HOURLY BREAKDOWN
12pm-Parsons crew arrives at Gallery Aferro
12:30pm-1:30 Identity Blueprint Begins (60 minutes)
Introductions-Emma and Evonne (what is Gallery Aferro/Identity Blueprint)
Go around the room and have IB students introduce themselves and their work (via their portfolios)
Parsons crew introduces ourselves
Collection of forms from IB students
1:30pm-2 Parsons-led Introductory Activities (30 minutes)
Goodie bags + sketchbooks-Tim, Allegra, Sul
Parsons students share sketchbooks
2:00pm-2:30 Break (30 minutes)
Tumblr tutorial (15-20 minutes)-Anais
2:30pm-4 Portraiture Lesson (1 hour, 30 minutes)
Portraiture examples and inspiration (15 minutes)-Medha
Polaroid Lesson (15 min.)-Peira
Time for girls to make portraits (50 min)
Share portraits (10 min)-Who's running the sharing session?
4:00pm-4:15 CLEAN UP
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Lessons Learned re: Artist Statements and HS Students during 10 years of Digital Day Camp
Digital Day Camp
One of the many things learned during the 10 years doing this program for high school-age students was the art (and by that I mean...how very difficult it is!) to work with students to write artist statements.
My last two years:
2007:
Bold/individual (could not work in groups!) projects and very engaged students.
Project samples: Shavanna (domestic abuse), Jessenia (abuse of animals), Glenn (gang violence), Jose (subway niceties).
Important:
Do you get the project? Where they were coming from? Do you understand the gesture? Was it in their voice?
How did we do the writing:
- Provided guiding questions--always with a focus on the process (who are you? what did this project mean to you? why? how did you make it: technology, influences from program? what did you need to learn in order to develop the project? who helped you?).
- We left them to write and then went around and helped them as they wrote (cleaning up mostly spelling, grammar, sentence structure).
- I would always read their statements aloud to them, so they could hear their own words, and at times, make corrections on their own.
- We never took statements away to review or edit and hand back with red ink marks. We always did the editing with the students, so we had their permission and they were part of the process. I wanted them to understand the changes.
- We talked about the difference between spoken and written language, and how they needed to not take anything for granted. They shouldn't expect that their audience knows anything about their project or process.
- Find common language. "Process" wasn't really a part of my students' vocabulary, which took me a while to understand. 'How did you get from point A to point B' worked.
- Focus: presenting their work to the world.
2008:
These students were not writers.
We did an exercise to get the students thinking and writing creatively:
Instant Story Exercise with Christina Kral
The goal of this exercise was to allow for a different reality, and give the participants the most absurd and abstract stories by the act of listening, looking and documenting images and sounds from the public.
After 10 years, we finally developed an artist and project statement templat
[ARTIST STATEMENT TEMPLATE]:
Tell us about your world.
How did you think of this world?
What were the technologies, tools, resources and influences (for example: guest lecturers, teaching artists, work you saw during the program or before) that you used to make this world?
What are your group members’ names?
[PROJECT DESCRIPTION TEMPLATE]:
World description/narrative:
What is the name of your world?
What is your world?
Where is it?
What’s the point of it? Why does it exist?
What happens there?
How does one get there?
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Traveling to Gallery Aferro in Newark (updated)
As a class, and in teams of 3, we will be traveling to Gallery Aferro in Newark for the Identity Blueprint program.
Gallery Aferro
73 Market Street
Newark, NJ 07102
http://www.aferro.org/websitebaker/wb/pages/about-aferro/directions.php
View Larger Map
Please budget travel expenses for 3-4 trips:
PATH train (one-way $2.00 fare) from 14th St./6th Ave. to Newark Penn Station. Students can walk 6 blocks to the gallery, or take the bus (#34-towards Bloomfield, NJ=one-way $1.50 fare). Bus stop is directly across the street from Gallery Aferro. You will also need to bring or buy lunch.
=$4.00 total if you just take the PATH train, $7.00 total if you take PATH and bus, + lunch
MANDATORY CLASS TRIPS:
SATURDAY MARCH 3 11-4:30pm
SATURDAY MAY 5 10-4pm
You will make one additional Saturday trip with a team of 3 at some point in-between. The schedule is posted here: http://labs12.blogspot.com/2012/02/identity-blueprint-lab-schedule.html.
FIRST TRIP SATURDAY MARCH 3
Meet Liz at the southwest corner of 14th St. and 6th Ave. at 10:45am. (If it's raining, go inside to the service booth.) If you are not there by 11am, we will leave without you and you will be marked absent for the day. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO GO ON YOUR OWN IF YOU ARE LATE. We will leave when the program ends at 4:30pm, and it will take approximately 50 minutes to get back to Parsons. Bring your lunch, as the lunch options around there are somewhat limited and you may not have much of a break. Be sure you have the cell phone numbers of everyone on your team, should you get lost or separated from us.
We will take the PATH train 6 stops to Journal Square, then switch to the PATH train to Newark Penn Station (2 stops, Newark Penn Station is the final stop). We'll exit the station and walk west 6 blocks on Market Street to Gallery Aferro, 73 Market Street. If it's raining we'll take the bus, #34-towards Bloomfield, NJ. We'll get off at Market Street and University Ave.
Please refer to the Lab guidelines for working on location: http://nobetty.net/lab/s12/Guidelines.pdf
-You will need to walk 6 blocks, and be on your feet for 5 hours helping to run these workshops, so high heels are not recommended.
-Walk with purpose, pay attention to your surroundings.
-There will be paint, ink, and other messy materials, so bring an apron or smock if you are concerned about your clothing.
-Travel light, and bring some reading material in case your train is delayed.
-We suggest packing your lunch, as the lunch options around there are somewhat limited and you will not have much of a break.
Gallery Aferro
73 Market Street
Newark, NJ 07102
http://www.aferro.org/websitebaker/wb/pages/about-aferro/directions.php
View Larger Map
Please budget travel expenses for 3-4 trips:
PATH train (one-way $2.00 fare) from 14th St./6th Ave. to Newark Penn Station. Students can walk 6 blocks to the gallery, or take the bus (#34-towards Bloomfield, NJ=one-way $1.50 fare). Bus stop is directly across the street from Gallery Aferro. You will also need to bring or buy lunch.
=$4.00 total if you just take the PATH train, $7.00 total if you take PATH and bus, + lunch
MANDATORY CLASS TRIPS:
SATURDAY MARCH 3 11-4:30pm
SATURDAY MAY 5 10-4pm
You will make one additional Saturday trip with a team of 3 at some point in-between. The schedule is posted here: http://labs12.blogspot.com/2012/02/identity-blueprint-lab-schedule.html.
FIRST TRIP SATURDAY MARCH 3
Meet Liz at the southwest corner of 14th St. and 6th Ave. at 10:45am. (If it's raining, go inside to the service booth.) If you are not there by 11am, we will leave without you and you will be marked absent for the day. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO GO ON YOUR OWN IF YOU ARE LATE. We will leave when the program ends at 4:30pm, and it will take approximately 50 minutes to get back to Parsons. Bring your lunch, as the lunch options around there are somewhat limited and you may not have much of a break. Be sure you have the cell phone numbers of everyone on your team, should you get lost or separated from us.
We will take the PATH train 6 stops to Journal Square, then switch to the PATH train to Newark Penn Station (2 stops, Newark Penn Station is the final stop). We'll exit the station and walk west 6 blocks on Market Street to Gallery Aferro, 73 Market Street. If it's raining we'll take the bus, #34-towards Bloomfield, NJ. We'll get off at Market Street and University Ave.
Please refer to the Lab guidelines for working on location: http://nobetty.net/lab/s12/Guidelines.pdf
-You will need to walk 6 blocks, and be on your feet for 5 hours helping to run these workshops, so high heels are not recommended.
-Walk with purpose, pay attention to your surroundings.
-There will be paint, ink, and other messy materials, so bring an apron or smock if you are concerned about your clothing.
-Travel light, and bring some reading material in case your train is delayed.
-We suggest packing your lunch, as the lunch options around there are somewhat limited and you will not have much of a break.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Identity Blueprint Lab Schedule
Program hours: 11am-4pm
3/3 -Orientation/Portraits-I
All students
Intro exercises (workshop/exhib team)
‘Get to know you’ Hand-out (Israel)
Lunch-Web Tutorial (web team-Anais)
Portraits I (workshop/exhib team)
Documentation: Someone from each team
Web: Emma
Exhib: Medha
Print: Ananya
3/10 Portraits 2/Newark Museum Trip
**Extra Credit for those who can go**
Maybe: Medha, Ananya, Israel
3/17-Cyanotypes 1
**Extra Credit for those who can go**
Maybe: Mary
3/24-Cyanotypes 2
Exhib: Tim/Allegra-Doc, statements, sketchbooks
Web: Karen/Israel-Get to know girls + doc
Print: Ananya/Jayson
Writing Lesson: Medha> Review with E + E and each team member scheduled for this day
3/31-Cyanotypes 3
Exhib: Blair/Lauren
Web: Noah/Emma
Print: Ana/Su
**4/7 NO WORKSHOP**
4/14 Digital Video-1
Exhib: Piera/Medha
Web: Jasmine/Hong Wei
Print: Anny/Val
4/19 (or other date TBD)-Interviews with teaching artitsts
Amanda
4/21-Digital Video-2
Exhib:Sul/Manuela/Nadia
Web: Anais/Adi/Georgina
Print: Bense/Tanvi
4/26-Interviews w/ Emma & Evonne
Amanda/Aliza/Noah
4/28-Digital Video-3
Exhib: Jessica/Hea-Mi/Mary
Web: Jasmine/Israel
Print: Marvel/HAnanya
5/3-Exhibition Prep
Blair/(Amanda)/Anny/Aliza
5/5-Final Crit, Installation and Opening Reception
All students
Opening: 6-9pm
3/3 -Orientation/Portraits-I
All students
Intro exercises (workshop/exhib team)
- Goodie bags
- sketch books/discussion re: using sketchbooks
- Celebrity/get-to-know-you game
‘Get to know you’ Hand-out (Israel)
Lunch-Web Tutorial (web team-Anais)
Portraits I (workshop/exhib team)
Documentation: Someone from each team
Web: Emma
Exhib: Medha
Print: Ananya
3/10 Portraits 2/Newark Museum Trip
**Extra Credit for those who can go**
Maybe: Medha, Ananya, Israel
3/17-Cyanotypes 1
**Extra Credit for those who can go**
Maybe: Mary
3/24-Cyanotypes 2
Exhib: Tim/Allegra-Doc, statements, sketchbooks
Web: Karen/Israel-Get to know girls + doc
Print: Ananya/Jayson
Writing Lesson: Medha> Review with E + E and each team member scheduled for this day
3/31-Cyanotypes 3
Exhib: Blair/Lauren
Web: Noah/Emma
Print: Ana/Su
**4/7 NO WORKSHOP**
4/14 Digital Video-1
Exhib: Piera/Medha
Web: Jasmine/Hong Wei
Print: Anny/Val
4/19 (or other date TBD)-Interviews with teaching artitsts
Amanda
4/21-Digital Video-2
Exhib:Sul/Manuela/Nadia
Web: Anais/Adi/Georgina
Print: Bense/Tanvi
4/26-Interviews w/ Emma & Evonne
Amanda/Aliza/Noah
4/28-Digital Video-3
Exhib: Jessica/Hea-Mi/Mary
Web: Jasmine/Israel
Print: Marvel/HAnanya
5/3-Exhibition Prep
Blair/(Amanda)/Anny/Aliza
5/5-Final Crit, Installation and Opening Reception
All students
Opening: 6-9pm
Homework due 02.23.12
1. *TOP PRIORITY* Clean up your google doc. Include names, cell numbers, and emails for each team member. Update questions for Emma and Evonne. These will be emailed TODAY, so we need them by the end of class.
2. Drafts of project elements, based on feedback email from Emma and Evonne
Exhibition/Workshop Team: Orientation exercises, including Portrait session (be ready to run-through with class)
Print Team: 1st hand-outs (one complete design, content for all)
Web Team: Front page of tumblr site and tumblr tutorial
*Be prepared to present to the class.
2. Drafts of project elements, based on feedback email from Emma and Evonne
Exhibition/Workshop Team: Orientation exercises, including Portrait session (be ready to run-through with class)
Print Team: 1st hand-outs (one complete design, content for all)
Web Team: Front page of tumblr site and tumblr tutorial
*Be prepared to present to the class.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Assignment due 04.05.12: Parsons Visiting Artist Lecture Series
Part of Parsons Visiting Artist Lecture Series
Wednesdays at 6:15pm in Kellen Auditorium
66 Fifth Ave., Lobby
Choose one of the following lectures to attend. Both of these artists engage with particular communities. Write a 2 paragraph response to their work, as well as how they presented it, and post it here as a comment. If you attend and comment on both lectures, we'll give you extra credit. Be prepared to discuss in class on 04.05.12.
Feb 22 – Doug Ashford
Doug Ashford is a teacher, artist and writer. He is Associate
Professor at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
where he has taught three-dimensional design, sculpture, public art
and theory seminars since 1989. Ashford’s principle visual practice
from 1982 to 1996 was the artists’ collaborative Group Material that
produced over 40 exhibitions and public projects internationally.
Group Material developed the exhibition into an artistic medium and
critical site where audiences were invited to imagine democratic
forms. Since 1996, Ashford has continued to make paintings, write, and
produce museum and public projects. His most recent public effort
ended in the production of the book Who Cares, (Creative Time, 2006),
a publication built from a series of conversations between Ashford and
an assembly of other cultural practitioners on public expression,
beauty, and ethics. Currently he is most occupied with painting
pictures.
March 21 – Antonio Vega Macotela
Antonio Vega Macotela lives in Mexico City and Amsterdam. He graduated
from The National School of Fine Arts ENAP-UNAM in 2001 where he began
his public and social art research. His work is multidisciplinary,
site-specific and often engages particular communities. It explores
notions of exchange, specifically regarding currency as a mediation
device through which social relations are established. His recent
project Time Exchange proposed the replacement of money with a
time-sharing system. He carried out this project through individual
exchanges with inmates at the Santa Martha Acatila prison in Mexico.
He was the co-editor of the publication Multiple Media 2 in 2008. His
works have been exhibited in such places as the Museo de Arte Moderno
(MAM), Museo Carrillo Gil, the Laboratorio Arte Alameda Mexico City
and the 29th Sao Paolo Biennial (Brazil). He is currently in residence
at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and his work is featured in the
Generational exhibition at The New Museum.
Wednesdays at 6:15pm in Kellen Auditorium
66 Fifth Ave., Lobby
Choose one of the following lectures to attend. Both of these artists engage with particular communities. Write a 2 paragraph response to their work, as well as how they presented it, and post it here as a comment. If you attend and comment on both lectures, we'll give you extra credit. Be prepared to discuss in class on 04.05.12.
Feb 22 – Doug Ashford
Doug Ashford is a teacher, artist and writer. He is Associate
Professor at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
where he has taught three-dimensional design, sculpture, public art
and theory seminars since 1989. Ashford’s principle visual practice
from 1982 to 1996 was the artists’ collaborative Group Material that
produced over 40 exhibitions and public projects internationally.
Group Material developed the exhibition into an artistic medium and
critical site where audiences were invited to imagine democratic
forms. Since 1996, Ashford has continued to make paintings, write, and
produce museum and public projects. His most recent public effort
ended in the production of the book Who Cares, (Creative Time, 2006),
a publication built from a series of conversations between Ashford and
an assembly of other cultural practitioners on public expression,
beauty, and ethics. Currently he is most occupied with painting
pictures.
March 21 – Antonio Vega Macotela
Antonio Vega Macotela lives in Mexico City and Amsterdam. He graduated
from The National School of Fine Arts ENAP-UNAM in 2001 where he began
his public and social art research. His work is multidisciplinary,
site-specific and often engages particular communities. It explores
notions of exchange, specifically regarding currency as a mediation
device through which social relations are established. His recent
project Time Exchange proposed the replacement of money with a
time-sharing system. He carried out this project through individual
exchanges with inmates at the Santa Martha Acatila prison in Mexico.
He was the co-editor of the publication Multiple Media 2 in 2008. His
works have been exhibited in such places as the Museo de Arte Moderno
(MAM), Museo Carrillo Gil, the Laboratorio Arte Alameda Mexico City
and the 29th Sao Paolo Biennial (Brazil). He is currently in residence
at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and his work is featured in the
Generational exhibition at The New Museum.
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Extra Credit Assignments-Part 1
Extra Credit Assignments-Part 1
Paper Tiger Exhibition:
Write a 2-3 paragraph exhibition review, including: things you liked, didn't, elements you might want to see incorporated into the IB exhibition and why.--Email this to Liz + Norene.
http://papertiger.org/30th
Being the Media Conference:
Attend one or two days of this FREE conference and detail your experience in 1-2 paragraphs per day. Email to Liz + Norene.
Day one: Feb 10
http://www.newschool.edu/eventDetail.aspx?id=77273
Day two: Feb 11
http://www.newschool.edu/eventDetail.aspx?id=77274
Attend one of the Global Issues in Design seminars:
Write a 1-2 paragraph response, based on what you learned, agreed and/or disagreed with, and email to Liz + Norene.
