In class Wed Sept 30th

Things you will need to be gathering for next class:

Letters of Rec 

- You need to find 3 - 5 people who you wish to have write you letters of recommendation. You need to cultivate your relationship with them over the next year.

CV = Resume

- You need to make a list with the names, dates, and addresses of everything you've ever done, anything you have won, everyplace you worked and your high schools information.

Artist statement x2

-  One for your Self

-  One for a specific piece "Show"

Bio
- basic personal information, the what, where, when of your life 

Letter of intent

- this will change depending on need and what your applying for

Portfolio 
- you will need 15-20 art pieces

- start collecting images of your best work

- ask the professor in your area of concentration how artwork for your medium should be presented.

Freelance/Selling your Work

Hired to create for a specific job / Selling something you've previously created

Selling your Skills / Selling your Creations

Freelance possibilities:

- Basic Design work: logos, posters, CD/DVD covers, announcements, advertisements, PSA's, pamphlets, business cards, show cards

- Basic Photography: portraits, advertisements, reproduction, product shots, weddings, anniversaries & birthdays, portfolios

- Basic Photoshop: reproduction; portrait manipulation; color correction

- Ceramics: series or individual orders for plates, cups, bowls, vases, mugs, tea pots, complete sets

- Painting: portraits, murals, interior design

- Sculpture: building most anything from a deck on someones house to a commissioned public sculpture in a variety of materials including wood, metal, wax

- Printmaking - see "Basic Design Work"

- Basic Digitalmedia: social media wrangler, web page/site design, see "Basic Design Work", video documentation, CD/DVD duplication, digitize media

How much should you charge? How do you price a job?

Fair Hourly rate + supply cost x2 ~ market value

Selling Your Work

Where?

- On-line - Ebay, Etsy, Society 6, personal website, where else????

- Art/Craft Shows

- Trade Shows

- Galleries

- Local Shops

- Art Guilds

- Word of mouth / person to person

- Art Auctions

How much should you sell your work for?

What do you need help with?

In class Wed Sept 23rd

Do you know: When a judge is considering a case of workplace harassment, the intent of a person does not matter. What matters is how a reasonable person would feel in the situation. Art is like this, it does not matter what you intend if you don't know how to say it with visual language, it matters how your viewer understands it. Like all human beings, your viewer has a undeniable need to make sense of the world around them. They will take the various qualities you have applied to a piece and try to make sense of it within context of their specific understanding of the world.

Lets talk art:

The choices you make (intentionally or unintentionally) while creating art becomes the language by which your viewer understands the piece. This happens through the choice of medium, material, aesthetic qualities, formal elements, subject matter, gesture, lighting, dimension and location. Each of these is connected to a greater cultural & historical context that can change depending on the viewers age, race, gender identity, nationality, economic status and location on the planet.


As art students you are becoming experts in understanding the many levels of depth an image/object contains and how it effects your viewer. If you were in chemistry you would be expected to remember the periodic table as well as how all the elements intact through various chemical combinations depending on situation. (sounds just as impossible doesn't it) You creative neighbors upstairs are doing the same thing with sound and musical composition.


Lets look at some examples: going to the gallery

In class wed Sept 16th

Art Shows to build your Portfolio!

Assigned by the class:

18th annual Postcards for the Edge. January 2016?

also

Hartwick Student Juried Show 
Pine Lake Photo Contest

Student Show at CANO
Peep Show

and get money

Fund for Excellence Fall 15 and Spring 16


Graduate School Application

What 3 schools did you find?

What did you like about them?

What kind of information did they want when applying to the school?

Were there an interesting programs you came across?

In class Wed Sept 9th

My upcoming show:

Hand in your list of questions to Joe!

Project 1

Find 3 graduate programs that look interesting to you and go through the process of applying for one. Submit the materials to me on Sept 25th for review. You will get the materials back for future submission to the graduate school should you choose that route.

Lets talk graduate school!

- What can a MFA get you?

- How to apply.

* Word of Advice: Always follow all the directions exactally!

- Where to apply.

- Grants, Loans, GTF/Teaching Fellowships

Upcoming Events
Tomorrow Alumni Show Opening 4:30-6pm

3D software (if your interested)

Makerware - set up for printing

Meshmixer - alter and add models together. set up for printing

Sculptris - model and sculpt in 3d

123D Design - App Store for Macs - design and model 3d

123D Make - App Store for Macs - print 3d models on cardboard