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Thursday, October 11, 2018

Topic Four: Landscape--Representation, Intervention and Body-as-Site

This will be an expansive topic that addresses both historical and contemporary art. We examine the relationship of humans to nature, humanity to the land, culture as an intervention in the landscape, and the body as a representation of site.

This unit will require two outside visits; one will be to an actual garden, and the other will be to a museum exhibition or to an artist talk or panel discussion. We are fortunate to have a lot of exhibitions in town that address the issues under consideration for this topic. This topic will also require one or more reading/research assignments.

Your first assignments are listed here; there will be more added at a later date in another post.

Reading #1: Green Dreams (Eccentric Spaces [Chapter 1], by Robert Harbison), DUE October 15 at 10 PM. This reading will be distributed in class; the response form is found here.

Outside Visit #1: Garden, DUE October 22 at 10 PM. The form for the Garden visit is here. Please note that some of the entry-hours or fee information may be out of date; I will be updating that this weekend--it may be best for you to confirm if you plan to attend before then. I will change this text to reflect that all info is current once I have the time to verify the information.

You must attend one of these museum/garden options to visit and respond to:

Enjoy an experimental panel discussion with artists Kerry Ware, David Bricker and Veronica Fazzio. Learn how Miami participated in the Christo and Jeanne‑Claude Surrounded Islands project and how the city was temporarily and forever transformed.

More information located here.

Relational Undercurrents--Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago

Saturday, Oct. 13, 3 - 4 PM

Frost Art Museum, FIU

Modesto Maidique Campus
10975 SW 17th Street
Miami, FL. 33199

Description:

Please join us for a panel discussion on contemporary art by Caribbean artists and the prevailing issues related to the Caribbean diaspora with moderator Dr. Tatiana Flores curator of Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago. Panelists include Adler Guerrier and Charo Oquet, both artists featured in the exhibition, and Dr. Andrea J. Queeley, Associate Professor of Anthropology. The panel will be followed by the exhibition opening.

More information located here.

EXHIBITION VISITS WILL BE ADDED TO THIS POST THIS WEEKEND.

Assignment #1: Street or Garden. DUE Thursday, October 18 at 10 AM.

This is an observational exercise and will require you to immerse yourself in the landscape or city. For this assignment, choose either a or b. Allow yourself to be informed by what we learned from the viewing of Rivers and Tides.

a) Street.
Step 1-
Choose a street.
Walk the length of it, as far as you can.
Find a place to sit and observe.
Record all the sensory information you can take in: sights, sounds, scents, tastes, and textures. In your sketchbook, write for 30 minutes (on-site), and then draw for 30 minutes (on-site).

Step 2-
Use this information to make an imaginary creation in your studio. Size: 10 inches minimum, shortest dimension, media of your choice.

b) Garden.
Step 1-
Choose a garden or park, a public place, not your back yard.
Find a place to sit and observe.
Record all the sensory information you can take in: sights, sounds, scents, tastes, and textures. In your sketchbook, write for 30 minutes (on-site), and then draw for 30 minutes (on-site).

Step 2-
Use this information to make an imaginary creation in your studio. Size: 10 inches minimum, shortest dimension, media of your choice.

Thursday, September 27, 2018

Topic Three: Rhinoceros, Part Two

Topic Three Research Assignment #2, DUE Monday, October 1 at 10 PM:

Today in class, you were given a reading, Photographing the Past During the Present (Chapter 6), A People's Art History of the United States; Nicolas Lampert, 2013.

The form for this reading is found here, and is due Monday, October 1 at 10 PM.

Topic Three Assignment (Creature/Other) #1, DUE Tuesday, October 2, at 10 AM:

The last page of the Clarke reading (The First Lisbon, or Durer, Rhinoceros) contains the texts from which you will depict what was described.

Creature/Other-- using source texts from a) scientific observation (biology) [Creature] and b) colonial 'exploration' [Other] as source material to visually depict what is described. Students are limited to using their imagination, and are discouraged from researching the text online. The idea is to understand the role of early artists and illustrators as important interpreter/creators of visual culture, as well as scientific and anthropological 'fact'. Choose one of each for the two types of text options. Work may be created in any medium; 2D work should be no smaller than 8.5" x 11".

Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Topic Two: Pattern and Ornament, Part 2 of 2

Research Assignment #2, DUE Sept. 17 at 10 PM (on your blog, as a post):

Using a digital camera, take images of examples of pattern and ornament that you see in your daily life.

Assignment #2 DUE Sept. 18 at 10 AM:

Select a chair pattern from one of the four options provided below. You will use this pattern to interpret, build on, or 'arrange' (reconfigure), taking your own interests, experience, strengths and skills into account. Find a way to make something from the pattern that is 'your own', but that is still a chair. Create (draw/paint/digitally make) three views of this chair: Top view, Side View, Front View. Each image should be 8" x 10". You will have a week to create these drawings.

1. Eames

2. Hepplewhite

3. Renaissance Folding

4. Sheraton

Assignment #3 DUE Sept 18 at 10 AM:

Greyscale Repeat Pattern--you will be given a demonstration in how to create a repeat pattern on Thursday, September 13. Create a greyscale repeat using the method instructed, on an 8.5" x 11" looseleaf sheet of paper. You will turn this in to the professors; it cannot exist in your sketchbook.

Research Assignment #3, DUE Sept. 19 at 10 PM:
Reading- here is the online reading and form. This post will be updated by the 13th with that info.

Assignment #4 DUE Sept 25 at 10 AM [CRIT]:

Quadrant Abstraction--we will assign you a quadrant that you will use to abstract one of your chair views. From this, you will create an artwork in any medium of your choice that will be ambitious, and which fulfills one of the purposes or goals you have personally established for your body of work. We will assign you the quadrant on Sept. 18; you will have a week to create this artwork.

Thursday, November 9, 2017

Topic Five: Telling Stories (Narrative), First Reading and Outside Visits

In our introductory discussion for this topic, we identified the different ways we receive and create stories in our lives. We also came up with some essential conditions necessary for a story or narrative to exist or be told. These were: 1) a shared context, 2) a tone (attitude, mood, volume, etc.), 3) an audience, 4) time, and 5) proximity.

Reading

Your initial reading for this topic unit is a consideration of "Comics Poetry" (some use the term "Poetry Comics" instead); you've been asked to read and respond to an essay by Alexander Rothman, cartoonist, poet, and editor, which was published in the Comics Bulletin last year.

The essay is located here. Your response form is located here. Your response is due Monday, November 13, at 11:59 PM.

Outside Visit

You will have some options for your outside visit for this unit. The response form is located here. You will choose ONE out of the following:

1) Miami Book Fair, Destination Comics (panel discussions), November 18 - 19, MDC Wolfson Campus, Downtown Miami. The schedule is located here. There are many different panel discussions to choose from--you only need to attend one for this visit requirement; your MDC ID should get you into the fair for free.

2) Poetry, Art and Community: Tuesday, November 14, 7 - 9 PM, Vizcaya:

"Join us as we celebrate Vizcaya in poetry and art with the FIU Honors College course “Poetry Art Community” designed by Professors Richard Blanco and John William Bailly. The evening features Blanco and renowned poets Caridad Moro, Carlos Pintado, Nikki Moustaki, and Michael Hettich debuting their original Vizcaya-inspired poems in the Courtyard of the Main House. Their voices will be accompanied by photographs of Vizcaya by FIU students. The enchantment continues with pop-up poetry readings by students throughout the gardens as you stroll under the stars and the crescent moon. Tickets $5. Light refreshments available for purchase."

The above option will allow you to visit Vizcaya at night, to hear renowned local poets, one of whom read a poem at one of Barack Obama's Inagurations (Richard Blanco), and to mingle with, and see the work of, students from another college in town.

Other assignments will be given to you on Tuesday, November 14.

Thursday, October 19, 2017

Topic 4: Landscape and Cities- Actual, Imagined, Shaped and Built

WARP Topic 4: Landscapes and Cities—Actual, Imagined, Shaped and Built

Whenever we enter the land, sooner or later we pick up the scent of our own histories.--William Least Heat-Moon

Overview

How do we represent place to ourselves? Landscapes, like cities, are made. Whether you are considering a painting or a garden, what we have come to know as “landscape” is not natural. Like cities, landscapes are a kind of built environment. They are also cultural constructs that can be put to many uses: for example, as a declaration of ownership and power, or as romantic or emotive aesthetic expressions. How we live in and move through places is informed by the images we hold in our memories, and the new images we encounter every day.In this unit we will consider literary and historical examples of landscape and the city next to contemporary artists’ use of the city as subject and material for new work.

Your assignments will be aimed at preparing you for a significant In-Depth work, and will include intermediary process and trial artworks. You will be given a set of options for your In-Depth work and will be required to choose one to follow.

In-Class Presentations

Where We Live: https://spark.adobe.com/page/QMoTkBhUR7mJt/

We Still Live Here: https://spark.adobe.com/page/N9nltfUMzcqWl/

Readings

Green Dreams; Gardens, Chapter 1 from the book Eccentric Spaces by Robert Harbison. Distributed via email with the form. Form DUE Wednesday October 25 by 11:59 PM.

Excerpts from the book Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino. Distributed via email.

Museum Visit--DUE Wednesday, November 1 by 11:59 PM

You must attend one of these museum/garden options to visit and respond to:

A.
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens (Coconut Grove, FL)
3251 South Miami Avenue, Miami, FL 33129

Open 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. except Tuesdays,
Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Student Admission $10.

Directions and parking info here. The Vizcaya Metrorail station is within walking distance to the Vizcaya Museum.