Feb 14
http://www.newschool.edu/eventDetail.aspx?id=77562
Feb 21
http://www.newschool.edu/eventDetail.aspx?id=77563
AA Bronson Visiting Artist Lecture: Feb. 15
Attend and detail your experience in 1-2 paragraphs: including commentary on AA's work, presentation, social activism.-Email this to Liz + Norene.
http://www.newschool.edu/eventDetail.aspx?id=77648
Paper Tiger Exhibition:
Write a 2-3 paragraph exhibition review, including: things you liked, didn't, elements you might want to see incorporated into the IB exhibition and why.--Email this to Liz + Norene.
http://papertiger.org/30th
Being the Media Conference:
Attend one or two days of this FREE conference and detail your experience in 1-2 paragraphs per day. Email to Liz + Norene.
Day one: Feb 10
http://www.newschool.edu/eventDetail.aspx?id=77273
Day two: Feb 11
http://www.newschool.edu/eventDetail.aspx?id=77274
Attend one of the Global Issues in Design seminars:
Write a 1-2 paragraph response, based on what you learned, agreed and/or disagreed with, and email to Liz + Norene.
Feb 14
http://www.newschool.edu/eventDetail.aspx?id=77562
Feb 21
http://www.newschool.edu/eventDetail.aspx?id=77563
AA Bronson Visiting Artist Lecture: Feb. 15
Attend and detail your experience in 1-2 paragraphs: including commentary on AA's work, presentation, social activism.-Email this to Liz + Norene.
http://www.newschool.edu/eventDetail.aspx?id=77648
NEXT THURSDAY, February 16th, after Lab at 3pm
The event will be starting at 3pm.
There will be snacks provided for the students.
Parsons Student Senate will be supplying all the paint, canvas, and brushes!
If you have any further questions please let me know.
Thank you,
Adriana
Adriana Iwashko-Rybak
Senior Academic Advisor | School of Design Strategies
Office of Advising | Parsons The New School for Design
2 West 13th Street, Room 506 | New York, NY 10011
Teams
Print Team
Anny
Benze
Jayson
Ana Maria
Marvel
Amanda
Val
Tanvi
Ananya
Su
Web Team
Anais
Hong Wei
Georgina
Karen
Noah
Aliza
Israel
Emma
Adi
Jasmine
Workshop/Exhibition Design Team
Mary
Benze
Jayson
Ana Maria
Marvel
Amanda
Val
Tanvi
Ananya
Su
Web Team
Anais
Hong Wei
Georgina
Karen
Noah
Aliza
Israel
Emma
Adi
Jasmine
Workshop/Exhibition Design Team
Mary
Tim
Allegra
Medha
Sul
Hea-mi
Nadia
Jessica
Blair
Lauren
Manuela
Piera
Medha
Sul
Hea-mi
Nadia
Jessica
Blair
Lauren
Manuela
Piera
Identity Blueprint schedule
Identity Blueprint 2012
Orientation Day
Saturday 3/3/12, 11-4 PM
Meet at: Gallery Aferro 73 Market St Newark NJ
Activities: Introduction and portrait session. Talk by Newark Museum curator Holly Connor
Teaching Artist: TBD
Parsons Team: Norene Leddy, Liz Slagus and entire Parsons class
Bring to this workshop: your portfolio, or any examples of artwork you have made. Parents are welcome to attend.
Workshop 1: Portraiture
Saturday 3/10/12 11-4 PM
Meet at: Gallery Aferro 73 Market St Newark NJ
Activities: Take portraits and self-portraits using digital camera and hot lights. Trip to Newark Museum in afternoon.
Teaching Artist:
Parsons Team:
Bring to this workshop: Any props or outfits you are interested in using in photographs
Preparations for the next workshop: Gather any drawings, writings, photographs, or objects that you want to scan/use to make cyanotypes with.
Workshop 2: Cyanotype #1
Saturday 3/17/12, 11-4 PM
Meet at: Gallery Aferro 73 Market St Newark NJ
Activities: Cyanotype demonstration followed by making your own cyanotype
Teaching Artist: Lisa Elmaleh
Parsons Team: not in this week
Bring to this workshop: drawings, writings, photographs, or objects to scan/use to make cyanotypes
Preparations for the next workshop: Gather any drawings, writings, photographs, or objects that you want to scan/use to make cyanotypes with
Workshop 3: Cyanotype #2
Saturday 3/24/12, 11-4 PM
Meet at: Gallery Aferro 73 Market St Newark NJ
Activities: Making Cyanotypes
Teaching Artist: Lisa Elmaleh
Bring to this workshop: Any drawings, writings, photographs, or objects that you want to scan/use to make cyanotypes with
Preparations for the next workshop: Gather any drawings, writings, photographs, or objects that you want to scan/use to make cyanotypes with
Workshop 4: Cyanotype #3
Saturday 3/31/12, 11-4 PM
Meet at: Gallery Aferro 73 Market St Newark NJ
Activities: Making Cyanotypes
Teaching Artist: TBD
Parsons Team:
Bring to this workshop: Any drawings, writings, photographs, or objects that you want to scan/use to make cyanotypes with
Preparations for the next workshop:
Saturday 4/7/12
No workshops for Easter Weekend
Workshop 5: Digital Video #1
Saturday 4/8/12, 11-4 PM
Meet at: TBD
Activities: Digital Video Demonstration and first shoot
Teaching Artist: Ann LePore
Parsons Team:
Bring to this workshop: Your Flip video camera and your flash drive.
Preparations for the next workshop: You will be assigned a Flip video camera and a flash drive to allow you to shoot footage to edit for the next workshop. Shoot footage
Workshop 6: Digital Video #2
Saturday 4/21/12, 11-4 PM
Meet at: TBD
Activities: Digital Video Editing
Teaching Artist: Ann LePore
Parsons Team:
Bring to this workshop: Your Flip video camera and your flash drive.
Preparations for the next workshop: Continue to shoot footage to edit into videos
Workshop 7: Digital Video #3
Saturday 4/28/12, 11-4 PM
Meet at: TBD
Activities: Digital Video and manifesto writing session.
Teaching Artist: Ann LePore
Parsons Team:
Bring to this workshop: Your Flip video camera and your flash drive
Preparations for the next workshop:
Final Crit, Exhibition Installation and Opening Reception
Saturday 5/5/12
Installation TIME HERE
Opening Reception 6-9 PM
Meet at: Gallery Aferro 73 Market St Newark NJ
Activities: group critique, hang your artwork and attend opening reception.
Teaching Artists:
Parsons Team: Norene Leddy, Liz Slagus and Entire Class
Bring to this opening reception: Your friends, family, teachers and yourself! Show will be on view Th-Sat 12-6 till June 1, 2012.
Parsons Festival
DATE TIME
Meet at: TBD
Activities:
Teaching Artists:
Parsons Team:
Angels and Tomboys Opening Reception
DATE TIME
Meet at: Newark Museum 49 Washington Street Newark NJ (free admission for Newark residents)
Activities
Teaching Artists:
Parsons Team:
Angels and Tomboys Special Event for Identity Blueprint
DATE TIME
Meet at: Newark Museum 49 Washington Street Newark NJ (free admission for Newark residents and their guests)
Activities
Teaching Artists:
Parsons Team:
Orientation Day
Saturday 3/3/12, 11-4 PM
Meet at: Gallery Aferro 73 Market St Newark NJ
Activities: Introduction and portrait session. Talk by Newark Museum curator Holly Connor
Teaching Artist: TBD
Parsons Team: Norene Leddy, Liz Slagus and entire Parsons class
Bring to this workshop: your portfolio, or any examples of artwork you have made. Parents are welcome to attend.
Workshop 1: Portraiture
Saturday 3/10/12 11-4 PM
Meet at: Gallery Aferro 73 Market St Newark NJ
Activities: Take portraits and self-portraits using digital camera and hot lights. Trip to Newark Museum in afternoon.
Teaching Artist:
Parsons Team:
Bring to this workshop: Any props or outfits you are interested in using in photographs
Preparations for the next workshop: Gather any drawings, writings, photographs, or objects that you want to scan/use to make cyanotypes with.
