Procedure for Generating a Crush, Marina Barnes
Points
All points through Week 14 are now up on BeachBoard. All of your email questions have been replied to.
Here’s our points breakdown:
- Total points posted so far = 736
Points still to come:
- Wk 15: 20+10 = 30
- Final = 52
- Attendance = 196
Total Possible = 1,014
900 = A
800 = B
700 = C
600 = D
599 & Below = F
Of the 736 posted so far, here’s what you should have to be on pace for each grade level:
662 points = “A” pace – 85 peeps (47 “super A’s”)
588 points = “B” pace – 15 peeps
514 points = “C” pace – 10 peeps
440 points = “D” pace – 5 peep
439 & below = “F” pace – 14 peeps
Low scores are mostly from not turning things in.
To maximize points on your work:
SOA Galleries – Wk 15 – May 3rd–May 7th
All 5 Galleries
Illustration & Animation, BFA Group Show
The BFA Illustration/Animation Group exhibition is an annual show comprising the works of all graduating BFA students.
Summer Art110
I hope you’ve enjoyed Art110 this semester – and if you have, feel free to let any interested friends know that I’ll be teaching a 100% online version of the class over summer:
The summer class is cool in that 100% online means you can take it from Long Beach, Las Vegas, New York, or Hong Kong. (all of which people have done in the past!)
The summer version is fairly similar to the F2F version. We do have weekly “Activities” but since we’re not necessarily in Long Beach or On Campus we don’t have gallery visits.
Playing w Flickr Interviews
Nice Website!
Janelle Reyes & Lizbeth Rangel
Top 10
- Veronica Meza – 868
- Marina Barnes – 868
- Priscilla Lopez – 808
- Christen Drake – 806
- Nallely Silva – 794
- Gibson Reedy – 792
- Summer Morgan – 789
- Rogelio Avina – 788
- Amanda Bjornstad – 788
- Monica Navarro – 786
- Khoa Do – 786
Sony Gore & Veronica Meza
Marina Barnes & Eujin Song
Priscilla Lopez
Summer Morgan & Christen Drake
Madison Vanden Berg, Nallely Silva & Glenn Zucman
Gibson Reedy
Summer Morgan & Kelsey Lewis
Rogelio Avina & Brandon Harmada
Amanda Bjornstad by Sophie Guthrie
Aleks Kivuls & Monica Navarro
Khoa Do
This week the CSULB School of Art Gatov-North art gallery presented Luther Blissett’s encyclopedic installation Fear & Loathing with Darko, a dense, cavernous presentation of ephemera and detritus from Blissett’s years of pixel smuggling with notorious art provocateur Darko Maver. I met up with Blissett, Maver, and their sometimes collaborator Charles Rosenthal at the School of Art, Art Gallery Courtyard for lunch. Our meal was catered by French chef Rrose Sélavy who served us honey and gold leaf. After serving us Sélavy prepared rabbit for some evening guests. While cooking Sélavy tried to explain Blissett’s installation to the rabbit. I’m uncertain of her success.
Remarkably Blissett covered every inch of the Gatov North gallery with materials from his adventures with Maver. I don’t think I could see the floor or walls at all. In the video clips I’ve embedded here I try to give you a sense of the installation and also some dialog of Blissett explaining his ideas.
Twitter Video
Chipotle pic.twitter.com/uQbMO2TFy4
— Glenn Zucman (@gzucman) April 23, 2015
Flickr Video
up to 90 seconds
Vimeo & YouTube
Here’s the same clip recorded on my phone and then uploaded to Vimeo & YouTube. The YT version has been processed with YT’s Image Stabilization algorithm.
Mobile Video Test from Glenn Zucman on Vimeo.
Artist Marty Knop, Marina Barnes
Gibson & Alexx / Flickr
Veronica Meza / Flickr
Note that unlike still pix, Flickr doesn’t let you rotate videos after you upload them, so be sure to start the video with your phone held the right way!
ID Cards / Instagram
Live Blogging
Hi Art110! Here’s a small segment of “Live Blogging.” Live Blogging is pretty much like “regular” blogging, except the idea is to do it… live! In the context of a conference or event it means that you’d use mobile platforms like WordPress or Twitter to post quick things as the event took place.
For Art110 Artist Conversations, the idea of “posting instantly” is less important than the idea of using quick and easy tools like mobile video.
Embedding Twitter
One nice way to assemble a post is with Twitter Video. Twitter’s got apps for iOS & Android and on both platforms you can shoot up to 30 seconds of video per post. That’s really cool for showing us what an installation or series of works in a gallery looks like. And it can be a nice way to share the experience of talking with the artist if you can get your phone close enough to the artist to get semi-decent audio. Semi-decent audio requires you to be quite close. Otherwise it sounds like they’re talking in a gigantic trash can.
While you can post Twitter Video from your phone, I couldn’t find a way to embed from the phone. I could paste the link from my phone, but that’s a pretty crummy live blog. However it was pretty easy to shoot phone video and then just pull out a laptop or dash to the Spidel Center or Horn Center to embed the Video Tweets on my WordPress blog.
Pasting embed codes can get messed up in “Visual” editing mode, so click “Text” editing mode in the upper-right to do your paste. You can go back to visual after that.
Live Blogging Artist Conversations
If you’d like to give it a try in any of weeks 13, 14, or 15, you can Live Blog instead of writing. You still need at least a bit of intro text on your page. You still have to really be careful to get the artist’s name, the title of the show, the name of the gallery, and the titles of any individual artworks spelled correctly. And you still have to TAG the gallery!
You can do 3 or more 30-second videos, 2 of the artist talking and 1 of the show, in place of the “3 Analytic Paragraphs” of writing. Twitter’s a great choice for this, but you can also use other mobile video apps as long as they can do at least 30 seconds of video and as long as they can embed the video, not just link to it.
Rules
- You have to ask the artist’s permission. For all kinds of reasons an artist might not want to be on video. In that case you’ll still have to write the exhibition up as normal.
- You have to be able to get decent video and audio. This might mean waiting till the latter part of the class when the artist isn’t surrounded by 20 of us.
- You have to embed the video on your post, so we can see a preview of it and play it right on the post itself. Not just a link.
- I do recommend Twitter for this on both iOS & Android. You’re welcome to use anything else as long as it records at least 30 seconds of video with audio. (ie, not 15 seconds or 6 seconds)
- If you’d like to edit together a single video and upload it to Vimeo or YouTube, that’s great. If you make 1 video that’s at least 90 seconds long, with a minute or more of ideas from the artist and a look at the show, you’re good.
Classmate Conversations
You could optionally also try Classmate Video Conversations. The same rules apply. 3 x 30 seconds embedded on your post. You have to get permission. If your classmate would rather not be on video, please just write it up.
Questions?
Ask me!
Alexis Chanes / Flickr
Cruz Valdez / Flickr
Kat / Instagram
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Generating Feng Shui by Marina Barnes
Coded Lines by Adam Price
Points
All points through Week 12 are now up on BeachBoard. All of your points questions have been replied to. The total points possible so far is 676. Here’s what you should have to be on pace for each grade level:
608 points = “A” pace – 78 peeps (41 “super A’s”)
540 points = “B” pace – 22 peeps
472 points = “C” pace – 6 peeps
404 points = “D” pace – 6 peep
403 & below = “F” pace – 17 peeps
Low scores are mostly from not turning things in.
To maximize points on your work:
Sony Gore & Veronica Meza
Leaderboard
- Veronica Meza – 783
- Marina Barnes – 765
- Sophia Guthrie – 746
- Christen Drake – 736
- Gibson Reedy – 732
- Nallely Silva – 731
- Rogelio Avina – 728
- Amanda Bjornstad – 728
- Heather Hopkins – 724
- Joseph Cardoso – 723
Activity “Grades”
48 of you chose to do the optional evaluation of our 12 Activities for Spring ’15. Here’s your Up Votes, Down Votes, and Totals for our 12 Activities:
- Instagram +23 -5 = +18
- Graffiti +23 -8 = +15
- Website +12 -0 =+12
- Choice +13 -3 = +10
- Plaster +15 -12 = +3
- Yarn Bomb +12 -11 = +1
- Landscapes +8 -10 = -2
- Mina Show +9 -12 = -3
- Kickstarter +3 -13 = -10
- Architecture +2 -12 = -10
- Algorithmic +4 -14 = -10
- Remix +3 -20 = -17
Last Semester
Here’s how 74 students ranked the 12 activities from Fall ’14:
- Painting +47 -13 = 34
- Plaster Casting +37 – 14 = 23
- Your Turn +21 -0 = 21
- Instagram +26 -10 = 16
- Corpse +24 -11 = 13
- Web Design +5 -0 = 5
- Teach One +6 -6 = 0
- ePortfolio +10 -16 = -6
- Drawing +15 -26 = -11
- Kickstarter +12 -32 = -20
- CFID +9 -31 = -22
- vLog +4 -26 = -22
Comments
- “sorry I already got interviewed.”
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Classmate question of the week – SteevieLee Nabors
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Less index cards; more student work on screen!
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how do I (Glenn) get you (class) to ask questions?
Alexx Dunk, Katie Leyba, Glenn Zucman & Christen Drake
Week 13 Activity
None!
Melody Madness by Lahya Woodruff
Week 13 Optional EC
You can do up to 4 of your classmates Procedures from last week’s Procedural Art activity for up to 15 points each. Do 4 nicely and you could earn up to 60 points of EC! Pick any from this list of procedures, perform the procedure, document with text / image / sound / video as appropriate, and write a paragraph for each describing your experience. Discuss what you thought you’d get, what you did get, and how interesting it is conceptually and aesthetically.
- Kyle Wadsworth’s Puzzle Video Game. – Kyle’s game only runs on PCs. If you’d got a PC, it’s fun to download it and play. In this case you won’t be “performing a procedure,” it will be more like “beta testing” the game. If you do this one, Kyle has 2 questions for you:
1) Do you like video games? If so, what are some video games you like to play?
2) Describe your experience. What happened? What did you like? What did you not like?
If you do this one, please tag the post with “kyle-wadsworth” so Kyle can get everyone’s feedback next week.
- Alphabet Stories by Amanda Bjornstad
- How to draw a picture (Christian Park style)
- Musical Drawing by Christian Posada
- Procedural Photography by Gibson Reedy
- Procedural Poetry by Hoc Nguyen
- License Plate Art by Jairo Ubeda
- Text Message Poetry by Jasmine Barnum
- Geometric Drawing by Lizbeth Acosta
- Melody Madness by Lahya Woodruff
- Procedural Denim by Mari Christy
MEOW gallery by Michelle Howard
Artist Tags
Be sure to tag your artist posts!
Amanda Bjornstad by Sophie Guthrie
SOA Galleries – Wk 13 – April 19th-April 23rd
Gatov West, Gatov East, Merlino Gallery:
Photography, BFA Group Show
The BFA Photography Group exhibition features photographic work by students earning a BFA degree in Photography.
Dutzi Gallery:
Shihori Nakayam, MA, Illustration
Shihori Nakayama’s MA illustration show includes pen and ink drawings and relief prints that serve as documentaries of her personal life and influences.
Werby Gallery:
Marty Knop, MFA, Printmaking
Marty Knop’s MFA printmaking exhibition consists of mixed media works (gouache paint, screen prints, digital prints) exploring the theme of mathematics and computer graphics.
Benjamin Zhou & SteevieLee Nabors
SOA Galleries – Wk 14 – April 26th-April 30th
Gatov West & Gatov East:
Drawing & Painting, BFA Group Show
The BFA Drawing and Painting Group exhibition will feature a large body of work from BFA students.
Merlino Gallery:
Nathaniel Glauninger, non-degree, Sculpture
Nathaniel Glauninger’s sculptural installation explores the bending of materials using strips of oak suspended from cables.
[box]Glauninger has declined to open for us.[/box]
Dutzi Gallery:
Danqing Shen, MFA, Graphic Design
Danqing Shen’s MFA exhibition focuses on the visualization of emotional feelings by creating informational systems.
sight/site/cite, Annette Heully
Werby Gallery:
Annette Heully, MFA, Fiber
Annette Heully’s MFA fiber show includes large net-like weavings made from cotton and vinyl.
Summer Morgan & Natsuki Fukayama
SOA Galleries – Wk 15 – May 3rd–May 7th
All 5 Galleries
Illustration & Animation, BFA Group Show
The BFA Illustration/Animation Group exhibition is an annual show comprising the works of all graduating BFA students.
Boxes In Boxes from Aleks Kivuls on Vimeo.
Aleks videos look sharper if you view them on Vimeo!
Arc to infinity from Aleks Kivuls on Vimeo.
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— Rachel Goodaker
Points
All points through Week 11 are now up on BeachBoard. All of your points questions have been replied to. The total points possible so far is 616. Here’s what you should have to be on pace for each grade level:
554 points = “A” pace – 78 peeps
492 points = “B” pace – 22 peeps
430 points = “C” pace – 7 peeps
368 points = “D” pace – 7 peep
367 & below = “F” pace – 16 peeps
Since break about 10 A’s have slid to B’s and about 5 D’s have slid to F’s. The class “GPA” so far has slipped from 3.24 before break to 3.06 today. We still have 78 A’s-in-progress which is awesome, but it’s a shame to see work that’s been pretty consistent across the semester slip down in the last 1/3 of the course.
Most of the slippage is from not turning things in. If you want to maximize points on the work that you do, here’s the vital info to get maximum points:
Leaderboard
- Veronica Meza – 708
- Marina Barnes – 700
- Christen Drake – 676
- Sophia Guthrie – 669
- Nallely Silva – 669
- Rogelio Avina – 668
- Amanda Bjornstad – 668
- Lacey Alaniz – 658
- Julyssa Juarez – 658
- Madeline Iwanaga – 657
Wk 12 Activity: Procedural Art!
Full details in class.
Artist Tags
Be sure to tag your artist posts!
SOA Galleries – Wk 12 – April 12 – 16
Gatov West:
Mitchell Springer, BFA, Ceramics
Mitchell Springer’s BFA ceramics exhibition includes freestanding ceramic structures and relief paintings that explore themes of phenomenology, gravity, materials and process.
Gatov East:
Nicholas Gaby, BFA, Sculpture
Nicholas Gaby’s BFA sculpture exhibition features a 1993 Mitsubishi Mighty Max papier-mâché replica, documentary film, and porcelain traffic cones. Gaby’s themes include confinement and invisible power structures.
Merlino Gallery:
Ashley Sharpe, BFA, Printmaking
Ashley Sharpe’s BFA Printmaking exhibit features a collection of mono-prints, lithographs, screen prints, etchings, and relief prints dealing with the theme of cats, their origins and their daily rituals.
Dutzi Gallery:
Katherine Cox, BFA, Ceramics
Katherine Cox’s BFA Ceramics show features porcelain objects/vessels adorned with relief carvings to convey patterns and narratives.
Werby Gallery:
Piet Eppinga, BFA, Ceramics
Piet Eppinga’s BFA Ceramics show features life-size human sculptures and explores themes of humanity and the human experience.
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Points
All points through Week 9 are now up on BeachBoard. All of your points questions have been replied to. The total points possible so far is 496. Here’s what you should have to be on pace for each grade level:
441 points = “A” pace – 88 peeps
392 points = “B” pace – 13 peeps
342 points = “C” pace – 7 peeps
293 points = “D” pace – 10 peep
292 & below = “F” pace – 10 peeps
If the grades were final today, then the Class Average would be a 3.24 – pretty good – but it can be better, right!?
Lots of you got full credit on everything. Some of you got more than full credit. And some got less. Here’s the vital info to get maximum points:
Madison Vanden Berg & Sarah Schneider, with some photobomber
Leaderboard
- Veronica Meza – 588
- Marina Barnes – 575
- Amanda Bjornstad – 552
- Nallely Silva – 547
- Alexx Dunk – 546
- Rogelio Avina – 545
- Jeremy Lai Thin Feng – 544
- Aleks Kivuls – 544
- Christen Drake – 541
- Lacey Alaniz – 538
- Julyssa Juarez – 538
Welcome Christen & Lacey! Both making their 1st appearance on the Art110 Leaderboard!
Lisbeth Acosta & Hannah Drake, with yet another photobomber
Wk 10 Activity: Your Choice!
Full details on the Student’s Choice page.
Mina used candy to redesign the CSULB campus. It’s not a very detailed plan, but the media is inspiring and might make us think of new ideas and connections. In a larger project she might combine this media with a more detailed plan that might truly inspire, or might be a work of art in its own right.
Rogelio Avina’s plan for a redesigned CSULB campus. Less candy, more details.
Artist Tags
Be sure to tag your artist posts!
SOA Galleries – Wk 9 – March 22 – 26
Gatov West & East:
Dawn Ertl, MFA, Sculpture
Dawn Ertl, Storyteller
Dawn Ertl, Radius of Action
Radius of Action, was a term coined during World War II from the expression “The Point of No Return.” This term was employed to describe the maximum distance a military vehicle could travel in order to still have enough fuel in reserve to return to home base. Built into this concept is a systematic approach that accounts for available resources and factors in sustainable limits. The works in this exhibition are guided by a similar ethos, in many ways our industrial consumer society is at a critical point were there is no going back, we need to figure out a new plan to survive and sustain life.
This exhibition features two different weaving installations, each dealing with our relationships to one another and the environments we inhabit. I am using music notations and captured weather data as variables to make systems coded for the loom. While making each piece, I introduce a multitude of human byproducts and actions to disrupt the natural progression of the process of weaving. The two installations are meant to create a sense of tension and contrast between one another, for instance one installation has a gestural or aggressive presence while the other has a contemplative or calming effect.
