Visual Thinking

& Tinkering

Wednesday October 14th

(Synchronous, 5-8 pm)

Today's Agenda:

Warm-up
Discuss: Material Quality
Hit or Miss: A Game of Material Management
Looking ahead-- only two weeks left!
Next week's homework

Today's Goals:

I can innovate with and explore drawing and mark-making tools.

I can evaluate the possibilities AND limitations of materials.

I can reflect upon my prior experiences with materials of varying qualities.

I can research materials management strategies and gather ideas to add to our collective knowledge base.

Warmup

This strategy inspired by: DRAWING lab FOR MIXED MEDIA ARTISTS by Carla Sonheim

Challenge:

Draw a self portrait with your non-dominant hand!

THOUGHT:

While we discuss tonight, I encourage you to doodle in your field journal. How many of you have a doodle "method"? or did when you were younger?

Drawing, what's the big deal?

Let's check back with Lynda Barry, thoughts about the interview from yesterday?

-How does the perception of drawing change as we get develop and grow?

-What types of drawing carry cultural capital?

-What other types of drawing can be leveraged to perhaps re-engage those learners who feel that they "can't draw"?

-What are developmental considerations when we teach drawing?

DISCUSS: How does material quality relate to experience?

When is it important to splurge and when is it okay to save?

A GAME OF HIT OR MISS!

Materials management strategies

What GENIUS materials management strategies have you read about in the past few weeks? What have you seen in the field?

When your name is called by our random generator, I will use a virtual coin flip and tell you what your category is.

If the coin is:

Heads: that's a HIT! Please read off a strategy from your list that you think other people besides yourself probably DO have on their list. If you are the NOT the only person with that strategy on your list, that's a point!
Tails: that's a MISS! Please read off a strategy from your list that you think other people probably DON'T have on their list. If you are the only person with that strategy on your list, that's a point!

The person at the end of our game with the most points WINS A FABULOUS PRIZE!

A question to leave you with: what are the power structures implicit in various materials management strategies?

Looking ahead:

Our FINAL CLASSES will be 10/27 & 10/28!

Quite a few media/materials were left out of the scope of our course explorations. For your final project, select one of these "unexplored materials" that you feel particularly excited about to share with your classmates!

MY REQUEST/RECOMMENDATION: try something that you are NOT already an expert in!

More information will be coming next week (this will be your ONLY homework next week, but I wanted to give you some advanced processing time so that you can think ahead)

You will embed your information (blurbs, links, slides, video, Google docs, etc.) on your page of the Archive Google Site

Your site page MUST be ready to go by noon on 10/27

The Criteria:

Untitled presentation

You are not required to complete a handout AND a page on the archive, but if you enjoy creating beautiful handouts it's something that can DEFINITELY be embedded on your site page AND go into your teaching portfolio.

For next week:

-CREATE a cabinet of curiosities & bring to next class!

-Reflect, research & generate a list: What would you put in your distance learning art kit?

-If you have unlimited funds?

-If you can only spend $13 per pupil?

-Next week is 3D Construction week! Bring any tools/objects that you are willing to build, model, construct or sculpt with!

Think outside the box as well (or inside the box of the limitations that we have)! Have you ever wondered about making your own salt dough or paper clay? Maybe next week would be an interesting time to try!

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