As you know our CSULB Curated Kickstarter Page is currently in the approval process here at the University. I honestly don’t know how long it will take. Perhaps just a couple of days. Perhaps a lot longer. I’ll keep you posted. But meanwhile, here’s a page to present projects from your classmates.

Connor Bailey

“Couch Potato” – Indiegogo Promo from Studio J on Vimeo.

The pitch video for our short film's crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo.

David Phan

David Phan

Welcome incoming CSULB 2014-2015 Students!

1. Abdul Algasim – Abdulalgasim.com
2. Abigail Garcia – abigaillgarcia.wordpress.com
3. Adriana Macias – adrianagmacias.wordpress.com
4. Alan Vu – alantvu.wordpress.com
5. Albert Macias – albrtmacias.com
6. Alex Lo – alexanderl0.com
7. Allen Lam – lamallen.com
8. Allison Wendell – allisonwendell.com
9. Alonzo Urita – alonzourita.com
10. Amber Del Real – amberdelreal.wordpress.com
11. Amber Reyes – amberdanielareyes.wordpress.com
12. Amir Kiani – heresamirkiani.wordpress.com
13. Andrew Aragon – andrewraragon.wordpress.com
14. Andrew Wagner – andrewrobertwagner.wordpress.com
15. Angelica Camacho – angelicaelsacamacho.wordpress.com
16. Anna Joy Floresca – ajfloresca.wordpress.com
17. Anthony Diaz – diazzzzzz.wordpress.com
18. Antonio Lavermon – tonylavermon.wordpress.com
19. April Gliane – withloveapril.wordpress.com
20. Ariadna Rivera – ariitxel.com
21. Aubrey Delos Reyes – thisisbrey.wordpress.com
22. Austin Naud – austinnaud.wordpress.com
23. Bin Yang (Ryan) Wang – binyangwang.wordpress.com
24. Bowas Yang – bowasyang.com
25. Branden Saito – brandensaito.wordpress.com
26. Brandon Middleton – brandonmcsulb.wordpress.com
27. Breanne Lee – breannelee.wordpress.com
28. Bryanna Duckwitz – bryannaduckwitz.wordpress.com
29. Bun Law – bunlaw15.wordpress.com
30. Calvin Vo – calvinvo.wordpress.com
31. Carina LaMarchina – carinalamarchina.com
32. Celine Phan – celinephan23.com
33. Charlie Teloma – charlie110art.wordpress.com
34. Chelien Kue – chellykue.wordpress.com
35. Cherith Mendoza – x
36. Cheyenne Ochoa – cheyennenochoa.wordpress.com
37. Christian Espinoza – chrisespinoza.com
38. Christine Trinh – christinetrinh.wordpress.com
39. Christopher Soerachmat – Christophersoerachmat.com
40. Connor Bailey – connorbaileycinematographer.com
41. Conny Ramirez – connyramirez.wordpress.com
42. Corinne Sampson – corinnesampson.wordpress.com
43. Craig Wigboldy – craigwigboldy.com
44. Cynthia Carrera – cynthiacarrera.wordpress.com
45. Cynthia Ramirez – rcynthia.com x
46. David Aceves – DavidAceves.com
47. David Ngo – davidngo8.wordpress.com
48. David Phan – Davidcphan.com
49. Denzel Philip Belleza – denzelhub.com
50. Destiny Zuniga – desstinyzuniga.wordpress.com
51. Devante Lindsey – devantelindsey.wordpress.com
52. Diana Garcia – dnagarcia5.wordpress.com
53. Diana Martinez – dcmartinez.com
54. Diana Vasquez – vasquezdiana.wordpress.com
55. Dominic Erich – Dominicerich.com
56. Elizabeth Banuelos – elizabethbanuelos.com
57. Emily Bondoc – emilyannebondoc.wordpress.com
58. Emmanuel Lara – emmanuel8lara.wordpress.com
59. Eric Yanagihara – yanaga34.com
60. Evan Huang – evanshuang.com
61. Fahad Hassan – hassanfahad08.wordpress.com
62. Frank Mai – frankmai.wordpress.com
63. Freddy Varela – freddyvarela.wordpress.com
64. Gerardo Reyes – gerardoreyes9.wordpress.com
65. Grant Christensen – grantchristensen.com
66. Greg Violan – gregviolan.com
67. Irene Shin – ireneeshin.wordpress.com
68. Jack Taylor – jackandrewtaylor.wordpress.com
69. Jake Mercadante – jakemercadante.com
70. Jasmine Hooper – jasminehooper.wordpress.com
71. Jerome Guzman – guzmanjerome.wordpress.com
72. Jessica Flores – jessicaflores1994.wordpress.com
73. John Tran – johnhieptran.wordpress.com
74. Jonathan Garcia – chevroletss96.wordpress.com
75. Jose Lara – josecruzsite.com
76. Jose Santillian – joseluissantillan.com
77. Justin Toguchi – justintoguchi.wordpress.com
78. Juventino Cisneros – juventinocisneros.com
79. Kamani Falls – imkamanii.wordpress.com
80. Kari Maehara – karimaehara.com
81. Kathleen Nguyen – kathyn9514.wordpress.com
82. Kelsey Aparicio – Kelseyaparicio.com
83. Kevin Cordova – kevinlcordova.com
84. Kevin Kwon – kevinykwon.wordpress.com
85. Kevin Lee – kevin2g.wordpress.com
86. Kevin Pham – kevinpandapham.wordpress.com
87. Kiana Lightbourn – kianalightbourn.wordpress.com
88. Kiara Kensie – iamkkkensie.wordpress.com
89. Kim Tang – tanghkim.wordpress.com
90. Kseniya Meshcheryakova – kseniyameshcheryakova.wordpress.com
91. Kylie Wong-Hazehara – kyliehazehara.wordpress.com
92. Lia Giordano – liaagiordano.wordpress.com
93. Lindsey Karasawa – lindseykarasawa.wordpress.com
94. Lyna Salameh – lsalameh.wordpress.com
95. Maeghan McBee – maeghanmcbee.wordpress.com
96. Marie Mendez – marielmendez.wordpress.com
97. Marie Rivas – marierivas.wordpress.com
98. Mariela Herrera – marielah21.wordpress.com
99. Marlene Gonzalez – gonmarlene.wordpress.com
100. Marlyn Castillo – marlyncastillo.com
101. Matthew Savedra – matthewsavedra.wordpress.com
102. Max Hamilton – maxhamltn.wordpress.com
103. Melanie Colli – melaniecolli.com
104. Michelle Hall – myhalll.wordpress.com
105. Michelle Morte – imichellemorte.wordpress.com
106. Mimi Ly – hellomimily.wordpress.com
107. Minerva Madrigal – minervamadrigal93.wordpress.com
108. Minyon Spencer – minyonspencer.wordpress.com
109. Nicole Ilagan – nicoleilagan.com
110. Oscar Ramirez – notoscarramirez.wordpress.com
111. Oscar Rocha – oscarivanrocha.wordpress.com
112. Panos Getekian – panosgetekian.wordpress.com
113. Parker Mandujano – parkermandujano.wordpress.com
114. Quynh Ong – qquynhh.wordpress.com
115. Rachel Peng – raachelpeng.wordpress.com
116. Rachel Price – rachelpprice.com
117. Renato Muralles – renatomuralles.wordpress.com
118. Richard Amenero – emojiamenero.com
119. Richard Chavez – richardchavezblog.com
120. Salina Chavez – salinachavez2110.com
121. Sam Gold – samuelgold.com
122. Sandra Menjivar – sandrmenjivar.wordpress.com
123. Sara Kodesh – sarakodesh.wordpress.com
124. Sarah De Leon – sarahdeleonn.wordpress.com
125. Sarra Beauzil – sarraelizabette.wordpress.com
126. Savannah Cheung – savannahcheung.com
127. Sergio Melendrez – sergiomelendrez.wordpress.com
128. Shannon Choi – shannonchoi.wordpress.com
129. Stephen Boyer – stephensboyer.com
130. Steven Le – stevenkle.wordpress.com
131. Steven Lozano – stevenwlozano.com
132. Tanner Binsfeld – tannerbinsfeld.com
133. Troy Tintiangco – troytintiangco.wordpress.com
134. Tyler Hirata – tylerhirata.wordpress.com
135. Tyler Labo Muronaka – tylermuronaka.wordpress.com
136. Uriel Reveles – urielreveles.wordpress.com
137. Vanessa Carbajal – vanessacarbajal.wordpress.com
138. Vanessa Garcia-Rodriguez – vanessssagrxx.wordpress.com
139. Victor Kan – victorkan.wordpress.com
140. Yesenia Chavez – yeseniachavez.com
141. Yiwen Lu – yiwenlu.wordpress.com
142. Yu-Tung Lin – yutunglin.com
143. Zac Ramirez – zacramirez.wordpress.com
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Format
3. Points & Grades
4. Other Details
5. Activities
6. Interviews

