T | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PMInstructor(s): Joanna CortezLocation(s): Benson Hall, Room 201Enrolled / Capacity: 16Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
The Degree Project involves a semester of guided, but essentially independent study to test the student's ability to design and successfully complete a substantial, comprehensive body of work. A Degree Project Proposal is submitted at the end of Wintersession in February. Each senior's body of work is ultimately presented in a Printmaking Degree Project Exhibition in the Woods-Gerry Gallery at the end of the semester. In addition, this course works in tandem with last semester's Senior Degree Project: Seminar topics. Accordingly, a Degree Project Final Folder is also submitted containing, DP Proposal, Final Statement, Resume, Artist Statement, and images of Degree Project work. It is important to note that the Printmaking Degree Project follows grant procedure, thus, its potential value to the graduated senior with a Printmaking BFA degree in the professional realm.
Estimated Cost of Materials: $200.00
Enrollment is limited to Senior Printmaking Students.
