04.26.12 Team To-Do Lists

Web Team:

PSA--rough cut due by 1:30pm

Interview w/ Emma + Evonne (transcribed and emailed to everyone by noon on Friday)

Tumblr:

• Please make requested changes.
• New posts:

1. from Saturday
2. Fill in the work of the girls (cyanotypes, portraits and sketch book photos)
3. Make a post for each of the teaching artists.
4. A post should be made of the interview with Emma + Evonne (on Friday, once we have transcribed notes)—assign someone to do this on Friday

Georgina-Labeling/creating sets on Flickr

Jasmine-photos from 04.04?

Tanvi/Benze out in Newark photographing cyanotypes and labeling Flickr photos

Print Team:

Post card file to Newark

Cyanotype handouts-final edits- due at 1:30pm

Catalogue-Sections listed out, with team members assigned-at beginning of class

Layouts/designs (with available content) printed out for crit- due at 1:30pm

Printer quotes, with deadline - due at 1:30pm

Exhibition Team:

Wall labels-designed/printed due at 1:30pm

Final design, using actual floor plan- due at 1:30pm

Final blackboard design, with changes- due at 1:30pm

Wall panels with new description/content from Emma due @ 1:30pm

Exhibition title signage, with approval from the team--printed out for review at 1:30pm 

REVISED Schedule for the rest of the semester

Saturday 4/21-Digital Video-2 (MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM)
Exhib:Sul/Manuela/Nadia
Web: Anais/Adi
Print: Benze/Tanvi

Thursday 4/26-Interviews w/ Emma & Evonne (NEWARK and PARSONS)
Amanda/Aliza/Noah
-in-class work time at Parsons

Saturday 4/28-Digital Video-3 (MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM)
Exhib: Jessica/Hea-Mi/Mary
Web: Jasmine/Israel
Print: Marvel/Ananya

Thursday 5/3-Exhibition Prep (NEWARK and PARSONS)
Blair/(Amanda)/Anny/Aliza
-in-class work time at Parsons
-Web team crit at the Met 12 noon with documentary team, bring rough cut for feedback

Saturday 5/5-Final Crit, Installation and Opening Reception (NEWARK)
-all students at Gallery Aferro in Newark from 11-5:30 to install
-IB participants arriving at 5:30 for critique, wrap-up, catalogue handout and party
-opening for the public: 7-10pm

Thursday 5/10-Final Class (PARSONS)
-class meets at Parsons from 9-10:30am with Emma and Evonne for wrap-up and screening of PSA

04.19.12 To Do List

• the postcard (with correct info on the back, which I have on the HD for Anny)
• catalogue layouts.--AI files.***
• additional info/ideas/details re: exhibition. Begin materials list (ie paint, with specific colors) the students need, so Evonne can start to collect/set aside.*
• PSA storyboards and some rough cuts (crit on May 3 @ Met)
• Cyanotype hand-out with corrections from markups (I have from Emma)
• Web team to post more images, fill in some content. Create a post re: Saturday.
• Catalogue team onto flickr to start using the images in their mock-ups
• Check in re: flickr...make sure that all photos go up (from individual students' cameras and what's on the drives)

***Two things re: the catalogue:

We need to figure out the printing

We also need to think about the size and if it works for images and text. It's really small what they proposed. Just something to think on/reassess when we have more work from them.

Team Building Research Trips 04.12.12

Print Team:

As a group...

4/12: Visit the Met (we have arranged a discussion with the publications department). What did you take away from their process? What is important/essential for inclusion in any good exhibition catalogue? What is considered unique? Successful? What are some examples of inspirations you take away from this trip, which may or may not be of use for the IB catalogue? Each team member should have a sketchbook entry from the trip.

Web Team:

As a group...

4/12: Take a trip to the Whitney Biennial's WATCH AND LISTEN page and review the biennial videos. Please do a detailed review of the interviews with the artists and curators. Do you gain a good sense of the show and the goals for the Biennial? How do the videos contribute to your understanding of the vision for the Biennial and/or the work exhibited? What do you think works in the interviews? What is not as successful?

Research the documentation and interviews used for this exhibition: FEEDBACK

Not every project in the show has an interview. However, the video interviews (featured on the right side of the project pages) are very well done. Not all of the documentation is that amazing. Please do a detailed review of this exhibition's online archive (from the video and video documentation, to the project arrangement and descriptions, to the overall sense of the exhibition that you are able to glean from this site).

Compare the documentation and interviews above (their styles and functionality in terms of conveying information and process). What can you take away to incorporate into the IB documentation?

