Projects+09s

Projects

=Week 2 - Tuesday 20 January=

Materials:
We will create accounts on the Art100 wiki for all students in class tonight. We'll go over the basics of wiki editing and get started on making "Profile" or "Home" pages for each student. This page will be an "art project" in its own right, as well as the //Home Page// from which each student makes links to all their other projects this semester.
 * 1) Laptop (optional, but helpful)
 * 2) Images
 * 3) Words
 * **Project Directions**
 * **Points: 40**
 * **Due: 11:59pm Sunday night, before 11:59pm**

=Week 3 - Tuesday 27 January=

Project: Right-Brain Drawing & Tandem Drawing
We will draw! It will be easy! It will be fun! It will be painless!
 * Materials:**
 * 1) Pencil
 * 2) Paper - 8-1/2 x 11 white, unlined, not torn from a spiral pad - a few sheets. Larger paper is even better.
 * **Project Directions:** given in class.
 * **Points: 20**
 * **Due: End of Class**

=Week 4 - Tuesday 3 February=

Project: Photo 1: Composition & Cropping
We will compose images "in camera" in class and also shoot images for later cropping. The in-class compositions and the after class croppings will all be posted on the wiki. Each group only needs 1 wiki page for the group. Each person will have wiki links from their home page to the group project page & back.
 * Materials:**
 * 1) Digital Camera - 1/group is sufficient - if anybody has an SLR, even better
 * **Project Directions**
 * **Points: 20**
 * **Due: Sunday night, before 11:59pm**

=Week 5 - Tuesday 10 February=

Project: Photo 2: Lighting

 * Materials:**
 * 1) Digital Camera - 1/group is sufficient
 * **Project Directions**
 * **Points: 20**
 * **Due: Sunday night, before 11:59pm**

=Week 6 - Tuesday 17 February=

Project: Artist's Books
Bring some nice paper for the inside of your book... and some fancy paper for the cover of your book. We'll sew these books in class... and then next week decorate them with the relief print "potato cuts" we make in class.
 * Materials:**
 * 1) Paper - size & type of your choice, 5 sheets + 1 cover sheet (heavier) - will fold these in 1/2 to make book
 * 2) Pick, Foam Backing, Needle, Thread - provided by Glenn
 * Brief Description:**
 * **Points: 20**
 * **Due: End of Class - //next week//**

=Week 7 - Tuesday 24 February=

Project: Relief Printing
Tonight we will make relief prints (Potato Cuts) and print them on paper. We'll go around the room with our books from last week and collect the "stamps" of our classmates.
 * Materials:**
 * 1) Potato
 * 2) Knife to cut it in 1/2 (don't pre-cut)
 * 3) Something to carve in potato with - ballpoint pen / x-acto knife / woodcut or linoleum-cut tools
 * 4) Your book from last week
 * 5) Ink & rollers - provided by Glenn
 * Brief Description:**
 * **Points: 20**
 * **Due: End of Class**

=Week 8 - Tuesday 3 March=

Project: Pinhole Camera - Part I
We will make //Pinhole Cameras// in class this week. We'll make pinholes and check the light-tightness of our cameras. The inside of your camera should be spray-painted flat black - at home - either before or after this week, but before next week.
 * Materials:**
 * 1) Some sort of box that you can make light tight - oatmeal box, etc
 * 2) Black Paper Tape
 * 3) Flat Black Spray Paint (do this part //**at home!**)//
 * 4) Brass Shim Stock (thin walled aluminum can)
 * 5) Scissors
 * 6) Needle (provided by Glenn)
 * Pinhole Camera Video**
 * Brief Description:**
 * **Points: 20**
 * **Due: Finish camera & submit 1 photo @ end of class //next week//**

=Week 9 - Tuesday 10 March=

Project: Pinhole Camera - Part II
This week we'll use our cameras to shoot & develop one or more photographs during class. Bring some object or still-life set-up that you can put in front of your pinhole camera to photograph. Turn in your best print at the end of class.
 * Materials:**
 * 1) Something to take a picture of (long exposure, so static objects best)
 * Brief Description:**
 * **Points: 20**
 * **Due: End of Class**

=Week 10 - Tuesday17 March=

Presentations
=Week 11 - Tuesday 24 March=

Project: Museum 1, 2, 3 (4, 5, 6)

 * **Find:** A Living Artist for your presentation
 * **Also work on:** 3-Page (typed, double-spaced) paper on //Graffiti LA//
 * **Due: Tuesday, April 14**

=Week 12 - Tuesday 31 March=

Project: Museum 1, 2, 3 (4, 5, 6)

 * **Due: Tuesday, April 14**

=SPRING BREAK! - Tuesday 7 April=

//**NO CLASS! - Have Fun!**//

=Week 13 - Tuesday 14 April=

Project: Tandem Drawing

 * Materials:**
 * 1) Pencil
 * 2) Paper
 * Directions:** Given in class
 * **Points: 20**
 * **Due: End of Class**

=Week 14 - Tuesday 21 April=

Project: Photo Project 3 - Time Series
Brief description
 * Materials:**
 * 1) Camera
 * 2) Teammates
 * **Points: 20**
 * **Due: Sunday Night before 11:59pm**

=Week 15 - Tuesday 28 April=

Project: TBA
Brief description
 * Materials:**
 * 1) yes
 * 2) yes
 * **Points: 20**
 * **Due: End of Class**

=Week 16 - Tuesday 5 May=

Project: TBA
Brief description
 * Materials:**
 * 1) yes
 * 2) yes
 * **Points: 20**
 * **Due: End of Class**

=Week 17 - Tuesday 12 May=

Project: Plaster Casting - //**AT THE BEACH!**//
Brief description
 * NOTE: WE WILL //NOT// MEET IN THE ROOM THIS WEEK! WE WILL MEET AT SUNSET BEACH!**
 * Materials:**
 * 1) yes
 * 2) yes
 * **Points: 20**
 * **Due: End of Class**

=Final - Tuesday 19 May=

//**Pass the Dinosaur!**//