Subsections of Special Interest

• 2a. What’s Due?
• 2b. Late Policy
• 2c. Attendance
• 3a. Extra Credit
• 3b. Rubrics
• 3c. Artist Tags
  
   

Art 110: Introduction to the Visual Arts

■ Section 2: Class No.5004 – F2F Course
■ Instructor: Glenn Zucman

CLASS
• Tuesday 11 – 12:15, UT-108
• Thursday 11 – 12:15, CSULB School of Art, Art Gallery Courtyard
• Final: Thursday, December 11, 10:15 – 12:15, Art Gallery Courtyard

OFFICE HOURS
• Tuesday 12:15 – 12:45, School of Art, Art Gallery Courtyard
• Thursday 12:15 – 12:45, School of Art, Art Gallery Courtyard
• By Appointment, FO4-267

CONTACT
1. F2F: Before Class, After Class, Office Hours
2. Group Chat: beacharts.ca/chat
3. 1-2-1 Chat: Telegram or WhatsApp: 415-203-5571
4. Comment on any page at beacharts.ca
5. email: [email protected]

ART110 – VISION
In 1439 Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press. In 1991 Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. 40 years ago Marshall McLuhan said that our classrooms were (I’m paraphrasing a bit) too Gutenberg and not enough Berners-Lee. For Fall 2014, Art110 will try to be a little less Gutenberg and a little more Berners-Lee.

This course will cover 3 million years of Art History: from a proto-human moment in a distant South African cave, to the autonomous, post-human, Images That Think out somewhere in cyber-space. Along this journey we will consider the constantly evolving nature of human consciousness and how our consciousness is revealed & redefined through art.

PREREQUISITES
• None.

OBJECTIVES
The purpose of this course is to familiarize the student with the practice, appreciation, and cultural interactions of art across the ages and across the globe. This course will survey the entire sweep of history from ancient art to the contemporary moment. Students will be introduced to the terms, principles, methods, theories and practices of art.

LEARNING OUTCOMES
Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:
• Describe some of the styles, ideas, and issues found in the Western canon.
• Understand and articulate some of the ways that art functions vis-a-vis human culture
• Build upon their direct, introductory experiences, in Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, Photography, Animation, and Data Visualization in both Physical and Virtual worlds
• Articulate their understanding of the relationship between art and: culture, speech, creativity, expression.
• Describe the role of the artist in culture / society.

2. FORMAT OF THE COURSE

Each week this course includes:
1. Art Activity
2. Interview with a student artist at the CSULB School of Art, Art Gallery Courtyard
3. Interview with an Art110 classmate

Each week you’ll make 3 blog posts on your WordPress.com website, 1 for each item.

DUE
Each week’s posts are due by 11:59pm on Sunday night.

LATE POLICY
On time Activity posts receive up to 30 points. Posts up to 1 week late, receive up to 20 points.
On time Interview posts receive up to 14 points. Posts up to 1 week late, receive up to 10 points.
Posts more than 1 week late are not accepted.
I don’t look for late posts. Be sure to message me if you want a late post looked at.

TEXTBOOK
• Your Mobile Device

Attendance
This is not a “textbook” course, but an experience course. If you don’t come to class, you haven’t done the course. Each Tuesday in class we will discuss your Art Activities from last week and prepare for this week’s activities. Each Thursday we meet at the CSULB School of Art, Art Gallery Courtyard where you can Interview an Artist, Interview a Classmate, and prepare for, and sometimes complete, the week’s activity. (you can’t do activities like Spray Painting or Plaster Casting in the Gallery Courtyard)

Please make 27 copies of your Student ID Card:

1. Black-and-white copies are fine
2. Please make them at 100%, do not enlarge or reduce them
3. Please cut them out to the size of the card, no extra paper, and no folded paper
4. If you forget your card you may turn in your name & student number on a card-sized piece of paper for 1/2 credit
5. YOU CAN ONLY TURN IN YOUR CARD. YOU MUST TURN IN YOUR OWN CARD. YOU MAY NOT TURN IN A CARD FOR A FRIEND!

Starting Week 2 I’ll be collecting your ID Card Copies as your attendance. I’ll have an envelope each day. On Tuesdays please give me your card at the end of class. On Thursdays any time during class is fine. Please DO NOT turn in ID cards for your friends! This is Academic Dishonesty. It sucks a lot. And then you and I have to go sit in the College of the Arts Dean’s office and talk about the incident and your future at the university, and everybody has a crummy day.

Missing 1 or 2 classes across the span of the semester should not be too detrimental to your final grade. If you need to miss more than that, you should see me immediately and most likely plan to take Art110 a different semester.

3. Points & Grades

POINTS
• Attendance: 27 classes x 7 = 189 points
• Final: 59 points
• 12 Activities x 30 = 360 points
• 28 Interviews x 14 = 392 points

Course Total Possible = 1,000 points.

GRADES
900 points = A
800 points = B
700 points = C
600 points = D
599 & below = F

EXTRA CREDIT
We have 4 extra credit opportunities this semester, each worth +30 points. If you do all 4 that’s +120 or over a full letter grade of EC. I hope you don’t even need any EC, but if you do, here it is:

Wk 1: Domain Name
When you make your website on WordPress.com in Week 1, you can either use a free domain name like “me.wordpress.com” or you can pay about $18 for your own domain name, like “me.com”. I think you are a lot better served by having your own domain name. If you do make an ePortfolio it’ll be easier and more professional for anyone: friends, family, and HR Directors, to get to your website. Also I think your own domain name gives you more of a sense of ownership of your website. Even though that’s what I think, it’s your choice. You can get full credit with any “me.wordpress.com” URL, or Double Credit, 30+30 points if you go ahead and buy “me.com”. As for what “me” is, that’s up to you. I strongly encourage just getting your name. It’s probably the best in the long run. If you have a common name, you might use a middle initial or a nickname.

NOTE that this EC is ONLY AVAILABLE in Week 1! When you submit your URL, I’ll give EC to those who’ve bought names. This EC isn’t available later in the semester.

Wk 3: Kickstarter
This week we’re thinking about how art & creative projects are funded by making our own Kickstarter pitch videos. And lucky us, we can see some of the real results of Kickstarter this Friday night at the huge, free Kickstarter Film Festival in Griffith Park. If you go, take some pix and write up your experience.

Wk 7: Painting
The best place to paint is at the Venice Beach Legal Art Walls. Just about everyone who has ever gone has had a great time. Yes it’s far. Yes, I know you hate to drive. So instead of requiring you to go there, it’s your choice. You can paint on a piece of cardboard or plywood in your backyard or anyplace that’s legal for full credit. If you can make it out to Venice, I’ll give you double credit, 30+30.

Wk 13-14-15: ePortfolio
We’re making websites for 2 reasons: to have a place to “turn in” our work, but also to start building a personal ePortfolio to show off what we can do. During the last 3 Tuesdays you can do a 5-minute presentation of your ePortfolio to the class for +30 EC. Note that this is NOT for showing your Art110 Activities, but for showing YOUR ePortfolio. For most of you this will be about your major: your Aerospace Engineering, Business Marketing, Fashion Merchandising, Nursing or Marine Biology, etc. ePortfolio. But it can also be a personal passion like working on cars or cosplay or the Mainland Mermaids business you’re starting, or the website you’re creating for your new film or other project.

In addition to the +30 for presenting your ePortfolio, you might earn even more Bonus EC if your classmates vote for you as one of the top sites of the day!

RUBRIC: Activities
Each Activity starts off with a perfect 30, and points are deducted from that if necessary:
1. No Photos: -6
2. Poor Post Naming: -6
3. Too short: -6
4. Not analytic enough: -6

RUBRIC: Interviews
Each Interview starts off with a perfect 14, and points are deducted from that if necessary:
1. No Photos: -2
2. Poor Post Naming: -2
3. Too short: -2
4. Not analytic enough: -2
5. No Artist Tag: -7

PHOTOS
Photos of what? For your Activities, document your process! For Classmate Interviews, a photo with your classmate would be great. For Artist Interviews, a photo of the artist, or their work would be ok. Photos of both would be great.

POST NAMES
What is “good” post naming? Mostly something that makes it easy for me to know what I’m looking at. If you’ve working on a larger project with your website, your posts don’t have to have these exact names, as long as it’s easy for me to identify. Here are some examples of good post names:
• Wk2 – Activity – Plaster Casting
• Wk2 – Artist Interview – Brianna Allen
• Wk2 – Classmate Interview – Geri Weckstein

anything in that form makes it easy to know what I’m looking at and will be great.

ANALYTIC WRITING
3 & 4 are a little subjective. But the idea here is that one paragraph that only states what the activity was or bare basics of the interviews is kind of short and not really analytic. 3-4 paragraphs each of decent length where you talk about your Activity Process, or Interview Conversations, and definitely try to analyze the ideas, is great!

By “analyze” I mean rather than restating facts, you try to make those ideas your own by seeing what truth you find in them, or alternative thoughts you have, or other artists that come to mind. Maybe this is art you’ve never even known about or thought about before: does it make sense? Does it expand your perspective on art and the practice of artists? Do you reject that this work even is art? Does it resonate with personal experiences in your own life or things you’ve seen in the world?

ARTIST TAGS
The CSULB School of Art, Student Artists, are being generous with us. They galleries normally open at Noon, so they’re opening an hour early to talk to Art110. And they’re dealing with a big class like ours coming through their carefully assembled exhibition. And answering lots of questions from us! So lets try to thank them for their hospitality and for sharing their work with us. One great way to do this is to TAG your post. This gives them a tag they can click on to see all the posts we’ve written about them. The tags for Fall 2014 are on the Fall 14 Galleries page.

Another nice way to respect these artists is to try to have a real conversation with them about their work and their ideas first, and then ask to take a photo of them or their work. When 100 of us rush in with cell phones snapping all at once, the artists can start to feel like victims of paparazzi rather than appreciated artists.

Instagram by @alycehaliday. You have to wonder if the masses at The Louvre actually like the Mona Lisa, or even care about what’s going on in the work, or if they’re just collecting a “badge” for their Facebook page? Let’s try to not be them!

EASY!
Pretty much, if you put up 3 posts a week with Pix, Good Titles, nice Analysis, and a TAG for the artist, you should totally ace this class.

4. OTHER DETAILS

Incompletes
The Art Department grants “incompletes” rarely and only for the most extreme conditions.

Accommodation
CSULB will make reasonable accommodations for any student who has a disability. It is the student’s responsibility to notify me in advance of the need for special accommodations. This course utilizes many activities and many tools. Most of you should have no trouble with any of this, however if anyone has challenges with any course aspect for any reason, please be in touch ASAP and we can work to find suitable alternatives. A sincere effort should result in real learning and a good grade, so never be afraid to ask for any accommodations you need, but do make a sincere effort.

FUN!
If you’re not having fun, you’re doing it wrong! Art is, or should be, a fun, interesting, exciting, and enjoyable subject. Art offers pleasure to the viewer, consolation to the distraught, and wisdom to the seeker. Art will enrich your leisure time, resonate with your life, and offer surprising relevance to almost any career field you choose!

SCHEDULE

5. Learning Objectives: Activities

Week 1: Web Design

Sami Focarino‘s website

Week 2: Relational Aesthetics

This week we’ll think about the new field of Relational Aesthetics: how artists create works that reflect on social relationships. We’ll think about it with an Instagram “group self-portrait”. Thursday of this week each of us will post 4 Instagram pix (or more) of whatever we’re doing during the 24 hours of the day. Well use the hashtag #art110fall14 and then look at the 600+ pix we’ve created together to see what commonalities and differences we can find in our group life.

Week 3: Arts Funding

This week we’ll think about Arts Funding. How does an artist earn a living? 5 centuries ago you might have had a wealthy patron like the Medici family. In some ways today isn’t that different, with Americans like Eli Broad or Europeans like Charles Saatchi using their fortunes to make powerful marks on our cultural rivers. In addition to the Gallery system, there are also funding organizations like the National Endowment for the Arts, and new Crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter which launched in 2009. This week we’ll make another vlog, this one being a pitch video we might use for a Kickstarter project to pitch our ideas to friends, family, and other patrons.

Week 4: Sculpture

This week we’ll have our 3D Art, Sculpture Experience by making a Plaster Casting of your hand or foot at the beach. It’s a good excuse to go to the beach as part of your “school”, but it’s also a great way to use natural resources to come pretty close to the way “real” objects are fabricated. Normally casting uses finer sand than beach sand and a hinged mold so you can get the object out more cleanly, but we’ll do a pretty good approximation at a local beach.

Week 5: Identity Art

This week we dive into Identity Art and maybe a bit of Performance Art by thinking about Counterfactual Identity. For one day you can dress up differently than you normally do and see how people react to you. What do they think your major is? What do they think your name might be?

Week 6: Drawing

Human beings have probably been drawing for as long as we’ve been on earth. What’s new in the 21st century? Mobile drawing! Drawing with your finger on a phone or tablet probably isn’t the best way to learn to draw, but it does echo some of the early ways we humans would have drawn with fingers and sticks. With the French Girls mobile app you can pick someone else’s selfie to draw and you can also see how other peeps draw you. In a full drawing course you could develop real skills, but here we’ll keep it light and just play a little with the possibilities of networked social drawing.

Week 7: Painting

Amanda’s niece, Amanda & Siraj standing in-between Siraj’s 2 pieces in English & Arabic.

