Student Art
The best part of this course is the ART that is created! It is interesting to watch students begin to understand the importance of process and begin to form identities through the art that they create. As an Art Educator, I am continuously learning along the way too as I guide them through the semester. With each passing year I teach I gain the ability to have quicker reactions, deeper insights, and a more proficient ability to instruct and communicate. In turn, this provides opportunity for my students to learn and succeed. This is directly reflected in the work that they create.
The Real Anatomy of Technology
This project was a response to our unit spent studying the Renaissance. It is interesting to learn how the great masters such as Michelangelo would study cadavers in order to better understand their subject matter. The exploration of the interior, the hidden, is endlessly interesting. The College Now artists were challenged with taking a modern piece of technology and imagining an human like interior. They needed to design a dissection and show the balance between reality and imagination.
Emotional Text
An image can tell a thousand words and this project certainly led that saying into a more literal meaning. Students were given the challenge of working from a photograph that was important to them and told a story descriptive to their experiences. Rather than using traditional shading methods, students had to develop their value scales through text only. The words tell the story of the art but it is the image that helps the viewer read what is happening here.
Printmaking
Printmaking is a rewarding artform in that the possibilities of your image can change so dramatically with each print. Students created a linoleum block print and were challenged to print it at least 2 times, working with correcting inking techniques, avoiding flaws, and then adding an addition of color to one.
Fall Semester 2015
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