Overview

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

Permits students completing the visual art major to work in an open and critical studio situation. Students continue to develop a body of work begun in CA 460 for their graduating exhibition at the end of the term. Preparation and installation of the exhibition is part of the course requirement. A course materials fee is required.

COURSE DETAILS:

A continuation of CA 460, this studio class is devoted to students working entirely on self-directed projects in consultation with the instructor. It is designed to facilitate a critical studio practice and stress the skills required for group critique of art works at all stages of production. Students will complete projects for scheduled critiques, resolve a work for public exhibition in the 4th year BFA show. Finished works are to be installed with attention to presentation values such as prepared walls, floors, lighting and spatial considerations and any other factor deemed significant for the work. Works for exhibition must be finished to a professional standard. 

This semester students will be expected to work on multiple projects continuously in a simultaneous manner. You will be required to submit documentation of all of the works you produced in relation to the course and exhibition.

During individual feedback sessions, you must be prepared to outline what you are trying to accomplish and what feedback you are seeking. General feedback will be offered but this will supplement the feedback given in response to your specific requests. If the professor tells you they need to see more work, that indicates your level of work can be increased and success is not guaranteed.

All work prepared for exhibition must anticipate any and all installation considerations including hardware and technical needs from equipment and materials to assistance from techs. Failure to plan for these matters puts the student at risk of not participating in the 4th year exhibition.

 

Work will be assessed on ambition of the project, relation to existing practice (your work may affirm an established direction or deviate meaningfully from previous work), material handling, quality of presentation decisions, the level of documentation submitted.

 

Students will complete written and visual work for a small publication to accompany the exhibition. This will require students to work collectively to edit and form materials for publication. A group will also take on logistical planning for installation and strike of the exhibition. 

COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:

• Growth and development over the course of the semester

• Resourcefulness (thoughtful and inventive problem solving)

• Tenacity (especially the ability to pull oneself out of a place of disappointment with a stage in the process and move on to a place of interest)

• Collaborative skills (using the classroom as a community of peers as part of problem solving and knowledge development

• Ability to keep up with projects by working outside of class when necessary.

• Timely completion of studio project and other assignments

• Proper handling of studio tools, equipment

• Collective planning of a group exhibition and publication

• Planning and realization of a discursive event for the exhibition

Grading

Materials

MATERIALS + SUPPLIES:

Every project has its own material concerns. Students are to imagine how their work should exist when on display, in a crit or exhibition, and plan accordingly. There is no way to anticipate just what a student may need. Thorough consultation with your instructor and the studio technicians is required in order to understand which materials will be needed by each student.

REQUIRED READING NOTES: