Friday  5.9.08

In Class:  Introduction to clay project.  You will work on preliminary designs and be ready to create your sculpture pieces next week. 

 

Personal Portfolio Pieces

 

Friday  4.25.08

In Class:  Studio day to work on and  finish personal portfolio pieces.

 

Labels, Tags, and Misconceptions

Tuesday  4.15.08

In Class:  Finish any final printing for t-shirts.  Evaluate shirts and appoint a class representative to discuss the design process and message. 

 

Homework:  See you at the McColl Center Thursday evening.  Remember to write a 1/2 page reflection on the exhibition, Phantasmagoria, for extra credit.  In your reflection, you should write about your overall impression of the exhibition, your favorite piece, and an idea of how you could create an interactive artwork.

 

 

Friday 4.11.08

In Class:  Continue printing the LT&M shirts.  Critique the work and determine how the pieces will be displayed.  Design team will meet to gather necessary supplies for the exhibition. 

 

Friday 4.4.08

In Class:  Continue printing the LT&M shirts.

 

Friday 2.22.08

Complete reference page based on the work of your chosen artist from the Mint Museum.  This may include visual images and quotes.  You will have time in class today to work on chosen artist piece.

Grant Teams - We will post podcast and website today.

 

Week of 2.11.08

No class this week but continue to work on putting together reference page of your chosen artist’s work and quotations.

 

Thursday 1.31.08

Presentation team may want to visit the grade level meetings during advisory to collect more information for their presentation.

 

Friday 2.01.08

In Class:  Presentation teams will finish up their slide show for next week.  Podcast and website team will also want to work their pieces so we can post them today.

 

Homework:  Work on putting together reference page of your chosen artist’s work and quotations.

 

Thursday 1.24.08

The following teams will be excused for 10-15 minutes from their classes on Thursday to gather photographs, interviews and video.  Look at the schedule to see which period and where your assigned grade level is working with Susan Page.  I will check in with each of you before Thursday. 

 

Public Presentation Team : Terin, Darius, Charlie, Sophia, Morgan, Erin

Website Team:  Greg, Sawyer, Sayre, Chandler

Podcast Team:  Graeme, Richard, John, Bryn

 

Homework: Public presentation team - Your presentations are due by the end of the day on Friday.  You will have two periods to complete it on Friday.

 

Friday 1.25.08

In Class:  Studio time to work on Life Map and Artist’s Style project.  Curator teams will work on their pieces. 

 

Homework:  Work on putting together reference page of your chosen artist’s work and quotations. 

 

Friday 1.18.08

In Class:  Studio time to work on Life Map and Artist’s Style project.  Curator teams will work on their pieces. 

Homework:  Work on putting together reference page of your chosen artist’s work and quotations.

 

Friday 1.11.08

In Class:  Studio time to work on Life Map and Artist’s Style project.  Curator teams may also want to work on their projects.  Curator project Presentation Team and Website Team needs to work on their presentations during flex on Friday. 

 

Friday 12.21.07

In Class:  Field trip to Mint.  You will receive your assignments when we get there.  Please bring a pencil - not a pen. 

 

Homework:  Please bring your life map drawing home over break as you may get the urge to draw!!!

 

Friday 12.14.07

In Class:  We will discuss objectives for portfolio collection.  We will look at the work of Martin Ramirez.  His collection of work creates an impressive map of a life shaped by immigration, poverty, institutionalization, and art.  We will begin our first art portfolio piece, a 2-D map of what shapes your life, focusing on drawing skills using pencil, crayon, colored pencil, pen and/or watercolor. 

 

 

Websites:

http://www.mam.org/ramirez/index.htm

 

Friday 12.07.07

 In Class:  Share "The Natural World" projects

 

E-mail artist’s statement to klysne@woodlawnschool.org by Tuesday.  We will finish our Natural World presentations Wednesday first period.

 

 

 

The Natural World

 

Friday 11.30.07

In Class:  Work on Artist’s statement and discuss the timeline pieces:

Is each piece considered ‘Earth Art,’ ‘Earthworks,’ or ‘Land Art’ 

How have the art and artists’ processes changed or evolved over time?

How have they remained consistent?

 

Friday 11.16.07

In Class:  Studio time to finish your project “The Natural World.” Document your piece using photography or video to post to the website. 

 

A Timeline from the Beginning

 

1.  Post information for timeline project to your wiki. Mr. Bowman will demonstrate this in class on Friday.  This needs to be posted by the end of the day, Tuesday, November 20th.

 

On the first page of this site you will need to include basic facts:

Location and when it was created (you may add a small photo at a later time)

Then put your piece in chronological order

 

 

On your linked page, include a photo (photos need to be under 500k. Mr. Bowman will help you with this if needed)

Consider the following questions as you write about your site or artist:

 

If you are researcing an ancient or historic place (see following list) use the questions below to guide your writing:

 

How has this culture group used the landscape to create art? 

How did they create it? What materials or tools did they use?

What is the significance of this place? What does it tell us about the past?

