At the Seniors’ AP Art Show this evening:
Next Year’s Roster!
Congratulations
to next year’s new members
of the
Advanced Placement
2-D Design class:
Bianca Adams
McCall Braun
Grace Barbolla
Delaney Crouch
Mikayla Johnson
Marian Jostock
Jessica Loomis
Imran Mohsin
Claudia Nielsen
Kayli Putman
Michele Riefenberg
Stephanie Walterman
Maggie Ziolkowski
They join returning artists
Kristina Bastidas, Lauren Captain,
Alexa Hanaford, Fay Jenson, Sam La Bar,
Nikki Nixon, and Zach Rowe. Welcome in!
Souvenir
…or meibutsu, if you will.
If you’re in the shot, send me a snail address via e-mail (not fbook) by December the fourth, and you’ll receive a print (as soon as the school’s 4×5 camera is returned).
The prints are made on a variety of fiber stock, some current, some late lamented, some approaching legendary status. I’m almost sick of this negative: it’s not certainly not difficult to print, but when E.H. clicked the shutter the pressure of the “bell” about to “ring” sent the composition straight to blazes (plus there are physical flaws). Despite and still, we photograph to remember.
An Illustrated Version of Tuesday’s 2-D AP Field Trip Handout
We’ll meet in the “Alena Laube Lobby” of the Richard C. Johnson Auditorium at 7:30, so that we can hoof the attendance down to… Attendance, and board our bus by 7:35.
Show your student ID whilst you buy a round-trip ride (2 one-way tickets) to Ogilvie for half-price. At some point, gimme yer $2.25 for the rapid transit ride card (or make your own, to keep and to use in the future). You get to read preparatory material on the train, so that you won’t be confronting work cluelessly, and to give you a start on the assessments and reflections that will account for your day.
We’ll walk to the Gage Gallery on Michigan Avenue. After that visit, we’ll ride the Brown Line of the “L” (that’s the elevated train) to the River North area, to see work at the Catherine Edelman Gallery and the Schneider Gallery. Also in this neighborhood, we’ll bolt down a little nourishment…
…before bolting to the West Loop to visit the Tony Wight Gallery.
At 12:55, we sprint back to Ogilvie. On the return trip you may work on your cleaned-up notes and responses to prompts on the ride home (your epiphanies will be posted here). We arrive in our home town at 2:32. Hitch me a ride back to the Huge School; thanks!
That’s gallery hoppin’: hoofin’ & boardin’ & ridin’ & walkin’ & boltin” & sprintin’ & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14Dgw_LSJ5w&feature=related
One of those magical days…
…when the planets seem to be alignment…
…occurred two days ago again in class.
Justine Kaszynski, Caroline Horswill, Emma Haney, Nicole Galanti, and Joyce Gaffney.
The semester is rocketing into the stratosphere, print by print.
Late Summer Work
Here is a semi-arbitrary selection of pieces made by members of the AP class, which were made into digital files during the week before the equinox. We hope you find all of it engaging; it’s a promising start to the year. My bad if anyone is left out (or represented twice).
The workflow is: 1. Pry the work from the artists’ clutches. 2. Make digital copies, often whilst chewing or before sunrise, or both. 3. Transfer the files to a work station that is balanced on one’s knees (cf. Mr. Nicholson). 4. Clean up the borders; guess which way is up for some; compress the files to a practical size (and not touch up the charming dust spots). 5. Drag ’em into this post.
Having done those steps, we note that the pictures were made by Kendall Wallin, Margaret Rajic, Rachel Parker, Nikki Nixon, Corey Nguyen, Sam La Bar, Justine Kaszynski, Michelle Henneberry, Dr. Emma Haney, Jamie “Aubergine” Gray, Nicole Galanti, and Chanelle “Tubs” Biangardi. (Lemme know if this is less than accurate.)
Photo De-Kigali-Voto
Claire McGillem’s in Rwanda (!) and y’all can follow along at http://rwandaramblings.wordpress.com/
Work in Progess/Process
Not that anyone’s on tenterhooks, but some negatives are made, and what remains is what has been called the “photo-finishing.”
As a further preview, here’s a little sample ‘shopping:
Yep.
Scores at last
Once again this year, Aly, there was a delay in a portfolio score, but we now have the complete tally:
four 5s, seven 4s, and two 3s!
Everybody gets college credit for their pictures.
Max congrats to Kristin, Molly, Coley, and Heather Staileyphone.
Just about everybody had a recognizable visual style to their work. There was a true support system among artist peers, and everyone exerted a final push to perfect their portfolios.
Caveat Appropriator
Read this before you use other artists’ work as a starting point: http://waxy.org/2011/06/kind_of_screwed/
…and review the guidelines from the College Board: “Any work that makes use of (appropriates) photographs, published images and/or other artists’ work must show substantial and significant development beyond duplication. This is demonstrated through manipulation of the formal qualities, design, and/or concept of the source. The student’s individual ‘voice’ should be clearly evident. It is unethical, constitutes plagiarism, and often violates copyright law simply to copy an image (even in another medium) that was made by someone else and represent it as one’s own.”
Creative Camerawork 