Announcing Three Academic Credit Courses for 2022
Offering unique educational opportunities is the primary focus of the OSU Doel Reed Center in Taos. Each year Oklahoma State University students may enroll in Academic Credit Courses offered in culturally rich and amazingly beautiful northern New Mexico.
May 16-27, 2022
DHM 3423: Editorial Styling for Merchandising
Instructor: Cossette Joyner Armstrong, PhD | Associate Professor, Design, Housing & Merchandise
The production of artful images and the editorial styling techniques that support
this production. This course reviews the elements of editorial styling for fashion
merchandising, including photography basics, focusing on image production for digital
and print media. Students will learn on-location styling competences, including location
scouting, working with natural light, and “roadside” photoshoot management. 
This course is a hands-on learning experience in which students are required to gather
inspiration broadly, develop a concept for an editorial fashion photoshoot, create
a detailed implementation plan, source garments, and work with a professional photographer
to conduct their photoshoot on location. This particular version of the course will
employ the aesthetics and historical references of New Mexico to produce an album
cover and jacket insert for a rock’n’roll band. Prerequisite: DHM 2423 or proven proficiency
in Photoshop and InDesign. A subscription to the Adobe Creative Cloud is required.
ENGL 4400/5210: Writing the Native City from New Mexico
Instructor: Lindsey Claire Smith, PhD | Associate Professor, English
From the Santa Fe Indian School to Indian Market to the Institute of American Indian
Arts, Indigenous Oklahomans have been at the vanguard of arts cultures of northern
New Mexico. Oklahoma writers in particular have a history of participation in the
Santa Fe and Taos writers’ communities, revealing traces of Oklahoma’s historical
and creative influence on northern New Mexico. In this course, we will study the New
Mexico writings of Indigenous writers from Oklahoma, considering them in a critical
framework that brings together the regional, the urban, and settler colonialism, as
well as Indigenous Studies methodologies and the unique arts cultures that inform
them. 
We will read and interpret Lynn Riggs’s under-studied Santa Fe poems and his avant
garde film, “A Day in Santa Fe.” We will also read selections from Joy Harjo’s Crazy Brave memoir and her own New Mexico poems, considering how the avant garde scene of 1930s
New Mexico segued into the hippiedom that Harjo describes. Finally, we will view Sterlin
Harjo’s comedy video set at Indian Market, “I’m an Indian Too,” and his documentary
about Native Arts, Love and Fury, introducing a discussion of how the pressures of gentrification and urban development
are shaping New Mexico’s current arts scene.
July 5-15, 2022
ART 4800 (Special Studies in Art/ART 4280 (Photography Studio): The View Camera
Instructor: Andy Mattern, MFA | Associate Professor, Art, Art History & Graphic Design
In this intensive 2-week creative photography course held at the Doel Reed Center
in northern New Mexico, OSU students will explore the unique aesthetic and technical
possibilities of the 4x5 view camera. This classic photographic tool requires deliberate
control over all aspects of the image making process — working on a tripod, composing
the image upside down on the ground glass, exposing a single piece of sheet film at
a time. Successful engagement with this methodology will lead to a deeper understanding
of the medium, while providing a window into its rich history. 
Students will be provided a view camera, tripod, film, chemistry, and other necessary
materials to process their images. Course time will include technical demonstrations,
shooting exercises, lab time, field trips, discussion, and critique.
Learn more about this course offering and ways alumni and friends can donate to the scholarship
fund to underwrite student tuitions. The OSU Doel Reed Center in Taos is An Enchanted Place to Learn.