Deals- Sometimes you can get a “Museum Pass” from your local library for free admission to Vizcaya. You may also be able to purchase discounted tickets for $5 from Culture Shock Miami if you are 22 years old or younger. If you would like to attend with a friend or family member who is not a student, they have a discount on regular admission through the end of October: “Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden is offering $5 off regular admission, 10% off membership and $5 off a purchase of $20 or more at the Shop at Fairchild. Please mention Miami Magic City. Offer valid through October 31, 2017.”

B.
Deering Estate at Cutler (Cutler Bay, FL)
16701 SW 72nd Ave., Miami, FL 33157

Open 10:00 am to 5:00 pm (no admission after 4:00 pm),except Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Admission $12.

Directions and parking info here. Street address is different than location of park entrance

Deals- The “Museum Pass” available from the Library allows free entry to the Deering Estate. Through October, enjoy buy one admission ticket and receive a second admission ticket of equal or lesser value for free. Offer valid for general admission only. Please see coupon for more details.

C.
Fairchild Tropical Garden (Coral Gables, FL)
10901 Old Cutler Road, Coral Gables, FL 33156

Open Daily 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM,
except Christmas.

Admission for Non-Member Adults - $25

Directions are here.

Deals- You may be able to purchase discounted, $5 tickets from Culture Shock Miami if you are 22 years old or younger. Through October, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden is offering $5 off regular admission, 10% off membership and $5 off a purchase of $20 or more at the Shop at Fairchild. Please mention Miami Magic City. Offer valid through October 31, 2017.

D.
The Kampong (Coconut Grove, FL)
4013 S. Douglas RD, Coconut Grove, 33133

Open for "Self-Guided Tours", 10 AM - 3 PM, Mon - Sat, reservations necessary: 305-442-7169 or kampong@ntbg.org

Students with ID, $10.

E.
The Barnacle Historic State Park (Coconut Grove, FL)
3485 Main Highway, Coconut Grove, 33133

Closed Tuesdays, open 9 AM to 5 PM

$2 entry fee

F.
Morikami Museums and Japanese Gardens (Delray Beach, Florida)
4000 Morikama Park RD, Delray Beach, FL, 33446

Open Tuesdays - Sunday, 10 AM - 5 PM

Students with ID $11

G.
Pinecrest Gardens (Pinecrest, FL)
11000 Red Road, Pinecrest, FL, 33156

9 AM - 5 PM on Saturday and Sunday; 10 AM - 5 PM, Monday through Friday

$5 entry fee

Assignments

Small work #1- Street or Garden. DUE Tuesday, October 24 at 10 AM.

This is an observational exercise and will require you to immerse yourself in the landscape or city. For this assignment, choose either a or b.

a) Street.
Step 1-
Choose a street.
Walk the length of it, as far as you can.
Find a place to sit and observe.
Record all the sensory information you can take in: sights, sounds, scents, tastes, and textures. In your sketchbook, write for 30 minutes (on-site), and then draw for 30 minutes (on-site).

Step 2-
Use this information to make an imaginary creation in your studio. Size: 10 inches minimum, shortest dimension, media of your choice.

b) Garden.
Step 1-
Choose a garden or park, a public place, not your back yard.
Find a place to sit and observe.
Record all the sensory information you can take in: sights, sounds, scents, tastes, and textures. In your sketchbook, write for 30 minutes (on-site), and then draw for 30 minutes (on-site).

Step 2-
Use this information to make an imaginary creation in your studio. Size: 10 inches minimum, shortest dimension, media of your choice.

Small Work #2- Poetry or Prose. DUE Monday, October 23, by 11:59 PM on BLOG.

This assignment is designed to accompany Small Work #1. Write a work of fiction or non-fiction based on your experiences on the street or in a garden. Any literary form is acceptable, prose or poetry, with a 15 line minimum. This will be posted on your blog.

Small Works #3- Calvino. DUE Tuesday, October 31, 10 AM

Invisible City—Identify four different materials that convey something about the mood or tone of the Calvino City you chose. Make an exploratory work with EACH of those four materials in which you attempt to use and emphasize the material qualities to present that mood or tone to a viewer. If 2-D, these explorations need to be 8” x 10” minimum. If 3-D, these explorations must be no smaller than a 6” cubic volume. If you choose to use your materials in a durational way, the explorations should be at least a minute each.

In-Class Exercises

These will be a series of in-class exercises to help you develop your concepts through an investigation of process, techniques and materials.

In-Depth Assignment. DUE Thursday, November 9, 10 AM

You will develop a larger, more ambitious and complex work from the ideas generated in the Small Works assignments. It can develop from any or all of the Small Work Assignments. In creating this work, you must choose one of these three options to strive for:

2-D—Create a series of six works, each no smaller than 12” x 18”
3-D—Create a single work that will approximately fill a 24” cubic volume
Create a Time-Based/Durational work.: If you are making a video piece or slideshow presentation it must be at least 7 minutes in duration. If you are making an animation that you yourself create frame by frame the duration must be at least one and a half minutes. If you are creating a performance to be presented live in class it must have a duration of at least 4 minutes but not longer than 7mins. If quoted durational materials: 7 minutes.