In class Wed Nov 30th

Apply to the 120 degrees show!

Lets drive up together!


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Fill out SETS for the class.

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Fill out the Senior Thesis paperwork

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Whats next!

Due to your advisor Jan 3rd 2017:
*note: You are expected to make many variants of your work on the way to creating your final piece. For example if you think your final piece will contain 7 objects, it is expected that you will 


1) You will receive an email with a list of questions from the faculty about your project. Consider the answers to the question and write up another "Objective" for your proposal.  

2) Create a timeline with your advisor for testing and research, and for critique and review.

3) Create sketches/preliminary visuals of the project. Make a few test.

4) Make a list of things you will research for your piece.

5) Make a list of things you will test to create your piece.

6) All information will be shared with both Faculty and Students on Google drive.

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Whats due on the final: Tuesday 8-11pm

1) Name, position and contact info for 5 people willing to write you a letter of recommendation or jobs/school in the future. At least 3 should be professors, the other two can be past or current bosses, and family friends.

2) A CV for either grad school or a job

3) A professional portfolio containing 12 images of your best work saved as JPEGS with a slide list saved as a Microsoft Word doc. 

4) Your creative challenge studio art project. This project was assigned 5 weeks ago and was generated through various writings you did in class. 

5) Artist Statement for your senior thesis(this will be a first draft with the expectation that it will change)

6) Apply for the Fund for Excellence (most of you did this already)

In class Wed Nov 9th

Looking for and Applying to Shows!

How to find a show

-- internet, magazines, friends/family, local business, art groups, your college

Types of shows

-- Group, Small Group (2 or 3 person), Solo, Juried, Invited, Traveling

Types of venues

-- On-line - Street - Local Business - Corporate Business - Student Gallery - Gallery - Museum

Types of art

-- Modern, Post-modern, Classic High Art, Street Art, Common Art

How to apply for an Art Show.

-- internet, email, snail mail

-- always follow all the directions

Different Shows hold different value. It kinda works in a matrix.

Most Valuable Show:

Invitation to a Solo show at a Major venue.

Least Valuable:

Open call to a Group show at a Local business.

In class Wed Nov 2

Senior Proposal

- Answer the questions?

What medium do you want to work in? 

What material(s) do you want to work with?

What is you subject matter?

What role will the formal elements play?

(line, shape, form, tone, texture, pattern, color & composition)

Are you trying to make something that is aesthetically beautiful or sublime?

What role will gesture play in your piece? 

War role will lighting play?

What role does size play in your piece?

What role does location play?

How do you want to display the work?

Each of these is connected to a greater cultural & historical context. 

Semenenko Clark - Fund for Excellence in Art and Art History

- Application form 
- Budget 

In class wed Oct 26th

Bring your art experiments to class.


Senior Projects Proposals


Questions about your CV?


Find out how to shoot for your portfolio.

In class Wed Oct 19th

This weeks class is cancelled for Wednesday but you are required to go to the grad school discussion on Thursday at 5:30pm in Golisano 323. 

Go there prepared with questions.

Don't forget to work on your art/design problem!

In class Wed Oct 12th

Art Opportunities:

Show your artwork at a shop on River Street in Oneonta - Andrea Vazquez (eatrio42@gmail.com)

NYC Bus Trip

  The Art and Art History Department bus trip this fall is Saturday, November 5th. The bus will leave the Anderson parking lot at 6:55 am and return around midnight. (leaving NYC at 8 pm) The cost is $35 and can be paid in the Business Office on the second floor of Bresee Hall. Once you have paid, your seat is reserved. If you have questions please direct your emails to Office Manager Brooke Chilson at artandarthistory@hartwick.edu (Do NOT use any other email.) Drop off and pick up is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art- 5th Avenue and 83rd Street.  (FYI- There is no saving of seats. In order to reserve a seat, you must pay.)

Pine Lake Photo Contest

Student Juried Show (has Cash and art supply based prizes)

Fund for Excellence (get up to $500 for your senior art project)

Kappa Pi - Pizza Paddles for Stella Luna (has Cash prizes)

Getting together an idea for your Senior Project !

How to successfully apply for the Fund for Excellence

- come up with an idea 

- figure out what materials & supplies you need

- research the cost of the materials & supplies 

- fill out the forms (check for errors)

- hand it in on time

Setting up CV's for different needs

You will be asked for a CV (resume) in a variety of circumstances over the years to come. Your CV should be adjusted for each unique circumstance. The idea is to give the reader the information they need as easily and as fast as possible. You also want to show that you know about what you are applying for. ( This will also come up when writing a Letter of Intent.)

Example for Education based CVs (Grad school, Applying to as a Professor):

Education 

2004               Master of Fine Arts – Visual Design

University of Oregon, Eugene, OR

Professional Experience 

2011-                 Associate Professor of Art, Digital Art & Design

 present            Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY

Exhibitions / Performances / Screenings :::::::::::::::::

2012               Hartwick Faculty Show (Group)

Forman Art Gallery, Oneonta, NY

* Next weeks classe will be on thursday eve. Where and When is it Sarah?

In class Wed Sept 28th

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?

In class Wed Sept 21st

Art Shows to build your Portfolio!

Hartwick Student Juried Show 
Pine Lake Photo Contest

Student Show at CANO
Peep Show
CANO Student Show 
Kappa Pi - Pizza board Paintings/installation (permeant piece)

and get money

Fund for Excellence Fall 16 and Spring 17

Lets talk graduate school!

- What can a MFA get you?

- How to apply.

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

- Where to apply.

- Grants, Loans, GTF/Teaching Fellowships

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 Oct 5th for review. You will get the materials back for future submission to the graduate school should you choose that route.

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?

Senior Thesis Possibilities 

- Your second batch of quick ideas

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.

In class Wed Sept 14th

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

In class wed Sept 7th

Hand in your list of questions to Joe!

Discuss your Senior Thesis Possibilities

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 Oct 5th 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

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

Welcome!

Welcome to Art411 Art Theory & Practice.

What is "art"? Who is an artist? What does an artist do?

This class is for senior studio art students. The goal of this class is to answer the question "What do I do with an art degree once I graduate from college". It is an interactive seminar where you are expected to ask questions and research answers and participate in art creation, dissemination and critique.

Our semester involves:

As a student who is about to graduate from art school, what questions do you have about making art and working as an artist after college?

* Make a list of 10 things you want the class to cover.

What do you expect to do during your first year after college?

* Write down your goals as an artist during your first year out of college. Be honest.

* What job would you like to have? How do you want to make money?

What Questions do you have about the Senior Show?

- The purpose of the show.

- Making a plan (it can change)

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