Exhibition Team:

As a group...

4/12: Go see the Paper Tiger exhibition at Fales Library (upstairs in Bobst). Survey the exhibition. Take notes on the how the work is presented. Do you come away knowing more about Paper Tiger and its history? Who were they? What did they do? Why? What are the key exhibition elements (videos, photos, journals, posters, etc.)? How is the information about Paper Tiger and its history provided (wall labels, didactic wall panels)? How is the work labeled (what is the content of a wall label)? What are the successful/inspirational elements of the exhibition that you would take away/modify for the IB exhibition? Each team member should have a sketchbook entry from the trip.

Identity Blueprint Schedule for the next 3 Saturdays

04.14.12 Teaching artist Ann Lepore (Gallery Aferro)
Exhib: Piera/Medha
Web: Jasmine/Hong Wei/Georgina
Print: Anny/Val

Student teams will be creating reproductions of paintings in both video and stop-motion formats and making flip-books with down-time.

Technical and material supply needs for the day:

• media projector and speakers
• tripods
• flip cameras
• at least 3 clip lamps,
• 3 extension cords
• and two power strips
• lots of colorful props (fabric, paper, whatever we can get)
• We might also need objects from the paintings: wings, cats, birds, fruit, flowers, etc. As soon as I see the paintings, I'll know more.
• 8.5x 11 or smaller paper
• stapler or binder clips
• pens or charcoal

04.21 Teaching artist Ann Lepore (Montclair Art Museum)
Exhib:Sul/Manuela/Nadia
Web: Anais/Adi
Print: Benze/Tanvi

We will meet at the Montclair Art Museum to do post-production in the computer labs. We may also alternately shoot outdoors at the museum as time permits.

Technical and material supply needs for the day:

• media projector and speakers (probably already in classroom)
• either iMovie or Final Cut Pro " "
• Photosohp or other image editing software
• flip cameras
• tripods
• dvds or portable hard drive(s)
• sharpie magic markers
• solid color paper or fabric for backdrop (to isolate items when shooting outside)
• 8.5x 11 or smaller paper
• stapler or binder clips
• pens or charcoal

04.28 Teaching artist Ann Lepore (Montclair Art Museum)

Exhib: Jessica/Hea-Mi/Mary
Web: Jasmine/Israel
Print: Marvel/Ananya

We will meet at the Montclair Art Museum to do post-production in the computer labs. We may also alternately shoot outdoors at the museum as time permits.

Technical and material supply needs for the day:

• media projector and speakers (probably already in classroom)
• either iMovie or Final Cut Pro " "
• Photosohp or other image editing software
• flip cameras
• tripods
• dvds or portable hard drive(s)
• sharpie magic markers
• solid color paper or fabric for backdrop (to isolate items when shooting outside)
• 8.5x 11 or smaller paper
• stapler or binder clips
• pens or charcoal

Team To-dos for 04.05.12

Print team: Cyanotype hand-out, Other section ideas/layouts, table of contents with content

Web team: Posts for next time, Girls bio pages, storyboard with shoots and editing timeline (who’s doing and when), Thursday out in Newark (who’s going out?)

Exhibition team: Templates filled out to fit this project, layout ideas sketched out, wall label sample, lead wall drawing--Begin to fill in content

Identity Blueprint Lab Schedule (Revised)

Program hours: 11am-4pm

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 (Gallery Aferro)
Exhib: Piera/Medha
Web: Jasmine/Hong Wei/Georgina
Print: Anny/Val

4/19 (or other date TBD)-Interviews with teaching artists
Amanda

4/21-Digital Video-2 (MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM)
Exhib:Sul/Manuela/Nadia
Web: Anais/Adi
Print: Benze/Tanvi

4/26-Interviews w/ Emma & Evonne
Amanda/Aliza/Noah

4/28-Digital Video-3 (MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM)
Exhib: Jessica/Hea-Mi/Mary
Web: Jasmine/Israel
Print: Marvel/Ananya

5/3-Exhibition Prep
Blair/(Amanda)/Anny/Aliza

5/5-Final Crit, Installation and Opening Reception
All students
Opening: 6-9pm

Lab-wide Lecture

Tishman Auditorium at 12:45pm
66 West 12th Street



Laboratory Panel Discussion : the New Fashion
April 5th, 2012


About the Panelists:


Nadia Williams
As a graduate of the Parsons BFA Fashion Design department, Nadia began her career designing
for Gap Kids, and freelancing for companies such as Old Navy and Banana Republic. Shortly after,
Nadia moved to Mexico City, where she developed an independent line of clothes and accessories,
which was sold in various cities in Mexico, as well as in Amsterdam and New York. While in
Mexico, Nadia helped establish the nonprofit Fábrica Social, which aims to empower groups of
indigenous female artisans as a result of collaborations that build on traditional artisan processes
with contemporary design techniques.


In addition to continuing these artisan collaborations, Nadia currently explores social justice issues
through her work as an instructor in the Parsons Pre-College Academy and as Interim Director of
the Parsons Scholars Program, which is a college prep program for youth from NYC public schools.
She also explores oral history as a tool to give voice to historically silenced communities, such as
through her current collaboration with the Brooklyn Historical Society as an interviewer for the
project Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations, which explores the history and experiences of
mixed-heritage people and families in Brooklyn.


Timo Rissanen is the Assistant Professor of Fashion Design and Sustainability at Parsons The New
School for Design. His position entails identifying opportunities for implementing sustainability
into the four degree programs in the School of Fashion. Prior to Parsons he taught fashion design
at UTS in Australia for seven years. From 2001 to 2004 he owned and designed for Usvsu, a
menswear label in Sydney, selling to retailers in Australia, Italy and Russia. His PhD project is
titled Fashion Creation Without Fabric Waste Creation and Rissanen presented a collection of
menswear from the project in Bad Dogs, a solo exhibition in Sydney in 2008. In 2009 he co-curated
Fashioning Now in Australia with Alison Gwilt. A book drawing from the project, titled Shaping
Sustainable Fashion, was published by Earthscan in 2011. In 2011 he co-curated Yield, a travelling


exhibition of zero-waste fashion design with Holly McQuillan. Rissanen has presented at several
international conferences and contributed a chapter to Sustainable Fashion. Why Now? in 2008.


Professor Joshua Katcher teaches ethical and sustainable fashion at the Laboratory Institute of
Merchandising (LIM College) in Manhattan. His lectures on ethical fashion have taken him to
Parsons University, Brown University, The American University of Paris, along with many fashion
organizations, conferences and festivals. Katcher’s classroom has become an essential stop-over for
many leading voices in the sustainable fashion world for special guest speakers like Nigel Barker
and John Bartlett. Katcher founded The Discerning Brute as a resource for men who want to make
intelligent decisions concerning their lifestyles. With a focus on “fashion, food & etiquette for the
ethically handsome man”, The Discerning Brute produces expert, essential content and boldly
takes a stand.


Joshua has been getting some notable notoriety for his efforts:
• The Wild Magazine “Katcher is a modern day hero in the making…”
• W Magazine: “Joshua Katcher, the force behind The Discerning Brute”
• Oprah.com: “Vegan superstar Joshua Katcher”
• VegNews Magazine: “Ethical Style Icon”
• Full Frontal Fashion: “…involved in seemingly endless — and ultimately inspiring — projects, is
proof that believing in what you do, and being dedicated to a cause, will get you everywhere”

Use of downtime during IB

Tumblr posts (with girls)
Celebrity game (beginning, lunch, during)
Sketch exercise: maybe animation-related
Portfolio review with the girls
Brainstorm ideas with girls of how to merge ideas of science and art and/or whatever their interests are...for their portraits.
Artist statement: could be sketchbook exercise
Video interviews (in pairs, maybe outside) : What are the questions?
-What has your experience been like in this program?
-How are you using your time in this program?
-What else would you like to be learning?
-If you had the opportunity to run a day of Identity Blueprint...what would you do? teach?
-What does your future look like?
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Travel to Montclair, NJ for 04.14.12 and 04.21.12

Gallery Aferro does not have the facilities and could not find a partner in Newark with a computer lab to hold the stop-animation component of the Identity Blueprint workshop.

Therefore, those participating in the April 14, April 21 or April 28 sessions will be meeting Liz and Norene @ Port Authority to take a bus out to Montclair Museum, where the stop-animation sessions will be held.

Please meet:

(no later than!) 10:30am at the Southwest Corner of 8th Ave. and 42nd Street, which is the Port Authority building.

Either Norene or Liz will be there to greet you, escort you to buy tickets and take the #33 bus to Montclair.

The bus ride takes approximately 35 minutes.

Reminders:

You are not to take this trip yourselves. -If you do not arrive by 10:30am, it will be counted as an absence and we will leave without you.

Please bring your lunch, because we are not sure what will be available to you once in Montclair.