In Class Mon 27th

Everything is due today!


ART Promotion - websites, blogs and social media


Residencies
- What are they?
- How do I get one?


Contracts for Freelance


Taxes for Artist

In class Mon Nov 20th

Fill out Add/Drop form for ART490 class

Whats next!

In class Mon Nov 13th

The Final

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 Mon Nov 6th

Senior Thesis Project forms

Senior Proposal

Questions to consider?

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)

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 that you should research to help inform you.

Semenenko Clark - Fund for Excellence in Art and Art History

- Application form 
- Budget 

CV - your list of accomplishments broken up by categories and a CV for whatever purpose you need.

5 People to write your letter of Rec

3 Colleges you've researched

Apply to Student Juried Show

NYC Bus Trip

The Art and Art History Department bus trip this fall is Saturday November 11. 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 at the Cashier's 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.) Thanks and hope to see you on the bus!! 

Rhea Nowak Printmaker Mon Nov 6th 7pm Rm 138

In class MOn Oct 30th

Review Art


Bring your art experiments to class.


Senior Projects Proposals


Questions about your CV?


Find out how to shoot for your portfolio.

In class Mon Oct 23rd

Review your art test

Art Opportunities:

NYC Bus Trip

  The Art and Art History Department bus trip this fall is Saturday, November 11th. 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)

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

In class MOn Oct 9th

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?

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What have you been making?

In Class Mon Oct 2nd

Going to the Artist Talk

In class Mon Sept 25th

also 

Annual Internship and Career Fair, scheduled for Thursday, October 5, 12:00 - 3:00 PM in Lambros Arena.  

This year's event will host over 45 employers interested in hosting interns and hiring our graduates.   For more details on the event, please contact - and/or suggest to students - that they contact any of our three Career Services staff listed below, all of whom have offices in the PSGE Center.

and

The 2-day workshop, "The Creative Potential of Paper Clay", will be a hands-on combination of paper clay formulation, hand building, and press molding (plaster mold making) at the Smithy on Saturday, October 7 & 14 from 9:00-12:00. Registration is $75 which includes materials. Basic hand building experience is required. Any questions can be directed to me (madelinewalkerart@gmail.com) or the Smithy studio! Hosted by Madeline Walker and Jonathan Stein, ceramic artists and recent hires over at the SUNY Oneonta Art Department. 

and

The Fenimore Art Museum is hosting a new exhibit opening on September 16^th called, American history, and political science. ‘Our Strength Is Our People’: The Humanist Photographs of Lewis Hine. Lewis Hine is one of the fore fathers of American documentary photography.


also

Art Shows to build your Portfolio!

Hartwick Student Juried Show 
Pine Lake Photo Contest ?

Student Show at CANO
Peep Show

and get money

Fund for Excellence Fall 16 and Spring 17

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Art Exploration. Show me what you made. What boundaries are you trying to push?

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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

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?

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 2nd for review. You will get the materials back for future submission to the graduate school should you choose that route.

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 Mon Sept 18th

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

* Lets discuss your senior thesis art test

* What is your next art test?

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 Mon Sept 11th

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

Fusion 360- 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?

From this summer

1) write down any and all questions you have about the coming year and the future. For example you may want to know what kind of jobs are available to you after graduation or you might have questions about the senior show. Any question is valid. You may want to think about what worries or concerns you about the next couple of years and make questions based on that. We even cover tips for surviving life after college.

2) make a list of ideas for your senior show. You should have a least 30 by the first day of class. This equals two ideas a day starting next monday.

Instructions:

a) First think about the questions below before you start generating ideas for your show.

- Consider the things your attracted to and ask your self why. What makes you like one aesthetic over another? Why are you attracted to some visuals and not others? 

- What colors are you attracted to? What colors are predominate in your closet if any? 

- What are your favorite things? Why? How does the aesthetic effect your experience?

- What do you care about, what is important to you? ( this could be as simple an answer as "my dog", or it could be grander on a social/political level like transgender rights or bringing awareness to the homeless problem) 

- Do you have a favorite place, person or event? What is it about that place, person, or event, that you respond emotionally to? Do you want to share that with others? Is there an aesthetic connected to that place, person or event?

- What is you favorite time of day? Why?

- Where did you grow up? What did it look like there? Rural area? Big City? Poor or Wealthy? What are you visually attracted to or repulsed by?

b) once a day give yourself no more then 2 min to generate two ideas. Each idea should contain the following info about the artwork: 

- the medium(s) - paint, wood, photography, design, glass, ceramic.....

- subject matter - people, places, things...... (there can be more then one)

- abstract or realistic application to the medium and subject matter

These do not need to be great ideas. In fact they will probably be pretty loose ideas which is the point!

Having to come up with one great idea is mind crushing and the first idea is rarely the best. Quickly generating many ideas releases you from overthinking and gives your mind freedom to explore. I know many of you have ideas already and that is great. Put them on your list first, but then continue to challenge yourself to generate other ideas considering the questions above as guidance. If at the end your first idea is still your favorite, then it will have proven itself. You should all be aware that senior thesis projects are reviewed and approved by the art faculty so we are far from a finished idea at this point in time.