Due to this pandemic, some of you may need to re-envision your Independent Projects.
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COVID - 19 UPDATE: I would like us to continue using the updated checklist below as your guide for required projects this semester. I realize some of you may need your Collage "book" to finish that project or feel free to start over on a new one. Just let me know as soon as possible if you want the original one and I'm more than happy to mail it or arrange for you to pick it up. If you need photo materials I urge you to look in places you've never thought of before or print your own if you are able to. Maybe there are some old catalogs lying around your house. What about a phone book - old printed photos??? If you need something more tangible like glue or other supplies PLEASE email me a thoughtful list of everything you may need and I'll try my best to get it to you.
TO DO:
FINAL DUE DATE FOR THIS CLASS: ALL 3 PROJECTS POSTED TO YOUR DP ON or BEFORE 5/22/2020
TO DO:
- Work on the projects listed below when you feel inspired
- SCHEDULE A 1 ON 1 MEETING WITH ME VIA EMAIL - I need to see your work as you finish it :)
- Do the critiques - Always get peer feedback on your work as an artist. duh.
- Schedule Feedback session(s) with me via email when you "think" you are done - I will assure you, you are not done young grasshopper
- Update your DP according to checklist below (title, photo and/or time lapse, project description, & project reflection) by May 22nd
- Breathe - I'm here for you
- Highly motivated? Send me your best work and let's order you stickers!
FINAL DUE DATE FOR THIS CLASS: ALL 3 PROJECTS POSTED TO YOUR DP ON or BEFORE 5/22/2020
Required Projects & Due Date Checklist:
Cut and Paste: Cycles via Book Project
Possible Project Prompts:
Collage Ideas/Skills/Techniques to consider:
Possible Project Prompts:
- What does the word “cycle” mean to you?
- What types of cycles have you experienced thus far in life?
- IF you had all the superpowers of the world what cycles would you break?
Collage Ideas/Skills/Techniques to consider:
- Gluing items down (Elmer’s paste, Hot glue, rubber cement, spray adhesive, etc...)
- Including Hand drawn sketches / Paintings
- Cutting down into the book
- Creating foldables (pieces of paper that fold out or open up)
- Taking your own photos to print, cut, and glue, hence - making an original piece of art
- RAISE up images with foam or something that separates the space between the main background of the art piece and added lifted images.
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PROJECT(s) CHECKLIST:
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The Art of Cut & Paste:
21st Century Collage
This new class @ AHS was inspired by and created based off of the work collected and curated by Richard Brereton with Caroline Roberts. I simply could not be more honored to teach the students signed up for this course. This class will explore all types of studio and digital collage including designs cut from our new laser cutters.
In the digital age, the original meaning of cut and paste has been replaced with a few clicks of a mouse, This has led to a lot of derivative and unimaginative computer produced work. In response to this, artists have returned to using more traditional methods of making images. There has been a resurgence of drawing and illustration and collage has recently been rediscovered. Collage is the natural progression of illustration, as it combines drawing with the other mediums. It is the fusing of methods that makes for a new language. Increasingly, collage is being used in ads, magazine editorials, fashion spreads, street art, album covers, animation and websites. The surreal juxtaposition of images provokes thought, humor and understanding, two-dimensional images become three. |
This class consists of 3 basic pieces:
CUT & PASTE SKILLS
(Studio/Traditional & Digital & Mixed Media) Just a little history...
Once Marcel Duchamp began creating his ready-mades more than a century ago the existing object entered the domain of art. Precisely a year earlier, Picasso and Braque had introduced the technique of collage, and when they included newspapers clippings into their work, material from the non-art context of mass media became artistic material. The picture ceased to be a representation of reality, and “real life” entered the picture instead. Their experiments, which involved reconnecting fragments of various images and introducing pre-existing objects into a new work, were continued by various artists throughout the entire 20th and into the 21st century. The collage genre was further developed by avant-garde artists like the Futurists, Dadaists and Constructivists, by the neo-avant-garde movements like Fluxus, and in Pop art as well as in visual poetry. Artists experimented both with form and meaning. Questioning the originality and authenticity of an artwork as such, together with questions of gathering and appropriation, gained momentum, particularly in postmodernism. Now all working fields became open to and for exchange. Styles, motifs, fragments, even entire works by other artists, as well as objects and content from popular culture, everyday speech, ideological, religious and theoretical messages could be rearranged to create a new artwork. By bringing pre-existing images into new systems or frameworks of meaning established by a new artwork, artists were reinterpreting their original meaning, revealing both their relative character and the dependence-link between meaning and context. Instead of describing content, artists borrow content from mass media, ideology, religion and art itself, and import it into their artworks in order to address broader social, political and artistic issues. Ranging from formal experiments with collage to visual poetry and conceptual art, the selected examples demonstrate what cut and paste in contemporary art means, and how it works. |
INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS
(Create with provided themes... or not) Why I believe in the power of this class...
Creativity is the freest form of self-expression. There is nothing more satisfying and fulfilling for teenagers than to be able to express themselves openly and without judgment. The ability to be creative, to create something from personal feelings and experiences, can reflect and nurture teen's emotional health. The experiences young adults have during their first years of adolescence can significantly enhance the development of and confidence in their creativity. Importance of the Creative Process on Young Adults :
What's important in any creative act is the process of self-expression. Creative experiences can help teens express and cope with their feelings. A high school student's creative activity can help teachers to learn more about what he/she/they may be thinking or feeling. Creativity also fosters positive mental growth in teenagers by providing opportunities for trying out new ideas, and new ways of thinking and problem-solving. Creative activities help acknowledge and celebrate children's uniqueness and diversity as well as offer excellent opportunities to personalize our teaching and focus on each student. Collage allows students the freedom to create without having to start from scratch. It breaks the barrier of having nothing to start with. |
STICKER Merchandise
(Make a statement - Share that statement) The Remarkable Social Power of Stickers...
Despite their simplicity, stickers seem to have exploded, even in an era of digital marketing and social media. Not entirely convinced of the resurgence of stickers? Let’s look at two compelling examples of the social power of sticker marketing. WHY ARE STICKERS SUCH AN IMPORTANT MARKETING TOOL? Stickers are an easy and creative way for people to showcase their identity. Sit in a coffee shop for a few minutes and you’re bound to see water bottles and laptops covered in branded stickers that help show the world what a person likes and believes in. This form of self-expression makes stickers a powerful “offline” form of social media and broadcasting. And who are we kidding? Stickers are just fun. Remember when you were a kid and you could entertain yourself for hours with a book of stickers? That feeling is still deep inside all of us. People of all ages get a little thrill when they get a sticker, especially when the sticker is free! This emotional connection that people have to stickers is why brands love them so much. What a powerful and extremely cost effective marketing and recommendation tool. If you can get your brand’s sticker on someone’s water bottle, it’s such an authentic personal endorsement of your company. If you can add a branded sticker to a customer’s experience or impact point with your brand, it can help make your brand more relatable and interconnected. Entire Article Link |
Planning & Materials:
The following materials will be provided by me this semester:
Possible Project Examples to Aspire to:
- Collage Backing Board(s) (5 X 7ish Mat board)
- Images / Photos / Construction Paper
- Folder to keep cutouts inside while you are working
- Scissors
- Foam to Raise Images
- Glue / Rubber Cement
- Modge podge
- Paint / Drawing Tools
- Spray Paint
Possible Project Examples to Aspire to: