What is CULTURE?

CULTURE: e.g. an exploration of influences from a nation's culture, an art movement, an individual artist,or a single work of art. Recognize the unique qualities of your own ethnic culture and that of your host country or of any country. It could be contemporary, historic, or a comparative study.

A culture can be described as learned and shared beliefs, vlaues, interests, attitudes, products or patterns of behavior. Culture is dynamic and organic and operates on many levels-international, national, regional, local, and social interest groups.

WI's Due: Monday September 13th!

Remember to include 10 images from art in your world. You must take the photos yourself. They should be printed and included in your book. Make sure you include notes and reflections about each image.

If you did not include artists and processes that will inform and inspire your work in your book previously, be sure to get them in this time!! Cite all sources! Number and date all pages!

Document work being made in class. Jot down ideas, make sketches and put all of this in your book. Both success and failure should be documented. (Whats working? Whats not?)

Check out the links on the side of the blog! There is a link that might help you get started about thinking about art in your world! Check it out!


Containment/ Work in progress Critique is Friday Sept 17th! Be ready to talk about your work and get input from others!

Containment project is due: September 27th (Monday)

A.P. 3-D Requirement Reminder!

The 3-D Design portfolio category includes any kind of art that exists in three dimensions. Submissions in this category should explore three-dimensional depth and space, but there are no limitations or restrictions on size,materials, or style of work. The submission requirements for the 3-D Design category are different from the other AP meaning that the size of the works included in the protfolio is entirely determined by the student.
For the Quality section of the portfolio, include a total of 10 images (two different views of 5 works)
For the concentration section, include 12 images, some of which may be details.

The Breadth section should include a total of 16 images (two diffent views of 8 different works.)

QUALITY/10 (2 VIEWS OF 5 WORKS)

CONCENTRATION/ 12 IMAGES/ SOME MAY BE DETAILS

BREADTH/16 IMAGES (TWO DIFFERENT VIEWS OF 8 DIFFERENT WORKS)

Link to AP website:
http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/exam/exam_questions/2135.html?affliateld=APSamp&bannerid=st3d

What will the I.B. Examiner be looking for?

Studio Work:

1. Experimentation and the development of ideas in artwork leading to successful resolution.

2. The selection and use of a variety of artistic and cultural strategies, media, and style.

3. An ongoing process of review, modification and refinement.

4. Inventive approaches to experimentation and exploration using div erse strategies, ideas, techniques and media

5. The ability to select and employ materials appropriately leading to coherent use of materials.

6. The development of a sense of self in relation to other people, places, and times.

7. Knowledge of how to make informed reflective, critical judgments, and use them when evaluating their own studio work, or the ability to pose questions and work towards solving their own problems.

Presentations Continue!

Senior presentations went well on Friday! Presentations will continue on Tues, Wed, and Thursday. WI's are due on Thursday, Sept. 2nd. Make sure you have at least 5 pages. All sources MUST cited.

What should be in your book this week?

1. Containment ideas. What is your idea? Explain, include sketches, and artists that influence and inspire you. Where do your ideas come from? What are you thinking? Why have you decided to make what you are making?

2. Inlude images and ideas you have researched. Do not print off articles and put them in your book, without notes and reflections being included. I do not want to just read the article, I want to know why it is in your book!

3. What process will you use? Slab, pinch, coil? Are you going to use the wheel? Will you be incorporating mixed media into your piece! AP students please be thinking about what you would like to be doing for your concentration. ( This only applies to Seniors who are testing this year!)

4. Go to this blog: http://kevinsakaguchipottery.weebly.com

Containment?

As we discussed in class, the topic continues to be containment. You must bring in the fluid you wish to contain when you have finished your series of 5 matching containment pieces.
Remember that the artists that inspire and influence your work should be well documented in your WI. What do you see in your world, not in the computer, or in a book, that inspires and influences your work? Document it, write it down.
Ideas come to us at crazy times, keep the WI with you and write down your thoughts and ideas as they occur to you!

All work needs to photographed with a graduated background, and appropriate lighting. Please see me if you have questions! Thats why I am here!!!!

A NEW YEAR! 2010-2011

Welcome Back Everyone! (I.B., A.P., and Advanced Ceramics students!!)
It is time to get out the WI's, (Investigative Workbooks) and start again!
In order to create community and find out where everyone is in their developmental process each one of you will be presenting!

Your presentation should answer the following questions:

1. What artists inspire and inform your work? Why? How?
2. What is your favorite quote? Lyrics from music are o.k. to use, if you would like.
You may include your favorite music in your presentation if you would like?
3. How does the context in which you are living your life affect your work? (We will talk about
this in more depth in class.
4. Where is there ART in your world?
5. What have you made in the past? What do you hope to create in the future? Why?