Marbelizing paper

Getting ready to make books

Stay tuned for the final project…

Project I: Mini Works and exploration of wet and dry mediums

Students are given found objects and a written phrase or sentence. They are encouraged to create a work of art that stems from these materials.

Objective: Students will research the materials and phrase given to them and begin to get visual references of how to communicate their idea. The object is to dissect the idea from beginning to completion of the creative process. The final product is of little importance. the main objective is for students to leave with an understanding of concept development and independent thinking.

Project III: multiples

Ariel: used a hole puncher to get dots and then assembled them for a final piece

Moe getting a little freaky with her multiples

Gregory — was informed by his installation in the painting room. He set a time frame in which he would dry continuously.

Brittany Rolley : collected fingerprints and completed a Visual of her thumb print by using her thumb as a mark making tool

Ashley wanted to make multiple sea horses. The first idea was sea shells — see how important it is to research and brainstorm? — sea horses are much more unique! Through the process of making Ashley came up with a system that was most efficient. be still my heart not only did she explore multiples but she also explored working with a system! ” what’s a system? I think my idea is this: not so much structure that it’s inhibiting or that there’s no wiggle room, but not so loose that it could be anything. I guess it’s like a corral around your idea, a corral that you can move — but not too much. And it’s that limited movement that promotes creativity.” John Baldessari

Dustin always blows my mind. He has been collecting movie tickets since he first went to the movies. 289? Sorry Dustin I lost count. Perfect opportunity to bring in an artist personal collection as art itself. Problems of presentation and storage of his collection were solved in the completion of the project.

Stephanie

Hundreds of pictures printed out in different hues and cut up and pasted to make a big picture. This girl has patience and very tidy craftsmanship

Morgan had a hard time coming up with a concept that was unique and a little out side of the box. After a group brainstorming session we found out Morgan wears crazy socks and rarely does she wear a matching pair. She stitched a quilted pattern out of her old mismatched socks. Very fun, clever, and interesting. This color is much more interesting than a rainbow don’t cha think?

Tanesha’s project was very quiet and intimate. She wrote different qualities about herself and glued them to a glass bubble, and then glued them to a vase and put a candle in it. Presentation made this very interesting. She turned the lights off and presented it on the floor. Metaphor: you want to learn about Tanesha it will take some effort 🙂

Battina (should be a painting major). What a clever way to re-purpose and re-use materials! She used the back of her business cards as a canvas and painted a small painting on each one.

Wow. Sarah made shrines — of her favorite authors and artists. The authors are in shadow boxes and the artists are in frames.

Audrey completed a fire drawing by arranging hundreds of matches with the heads touching so the flame would keep going. The video won’t show in this blog sorry Audrey. She used Awesome way to solve the project.

Jeremy worked with magnets that he painted and placed on an interesting design.

Stephanie

Sarah

Dustin’s sketchbook

Jeremy is very happy with his handmade sketchbook

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Marina Abramovic & Ulay

Your final: Intrepretive dance

 

“Allow Me to Explain Through Intrepretive Dance”

By amc5

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http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/marina-abramovic

Marina Abramović
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About Marina Abramović
Marina Abramović was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1946. A pioneer of performance as a visual art form, Abramović has used her body as both subject and medium of her performances to test her physical, mental, and emotional limits—often pushing beyond them and even risking her life—in a quest for heightened consciousness, transcendence, and self-transformation. Characterized by endurance and pain—and by repetitive behavior, actions of long duration, and intense public interactions and energy dialogues—her work has engaged, fascinated, and sometimes repelled live audiences. The universal themes of life and death are recurring motifs, often enhanced by the use of symbolic visual elements or props such as crystals, bones, knives, tables, and pentagrams. While the sources of some works lie in her personal history (the circumstances of her childhood and family life under Communist rule in the former Yugoslavia), others lie in more recent and contemporary events, such as the wars in her homeland and other parts of the world. Marina Abramović attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade (1965–70) and the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Yugoslavia (1970–72). She received an honorary doctorate from the Art Institute of Chicago (2004). She has also received many other honors, including a Golden Lion at the 47th Venice Biennale (1997); a Bessie (2003); and awards from the International Association of Art Critics (2003, 2007). Abramović has had major exhibitions and performances at the Garage Art Center, Moscow (2011); Manchester International Festival (2011); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2010); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (2005); Whitney Biennial (2004); Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (2001); Irish Museum of Modern Art (2001); Documenta (1977, 1982, 1992); and the Venice Biennale (1976, 1997, 2009). Marina Abramović lives and works in New York City.

*Laurie Anderson “O Superman”, Big Science
“only an expert (Ace Reporter)

Opportunity to show your work

MM13 prospectus

Every student in the class should enter this show.

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