Creative Challenges
Best Relates to: Sculpture, 3D Design
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Between Art and Quarantine
Between Art and Quarantine
Best relates to: all art students, anyone who is remotely creative and interested in the art world and is a little stir-crazy at home. This is a fun one for any art students!
Participate in an art-related trend. People around have world are re-enacting famous paintings.
Recreate a A Historical Painting as a Staged Photograph. You can see examples of others participation on Instagram searching the hashtag. This trend began in 2020 as a reaction to the conditions of the pandemic.
#TussenKunstEnQuarantaine — which means 'between art and quarantine.’
Inside Outside Dichotomy
Inside Outside Dichotomy
Best relates to: 3D Design, Sculpture, see Ceramics Extension
Create a sculpture with an inside and outside that each communicate opposing views.
The inside should symbolize/represent/clearly communicates a concept, idea or belief.
The outside should symbolize/represent/clearly communicates an opposing concept, idea or belief.
The sculpture may not be smaller than 12 inches in any direction, there is no limitation to how large the sculpture may be. Use your knowledge of the elements and principles of design to drive decisions on a successful aesthetic.
Craftsmanship should be solid, including construction and surface treatment. Choose materials that support your concept. Document the process thoroughly using photographs of you creating, maker’s notes, and mid-point photos of your work.
Ceramics Extension: This could be completed as a ceramic project. Your primary media should be clay. However, you could certainly integrate other media; 30% mixed media "other materials" and you could still reasonably consider it a ceramic work :)
Soft Sculpture
Soft Sculpture
Best relates to: 3D Design, Sculpture
Create a sculpture using fiber arts methods and materials. The sculpture may not be smaller than 24 inches in any direction, there is no limitation to how large the sculpture may be.
The finished work must be unique and clearly demonstrate artist voice.
The finished work may be functional or non-functional.
Use your knowledge of the elements and principles of design to drive decisions on a successful aesthetic.
Craftsmanship should be solid, including construction and surface treatment. Choose materials that support your concept. Document the process thoroughly using photographs of you creating, maker’s notes, and mid-point photos of your work.
Create An Earthwork
Create An Earthwork
Best relates to: Sculpture, see Drawing Extension
Look online at examples of earthworks and works made of natural material.
Create an outdoor sculpture or arrangement using only what is available and from nature. This can be a quick and enjoyable day project that might be completed in a single day outdoors. You can complete this on your own or have the whole family join in! Popular British artist, Andy Goldsworthy, is an excellent example of an artist who is not only inspired by nature but creates art using natural materials. His land art sculptures are intentionally temporary and left in their environment.
Drawing Extension: a drawing student could complete the above assignment, and then push it a step further by drawing the finished sculpture.
Make Amazing Miniatures
Make Amazing Miniatures
Best relates to: Sculpture, 3D Design
Watch the video of June Clinkscales Designs and create art inspired this artist. The "Wow!" is in the well crafted, exceptional details!
Craftsmanship should be solid, including construction and surface treatment. Choose materials that support your concept. Document the process thoroughly using photographs of you creating, maker’s notes, and mid-point photos of your work.
Create a Sculpture with Moving Pieces
Create a Sculpture with Moving Pieces
Best relates to: Sculpture
The sculpture may not be smaller than 24 inches in any direction, there is no limitation to how large the sculpture may be.
The finished work must be unique and clearly demonstrate artist voice.
Use your knowledge of the elements and principles of design to drive decisions on a successful aesthetic.
Craftsmanship should be solid, including construction and surface treatment. Choose materials that support your concept. Document the process thoroughly using photographs of you creating, maker’s notes, and mid-point photos of your work.
Other Creative Challenges...
Other Creative Challenges...
Dichotomy Container–the inside and outside visually and symbolically represent and communicate opposing views. Flat imagery may be used, but sculptural and three dimensional elements must be significantly present both inside and out. The container does not have to be functional.
Sculptural Furniture–functional, unique, excellent craftsmanship, aesthetic. Think footstool that is also a social commentary, bookshelf that is also a dragon. Modifying, disassembling, reassembling and combining existing furniture is acceptable as part of the process, as long as the finished project is significantly altered. Ie. You can cannibalize existing furniture for parts and structural integrity, but ultimately, you should “make” the new piece of art furniture.
An Art Installation, including a video of people interacting with the installation.
An Art Tent, if you did not select it as a previous project option.
An insect habitat, as public art. This should be able to withstand being outdoors long term, a metal roof is encouraged for this reason.
A piece of original art jewelry, fully handmade (a clay bracelet, a sculptural necklace)
Sculptural altarpiece that integrates boldly significant and thought provoking content (see this example)
A hyperrealistic microsculpture (a large object made into a smaller than 1 square inch sculpture)
A detailed enlargement of something very small (smaller than one inch into larger than 1 foot).
An original design, uploaded and printed, using a 3D printer, or cut using the Glowforge, and assembled; the design must be fully original and those files, as well as the finished physical artwork, should be shared as part of the submission.
A Kinetic Sculpture (see artists Jean Tinguely, Alexander Calder)
An interactive sculpture
A sculpture that integrates light as a key component of the visual experience
Create a Bust - Model your own likeness using Plastincina Clay, use wire as a base for your armature (lifesize).
Look at the needs of insects to design an artful and functional insect hotel, or insect habitat.
This is a belt buckly by SweetBird Studio. Check out this artists portfolio.
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