Dawn Ertl
About Dawn Ertl
My name is Dawn, I’m a graduate student in sculpture, and this is my last semester here. It was fun while it lasted, : ) I got my BFA at Otis School of Art and Design. While going to school here I was president of Fine Arts Roundtable for 3 years, which is the group that organizes the annual GLAMFA Exhibition (Greater Los Angeles MFA Exhibition). I also started a teaching program for grads and alumni enabling them to teach workshops to undergrads. You can read more about that on the website:
theworkshop-teachingprogram.com
Special Note about Radius of Action
The artist is eager to have us come see her exhibition on Thursday! She has a few requests:
- Please do not touch the delicate artworks
- Please leave backpacks inside the gallery at the entrance
- Please only 10 students in the gallery at a time
Merlino Gallery:
Kaclica Chhin & Amanda Ruiz, Illustration & Sculpture
Kaclica Chhin & Amanda Ruiz’s sculptures and illustrations examine vulnerability and sexuality by constructing an intimate bedroom-like environment.
Dutzi Gallery & Werby Gallery
Sculpture Group Exhibition
The Sculpture Group Exhibition emphasizes the material of plaster and will feature works from all BFA majors.
Mary Quach’s “Cognitive Map” of her CSULB experience.
Mary Quach used Sims3 as her “CAD Drafting” software to redesign part of the CSULB Dorms
We had a very polite “complaint” about your writing from one of the SOA Artists on Thursday. It made me realize that we’ve come to an inappropriate place, and we need to address this immediately.
I think most of you would say that Art110 is an “easy” class. Still, having 3 posts due every Sunday, even if they’re “easy”, that’s still a lot of deliverables. For this reason, when your TA Brittany Binder and I grade your 131 x 3 = 393 posts every Monday, we’ve been pretty permissive with your writing. I don’t think of it as Academic Writing, but more as informal or blog writing. I classify it as experiential writing. Even though it is not academic writing, you are still university students, and the reality is that many of you are writing at a very low level. Brittany and I have been enabling this by giving you full or nearly full credit for writing that would be unacceptable in just about every single other course at this university.
This has to change today.
Writing Proficiency
Realistically, many of the posts you’ve written would not pass the CSULB WPE (Writing Proficiency Exam) yet most of you have or will pass the WPE. This suggests that the issue is not lack of ability but lack of motivation. I take a lot of the responsibility for this. The grading has been way too permissive and I’ve unintentionally “encouraged” you to write poorly.
The artist I had a long, detailed conversation with on Thursday was Laura Scattergood. Last week we saw her BFA in Fiber Arts exhibition at the CSULB SOA Merlino Gallery. I’m sure you recall her living room-esque scene layered in with myriad guns and bullets. Scattergood was pleased to find 4 essays under the merlino-gallery tag. But then disappointed to discover that 3 of 4 were so poorly written that she couldn’t show them to anyone and had to secretly wish that you’d never written them.
Writing about Living Artists
My conversation with Scattergood made me realize something I should have thought a lot more about before: the fact that we are writing, often badly, about living, working artists. All of your writing should be university quality. However, when your Activity of the Week writing is poor, Brittany and I sort of cringe, look the other way a little, and move on to the next week. With your Artist Conversations however, that’s online content about your peers who are trying to build careers right here and now. Our bad writing is hurting the very artists who are being so generous in sharing their work with us. It’s beyond unacceptable.
Last week one of you referred to Laura Scattergood as “Luna Scattergood” and another of you referred to Brian Davis as “The Juice Guy, I don’t know his name, but he’s the Juice Guy.” I hope you can see that such disrespectful, sloppy writing is humiliating to me, to Long Beach State, to the School of Art, to wonderful artists like Scattergood and Davis, and even more importantly than the artists themselves, it should be humiliating to you.
We’ll look at the 4 Scattergood posts in class on Tuesday. One of them, Eduardo Catalan, was very good. The other 3 were really not acceptable. Starting today we’re all going to have to do a lot better.
To be clear, while I wish everyone was writing with the thoughtfulness that Eduardo did, he’s actually done more than was asked for. We gave him some EC, and in the future we’ll try to give even more EC for work this thoughtful. You don’t have to write as much as Eduardo did. 3 well written, grammatically correct, coherent, analytic paragraphs will still be enough for full credit.
Confidence in your writing
A lot of your writing is bogged down with awkward statements like “I guess” and “as far as I could tell.” These might suggest a lack of confidence in your Art knowledge, and/or a lack of confidence in your writing in general. If you can develop the ability to write confidently and clearly while you’re at CSULB, that will be a great achievement. It doesn’t matter if you develop that in an English class, in your major, in Art110, or anywhere else, it’s a skill that will absolutely advance your career. If you can be more articulate and persuasive both on the page and face-2-face, you’ll wind up landing more satisfying jobs and making more money. I promise!
If you were the art critic for the LA Times, or for Artforum magazine, we might expect you to have a lot of knowledge of both contemporary art and art history. As an Art110 student, I don’t expect you to have either. If an artist like Scattergood or Davis is referencing contemporary or historical ideas in art or culture, you’re not expected to know that. Although, in a brief conversation with them I’m sure they’d be happy to fill you in on the context of their work. When you write about work in the SOA galleries it is entirely appropriate to bring your own understanding and prior life experience to your writing. In fact all 4 of the posts on Scattergood’s show last week had somewhat comparable insights on her BFA installation: that the juxtaposition of a domestic setting with so many tools of destruction had something to say about contemporary culture. Your insights were good. Your writing could have been a lot cleaner and clearer.
Some years back I was viewing the Roy Lichtenstein retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Lichtenstein was a Pop Artist known for bright colors, cartoon imagery, and benday dots. As I viewed a painting of a man and a woman sitting in the front seat of a fast-moving car and starting out the windshield, the actor George Takei (Mr. Sulu, from the original Star Trek) walked up, glanced at the painting for a couple of seconds, turned to me, and said with a knowing smile in his voice, “We know what’s goin’ on there!” and then walked off.
For Takei, what was “goin’ on” was so clear it didn’t even need to be stated. So I don’t actually know if what he got from the painting was the same as me or not. Or if either of us had the same idea as Lichtenstein. And since the painting was a remix of a comic strip, I don’t know with certainty what the original comic artist had in mind. The four of us might have had pretty similar, or not so similar, ideas about the painting. What is clear is that Takei looked at a work of art, fit it into his own life experience and sensibilities, and came to a conclusion about what he was looking at. I’m not asking anything more of you.
Scoring Your Posts
Because our class is so large, and I am asking you to turn in so many pieces, Brittany and I are not giving you the detailed feedback on each post that could help you become better writers. I apologize for that. It isn’t realistic in the time we have available, but what we can do is go over a few samples on Tuesdays and talk about what’s working and what could be written better.
Combining the Artist Conversation and the Classmate Conversation in your scores on BeachBoard was a bad idea. I did that because I was trying to keep your points sheet as short as possible. But it made it harder for you to get clear points feedback. So effective immediately, I’m making separate BeachBoard items for each piece of writing you do. Instead of 28 points total for both conversations, now you’ll see 20 points for the Artist Conversation and 10 points for the Classmate Conversation.
As you know, our class is based on 1,000 points possible, with 900 points for an “A”, 800 for a “B”, 700 for a “C”, 600 for a “D”, and 599 and below being an “F”. 20+10 for conversations is 2 points more than 28, which brings our semester possible points up to 1014. I will not be changing the 900 / 800 / 700 /600 requirements for each grade level. In effect I’m putting 14 “free” points out for you. Instead of 900/1,000 or 90%, now an “A” will only require 900/1,014 or 88.7%. So it’s a free 14 points or a lowering of each grade requirement by 1.3%. So a tiny bit easier for you to earn a grade. And it shouldn’t be hard to write well and earn full points. But we’ve got to see much stronger writing about your Artist Conversations.
- Misspelling, misnaming, or not naming your artist will be an automatic 0.
- Not tagging your artist post will be an automatic 0.
- Combining your 2 conversations in a single post will no longer be accepted. If you do so, it will be a 0.
When I say “0”, I actually mean “1”. Let me explain. When you look at your points on BeachBoard, you might see:
- “Blank” Points – This means we haven’t posted your points yet. Try back in a few hours.
- “0” Points – This means we looked for your post and couldn’t find one.
- “1” Point – This means one of the major infractions listed above. I’m giving you “1” so it’s clear that this isn’t “we looked for your post and couldn’t find one”.
Proofread your work!
I want to be clear that in the past I’ve made the poor choice of being very permissive in grading because I appreciate that I’m asking you to turn in 3 posts per week. I’ve unintentionally encouraged you to be sloppy and not to proofread your work. You definitely must carefully proofread your work every time!
