Mike Cygan is the AP 2-D Design Studio Student of the Year!
Molly Hendrickson is the Photography Student of the Year!
More to come…
Catalog Preview
The second annual Actual Works catalog (or do you spell “catalogue?”) is… in the works. Here’s the preview:
Annabel Perry, Caitie Dawson, Erin Dalton, Christina Buerosse, Hailey Anderson, Kristen Kuhn, Maggie Kramer, Molly Hendrickson, Mike Cygan.
College Board Countdown
Here is the text of last week’s handout. I hope the impromptu “skip day” doesn’t prove to be a spanner in the works for the absentees.
Friday, 4/29: Open lab. Give me work to shoot, finish preparing portfolio cases, decide which 5 pieces to ship. Milwaukee field trip head count.
Monday, 5/2: Desperation Darkroom. Bring a storage/transfer device, load pieces onto your account, and give me work to shoot.
Tuesday, 5/3: Bring a storage/transfer device, give me work to shoot for the last time, write a final draft of your Commentary, load and sequence work on your account.
Wednesday, 5/4: Bring a storage/transfer device, load and sequence work on your account, make a final edit of your Commentary, remove your work from the exhibit, label the 5 pieces to ship.
Thursday, 5/5: Load your Commentary onto your account, and load and sequence work on your account.
Friday, 5/6: You are field-tripped out beginning 5th hour. Appear at the library computer classroom no later than 12:00; we are scheduled to remain there until 4:00 (or until everyone has completed the online portfolio requirements and packed their work).
The Seniors’ AP Exhibit
What? No establishing shot?
Pix o’ some adults will have to suffice.
Art sends hearts and lids aflutter.
Our AP FT Itinerary
Bring with you $5.50 for a round trip Metra fare (with a student ID discount) and $2.50 for the CTA (and $100.00 for lunch makes it $108.00). We’ll take our attendance at the school before we go to the rail depot, then we’ll commute downtown and walk to to the “El,” and ride it, and see the exhibit at the Harold Washington Chicago Public Lbrary; then on to the MCP @ Columbia College for the Kahn & Selesnick show; up Michigan Avenue to the Gage Gallery of Roosevelt University featuring Milton Rogovin’s work; and finally to the Cultural Center to see Mr. Dan Zamudio and… Vivian. Somewhere in there we’ll grab a gourmet meal, and after “Viv” we’ll sprint to the return train (check in w/moi as you board, s.v.p.). We’ll step off in Borington @ 2:32.
http://www.richardwasserman.net/Portfolio.cfm?nK=9797
http://www.mocp.org/events/2011/03/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzZRei2xxM4&feature=related, then on to the subsequent portions (find the typo!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HN5wm_Kxvi4
https://photodevoto.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/milton-rogovin/
http://vivianmaier.blogspot.com/2010/12/chicago-tonight-on-vivian-maier.html
Next Year’s AP Roster!
A note to Guidance.
Here are the names of those who applied for next year’s Advanced Placement 2-D Design studio course, and were accepted by the Art Department faculty: Alexa Hanaford, Caroline Horswill, Fay Jenson, Jesse Filian, Joyce Gaffney, Justine Kaszynski, Kendall Wallin, Kristina Bastidas, Lauren Captain, Margaret Rajic, Matt Wloch, Nikki Nixon, Rachel Parker, Sam La Bar, Victoria Taylor, Zach Rowe.
7 students, already in the course, are returning. They are Chanelle Biangardi, Corey Nguyen, Jamie Gray, Emma Haney, Michelle Henneberry, Melissa Jones, and Nicole Galanti.
For the convenience of counselors, here are excerpts from the application form: “All senior class AP Studio students must enroll in a second visual art course. (AP Art History may qualify as this second course only for those seniors returning to the AP Studio program.)… Students intending to graduate early are not eligible to apply, due to AP Portfolio submission… All students will be required to submit a portfolio in May.”
Attention, AP Fo-Do: America needs more lerts.
Bring things to the final: at the least, paper and a pencil; a laptop & jump drive, max. Prepare whatever notes you wish, from which to work on your concentration commentary. Here are some examples:
http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/exam/exam_questions/200762.html
Extend the October Critique
During yesterday’s massive monthly AP critique, someone (was it Emma K.?) suggested that perhaps we devise another venue, another format for giving feedback to presenters. Two ideas were small handwritten forms, and a response forum. Nothing has prevented anyone from writing either a short comment (from 1st grade on, really) or a substantive analysis, but that benefits only the recipient artist, not any of the other participants )(because it would be a “private” message.
Coincidentally, a similar blawwg forum was proposed for us and our “sister school” (Lincoln, in [one of the many places called] Manitowoc). This type of posting ought to have some structure, rather than a polite free-for-all, in order for each artist to be able to take away real constructive criticism and suggestions.
Ideas, please. Time frame? Conceptual commentary? Technical? Anonymity (either for the commenters, or “pretend” namelessness for the artist, whilst online)?
One well-meaning proposal yesterday was that one of the artists begin to make more casual portraits in addition to, or instead of, the excellent examples that were shown. I say “instead of” because the proposer was talking about something that wasn’t there rather than the work that was brought to the table. Theory is autobiography in this case: the speaker obviously prefers another style of portraiture, and wasn’t getting it yesterday. Too bad; stick with what’s in front of us in critiques.
OK. Now you chip in. Click on “Comment.”
AP Portfolio 411
Situations are not immutable. On Friday I was given to understand that things are no longer as they were once understood to be. Here are three critical differences.
1. The College Board readers are paid (and expected) to consider the Commentary you write to accompany your portfolio, not only to refer to it in times of uncertainty.
2. Breadth is best displayed in a manner that looks well as a whole, on the screen.
3. The Concentration section is not seen as necessarily chronological, nor should it “start strong and end strong” (as a portfolio would for certain art schools).
Creative Camerawork 