This week Painting meets Street Art as we spray paint our names in Bubble Letters. You can use cardboard or plywood in your back yard, or if you can make it out to the Venice Beach Legal Art Walls, you can have another beach trip and soak in a lot of culture in the remarkable high-and-low culture capital of Venice. Plus get extra credit for going!

Week 8: ePortfolio

The 1st week of class we all made websites. A few of you already had websites, and since then a few of you have really made these sites awesome online portfolios of your work in Cinematography or Marine Biology or Fashion Merchandising etc. But for most of you these websites have mostly been “turn in my activities” websites. Now that you’ve had some time to get comfortable with the WordPress platform, it’s time to move your website from a “homework” website that really only helps you for 1 semester, to a Personal ePortfolio website that can help you get internships and jobs and launch your career. Your ePortfolio can be a website that not only helps you transition from CSULB to the next phase of your career, but can go with you through your career documenting and presenting your achievements as you make your way through the journey of life.

Week 9: Vlogging

We’ve started our ePortfolio and this week we’ll do a New Media vlog to best present our portfolio to the world. This is a short, look at your audience, 1st person video where you introduce yourself.

Week 10: Photography

Robina Borrero, Art 110, Fall ’12

Week 11: Your Turn

photo from Geri Weckstein’s “Made Anywhere But Here” project, Sp ’14

Week 12: Teach One

Finally, after doing 11 different art activities, it’s time to teach one! The best way to learn something is to teach it to someone else. Let’s wrap up our course experience by sharing something about art with others. You can make a video or use other media and teach any art idea or technique. You don’t have to be an expert, just communicate what you know as clearly as you can.

6. Learning Objectives: Interviews

Since so much of our time in Art110 is spent in conversations with School of Art artists, or Art110 classmates, the specific cultural ideas explored won’t be quite as defined as they would be in a course with 2-1/2 hours of lecture each week and an accompanying survey textbook to read. Still, many of the same ideas should be explored across the course of the semester.

Some of the many ideas you can expect to explore with artists & classmates this semester include:
• The 3-million-year impulse of our ancestors to make art and aesthetic experience.
• How art expresses who we are, our hopes and our fears.
• A consideration of art and life, and our human presence on this earth.
• Cave art and how the markings on cave walls have so much to say about who we are today.
• Classical Greece and Rome and how the art of those cultures influences Western and American culture today.
• The Middle Ages: culture, architecture, illuminated manuscripts.
• The Renaissance & The Baroque.
• The explosion of new ideas in the 19th century.
• Realism & Romanticism.
• The 20th century.
• Abstraction & Representation.
• Copyright & Intellectual Property.
• Free Culture, Creativity & the ability to Participate in Culture.
• Hacktivism & Street Art.

Beyond these overarching ideas, each artist and each classmate you have a conversation with will bring many unique ideas about art, culture, aesthetics, society, identity, media, and many other aspects of art, culture, and life in this world.

I know you always feel the pressure to “get the essential facts” so you can “finish this thing and get to lunch.” Try to slow down a little and have real conversations. Try to worry less about “the facts” and to learn something important from each person you speak with. Try to appreciate the depth and value of each person you have a chance to visit with.

Wk 1: Website & URL – Optional (+30 EC)

We’re making Websites or ePortfolios on WordPress.com WordPress powers 22% of the web these days. It started as blogging software, and while it’s still great at that, it’s become a “CMS” or Content Management System. It’s a handy place to “turn in” your Art110 Activities, but in the long-run, even more importantly it can be Your Website! It can be a great platform to present yourself to the world. Your website on WordPress.com is free forever and your own domain name will cost about $18/year.

When you sign up you’ll get a URL like http://GlennZucman.WordPress.com – you can optionally buy your own Domain Name, like http://GlennZucman.com. It’s your website and your choice what URL you buy. But as a professional site for your career, something like GlennZucman.com will probably serve you better than something like CoolNowButEmbarrassingLater.com

I think it’s a really good idea to buy a domain name. It gives you a sense of empowerment, making your website really yours. It’s more professional. And it’s just plain easier for peeps, be they friends & family, or HR Directors, to type in. But it’s your choice. A free “me.wordpress.com” is acceptable. If you choose to go for a custom “me.com” I’ll “pay you back” with +30 of EC – OFFER ONLY GOOD DURING WEEK 1! EC will be posted with your regular points when I grade the Wk 1: Make a Website activities.

Wk 2: Plaster

You need some things that you can probably scrounge up somewhere:
• Bucket
• Shovel
• Stir Stick
And you’ll get some
1. Plaster of Paris – a 4# box for yourself is about $7 or you could get a 25# bag to share between 4 – 6 people for about $16

Wk 5: Spray Paint

You’ll need at least 2 colors of paint, but just buy 1 can and share colors with a classmate. Any spray paint is ok. Montana Gold is really great!

Other Materials

Whatever materials you might need to realize your vision on various Activities including A11 & A12.

School of Art, Art Gallery Complex, Fall 2014

Courtney Heiser discussing her work with Art110 students.

Wk 1 & Wk 2 – Aug 25 – Sep 4

• Greater Los Angeles Master of Fine Arts Exhibition – WPcom Tag: glamfa

The Greater Los Angeles Master of Fine Arts (GLAMFA) Exhibition is a representation of the next wave of contemporary artists. The exhibition features the works of MFA and MA students from the greater Los Angeles area and is curated by CSULB’s School of Art graduate students.