- Check the spelling of names
- Be sure to tag your Artist Conversations
- Add links to artist’s websites and other relevant links
- Check your grammar
As you know, we use the same tags every week:
If you’d like help with your writing, try pasting it into a tool like Hemingway App
NBC Burbank
A long time ago I was an Assistant Art Director at the NBC Television Network in Burbank. We got this huge pen plotter to make CAD drawings and a computer with AutoCAD on it. Nobody did anything with it and all the Art Directors could have cared less about it. So I decided to make it do something. I’d never used AutoCAD, but I gave it a try. I spent about 2 days drawing the Days of Our Lives sound stage and sets. When it printed out, I was really proud, look! I CAD drew the entire DOOL Stage! And then the Art Directors looked at it, and said, rightly, that the drawing was crap.
I was proud at having taken something I’d never used and managed to draw a huge sound stage in 2 days. But the Art Directors didn’t care how clever it was, they just knew the result was a poor drawing. So then I wound up spending the next 2 months drawing NBC’s Santa Barbara sound stage and sets, at the time, the largest television sound stage in the world. It was really long and meticulous. I think the plot took 2 to 3 hours to print and the whole time you prayed that none of the pens ran out of ink. I’ll never forget, when it was finally done, one of the Art Directors, Jack Forrestel, looked at it and said, “Now you’re talking!”
My initial pride in having done anything in 2 days was rightly scorned. When Jack finally praised my 2 months of serious work, it felt great.
Of course, when I worked at NBC, I collected a full-time paycheck. For you, an Artist Conversation post is just another Sunday night chore to tick off.
I get that.
But just as the NBC Art Directors weren’t impressed with my “golly I did something” efforts, you won’t gain anything worthwhile from bad writing. And the good news is, it isn’t going to take you a lot of time to do better. I think one or two passes of critical proofreading, really paying attention to what you’re saying and how you’re saying it, should be enough to take your writing from sloppy to acceptable. For sure I’m available before or after class if you ever want help with it.
Paparazzi
A few semesters back, the SOA Artists were excited to have us coming to their gallery shows. Then we descended like locust, shoved a bunch of cameras in their faces, we went snap, snap, snap! and then left. They felt like they’d been attacked by paparazzi and instead of feeling good about our visit, they wound up wishing we’d never come. Since then we’ve tried to have Art110 Gallery Visits be more about conversations and engaging the artists with their work. And it’s worked! You did it. I haven’t heard that old paparazzi complaint in a long time now. And to be clear, taking a photo of the artist, or their work, or both, is great. It was just bad when it seemed like it was the only thing we cared about. We’ve pretty much totally resolved that problem, and it gives me hope that we can resolve this writing problem too.
A Couple More Considerations
Above I’ve listed some basic minimums that you’re going to have to meet to score well. Now I’d like to offer a couple of suggestions that you can make your own choices about, but that you should take a moment to think about and make a considered choice on.
1st Person vs 3rd Person
Most of you already are writing in 1st person, and I definitely recommend it. You might need 3rd person in other classes, but 1st person makes complete sense here. I also encourage you to stay in 1st person when you write you “About Me” statements. Even when it seems like someone else is writing about you, I find 3rd person to be distancing. And on a blog or website where we presume you are writing about yourself, 3rd person feels very detached and pretentious.
To me.
Again, you choose. But consider it carefully. Some people like 3rd person bio writing because they feel it’s more authorial.
Compare,
For the past 12 years Mr. Zucman has conducted in-depth radio interviews with artists. When he approaches a conversation he tries…
vs
For about a dozen years now I’ve been doing radio interviews with artists. When I have the chance to talk with a new author or choreographer…
Yes the 2nd one is informal, and you can decide if it’s appropriate for your resume or not, but in my judgement it’s a much more engaging “About Me.”
First Name? Or Last?
In reviewing your posts about Laura Scattergood I notice a number of you referred to her as “Laura.” Even though I’ve just encouraged you to be informal with 1st person writing, I’d personally choose the formality of referring to people I don’t know well by their last name. If you want to be on a first-name basis with everyone, ok. Or you can choose a bit of formality with last names. You can choose, but you should be consistent. Maybe the worst thing you can do, and it’s easy to find examples of this online, is to refer to men by their last names and women by their first names.
In this post I’ve referred to artists like Scattergood and Davis by their last names. But I’ve referred to people inside our class, like Eduardo, by their first names. I also referred to Jack Forrestel, an art director I worked with at NBC Burbank, and later at CBS Television City, by his first name. So I’ve switched around. But I’ve consistently referred to people inside our group, or someone I knew well, by their first name, and artists that we’ve met on a weekly basis by their last name.
Lesley Nishigawara
This is a very long post, and I hate to have to bring up one more thing, but unfortunately I do. This one is not your fault at all. It’s just the way the dice roll sometimes. As you know, the “south-side” galleries, Dutzi and Werby, had an MFA Advancement (to Candidacy) show this week. The solo shows are the best for us. It’s great to be able to go to Laura Scattergood’s show or Brian Davis show, see an entire gallery of their work and talk to them about it. Now that we’re moving into the latter part of the semester we will be seeing more solo shows, but there will be group shows still to come.
For this week’s Advancement Show, there were several grad students sitting outside of the Dutzi and Werby galleries and many of you spoke with them. One of the grad students, Lesley Nishigawara, has emailed me asking that you not use any photographs of her nor any quotations that you may have written down from her. This is unfortunate, nonetheless we should honor her request. I’m sorry if Nishigawara feels she was misinformed about your intentions, and I’m even more sorry that you were misled about your ability to write about your conversation with her.
Just so you know, I’ve done everything I can think of to communicate who we are and what we’re doing with the exhibiting artists. I’ve sent links to our posts to all the artists. I’ve informed the gallery coordinator about our work. I think this works pretty well for the solo shows. But with the group shows it’s hard to know who might be sitting there when we come by. I also go to the galleries every Tuesday and talk face-to-face with the artists about our upcoming Thursday visit. Unfortunately in this case Nishigawara and I never spoke and she misunderstood your interest in her work. Of course any ideas you learned from her are still ideas you can talk about. But please don’t use any direct quotations from her, cite her name, or post her photo. All the other grad students there that you might have spoken with are completely fine to quote, reference, or post photographs of.
Thank You
If you’re still reading this far down, thank you. I really don’t think it will be too hard to write quite a bit better. This will be great for the SOA Artists we visit, and honestly, it will be great for you. Give me a shout if you have any questions or suggestions.
Here are a few thoughts I’ve written for you about Talking & Writing About Art.
See you in class!
— Glenn
Image: Lit is a Hit
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Thug Life Beats by Alexx Dunk. Alexx created her own music in GarageBand and then mashedup a lot of images she found online.
BTW, many of you noted that “you can’t upload video to WordPress.com unless you pay extra.” That’s technically true, but there’s really no reason to do that. You’d just upload to Vimeo or YouTube and Embed your video on your page (just like Alexx did). I like Vimeo better: it’s a lot cleaner, not filled with ads, and feels more pro. But YouTube is easy, fast, and crazy popular. Either one is great.
If you paste your Vimeo or YT URL on a blank line in our post, it’ll be an embedded video when you publish. If you have any trouble with it, when you’re in the EDIT window, try clicking int he upper right, to change from Visual mode to Text mode. Then paste your video URL on a new line. Then you can go back to Visual mode.
Points
All points through Week 8 are now up on BeachBoard. The total points possible so far is 436. Here’s what you should have to be on pace for each grade level:
392 points = “A” pace – 88 peeps
348 points = “B” pace – 17 peeps
304 points = “C” pace – 7 peeps
260 points = “D” pace – 8 peep
259 & below = “F” pace – 11 peeps
If the grades were final today, then the Class Average would be a 3.23 – pretty good – but it can be better, right!?
Lots of you got full credit on everything. Some of you got more than full credit. And some got less. Ways some got less than full credit:
- Not posting activities.
- Too short, not analytic posts
- Poor post names
To remember the scoring criteria, visit Syllabus > Rubrics
Leaderboard
- Veronica Meza – 516
- Marina Barnes – 514
- Amanda Bjornstad – 492
- Sophia Guthrie – 489
- Alexx Dunk – 488
- Nallely Silva – 484
- Jeremy Lai Thin Feng – 484
- Aleks Kivuls – 484
- Rogelio Avina – 481
- SteevieLee Nabors – 479
Architecture & Urban Planning
Details in class! And on the Art 110 Architecture & Urban Planning page.
Blank Space (Darlene WubMachine Remix) by Darlene Nguyen
Artist Tags
Be sure to tag your artist posts!
SOA Galleries – Wk 9 – March 15-19
Gatov West & East:
Michael Rollins, MFA, Drawing & Painting, Contemporary Practices
Michael Rollins MFA exhibition features nearly twenty oil paintings that explore subjectivity and the uncanny through the language of abstraction.
Merlino Gallery:
MFA Advancement Show
The MFA Advancement Exhibition features work from advancing MFA candidates.
Dutzi Gallery:
Mike Kent, MFA, Drawing & Painting, Figurative
Mike Kent’s MFA exhibition is comprised of figurative paintings.
Werby Gallery:
MFA Advancement Show
The MFA Advancement Exhibition features work from advancing MFA candidates.
Art110 Remix by Katie Leyba
Alexx Dunk & Brian Davis. Photo by Mukesh Sehdev.
Points
All points through Week 7 are now up on BeachBoard. The total points possible so far is 378. Here’s what you should have to be on pace for each grade level:
340 points = “A” pace – 89 peeps
302 points = “B” pace – 12 peeps
264 points = “C” pace – 12 peeps
226 points = “D” pace – 6 peep
225 & below = “F” pace – 12 peeps
If the grades were final today, then the Class Average would be a 3.23 – pretty good – but it can be better, right!?
Lots of you got full credit on everything. Some of you got more than full credit. And some got less. Ways some got less than full credit:
- Not posting activities.
- Too short, not analytic posts
- Poor post names
To remember the scoring criteria, visit Syllabus > Rubrics
Leaderboard
- Veronica Meza – 458
- Marina Barnes – 454
- Amanda Bjornstad – 434
- SteevieLee Nabors – 431
- Sophia Guthrie – 430
- Jeremy Lai Thin Feng – 426
- Nallely Silva – 424
- Aleks Kivuls – 424
- Rogelio Avina – 421
- Julyssa Juarez – 420
- Alexx Dunk – 420
Congrats 2 Aleks & Alexx for making it onto the leaderboard this week!
And to Veronica, Marina & Friends for appearing again!
And to the whole class for another week of great work!
New Media: Remix Culture
Details in class! And on the Art 110 Remix Culture page!
Artist Tags
Be sure to tag your artist posts!
SOA Galleries – Wk 8 – March 8-12
Gatov West:
Brian Davis, BFA Ceramics
Brian Davis combines sculpture and projection to explore transitional navigation through various life stages.
Gatov East:
Nolan Reiter, BFA Printmaking
Nolan Reiter’s BFA show features a series of silkscreened posters highlighting his most recent work.
Merlino Gallery:
Kezia Fuller, BFA Fiber
Kezia Fullerton’s exhibit features a series of weavings in the gelim tapestry style to explore relationships and human perceptions.
Dutzi Gallery:
Laura Scattergood, BFA Fiber
Laura Scattergood’s fiber art displays a domestic environment and exploits the issues surrounding gun violence and mass shootings in the United States.
Werby Gallery:
Shane Aufdemberg, BFA Sculpture
Shane Auftemberg’s BFA exhibition utilizes light, fog, and photographic elements to convey the degradation of meaning through representation.
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Alexx Dunk & Prem Muni
Points
All points through Week 6 are now up on BeachBoard. The total points possible so far is 320. Here’s what you should have to be on pace for each grade level:
288 points = “A” pace – 88 peeps
256 points = “B” pace – 15 peeps
224 points = “C” pace – 10 peeps
192 points = “D” pace – 6 peep
191 & below = “F” pace – 12 peeps
If the grades were final today, then the Class Average would be a 3.23 – pretty good – but it can be better, right!?
Lots of you got full credit on everything. Some of you got more than full credit. And some got less. Ways some got less than full credit:
- Not posting activities.
- Too short, not analytic posts
- Poor post names
To remember the scoring criteria, visit Syllabus > Rubrics
Matt Mendez’ girlfriend taught him how to crochet at a coffee shop.
Leaderboard
- Veronica Meza – 400
- Marina Barnes – 394
- Sophia Guthrie – 384
- Amanda Bjornstad – 376
- SteevieLee Nabors – 373
- Jeremy Lai Thin Feng – 368
- Nallely Silva – 364
- Rogelio Avina – 363
- Julyssa Juarez – 362
- Zhen Su – 360
Summer Morgan & Kelsey Lewis
Summer Morgan yarn bombed the bathroom at the Los Cerritos dorm
Portrait Photography
In week 2 we tried Social Photography. Some of us may have taken very nice Instagrams, but in a way, the “quality” of the photograph: the composition, the lighting, and other aesthetic and technical details, were almost beside the point. The “point” of Instagram really is the social network it expresses.
This week we’re trying photography again. But this time it’s not “Social Photography,” but more traditional “Portrait Photography.”
Oh,
with a twist… we’re imaging our own death! For 20 years now, photographer Izima Kaoru has been working on his Landscapes with a Corpse, series. This week we’ll take his long term project as the inspiration for our portrait photography activity.
Full details on the Landscapes with a Corpse page!
Brittany Binder
If you’ll recall, a few weeks back, our Art110 Graduate Assistant, Brittany Binder came by Art110 to say hello. She mentioned that she’s got a show, Consumed, that she co-curated, up at the CSULB University Art Museum (UAM). Brittany and her curatorial partners, Sinead Finnerty-Pyne & Amy Kaeser will be leading a tour of Consumed today, Tuesday March 3rd, from Noon-1pm in the gallery at the UAM.
I know many of you have class between Noon & 1 and won’t be able to attend, but for those who can make it, you can attend the tour, ask a few questions, and write up the Exhibition, and Brittany’s curatorial process, like one of our conversations for EC. It can be your 4th post, and you can label it Wk7 – Brittany Binder – Consumed. Take a photo with Brittany, do a nice analysis, and I’ll give you up to 30 points of EC.
The UAM tends to be photography hostile, so you might have to step outside to take your photo with Brittany. It’d be great to photograph some of the art, but the UAM probably won’t let you. Whatever you can get will be great. But be sure to get something!
Last Thursday
I was very disappointed to see how many of you gave me your index card and walked away by 11:15. Art110 is not a course in turning in index cards. Art110 has been designed to minimize long lectures and rote exams with scantrons and green books. If you’re not using the time on Thursday to really have meaningful conversations and look deeply at the art and ideas in the SOA galleries, if you’re turning in a card and leaving, then you’ve taken the vast spectrum of art and crushed it down into a class in turning in index cards and getting to lunch early. I’m pretty sure that 10 years from now, your best CSULB memory will not be early lunch on Thursdays. For that matter, you could bring lunch and have it at the SOA Gallery Courtyard while you talk and think about art.
I realize you are not art majors. But I absolutely believe that you can enrich both your career and your life by considering the diverse possibilities of art and creativity here in the 21st century. I’ve tried to create a course that isn’t boring and inactive. I’ve tried to create a course that is relevant and useful. When half of you walk away in the 1st 15 minutes, you’re telling me that I have failed. Whether or not “I” have failed doesn’t really matter, but as “The Customer” spending lots of time and money on your University Education, you seem to be saying that I’m not giving you very much value.
This is not acceptable.
Today we have to end early for Brittany’s UAM talk, and we also have Emma Hankin from Printmaking coming to class to talk to us. So we may not have time to discuss this. We will if we can. If not, I’ll solicit your feedback in your blog posts. Either way, please think about what this class is and is not providing you. Is it relevant? Is it useful? Why does half the class walk away in the 1st 15 minutes? What changes should we make to be more relevant & useful? Should we have more to do on Thursdays? Should we scrap the Thursday Gallery days and go to a more traditional Lecture & Exam format?
Emily Babette in the Gatov Gallery. Photo by Valerie Arredondo.
Artist Tags
Be sure to tag your artist posts!
SOA Galleries – Wk 7 – March 1-5
Gatov West:
Photo Club
The Photography Club group show consists of photographic, video, and/or photo sculptural pieces.
Gatov East:
Metals & Jewelry, BFA Group
The Metals & Jewelry BFA Group Show features a variety of works focusing on: organic aesthetic, the marriage of diverse materials, and inspirations.
Merlino Gallery:
Juliette Angulo, Photography
Juliette Angulo’s photographs interpret and attempt to understand the complexity within sibling relationships.
Dutzi Gallery:
*Ink 14,* Printmaking
Ink 14 is a group exhibition of printmaking organized by BFA students.
- Tuesday: Emma Hankin will come by UT-108 to say a few words about Ink 14
- Thursday: Clare Samani will open the gallery at 11am and be available for conversations with us
- Thursday: Dana Bilhimer will be at CSULB SOA Printmaking, 1st Floor if FA1 for brief tours of the facility between 11:15 & 11:45 – whether or not you write about this show, please take a peek at the Print Lab, say hi to Dana, and include a photo of the lab in your post.
- Future: as you might know, School of Art courses can sometimes be hard for non-majors to enroll in. The CSULB Printmaking Program is currently in the process of making ART 270 Intro to Printmaking available to all!
Some Printmaking Links for us from Nancy Young:
What is Printmaking?
History of Printmaking
Printmaking Terms
Werby Gallery:
Brianna Allen, BFA Metals
Brianna Allen’s BFA exhibition crosses modes of display with mundane household objects.
Some of you met Brianna two weeks ago in the Gatov Gallery where she was part of a CSULB Metals Group Show. This week her BFA solo show will be in the Werby Gallery. It’s metals. But she’s also including guided meditation sessions. On Thursday, between 11am and Noon, Brianna will offer two, 11-minute sessions. If you’d like to participate you might wear something comfortable. You might take your shoes off. Before and after these sessions Brianna will be available for conversations with you.
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Jasmine Barnum, starring in “The Jasmine Show”
Points
All points through Week 4 are now up on BeachBoard. The total points possible so far is 204. Here’s what you should have to be on pace for each grade level:
184 points = “A” pace – 96 peeps
164 points = “B” pace – 11 peeps
144 points = “C” pace – 13 peeps
124 points = “D” pace – 2 peep
123 & below = “F” pace – 9 peeps
Lots of you got full credit on everything. Some of you got more than full credit. And some got less. Ways some got less than full credit:
- Not posting activities.
- Too short, not analytic posts
- Poor post names
To remember the scoring criteria, visit Syllabus > Rubrics
Julyssa Juarez
Leaderboard
- Veronica Meza – 282
- Marina Barnes – 280
- Jairo Ubeda – 273
- Sophia Guthrie – 267
- Amanda Bjornstad – 266
- SteevieLee Nabors – 260
- Jeremy Lai Thin Feng – 247
- Julyssa Juarez – 246
- Sierra Putman – 242
- Rogelio Avina – 242
Winter Shenanigans: A Road Trip Video from Jeremy Lai on Vimeo.
Arts Funding
For this week’s activity you get to look at Arts Funding. In the past that might have meant patronage from a King or a Pope. The Medici family in Florence was instrumental in The Renaissance. More recently wealthy patrons like Californian Eli Broad or Londoner Charles Saatchi have been enormously influential in what art gets made and seen. Today in the 21st century we also have new forms of networked or perhaps populist funding like Kickstarter. This week you get to explore Kickstarter and get an idea how it works and what goes on there. You can even get EC for doing your own Kickstarter if you choose to. Read all about it on our Kickstarter page
Sierra Putman stealing a dining hall pumpkin as part of “The Sierra Show”
Mary Quach‘s Gifting Project
Artist Tags
Be sure to tag your artist posts!
SOA Galleries – Wk 5 – 15-19 Feb
Gatov West:
Dianna Franco, BFA, D&P
Dianna Franco explores the relationship between nature and civilizations through her large and small-scale abstract paintings.
Diana Franco
From Diana:
I am a senior undergraduate Painting Bachelors of Fine Arts student.
The paintings in my exhibition are based on the relationships between nature and civilizations found from the micro to macro level in psychology and science. I am inspired by how nature and civilizations are always in flux with each other; therefore, in my paintings I explored how the inner parts of nature and civilizations can affect the outside, and I explored how the outer parts of these areas can affect the inside. I used saturated and neutral colors to explore the inner and outer areas; additionally, I used thick and thin paint to explore the varieties of weight found in nature and civilizations.
painting by Diana Franco
Gatov East:
Metals Group Show
The Metals group show features a variety of student work utilizing copper, brass, silver, steel and found objects.
Merlino Gallery:
Samuel Jernigan, Ceramics
Samuel Jernigan’s ceramic sculptures combine aesthetics of children’s toys and Giacometti figures and comments on the systems of value and desire.
Dutzi Gallery:
Krakowski, Sculpture
Werby Gallery:
Drawing & Painting Club
The Drawing and Painting Club’s exhibit is a juried show featuring selected works from BFA and MFA students and the jurors themselves.
From the Artists
A message from Liz Talbot:
]]>We are the two students whom you spoke with last Thursday during the gallery interviews regarding the ways your students approached us. You invited us to speak to your class Tuesday, but we are both unavailable that morning, having allotted our time off work for the week of our exhibition. For the sake of convenience and not neglecting your invitation, we have briefed our advice and hope you can incorporate this into future lectures that will help your students and the artists being interviewed.
The first round of students repeatedly asked us questions that could be answered by reading the vinyl lettering title of our show, our names printed below the title, the artist statement, and the list of works. Though some galleries do not use statements or lists, the requirement by the SOA to have an artist statement accompany the exhibition is meant to help our peers and your students better understand our purpose as artists, especially since we all come from varied art backgrounds. You as the instructor understand that, but this should be stressed to your students to avoid asking redundant questions and the particular student who told us “I don’t want to have to read all that” when we told him the answers to his questions were in the artist statement.
Though many of the students asking these redundant questions did not ask them in a rude way (with the exception of the before mentioned student), it is inherently rude to come into our gallery space, when we are doing the class the favor of opening early, without breifing the students on how to behave and look critically at the gallery/work in order to formulate meaningful and thougthful questions.
The last waves of students that did take the time to go back to read the artist statement and list of works were able to conduct interviews based on their observation and interpretations that would better help them write their responses and experiences. This is the kind of behavior expected in a gallery setting.
We hope your students take full advantage of the inclusion of the artist statement and information provided to help broaden the experience of going to art galleries, both on campus and throughout the art world.
Thank you for your time
All points through Week 3 are now up on BeachBoard. The total points possible so far is 146. Here’s what you should have to be on pace for each grade level:
131 points = “A” pace – 103 peeps
116 points = “B” pace – 18 peeps
101 points = “C” pace – 3 peeps
86 points = “D” pace – 1 peep
85 & below = “F” pace – 6 peeps
Lots of you got full credit on everything. Some of you got more than full credit. And some got less. Ways some got less than full credit:
- Not posting activities.
- Too short, not analytic posts
- Poor post names
To remember the scoring criteria, visit Syllabus > Rubrics
Katherine Pismenny, newly on the Art110 Leaderboard, showing off her new brunette hair.
Top 10
- Veronica Meza – 220
- Jairo Ubeda – 213
- Marina Barnes – 210
- Sophia Guthrie – 208
- Amanda Bjornstad – 208
- Madison Vanden Berg – 207
- Hannah Drake – 206
- Katherine Pismenny – 202
- James Pauley – 202
- SteevieLee Nabors – 200
Zhen Su congratulates James Pauley for making it onto the Art110 leaderboard this week!
Artist Tags
Be sure to tag your artist posts!
SOA Galleries – Wk 4 – 8-12 Feb
Makaila Palmer & Rachel Gehrke, D & P – Gatov-West
Makaila Palmer & Rachel Gehrke’s paintings utilize colors from European currency to explore the idea of language and communication between diverse people and regions.
Victor Ortega & Andrea Albarran, D & P – Gatov-East
Victor Ortega & Andrea Albarran’s oil paintings focus on the theme of birth and the construction/deconstruction of the figure.
Daniel Rivera, Drawing & Painting – Merlino-Gallery
Daniel Rivera’s installation features hundreds of miniature paintings and references the breaking away from institutionalized and academic notions of painting and creation.
Haley Toyama, Drawing & Painting – Dutzi-Gallery
Haley Toyama’s group exhibit showcases southern California landscapes and urban cityscapes.
Juliet Johnson, Sculpture – Werby-Gallery
Juliet Johnson’s mixed media installation features sculpture and painting; these works deal with self-portraiture and the frame.
Performance Art & New Media
For this week’s activity you get to star in The Mina Show! Read all about it on our The Mina Show page
Marina Barnes, star of “The Mina Show!”
On Saturday I was in the “Hal Rosoff Classic” a 10 mile Surf Ski & Outrigger Canoe race in Newport. My time of 1:33:28 put me in 55th place out of 98 finishers. I was in no danger of winning anything, but any time I don’t finish last is kind of a personal victory.
Christian Posada
Points
All points are now up on BeachBoard. The total points possible so far is 88. Here’s what you should have to be on pace for each grade level:
79 – “A” pace
70 – “B” pace
61 – “C” pace
52 – “D” pace
51 & below – “F” pace
79 points is what you should have so far to be on track for an “A” in the class. Currently 94 peeps have 79 or more points!
57 points and below is the end of the grading scale we don’t like to be on. Unfortunately, ATM 11 people do have 51 or fewer points. At this early time in the semester, it’s super easy to turn that around. But every week it gets a bit harder. After a while you can really be underwater. If you’re not on pace for the grade you want, why not turn that around today!? If you just need to get going – get going! If you need help or have questions – ask me after class today! I hope nobody needs to drop, but if anyone does, it’s a lot easier in the early part of the semester, so if that happens to be your situation, do it this week!
Lots of you got full credit on everything. Some of you got more than full credit. And some got less. Ways some got less than full credit:
- Not posting activities.
- Too short, not analytic posts
- Poor post names
To remember the scoring criteria, visit Syllabus > Rubrics
Teresa Fei & Veronica Meza
Top 10
Some of you have already been racking up a lot of points! Here’s the leaderboard so far:
- Veronica Meza – 160
- Jairo Ubeda – 155
- Dorothy McMahon – 153
- Marina Barnes – 152
- Amanda Bjornstad – 150
- Madison Vanden Berg – 148
- Hannah Drake – 148
- SteevieLee Nabors – 142
- Leah Bloomfield – 142
- Christian Posada – 138
Social Photography
This week’s activity is “Social Photography” aka “The Instagram Project.” Read all about it on our Instagram page
Today’s Hashtag: #art110s15
Note: Just like when you paint your name (last week) you also have to do a blog post – don’t get confused this week! Yes, you post on Instagram, but just like every other week, you still do a blog post on the Activity!
