• Self-Portrait series (3-5 works any medium) 15%
• Performative Painting (one larger work, open media) 15%
• Reproduce a Modern Master 20%
• Artist work and studio etiquette i.e. on time, tidy studio manners, attention to details, presence, taking chances and challenges 5%
• Artist Presentation Formal 10%
• Technical Quiz (colour and materials) 5%
• Project Documentation (digital images of install) and Description (150-200 words/ project) 3x5 15%
• Class Participation 10%
• Colour Exploration Diary (sketch book) 5%

NOTES:

Evaluation: It is important that you engage fully with the material in this course, with curiosity and commitment. Your work and your thinking should demonstrate that you have understood the issues and ideas from class projects, readings and presentations.  

Studio/class participation is important. You arrive on time, you work fully engaged in your assignment, you are a good peer; you listen and contribute to class discussions. You use studio tools respectfully. You come to class prepared and your assignments are completed on time.   You will be asked to hand in documentation of your projects after each one is completed. This includes photographs and a short statement outlining those things that you learned from the project.  

Your colour exploration diary will be in a sketchbook or portfolio of smaller investigations of colour relationships. Worked on outside of class, informal short sketches, 10 minimum.    

Completed Projects must be on time, show thoughtfulness and effort, demonstrate an understanding of the assignment, and an increasing awareness of contemporary art in its use of materials and its connotations.  

Painter presentations. You are required to give a presentation on a painter from the list provided. One presentation can be approximately 10-15min. See schedule for dates.

Installation of projects for crits must be considered as to best possible location, lighting, and distance from other art or studio mess. These shouldn’t impede on the workplaces of other students, or on other students’ final installations. Our critiques will take place in the Bartlett.  

Critique Participation: You will be evaluated on your readiness (with sketchbook), your attentiveness in class and the notes you take during discussions, critiques, and research. Thoughtful verbal participation is valued.  

ARTIST PRESENTATIONS: Look at some of these Artists and choose to present one, message me your choices   Jessica Eaton, Athena Papadopoulos, Francine Savard, Elizabeth McIntosh, Sandra Meigs, Jinny Yu, Angela Teng, Alison Yip, Grace Rosario, Jane Ash-Poitras, George Morrison,  Bob Boyer, Christie Belcourt, Jessica Groome, Joyce Wieland,  Wally Dion, Adrian Stimson,  Kazuo Shiraga, Yayoi Kusama, Shigeko Kubota, Bracken Hanuse-Corlett, Summer Wheat,  Sarah Cain, Jordan Bennett, Sonny Assu,  Shawn Hunt,  Mark Igioliorte, Kent Monkman, , Rolande Soulière, Corey Bulpitt, Gary Neill Kennedy, Alex Janvier, Francis Alÿs, Carolee Schneeman, Hurvin Anderson, Rita LeTendre

Studio etiquette: you are required to clean up before you leave class. Wash brushes, clean surfaces. Put used solvent rags in appropriate containers or plastic bags. Return borrowed tools.