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Raha AtashPa

Continuing Studies Instructor, Visual Arts

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Education:

PhD Candidate, UBC
MFA
BFA

Bio

Raha AtashPa is an artist–researcher–educator and PhD candidate in Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of British Columbia. Her practice brings visual arts, arts-based research, curriculum and art education into conversation, exploring how artistic practice, material encounters, aesthetic experience and lived experience can become forms of inquiry and learning. With a background spanning sculpture, painting, art theory and mathematics, she is particularly interested in bringing theory and practice together through interdisciplinary, art-based and learner-centred approaches. At ECU, she teaches drawing, painting, perspective drawing, figure drawing and Teaching and Learning in Art and Design, supporting students through clear demonstrations, individualized feedback and inclusive approaches that encourage experimentation and the development of individual artistic voices.

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Research Interests

Arts-based research, aesthetic experience, lived experience and everyday memory, embodiment and materiality, self-education and living inquiry, transformation, vulnerability, and freedom, human–non-human relationships, contemporary visual arts, artistic practice as research and pedagogy.

Courses

Course Name Department Course Code Term
Drawing CSDR 112 CS27/SP

Description

Pursue an in-depth study of the human figure through drawing. Using both skeletal and live model sessions, you will learn to render the human anatomical structure using direct observation, measuring proportion and composition techniques. Practice different technical methods such as gesture or contour drawing to capture and convey the form, energy and emotion of various poses. In-class exercises will include short and long poses, and sketching for more complex and experimental compositions. This course is suitable for those with previous drawing experience.

Material List: Be prepared for your course. Download the material list to source and purchase your supplies before your first class.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.

Education CSED 100 CS27/SP

Description

A workshop series for aspiring, new and experienced educators alike, Teaching + Learning in Art and Design explores the role of an educator at the intersection of art, design, learning and community. Through seven key stages of the teaching and learning process - from determining your personal philosophy as an art and design educator, to creating lesson plans that capture differentiated learning techniques for diverse classrooms - these workshops draw from your creative practice as artists and designers, to implement inquiry-based teaching and learning, develop art and design learning experiences for diverse educational contexts, and help you build a community for sharing and learning from peers.

Material List: Be prepared for your course. Download the material list to source and purchase your supplies before your first class.

Upon successfully completing this course, students will receive a digital skills badge through Accredible, a digital credentialing service. To learn more about Accredible or to opt-out of receiving a digital badge for CS courses, please complete this online form.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.