This
is the second offering of this course, which features a ten-day pilgrimage,
hiking the countryside of southern France, as students draw and learn about
medieval pilgrimage, monastic life, heresy, orthodoxy, and the inspiration for
Gothic cathedrals.
HIS
440, Medieval Religious Experience, is paired with ART 100, Plein-Air Sketching,
a beginning course in on-site, observational drawing. Students learn where they
are, and why it has personal meaning, by listening deeply, seeing perceptually,
and sketching on location. This course satisfies an LAF in fine arts.
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Tara Sweeney
Tara Sweeney is
an exhibiting artist and illustrator who has been teaching art at Augsburg
College since 1991. She earned a B.S. in Studio Arts, and a B.S. in Clothing and
Textile Design from the University of Wisconsin (1978). She received her MFA in
Visual Studies from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (1997). Tara has
been making art by wandering around in the world for over 30 years. An abiding
passion for mixing art with romance languages has led her to teach three
short-term study abroad courses in France. Her current mixed-media work explores
the connection between figure, identity, and spirituality.
Phil Adamo
Phil Adamo received his B.A. in
Medieval and Renaissance Studies from the University at Albany (SUNY) and his
M.A. and Ph.D. in Medieval History (2000) from The Ohio State University. In
2006, he received Augsburg's Teaching Award for Outstanding Contributions to
teaching and Learning. Phil's research concerns the thirteenth-century, French
monastic order known as the Caulites. His dissertation on the formation of the
Caulite Order won the Ohio Academy of History Dissertation Award in 2001. Phil
is the coordinator of Medieval Studies at Augsburg, and serves as faculty
adviser to the Goliard Society of Medievalists, a student club that sponsors a
variety of activities, from field trips to historic sites to attendance at
medieval plays and festivals. He is also the director of Medieval Minnesota, a
summer camp at Augsburg College.
