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Sketchbook Entires

Students need to constantly be looking and researching three dimensional design history throughout the semester. Each entry needs to complete the following: 1.      1. You  need to complete 3 weekly. Follow calendar.  By the end of the term you will have a minimum of 40 entries. Above this, quality and quantity will give you extra credit. Your selections may be made from the history of sculpture and three-dimensional design, including prehistory to just yesterday 2.   2.  Place the image on the page, color or black and white 3.   3.  Type the URL under the details of the painting for bibliographic sourcing 4.   4.  Name of artist, title (always in italics), year created, media, dimensions 5.     5.  Brief information of artist including full name, nationality, b. – d., where they studied, type of sculptural style/ 3D form they are involved in. This can easily be found on the web through your search 6.     6.  First question to answer = why did this 3-D work draw your

Project #1 Spatial Graffiti

Robert Indiana LOVE        surface is illusion but so is depth  GOALS: Introduce students to three dimensional thinking from the two dimensional plane Moving students to conceptual thinking delivered in three dimensions Moving students from sketchbook drawings > card board scaled maquette > transferred into wood Introduce student to procedures to accurately scale up their ideas into dynamic sculptures that activate space Introduce students to hand tools for wood materials, proper glues and adhesives, nails, screws, sandpaper grades, etc. Introduce students to use of power tools including: band saw, chop saw, drill press, sander, palm sander, jigsaw Test each student on power tools so they have the safe experience of them, making each available through out the semester                             Deborah Kass OY RULES: PART ONE Activate your sculptural ideas in 5 concept concept drawings in your sketchbook Begin now making an on-goin

Course Calendar

Semester major projects include: #1  Spatial Graffiti > Introduction to three dimensions, hand tools and wood shop: drill press, band saw, chop saw, sander, palm sander, jigsaw #2  Additive/Subtractive  > Ceramic  #3 Bas-Relief Plaster  #4  Construction #5  FRACTIONS- upcycling > FAKE NATURE > Wearables Using the 200 year anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein students and professor produced up cycled works in response to the Frankenstein narrative. Through experimentation with various discovered materials and process, students respond directly to the horror of global warming by creating alternatives via the ‘throw away.’ Fractions looks at such horrific changes in our environment and using data from scientific research, presents new alternatives to our throwaway culture.   #6  Final Project Structuring Human Space / wood construction + WK 1 JAN 21 TU Classes Begin JAN 22 W Introduction to Course JAN 24  F Project #1 Sp