Workshop 2: Cyanotype #1
Saturday 3/17/12, 11-4 PM
Meet at: Gallery Aferro 73 Market St Newark NJ
Activities: Cyanotype demonstration followed by making your own cyanotype
Teaching Artist: Lisa Elmaleh
Parsons Team: not in this week
Bring to this workshop: drawings, writings, photographs, or objects to scan/use to make cyanotypes
Preparations for the next workshop: Gather any drawings, writings, photographs, or objects that you want to scan/use to make cyanotypes with
Workshop 3: Cyanotype #2
Saturday 3/24/12, 11-4 PM
Meet at: Gallery Aferro 73 Market St Newark NJ
Activities: Making Cyanotypes
Teaching Artist: Lisa Elmaleh
Bring to this workshop: Any drawings, writings, photographs, or objects that you want to scan/use to make cyanotypes with
Preparations for the next workshop: Gather any drawings, writings, photographs, or objects that you want to scan/use to make cyanotypes with
Workshop 4: Cyanotype #3
Saturday 3/31/12, 11-4 PM
Meet at: Gallery Aferro 73 Market St Newark NJ
Activities: Making Cyanotypes
Teaching Artist: TBD
Parsons Team:
Bring to this workshop: Any drawings, writings, photographs, or objects that you want to scan/use to make cyanotypes with
Preparations for the next workshop:
Saturday 4/7/12
No workshops for Easter Weekend
Workshop 5: Digital Video #1
Saturday 4/8/12, 11-4 PM
Meet at: TBD
Activities: Digital Video Demonstration and first shoot
Teaching Artist: Ann LePore
Parsons Team:
Bring to this workshop: Your Flip video camera and your flash drive.
Preparations for the next workshop: You will be assigned a Flip video camera and a flash drive to allow you to shoot footage to edit for the next workshop. Shoot footage
Workshop 6: Digital Video #2
Saturday 4/21/12, 11-4 PM
Meet at: TBD
Activities: Digital Video Editing
Teaching Artist: Ann LePore
Parsons Team:
Bring to this workshop: Your Flip video camera and your flash drive.
Preparations for the next workshop: Continue to shoot footage to edit into videos
Workshop 7: Digital Video #3
Saturday 4/28/12, 11-4 PM
Meet at: TBD
Activities: Digital Video and manifesto writing session.
Teaching Artist: Ann LePore
Parsons Team:
Bring to this workshop: Your Flip video camera and your flash drive
Preparations for the next workshop:
Final Crit, Exhibition Installation and Opening Reception
Saturday 5/5/12
Installation TIME HERE
Opening Reception 6-9 PM
Meet at: Gallery Aferro 73 Market St Newark NJ
Activities: group critique, hang your artwork and attend opening reception.
Teaching Artists:
Parsons Team: Norene Leddy, Liz Slagus and Entire Class
Bring to this opening reception: Your friends, family, teachers and yourself! Show will be on view Th-Sat 12-6 till June 1, 2012.
Parsons Festival
DATE TIME
Meet at: TBD
Activities:
Teaching Artists:
Parsons Team:
Angels and Tomboys Opening Reception
DATE TIME
Meet at: Newark Museum 49 Washington Street Newark NJ (free admission for Newark residents)
Activities
Teaching Artists:
Parsons Team:
Angels and Tomboys Special Event for Identity Blueprint
DATE TIME
Meet at: Newark Museum 49 Washington Street Newark NJ (free admission for Newark residents and their guests)
Activities
Teaching Artists:
Parsons Team:
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Homework due 02.16.12
1. Meet with your team and finish your Project Plan. Create a Google doc, shared with your team, Norene and Liz.
2. Prepare a short presentation (10-15 minutes) explaining your project plan with your Google doc. Everyone in your team must talk, even if it's only a few words.
2. Prepare a short presentation (10-15 minutes) explaining your project plan with your Google doc. Everyone in your team must talk, even if it's only a few words.
Exhibition at the SJDC
With your team, take a break from your project planning and visit the exhibition "Where do we migrate to?" at the Sheila Johnson Design Center on the first floor. Choose the best and worst artworks, in your opinion, and be prepared to discuss in class when we meet again at 1:30pm.
Project Plan Template
Team________________________________
Mission/Goals of your Team
(What is your team’s stance on the work at hand (ie--the cliche “simple elegant”)? What do you hope to achieve, as a team, with and for IB and Gallery Aferro?)
Team Members/Roles and Responsibilities:
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Deliverables
(Explain what you will be producing/handing off to Gallery Aferro/IB with team members assigned.)
Activities you want to do with the IB girls
(ie. a web turorial, video interviews, artist statements, keep in mind you will need to think about doing these in 20-30 min periods/during their lunch)
Timeline with Deadlines
(When will you accomplish the above, given the IB Saturdays/schedule and alternative days that your peers will be out in Newark?)
