End-of-Mod 6 Art Show

Environmental Sculpture

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  • Class Description

    The course provides an opportunity to work and think about art on a large scale. Students create scale models of potential larger works that might require months to actually construct. They work outdoors on projects using simple “green “ materials to create large pieces that are both objects and activate the space around them. Students are given a variety of prompts and requirements to address when creating their sculptures.

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B Block

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Clay, Fire, Water, and Emptiness

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  • Class Description

    This course was previously called “Raku." In this ceramics course, we employed a firing process during which pieces are removed from the kiln while red hot, and then placed directly into materials, such as leaves or paper, to be reduced in an air‑free atmosphere. Finally, the pots are cooled instantly in cold water.
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Sculpture: Environmental Sculpture

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  • Class Description

    The course provides an opportunity to work and think about art on a large scale. Students create scale models of potential larger works that might require months to actually construct. They work outdoors on projects using simple “green “ materials to create large pieces that are both objects and activate the space around them. Students are given a variety of prompts and requirements to address when creating their sculptures.

Painting

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    Students were introduced to skills, techniques, and concepts basic to painting, particularly color theory and color mixing, composition, paint application, and surface treatment. 

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A Block Padlet

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C Block Padlet

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Photographing Fashion

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    In this course, students explorec the relationship between fashion and photography. The history of picturing fashion will be studied and students photographed fashion styles ranging from posed images shot on location or in the studio, to spontaneous street phogoraphy-style images. 

Experimental Video

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    In this course, students explored various alternatives to traditional narrative and documentary filmmaking, including non-continuity editing, video installation art, and methods for manipulating video file data. 
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Pinhole Photography

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  • Class Description

    Studentsl created their own pinhole cameras and explored the unique picture‑making possibilities of this most basic photographic apparatus. Students experienced the paradox of photography’s technical simplicity and expressive open‑endedness. Paper negatives were made in daylight and artificial light and these were then used to produce positive prints in the darkroom.
     

Venus to Guerrilla Girls: Women Redefining Self Through Art

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    In this course students became familiar with art made by women (women’s art history), the multitude of subject matters of women’s art, the systematic and political influences that affected women’s ability to make art and the subject matter of their art, and historical changes that allowed for an emergence of women’s art on a larger scale. Art projects will examine issues, materials, and art forms that relate to the women’s art movement and women’s art in general.



Video Art

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    Video art has been described as the “electronic canvas.” In this course, students will learn to use the moving image as an artwork unto itself. Students will be exposed to video art’s unique history, as well as the video art pioneers and contemporaries who have created work outside the traditions of the narrative and documentary. We will explore the technical aspects of video, including using the camera, the software, and the moving image in both traditional and experimental ways. 
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