• http://www.culture.fr/culture/arcnat/lascaux/en/

  The Cave of Lascaux, France

• http://witcombe.sbc.edu/earthmysteries/EMStonehenge.html

  Stonehenge, England

• http://www.nps.gov/chcu/home.htm

  Chaco Canyon National Historic Site

• http://wonderclub.com/WorldWonders/MayanHistory.html

  Maya Temples of Tikal

• http://www.mysteriousplaces.com/mayan/TourEntrance.html

  Maya Temples of Chitzén Itzá

• http://www.mts.net/~lsisco/PAGE4.HTM

  Aztec temples

• http://www.cabrillo.cc.ca.us/~crsmith/hopewell.html

  Ohio Hopewell Native American Burial Mounds

• http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/xray/hd_xray.htm

   Arnhem Land Rock Art, Australia

• http://www.metmuseum.org/TOAH/hd/serp/hd_serp.htm

The Great Serpent Mound, Adams County Ohio

• http://www.mythicalireland.com/ancientsites/newgrange/

Newgrange, Ireland passage tombs

 

 

For contemporary artists (see following list), consider the questions below to guide your writing.

What message are they trying to convey?

Why and how did these artists choose to work outside the gallery and museum system to create their work? 

How is their work similar to or different from art you see inside museums or galleries?

 

Or if they created their work in a museum, how did they transform the space?  How is it different from other exhibits you may see in a museum setting?

• http://arted.osu.edu/160/13_Lin.php

Maya Lin

• http://arted.osu.edu/160/13_Holt.php

Nancy Holt

• http://arted.osu.edu/160/13_Christo.php

Christo Vladimirov Javacheff

• http://www.robertsmithson.com/earthworks/spiral_jetty.htm

  Spiral Jetty, Robert Smithson

• http://www.diacenter.org/exhibs_b/heizer/

  Michael Heizer, North, East, South,West

• http://www.lightningfield.org/

  Lightning Field, Walter De Maria

• http://www.earthroom.org/

  The New York Earth Room, Walter De Maria

•http://www.guggenheim.org/artscurriculum/lessons/movpics_mendieta.php

  Ana Mendieta

 

When all of the students have posted their pieces, we will discuss the following ideas as a class: 

Is each piece considered ‘Earth Art,’ ‘Earthworks,’ or ‘Land Art’ 

How have the art and artists’ processes changed or evolved over time?

How have they remained consistent?

 

Websites:

• http://www.pbs.org/art21/education/naturalworld/lesson3.html

Land Art

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_art#History

 

Week of 11.05.07

No class this week.  Complete your research for history website timeline (see archives for details).  Be prepared to post it to the website.  You need to include the following:

Date

Site location

Historic/cultural background

Purpose of site

Photo of site - save on desktop or record website where it can be found

 

Remember to document your sources. - Use websites below as a starting point. 

 

Bring all necessary supplies to class on November 16th to complete your Natural World project.  Let me know by November 13th if you need additional supplies from me.  You may send me an e-mail - klysne@woodlawnschool.org

 

Work on your Natural World Planning Sheet (see link below) and turn it in by Wednesday 10.31.07. 

 

Friday 11.02.07

In Class:  Turn in your sheet from the field trip during class on Friday.  Share cartoons with your peers.  Come prepared to work on “The Natural World” project. Bring necessary supplies. 

 

Also remember to complete your research for history website timeline.  We will be working on this throughout fall trimester. 

 

Last Week

The Natural World 9-10VASL.pdf- Service Learning and Visual Arts Project

The Natural World planning.pdf

 

In the Landscape - Recording, Integrating, or Imposing

No class this week as we have field trip on Friday. Work on your planning sheet (see file above) and turn it in on or before Friday.  Bring a pencil and small notebook on field trip Friday.  You will look at a variety of artwork and meet a variety of artists on the field trip Friday. 

 

Also remember to complete your research for history website timeline.  We will be working on this throughout fall trimester. 

 

Friday 10.19.07

In Class:  Work on your Natural World project proposal and find a time to meet with me before October 19th.  Your proposal should include a written description, preliminary sketches, list of equipment needed, etc.  You may propose working on this project with a partner.  Bring what you need to class on Friday as we will begin working on it then. 

 

Also remember to complete your research for history website timeline.  We will be working on this throughout fall trimester. 

 

In Class:  No art class this week but remember to work on your Natural World project proposal and schedule a time to meet with me before October 19th.  Your proposal should include a written description, preliminary sketches, list of equipment needed, etc.  You may propose working on this project with a partner.

 

Also remember to complete your research for history website timeline. 

 

Friday 10.05.07

In Class:  Throughout the fall trimester, we will continue to investigate the relationship between art and nature.  Through your photography and writing you have investigated and recorded the environment as it exists.  Now we will look at art that responds to and is influenced by its setting or environment. 

 

What are different ways that artists have used the landscape throughout history to contemporary times?

We will look at examples of this and each student will be assigned a landscape artwork to research and summarize.  This will become a piece of your History website. 

 

You need to include the following:

Cultural background

Date, Location

Purpose

 

First we will discuss how to best present this type of information on your website and we will decide on a format to follow.  You will present your findings on your website and to the class.  We will discuss the following questions:

How have the art and artists’ processes changed or evolved over time? How have they remained consistent?

 

Studio: 

Research examples of art and nature relationship

Create an artwork that responds to or is influenced by a particular environment.

 

Week of 11.05.07

No class this week.  Complete your research for history website timeline (see archives for details).  We will be working on this throughout fall trimester. 

You need to include the following:

Cultural background

Date, Location

Purpose

And a photo of site/place

 

Unsung Heroes

 

Friday 9.28.07

in Class:  No class this week

Friday 9.21.07

In Class:  Work as a team of artists to finalize cartoon.   Add texture and color to characters.

 

 

9th and 10th Grade Service

The Natural World

 

Friday 9.28.07

Service

Remember to get your nature photographs to me by Wednesday evening.