Resources/Materials
Do you need any materials/supplies for your activities and projects (ie exhibition supplies, print supplies, candy/drawing supplies for workshops, etc.)
Estimated Budget
(Will you have expenses? List what you need, how much, and where it might be purchased.)
Citations/Inspirations
(What is driving you to design your projects the way that you have: experiences, things you’ve done/seen/been part of or read?)
Questions for Emma and Evonne
Mission/Goals of your Team
(What is your team’s stance on the work at hand (ie--the cliche “simple elegant”)? What do you hope to achieve, as a team, with and for IB and Gallery Aferro?)
Team Members/Roles and Responsibilities:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
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10.
11.
Deliverables
(Explain what you will be producing/handing off to Gallery Aferro/IB with team members assigned.)
Activities you want to do with the IB girls
(ie. a web turorial, video interviews, artist statements, keep in mind you will need to think about doing these in 20-30 min periods/during their lunch)
Timeline with Deadlines
(When will you accomplish the above, given the IB Saturdays/schedule and alternative days that your peers will be out in Newark?)
Resources/Materials
Do you need any materials/supplies for your activities and projects (ie exhibition supplies, print supplies, candy/drawing supplies for workshops, etc.)
Estimated Budget
(Will you have expenses? List what you need, how much, and where it might be purchased.)
Citations/Inspirations
(What is driving you to design your projects the way that you have: experiences, things you’ve done/seen/been part of or read?)
Questions for Emma and Evonne
Thursday, February 2, 2012
In-class Assignment
Write a rationale for your participation in the team of your choice, including the following considerations:
• Why do you want to be a part of this team?
• What specifically do you bring to the table?
• How does the design work from the team you chose potentially impact the program as a whole? What is its significance?
• What are some key elements you would like to see integrated into the design of the team you are working with?
Email your thoughts to Liz (slaguse@newschool.edu) & Norene (leddyn@newschool.edu). It can be brief, bullet points are fine.
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Homework due 02.09.12
Listen to the radio segment below and write a brief response (1-2 paragraphs). Post it as a comment to this post.
Consider the following:
• The importance of socially active artists and designers, and the difference this activism/participation can make in society.
• What, if any, are your hopes for the Lab's participation in Identity Blueprint, and that program's impact in Newark?
"Artists as Agents of Social Change: America Now and Here" (1hr 35 mins)
Unleash your radical imagination about our collective future! In this talk, we explore how artists can work for social change through strategic partnerships and hear from featured guests—Kathy Dickhut, deputy commissioner, Chicago Department of Housing and Economic Development; Dorothy Dunn, director of America: Now and Here; Indira Johnson, artist and coordinator of The Ten Thousand Ripples Project;Lisa Yun Lee, director of the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum; and Jason Reblando, photographer. This panel is moderated by Dawoud Bey, artist and Columbia College professor. The panel is followed by a conversation about how these projects and institutions can be sites of cultural resistance.
*Please email us if you are interested in volunteering on 03/10/12 for the Identity Blueprint trip to the Newark Museum. This is the first Saturday of spring break, so no one is required to go, but you will get extra credit and good karma.
**Please print and sign all of the permission forms, if you haven't already.
Individual vs. Collective Art/Design Projects
Swoon is a street artist from New York City who specializes in life-size wheatpaste prints and paper cutouts of figures. Swoon, real name Caledonia “Callie” Dance Curry, studied painting at Pratt Institute and started doing street art around 1999. Images and an interview with Swoon can be found here.
In addition to her own art practice, Swoon belongs to several art-making collectives, including the Miss Rockaway Armada. Miss Rockaway Armada is a group of 30 artists and performers who have traveled down the Mississippi, the Hudson, and other rivers in rafts made out of trash.
"The crew can be called many things: artists, musicians, builders, travelers, organizers, dreamers. Ask one of the people who help build and move these crafts for the purpose, though, and you’ll get many answers. But there are some things that we all agree on. We want to create: to invent a new sustainable way to travel, to demonstrate different ways of living and moving that are friendlier to the environment and to each other, to indulge in that essential urge to make something out of nothing. We want to meet people: to learn from new folks along the way, to teach what we know, to share our art, our music and our performance, and to make new friends. Finally, for adventure: to reclaim and reinvent the old American urge to strike out and discover the vast, mysterious land we inhabit and see it for ourselves."
Click here for a slideshow of the Miss Rockaway Armada raft on the Hudson.
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