Wk 3 – Sep 7 – 11

• Vav Vavrek, MFA Sculpture – WPcom Tag: vavrek
• Jesse Lubben, Photography – WPcom Tag: lubben
• Chelsea McIntyre, Sculpture – WPcom Tag: mcintyre
• Patricia Rangel, Metals – WPcom Tag: rangel

Vav Vavrek’s MFA Thesis exhibition will consist of an installation utilizing an overlapping of video processes across the spectrum of display technologies to create an experience of an alternate present. Jesse Lubben will display a series of photographic prints that play with relationships between three-dimensional sculpture and the two-dimensionality of photography. Chelsea McIntyre presents a performance piece featuring two actors engaged in a heated discourse. Visitors are welcome to engage the situation however they please. Patricia Rangel integrates dirt, cement, metal, and silk in a series of sculptural works that range in dimension and configuration.

Wk 4 – Sep 14 – 18

• Helena Bae and Oscar Mendoza, Drawing and Painting – WPcom Tag: baemendoza
• Maccabee Shelley, Ceramics – WPcom Tag: shelley
• Jeannette Viveros, Sculpture – WPcom Tag: viveros
• Mitchell Springer, Ceramics – WPcom Tag: springer
• Scott Burns, Ceramics – WPcom Tag: burns

Helena Bae and Oscar Mendoza use found objects from urban contexts in their collaborative works that combine sculpture and painting. Maccabee Shelley experiments with material and formal concerns through ceramic processes. Jeannette Viveros displays a mixed-media installation exploring childhood trauma, nostalgia, and internal coping strategies. Mitchell Springer’s process-oriented ceramic sculptures are exhibited using a variety of display methodologies. Scott Burns displays whimsical ceramic sculptures that represent his internalized perceptions of the world.

Wk 5 – Sep 21 – 15

• Photography Symposium – WPcom Tag: csulbphotosymposium
• Mike Lewis, Photography – WPcom Tag: lewis
• Photography Club – WPcom Tag: csulbphotoclub

The Photography Symposium features artwork from local community college faculty and video work from School of Art BFA photography students photography program. Mike Lewis engages with unregulated space in his hometown by displaying it in photographs and found objects. The Photography Club hosts an exhibition thematically centered around connection and disconnection in relation to the internet and internet culture.

Wk 6 – Sep 28 – Oct 2

• Angel Franco, Isaiah Ulloa, and Juan Martin, Sculpture – WPcom Tag: francoulloamartin
• Emily Gross, Drawing and Painting – WPcom Tag: gross
• Rosa Vazquez, Photography – WPcom Tag: vazquez
• Brian Davis, Ceramics – WPcom Tag: davis

Angel Franco, Isaiah Ulloa, and Juan Martin display provocative large-scale creatures stylistically informed by various mythological beasts. Emily Gross’s exhibition will feature paintings completed “en plein air” (“outdoors”) while traveling along the West Coast and through Australia during the summer of 2014. Rosa Vazquez displays a documentary-based archive of photography, text, and video representing United States deportees from recent years. Brian Davis explores formalistic qualities related to color, form, and space in an exhibition based on the different stages of his life.

Wk 7 – Oct 5 – 9

• Nicholas Gaby, Sculpture – WPcom Tag: gaby
• Kenita Hale, BFA Sculpture – WPcom Tag: hale
• Colette Brown, Sculpture – WPcom Tag: brown
• Dana Fleming, BFA Sculpture – WPcom Tag: fleming
• Daniel Rivera and Vanessa Gamboa, Drawing and Painting – WPcom Tag: riveragamboa

Nicholas Gaby explores value and space in relationship to collecting and organizing in a sculptural installation. Kenita Hale’s BFA exhibition features sculptural works that reference famous historical circus performers and human objectification within the context of a hand-made circus tent. Colette Brown’s olfactory sculptures measure the lifespan of particular fluids including plain yogurt, balsamic vinegar, beet juice, vegetable oil, and coffee. Dana Fleming’s BFA exhibition investigates spatial abstraction, formal alienation, and surface quality in relation to the viewer. Daniel Rivera and Vanessa Gamboa collaborate in a performance depicting relationship tensions. Their performance will take place on October 15th with documentation of this performance on display throughout the week.

Wk 8 – Oct 12 – 16

• MFA Advancement Exhibition – WPcom Tag: csulbmfa
• Anastasiia Palamarchuk, Photography – WPcom Tag: palamarchuk
• Printmaking Portfolio Exchange – CSULB and La Sierra – WPcom Tag: csulbprintmaking

The MFA Advancement exhibition features varied work from advancing MFA candidates. Anastasiia Palamarchuk displays a body of work questioning the shifting meaning and value of the “selfie” phenomenon. Works consist of a perfect selfie mirror, selfie encyclopedia, selfie branding, and a collection of selfie short stories. The Printmaking Portfolio Exchange is entitled “Then and Now” and features a portfolio of prints exchanged between faculty, alumni, and current students of La Sierra University and CSULB. Kiyomi Fukui and Nora Ayala, Printmaking MFA students, organized the portfolio and exhibition.

Wk 9 – Oct 19 – 23

• Restart, curated by Bethany King – WPcom Tag: king
• Salon des Refusés, curated by André Stevenson – WPcom Tag: stevenson
• Christine Hudson, BFA Ceramics – WPcom Tag: hudson
• Heather Hassenbein, BFA Ceramics – WPcom Tag: hassenbein
• Sculpture Program Group Exhibition – WPcom Tag: csulbsculpture

“Restart” expresses the impact of spirituality on art. Featured artists express Jesus’s influence on their lives through mixed media works. Based on the 1863 salon of the same name, “Salon des Refusés” (“Exhibition of Rejects”) is an exhibition of rejected or unfavorably criticized work from all School of Art disciplines at CSULB. Christine Hudson presents an interactive installation of numerous handmade porcelain teeth in her BFA exhibition. Heather Hassenbein’s BFA exhibition features wall-mounted works that reflect natural and abstract themes. The Sculpture Program Group Exhibition is self-organized and features artwork by the BFA Sculpture program.

Wk 10 – Oct 26 – 30

• Alyssa Bierce and Candace Wakefield, Photography – WPcom Tag: biercewakefield
• Jessica Bardales, Photography – WPcom Tag: bardales
• Nathaniel Glauninger, Sculpture – WPcom Tag: glauninger
• Brianna Allen, BFA Metals – WPcom Tag: allen
• Marguerite Freed, Yee Li, and Sophia Dao, Drawing and Painting – WPcom Tag: freedlidao

Using photography, video, and installation, Alyssa Bierce and Candace Wakefield explore the concept of incarceration through their individual experiences of having family members in prison. Jessica Bardales presents portraits of children that question hegemony, dominant ideologies, and experiences of gender as presented by popular culture. Nathaniel Glauninger suspends an arrangement of bent pieces of oak from the gallery ceiling and walls. Brianna Allen installs replications of unseen, yet convenient, systems such as electrical conduits, water pipes, and ventilation systems in unusual arrangements in her BFA exhibition. Marguerite Freed, Yee Li, and Sophia Dao exhibit oil paintings that represent anxiety and the internal struggle of the self within psychological and physical contexts.

Wk 11 – Nov 2 – 6

• Romina Del Castillo, Drawing and Painting – WPcom Tag: delcastillo
• Justin Smith, Drawing and Painting – WPcom Tag: smith
• Sean Findley, Printmaking – WPcom Tag: findley
• Darlene Casco, MFA Graphic Design – WPcom Tag: casco
• Wesley Hicks, BFA Ceramics – WPcom Tag: hicks

Romina Del Castillo explores human relationships and the human condition, specifically the experience of womanhood, in a series of large-scale charcoal portraits and figure compositions. Sean Findley explores ideas of fast food and trash in an installation of trompe l’oeil fast food wrappers. Darlene Casco’s MFA exhibition explores musical notation and semiotics. Wesley Hicks focuses on the surface quality and display of small-scale ceramic objects to reference history, academia, and the esoteric in his BFA exhibition.

Wk 12 – Nov 9 – 13

• Timothy Cooper, BFA Ceramics – WPcom Tag: cooper
• Michelle Thompkins, MFA Illustration – WPcom Tag: thompkins
• Kiyomi Fukui, Printmaking – WPcom Tag: fukui
• Lacy McCune and Angie Samblotte, Illustration – WPcom Tag: mccunesamblotte
• Cynthia Herrera, MFA Photography – WPcom Tag: herrera

Timothy Cooper presents large-scale slip cast ceramic objects juxtaposed with multiple cast concrete objects in his BFA exhibition. Michelle Thompkins’s MFA exhibition features a progression of images that express the evolution of one girl’s perceptions of the world throughout the course of a day. Kiyomi Fukui exhibits an installation depicting the process of decomposition in the greater life cycle. Lacy McCune and Angie Samblotte display drawings informed by subtle visual events of everyday routines as well as the undeniable significance of banality. Cynthia Herrera’s MFA exhibition features a sculptural installation and archived media from a project that had engaged the community of Riverside, CA.

Wk 13 – Nov 16 – 20

• Drawing and Painting BFA Exhibition – WPcom Tag: csulbdrawpaint
• Nora Ayala, Printmaking – WPcom Tag: ayala
• Brittnee Forline, BFA Metals – WPcom Tag: forline
• Kelsey Zwarka, BFA Ceramics – WPcom Tag: zwarka

The Drawing and Painting BFA Exhibition features work from graduating Drawing and Painting BFA students. Nora Ayala depicts body image and objectification through printmaking techniques. Brittnee Forline’s BFA exhibition features metal works referencing a personal desire for a life of fantasy. Kelly Zwarka’s BFA exhibition showcases abstracted biomorphic forms that range from small to large-scale.

Wk 14 – Nov 23 – 27

• Thanksgiving Week – No Gallery Exhibitions

Wk 15 – Nov 30 – Dec 4

• Photography BFA Exhibition – WPcom Tag: csulbphoto
• Hyeri Kim, BFA Metals and Jewelry – WPcom Tag: kim
• Troy Rounseville, BFA Sculpture – WPcom Tag: rounseville

The Photography BFA Exhibition features work from graduating Photography BFA students. Hyeri Kim’s BFA exhibition features metal works inspired by nature. Troy Rounseville presents a kinetic scripture employing viewer participation in his BFA exhibition. This work combines viewer bodily movements and sound waves.

Wk 15-1/2 – Dec 7 – 11

• 47th Annual Holiday Art Sale – WPcom Tag: csulbholidayart

The 47th annual Holiday Art Sale will occupy all the School of Art Galleries. The sale will feature an array of amazing handcrafted, hand-printed, and wonderfully inspiring one-of-a-kind pieces. All are available for purchase.

Congratulations!

Spring ’14 was my 31st section of Art110 at CSULB, and our 31st #1 student is Geri Weckstein.
In Spring you needed 900 points to earn an “A”. Geri completed the course with 1182.
Congratulations Geri!

Who’s Next?

Congratulations to all the #1 students in the semesters before!
And if you’re taking Art110 now… Good Luck!
The next #1 student could be Y-O-U!

click any photo to see it large
then use arrow keys to scroll through the hall of fame

Mary Hanson with students & plaster castings of their hands.

Got Questions?

There’s lots of ways / places to get help here – this page is one of them!

Ways to ask questions / talk / chat:

• A comment on any page on this site.
• A comment on this “Help” page.
• The “live” Beach Chat to the right. (can be actually live if peeps are on at the same time, or also like a message board to read later)
• Email.

Email is best for personal / private questions. Most “public” questions about Art, Activities, etc, are nice to ask in public as a Comment or Chat question so everyone can share the info. If someone asks a question and you know the answer… answer it!

Laurie Gatlin, Art Education
Kendall Brown, Art History & Museum Studies
Tony Marsh, Ceramics
Tom Krumpak, Drawing & Painting
Carol Shaw-Sutton, Fiber Arts
Tor Hovind, Graphic Design
Robin Richesson, Illustration & Animation
Susanna Ali, Metals & Jewelry
Kyle Riedel, Photography
Kimiko Miyoshi, Printmaking
Bryan Crockett, Sculpture / 4D
Ryan Taber, Wood

Dear School of Art Program Heads,

The Fall ’14 final for Art110 will be Thursday, December 11, 10:15 – 12:15. By then my 150 or so students will have made 15 trips to the School of Art Galleries and seen the work of many of your students. The one thing they won’t have seen is where the work gets made.

I’d like to have a “School of Art Scavenger Hunt” for our final on Dec 11. At the start students will form teams and receive Cards & Maps. Then they’ll pay short visits to program areas where they could take a peek, or have a chat, or take a mini-tour, and receive a signature, stamp, hole punch, embossing, carving, burn, painting, fiber loop, contact print, ceramic shard, mini-illustration, splinter, etc, in one of the squares of their card.

After visiting about 10 program areas they’ll have collected enough points to ace their final.

If your program is able to participate, there is no specific requirement. You could have a faculty member, grad student, or undergrad greet the visitors and tour or chat or sign-off as you like. It should be as easy and unobtrusive as possible for you. I hope it can also be a nice capstone on the 4 months Art110 students will have spent looking at and considering the richly diverse works from the students in the many SOA Programs.

Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions and if your program will be able to participate on December 11.

Thank you and have an insightful & productive Fall semester.

Best Regards,

Glenn

Installation by Heather Anacker & Krista Feld, Spring 2014

Greater Los Angeles Master of Fine Arts Exhibition
Vav Vavrek, MFA Sculpture
Jesse Lubben, Photography
Chelsea McIntyre, Sculpture
Patricia Rangel, Metals
Helena Bae and Oscar Mendoza, Drawing and Painting
Maccabee Shelley, Ceramics
Jeannette Viveros, Sculpture
Mitchell Springer, Ceramics
Scott Burns, Ceramics
Photography Symposium
Mike Lewis, Photography
Photography Club
Angel Franco, Isaiah Ulloa, and Juan Martin, Sculpture
Emily Gross, Drawing and Painting
Rosa Vazquez, Photography
Brian Davis, Ceramics
Nicholas Gaby, Sculpture
Kenita Hale, BFA Sculpture
Colette Brown, Sculpture
Dana Fleming, BFA Sculpture
Daniel Rivera and Vanessa Gamboa, Drawing and Painting
MFA Advancement Exhibition
Anastasiia Palamarchuk, Photography
Printmaking Portfolio Exchange – CSULB and La Sierra
Restart, curated by Bethany King
Salon des Refusés, curated by André Stevenson
Christine Hudson, BFA Ceramics
Heather Hassenbein, BFA Ceramics
Sculpture Program Group Exhibition
Alyssa Bierce and Candace Wakefield, Photography
Jessica Bardales, Photography
Nathaniel Glauninger, Sculpture
Brianna Allen, BFA Metals
Marguerite Freed, Yee Li, and Sophia Dao, Drawing and Painting
Romina Del Castillo, Drawing and Painting
Justin Smith, Drawing and Painting
Sean Findley, Printmaking
Darlene Casco, MFA Graphic Design
Wesley Hicks, BFA Ceramics
Timothy Cooper, BFA Ceramics
Michelle Thompkins, MFA Illustration
Kiyomi Fukui, Printmaking
Lacy McCune and Angie Samblotte, Illustration
Cynthia Herrera, MFA Photography
Drawing and Painting BFA Exhibition
Nora Ayala, Printmaking
Brittnee Forline, BFA Metals
Kelsey Zwarka, BFA Ceramics
Photography BFA Exhibition
Hyeri Kim, BFA Metals and Jewelry
Troy Rounseville, BFA Sculpture
47th Annual Holiday Art Sale

Dear Fall 2014 CSULB School of Art exhibiting artists and group exhibitions,

Congratulations on your upcoming exhibition! I’m excited to see what you’ve been working on. And even more importantly, I’m excited to have my 150 or so Art110 students come see what you’ve been working on!

One detail is that our class meets from 11 – 12:15. I’d like to bring the students over to look at your work on the Thursday of your week. And so, I’m writing to ask if you might be able to open your show an hour early, at 11am on the Thursday of your week.

I completely understand if this is impossible, and I’m very grateful if it is possible. My students will be writing about their visits to the galleries and about their conversations with you. Their essays & photos are due at midnight on Sunday of the week your show will be up, and you’ll be able to use the links on this page after that to find what they’ve all written:
beacharts.ca/fall14-galleries

That page has links to where the student writing about your work will appear, and it has all of your names, but it doesn’t have your web links. If you have a website, blog, ePortfolio, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, or any other relevant URL you’d like the students to be able to see, please LMK and I’ll add it to that page.

Let me know if you have any questions about our visit and if you’ll able to open at 11am on Thursday. Best wishes for your show.

Thank You!

Glenn

PS: I apologize for sending this email from my personal gmail account. I’ve never been able to figure out how to send official campus email to more than 3 non “@csulb.edu” addresses at once. You’re welcome to simply reply to my gmail address if you like, or you can use my real campus email: [email protected]