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Color Focus: Grey or Gray
Our color focus for this week is a gray aka "groutfit". Join me in the exploration of all things grey this week as we surround ourselves with this color and material to better understand what it offers our lives and our creative work. Wear your groutfit and bring your grey/gray insights and observations to our conversation in class on Thursday before the final critique.
images above, from top:
variety of grays
grey quote
color symbolism infographic
Create Your Own Questions Week!
For our last week, instead of me asking you questions about art and how it works, or how you define and understand your own art practice, I want to create space for you to create questions that you wish I'd asked.
I will use your questions to compile a new questions of the week deck to add to the rotation next semester.
Please post 3-4 questions that could be future questions of the week to your blogs to be graded as part of the final blog check of the semester.
These questions can be about art in general or art in particular to you as an artist. They can be about the process of making, thinking or looking at art. These questions can also be about the business side of being an artist.
Many of my questions are borrowed from interviews with artists, so feel free to adapt questions from artist interviews or other sources as you think about what you think would be helpful for art students like yourself to explore together in future art classes.
Image above:
scan of a pile of question of the week cards
Artist Research Review Links
As we get closer to our final critique next week, I wanted to be sure to post links to for further study posts, as well as images, of each of your research artists work here for easy reference.
The idea in doing this is to provide a quick visual recap to help aid our critique conversation next week. I also wanted to help you in your studio time together, in case you want to review the inspiration artists as you talk and work alongside each other in the studio on Tuesday.
Images above, from top:
work by Ferne Jacobs researched by Jessica
work by Susan Cianciolo researched by Ava
work by Xenobia Bailey reserached by Kristie
work by Do Ho Suh researched by Elise
work by Megan Whitmarsh researched by Brooke
work by Andrea Zittel researched by Maria
work by Chiharu Shiota researched by Kyle
work by Sarah Cain researched by Emma
BFA GROUP TWO SHOW TONIGHT!
Join me in celebrating the work of graduating BFA students tonight at the second of the BFA Senior Exhibitions opening receptions!
Congratulations to all the artists on this important accomplishment!
The reception is April 25, 2024 from 5:30-7.
See you there!
Color Focus: Denim!
Our color focus for this week is a Baylor fiber first- denim. Join me in the exploration of all things denim this week as we surround ourselves with this color and material to better understand what denim offers our lives and our creative work. Wear your denim and bring your insights and observations to our conversation in class on Thursday.
Images above:
art made from denim by Janie Stidham
art made from denim by Jim Hodges
Questions of the Week
What do you expect from your art education?
Have there been any distinct experiences that have steered your work in new or significant directions?
Tufting!
You were introduced to the tufting process last week, and you will each be trying out this fun process to create your own tufting sample.
Samples should be completed, glued and off tufting frames by Tuesday of next week.
Plan to bring your samples to class on Tuesday April 23rd so we can look at them together and be sure to also post images of the sample onto your blogs so that they can be graded.
Images above, from top:
tufting research in class last week featuring Ellie
a new book on tufting is out now and will be available in our studio soon...
check out this video which covers the basics of finishing your tufted projects based on how you want your tufted object to live in the world.
Primary Colors Day on Thursday!
Our color focus for this week is a combination of colors- primary colors. Join me in the exploration of all things primary colored this week as we surround ourselves with this combination of colors to better understand what they collectively offers our lives and our creative work. Wear your primary colors and bring your insights and observations of this combination of colors to our conversation in class on Thursday!
Images above, from top:
Piet Mondrian painting from 1930
color theory refresh throuh two infographics describing how complex even the idea of primary colors can be...what are the primary colors? If you noticed, I was careful not to name them in this post. The answer depends on what way we percieve the colors, either reflecting off a surface or directly to the eye. O Color! You are are so mysterious!
Questions of the Week
What skills have you needed to develop to enable you to be successful as an artist?
Do the beliefs of an artist ever play a role when you come to choose the art you engage with?
BFA GROUP ONE SHOW TONIGHT!
Join me in celebrating the work of graduating BFA students tonight at the first of the BFA Senior Exhibitions opening receptions!
Congratulations to all the artists on this important accomplishment!
The reception is April 11, 2024 from 5:30-7.
See you there!
Coiling Inspiration
Please enjoy some inspiration for you of artworks that feature the coiling process. We will learn the coiling basics during class on Thursday.
Images above, from top:
Katherine Mavridis, Mokuba, 2014.
Ferne Jacobs, Snow Circles, coiled and twined basket, 1999.
Judith Scott
Francoise Grossen, installation image from 2015 exhibition at Blum and Poe.
Doug Johnston, Big Backpack and Dino Hat, 2014.
image of Makah Basket Makers at Neah Bay, Washington from 1900.
Coiling Basics
Coiling is a basketry technique that involves wrapping and stitching lengths of material around a central core material to create variety of complex forms starting from a circle or oval base.
Refer to the coiling zine about the coiling process as you are exploring this process. This handout was created from selections from the book “Contemporary Basketry” by Sharon Robinson.
Images above, from top:
our first day of coiling
our coiling zine
The paper core typically used to make coiled baskets. This is just one of many different materials that you can use to make a coiled basket. What else could you use to coil a basket? How could a meaningful choice of material enhance the concept of your work?
a few basic diagrams of the coiling process, showing how to get started and the basic figure 8 stitch (Figure Q-Figure S).
Heres a youtube video that shows the coiling process with yarn. We will be using raffia in class, but yarn or many other contemporary materials could also work to wrap and sew around your core material.
Here is another link that demonstrates the coiling process with step by step pictures. If you find a particular video or webpage helpful to learning this process, why not collect the resource for yourself by posting to your own blog? That way if you want to revisit the process in the future, you can pick up where you left off quickly and easily, a great use of the blog structure for your future benefit.
Questions of the Week
Are there any particular activities that you do everyday as an artist?
What are your biggest fears when it comes to art? Why do you think you have that fear? Where did it originate?
Studio Project #2: Sketches Post
To help you prepare for your last studio project, as I mentioned in class last week, I want each of you to compile your thinking, research, and ideas for studio project #2 into a post on your blogs. You will be meeting with the your assigned small groups to discuss your ideas this week, so be sure that you are prepared to get the most learning value from this conversation by insuring that you are ready to discuss your ideas and have your post on your blog BEFORE class starts today.
Here’s what I’m looking to see in this post:
1.) 3 sketches of different ideas for the project. Try to push into exploring several different concepts, so each drawing or sketch describes a different idea. Use whatever materials make sense to you to work out your ideas, but insure that digital images or scans of your sketches are posted on you blogs so that I can give you credit for your ideas so far.
2.) Indicate what surface design techniques you plan to use and what materials you plan to use. Anything we learn in class is fair game. You can also incorporate other materials along with fabric into this project, but please discuss any unconventional material ideas with the professor to insure they are appropriate.
3.) Indicate your construction plan this project. How will you make it? How will it be presented for the critique? Where in the studio will it be presented? Do you need to make any special plans or preparations to ensure it is presented properly to best express your idea?
5.) Indicate the shape and scale of the work. How big is your project? How does the form and scale of the work relate to your ideas? How does the form and scale of the work relate to your research artist?
6.) Indicate the particular body of work or work you are responding to and describe your response. How does your work differ from your artist source and how is it related?
Please do not consider this post and our small group conversations that we will have on Thursday as an approval process. You are encouraged to start on you project when you have found an idea that you are excited to explore. You are free to get started on your project before you meet with your group, if you have not started already.
Image above:
Sarah Zapata, "If I Could", featured at Deli Gallery. Learn more about this artist in this profile on artnet.
Orange!
Our color focus for this week is Orange!. Join me in the exploration of all things orange this week as we surround ourselves with the color orange to better understand what it offers our lives and our creative work. Wear your oranges and bring your insights and observations of orangeness to our conversation in class on Thursday!
Images above, from top:
work by David Shrigley
work by Mark Rothko
work by Olafur Ellison
orange color symbolism infographic