Monica Navarro & Dot McMahon
Artist Tags
Be sure to tag your artist posts!
SOA Galleries – Wk 3 – 1-5 Feb
Yiren Kwak & Maryanne Gonzales, Drawing & Painting – Gatov-West
Yiren Kwak and Maryanne Gonzales display oil paintings and drawings focused on the relationship between nature and architecture.
Tidawhitney Lek, Drawing and Painting – Gatov-East
Tidawhitney Lek’s large paintings convey emotions, events and moments in her life.
Almira Nikravesh, Sculpture – Merlino-Gallery
Almira Nikravesh’s installation/performance piece features the artist stacking pennies against the gallery wall for the duration of the exhibition.
Peter Macaulay, Drawing and Painting – Werby-Gallery
Peter Macaulay’s exhibit is the culmination of sketches from a group of artists focusing on queer art in the LGBTQ community.
Amanda Bjornstad with her name on a palm tree
Graffiti Writing
Our painting will have attributes of traditional working with paint, but it will be a bit different. This week we’re exploring Street Art in the form of Graffiti Writing. The Venice Beach Legal Art Walls are a great place to paint, to see other work, and to experience the diversity of Venice. If you can make it out there to paint, I’ll give you +30 EC. If you can’t no worries: full Activity credit for painting on a piece of plywood, cardboard, etc, in your backyard. You can paint anywhere that is legal. Be sure to use at least 2 colors. If you do it with 1 or more classmates, then it’s just 1 can of paint / person. Save gas money and have more fun by carpooling with peeps.
Full details on the Art110 Painting Page!
Points
All points & EC for Week 1 are now live on BeachBoard. Be sure to check your points every week!
Pilar Elizabeth, “Amending Project”. In addition to viewing her project, Pilar has invited us, if you’d like, to participate in helping make her large American flag. If you’re interested, she has 2 requests: 1. Wear Your Favorite Socks! 2. in addition to our normal “dutzi-gallery” tag on your posts, she’d appreciate it if you’d also add “amendingProject” (no quotations) to your posts. As part of the work she’s collecting visitor / participant feedback, whether written on site, or posted electronically later. So with the “amendingProject” tag, you’ll help her collect feedback from her week in the CSULB SOA Dutzi Gallery.
SOA Galleries, Wk 2
January 25th-January 29th
In the SOA Galleries this week:
Maccabee Shelley, No Redemption Value
Maccabee Shelley, Ceramics, TAG: Gatov-West (show is in Gatov West & East)
Maccabee Shelley’s presentation, No Redemption Value, consists of glass and ceramic pieces.
Gianina Nunez, Drawing and Painting, TAG: Merlino-Gallery
Gianina Nunez’s exhibit will feature small still-life paintings and objects as she explores memories and influences within her life.
Pilar Elizabeth, Sculpture, TAG: Dutzi Gallery
Pilar Elizabeth constructs and stitches an American flag, exploring themes related to ‘Americanness’.
Rosana Anguiano, Drawing and Painting, TAG: Werby-Gallery
Rosana Anguiano’s group exhibition includes oil paintings and sketches of social interactions, personal relationships, and cultural conflicts within society.
Maccabee Shelley, No Redemption Value
All points through Week 12 are now up on BeachBoard. We’ve had 696 points possible so far, and here’s what you should have by now to be on track for each grade level:
A pace = 626 points – 98 peeps
B pace = 556 points – 22 peeps
C pace = 486 points – 8 peeps
D pace = 416 points – 6 peeps
F pace = 415 points – 7 peeps
Overall class GPA (so far) = 3.4
DIY Constellation Pin- Wk 12 Activity from Anna Joy on Vimeo.
Top 10
- Anna Joy Floresca – 909
- Diana Martinez – 903
- Evan Huang – 874
- Marlyn Castillo – 844
- Bowas Yang – 801
- Allison Wendell – 801
- Antonio Lavermon – 788
- Nicole Ilagan – 785
- Conny Ramirez – 778
- Yesenia Chavez – 763
- Dominic Erich – 763
ePortfolio Presentations
On Tuesdays so far we’ve used our time to talk about the week’s Activity, and to look at some of the strong Activities from the week before. Now that we’ve completed our Activities for Fall ’14 we can use the last Tuesdays to let you optionally present your ePortfolio for extra credit. A strong presentation of your ePortfolio is worth up to +30 EC.
NOTE: You can only present YOUR EPORTFOLIO — that is, you CAN NOT show a website of Art110 work. We want to see your Aerospace Engineering or Nursing or Marine Biology or Fashion Merchandising website. And yes, you can show ePortfolios for things other than your major, like your Band, your Zine, your Classic Car Restoration, your Cosplay, your Sports Blog, etc etc. Most of the time these “hobbies” are just that, extra things in life that aren’t your “career.” But sometimes they can overlap. Maybe that hiring manager at that awesome Aerospace Engineering Firm likes you because they’re impressed with the detail of your Car Website. And even though an activity like Cosplay is mostly lighthearted fun, people like Yaya Han have turned it into a full-time income.
Signups will be open through 1pm this Thursday, Nov 20th.
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Activity “Grades”
74 of you chose to do the optional evaluation of our 12 Activities for Fall 2014. Here’s your Up Votes, Down Votes, and Totals for our 12 Activities:
- Painting +47 -13 = 34
- Plaster Casting +37 – 14 = 23
- Your Turn +21 -0 = 21
- Instagram +26 -10 = 16
- Corpse +24 -11 = 13
- Web Design +5 -0 = 5
- Teach One +6 -6 = 0
- ePortfolio +10 -16 = -6
- Drawing +15 -26 = -11
- Kickstarter +12 -32 = -20
- CFID +9 -31 = -22
- vLog +4 -26 = -22
You really liked Painting, Plaster Casting, and Your Own Choice. You really disliked Kickstarter, CFID, and vlogging. I can’t promise I’ll cancel all 3 of those projects for next semester, but I do promise to cancel at least 1 of them, maybe more. We’ll discuss it in class today.
Galleries This Week
Drawing and Painting, BFA Exhibition- Gatov East & West
The Drawing and Painting BFA Exhibition features work from graduating Drawing and Painting BFA students.
Nora Ayala, Printmaking – Merlino Gallery
Nora Ayala depicts body image and objectification through printmaking techniques.
Brittnee Forline, BFA Metals – Dutzi Gallery
Brittnee Forline’s BFA exhibition features metal works referencing a personal desire for a life of fantasy.
Kelsey Zwarka, BFA Ceramics – Werby Gallery
Kelly Zwarka’s BFA exhibition showcases abstracted biomorphic forms that range from small to large-scale.
Gallery Tags
Don’t forget our new, easier tags for your artist conversations! Instead of tagging a different artist each week, let’s just tag the gallery it was in. This way you can already know the 6 tags to cover all the work you’ll look at:
Allison Wendell
Evan Huang
Justin Toguchi
Spray Paint Art with Justin Toguchi
Diana Martinez
HOW TO MAKE A STENCIL from Diana Martinez on Vimeo.
Denzel Belleza
Chris Espinoza
Antonio Lavermon
]]>Let It All Go- Dominic Erich from Connor Bailey on Vimeo.
Activity: Your Turn
We’ve been saying a bit about this last activity in class for a few weeks now, so hopefully you’ve started thinking a little about it. The best way to learn anything is to teach it to someone else. After doing activities for the past 11 weeks, now it’s your turn to teach! Full details on the Teach One activity page!
I give a bunch of examples of Art Ideas and Art Techniques that you could teach on that page. And remember, it’d also be really cool if you taught something about one of the SOA artists you really liked from the galleries this semester.
EC: Post #4
As I’m sure you know, this week, week 12, is our last week of Activities and our last week of 3 posts. Starting next week you’ll still have 2 conversation posts due, but that’s it, just 2 posts a week for the last3 weeks. So since it’s the last week of 3 posts, why don’t you do 4 posts!?
Extra Credit: Activity Feedback!
Now that you’ve done, or will have done, all 12 activities, I’d really like to get your feedback on them. If you’d be willing to do a 4th post this week, Week 12 – Activity Feedback and tell me:
- Your 3 favorite activities this semester, and a few words about why
- Your 3 least favorite activities this semester, and a few words about why
- Any other feedback on the class – fun? boring? easy? hard? relevant? irrelevant? useful? useless? etc
- What could make the class better?
I’ll be grateful for your feedback, you’ll help design a better class for next semester, and I’ll give you 12 points of EC for the extra post.
Scaffold Thingy, SOA Gallery Courtyard
Jack & Corinne!
OMG how awesome is this! You know that scaffoldy thing in the SOA Gallery Courtyard? Jack & Corinne have volunteered to do a dance piece on or around it for us next Thursday, Nov 20, at 11:30am! And they need your help too! They might be able to use a few more cast members. If you have dance experience that’d be cool, but they might be able to work with a few “pedestrian” movers or extras also.
And documentation of course. Photography. Video. Maybe a writer? Illustrator? Zineographer? Oh, and probably some audio too. (talk to me about volume level!)
Not only can you help them create this awesome piece, but you can even get paid for participating! I’ve given Jack & Corinne a “budget” of 200 points for their production. They can “pay” themselves, and anyone they take on to participate out of that. After the performance they’ll give me a list of how they’d like the 200 points distributed.
Interested? Chat them up!
Points
All points through Week 11 are now up on BeachBoard. We’ve had 638 points posted so far, and here’s what you should have to be on track for each grade level:
574 points = A pace = 98 peeps
510 points = B pace = 18 peeps
446 points = C pace = 10 peeps
382 points = D pace = 8 peeps
381 points = F pace = 7 peeps
In spite of the enormous number of “A’s”, the class GPA is “only” 3.3 – those D’s & F’s can really drag the GPA down. BTW the A’s, B’s & C’s are almost identical to last week, but unfortunately 3 peeps have slid from D pace to F pace this week. It’s really the home stretch now and I urge you to turn work in and maintain or improve your grade. For a few of you with extremely low points it’s probably too late now. If the SOA will still let you, you might be better served by dropping at this point. For all of you at the top of the grading alphabet – congratulations! Awesome work!
Top 10
Project 757: A Modern Haiku Adventure from Anna Joy on Vimeo.
Everyone who’s doing their best in Art110 is a “superstar,” but in terms of points, it seems fair to say that Anna & Diana are our “points superstars.” Last week our superstars both made very personal videos that expressed a range of feelings. They were both complex, but you might say that Anna’s tended a bit more to the light, and Diana’s tended a bit more toward darkness. And hmm… aren’t those the colors they each mostly wear?
PARADOXICAL SENTIMENTS from Diana Martinez on Vimeo.
- Anna Joy Floresca – 827
- Diana Martinez – 822
- Evan Huang – 795
- Marlyn Castillo – 774
- Allison Wendell – 736
- Bowas Yang – 726
- Celine Phan – 716
- Nicole Ilagan – 715
- Antonio Lavermon – 706
- Connor Bailey – 698
Being Generous?
Some of you were kind of nervous about asking classmates or artists for conversations the first week or two. A few of you might still be, but I think after all these weeks many of you have gotten past that initial fear. The great thing about asking classmates to have a conversation is that everyone’s in the same boat – they already know what your needs are, and they also have that need themselves – so I think we’re pretty sympathetic to each other. The artists too, know you’re coming and actually they really look forward to conversations with you. So the good news is, it’s mostly easy to startup these conversations.
But I’ve also heard that some of you are less generous with your classmates. Maybe you already did a conversation and someone else wants to talk to you. It’s already 11:30, and really, how much time are you supposed to put in on one class!
Oh, wait, this isn’t even “homework,” it’s class time! When-how-why did leaving class at least 30 – 45 minutes before it’s over become a requirement? Here’s the crazy thing: you are paying a lot of money to be there… I’m not paying anything, I’m getting paid to be there. So, shouldn’t it me me who wants to leave and you who wants to get every minute of you’re money’s worth?
Of course I know life is busy and the demands on your time are many, but with a courtyard filled with artists, art, and 100+ classmates, it should be a really engaging place. And it is, BTW! This isn’t meant to be a big rant, just a small request to remember to be generous with your classmates. You don’t have to talk for half hour, but give them 10 real minutes. Be there. Be invested in the conversation. Look at some of the art together and discuss is. And if this is your 2nd or 3rd classmate conversation of the day – lucky you! – you get to have a richer CSULB experience with your peers. You can get facts from online courses and online resources, but you can only meet the people you’ll share the future of California and the world with by showing up and being engaged.
Thanks for your generosity to each other everyone!
Minyon Spencer & Shannon Choi
Whisper Challenge from minyon spencer on Vimeo.
Conny Ramirez
Galleries This Week
Timothy Cooper, BFA Ceramics – Gatov West
Timothy Cooper presents large-scale slip cast ceramic objects juxtaposed with multiple cast concrete objects in his BFA exhibition.
Michelle Thompkins, MFA Illustration – Gatov East
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, Printmaking – Merlino Gallery
Kiyomi Fukui exhibits an installation depicting the process of decomposition in the greater life cycle.
Lacy McCune & Angie Samblotte, Illustration – Dutzi Gallery
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, MFA Photography – Werby Gallery
Cynthia Herrera’s MFA exhibition features a sculptural installation and archived media from a project that had engaged the community of Riverside, CA.
Gallery Tags
I know I keep bugging you guys to tag your artists. It’s really important. It’s the only way we have to thank them for sharing months and years of their work with us. PLEASE TAG YOUR ARTIST POSTS!!!
I also know it can be a little confusing keeping track of which tag to use, so starting this week, Wk12, and for the rest of the semester let’s try a new tagging scheme for your artist conversations. Instead of tagging a different artist each week, let’s just tag the gallery it was in. This way you can already know the 6 tags to cover all the work you’ll look at:
Talk To The Artists!
Some of you are not bothering to have a conversation with the artist. It’s true we have had a lot of group shows and shows where the artist is unfortunately not there this semester. But I’m also seeing posts where you didn’t talk to the artist even though s/he was sitting right there. Seeing the art is great, but I’ve asked you to take advantage of this special opportunity and have a conversation with the artist. These artists are mostly about your age, live in your city, and go to your school – it’s a priceless chance to learn about the many ways your peers are perceiving your world. TALK TO THE ARTISTS!
Yesenia Chavez
Evan Huang
Corinne Sampson
Tony Lavermon
Sims 2 Demo – My Body, Your Body from Antonio Lavermon on Vimeo.
Steven Lozano
David Aceves
Connor & Dominic
After mastering the past 10 Activities you’re ready to design a special Art Activity just for yourself. Try something new! Try something meaningful. Challenge yourself. Have fun! Visit the Activity 11 – Your Turn page for full details. If you want help figuring anything out, be sure to ask me! Right behind the Gatov Gallery is the Art Store and we can go visit if you want to know about Canvas or Gouache or any other sort of art material.
Social Production
You can do any art activity you like for Activity 11. By yourself or in a group. But I’d like to encourage you to think about “Social Production.” Here’s a really impressive example of it, and then some ideas about it:
Points
All points through the end of Week 10 are now up on BeachBoard (I still have some of your messages re late posts to look at) We’ve had 580 points awarded so far, and here’s what you should have to be on track for each grade level:
522 points = A pace = 97 peeps
464 points = B pace = 20 peeps
406 points = C pace = 10 peeps
348 points = D pace = 10 peeps
347 points = F pace = 4 peeps
Anna Joy Floresca
Top 10
- Anna Joy Floresca – 761
- Diana Martinez – 759
- Evan Huang 730
- Marlyn Castillo – 712
- Allison Wendell – 676
- Bowas Yang – 668
- Celine Phan – 658
- Nicole Ilagan – 657
- Antonio Lavermon – 638
- Conny Ramirez – 634
- Connor Bailey – 634
Elizabeth Banuelos
Cheyenne Ochoa
Marie Mendez
Antonio Lavermon
Evan Huang
Tyler Hirata
Kianna Lightborn
Connor Bailey
Conny Ramirez
CitizenFour
The documentary about Edward Snowden, CitizenFour, came out on Friday. It’s currently playing in Pasadena. I strongly encourage you to see it. For many of you Snowden might be a hero; for others he might be a criminal – your ideology will be your own, but whatever you believe, his work is at the heart of the culture of your time. Your parents and I are creatures of the 20th century, but the 21st century is your time and while everyone in this class will have a different opinion, it’s essential that you’re informed about the issues and ideas of your century.
On a related note, the documentary about Aaron Swartz, The Internet’s Own Boy came out a few months ago. Again, it contains fundamental ideas about the culture of your time. Again, whether you consider him a hero or a criminal, I urge you to be informed about the ideas of your century.
Documentaries
These 2 documentaries are a good moment to think about documentaries in general. Some of you will go on to be filmmakers. Almost all of your are film watchers. Sure sometimes you’re tired and just want to relax with Guardians of the Galaxy or The Avengers. But so much of mainstream film exists in a narrow range. Documentaries can inform, inspire, create change, and yes, even entertain. To our future filmmakers I’d encourage you to think about making documentaries. And to all of us who watch films, consider watching documentaries. They don’t have “Hollywood Budgets” for advertising, so you’ll hear less about them, but they’re out there and I believe they can enrich your life beyond simply one night’s entertainment.
A few years back PBS did a commercial for themselves. They showed vistas of wheat fields and skyscrapers. The tag line at the end was,
There are a million stories in the streets of the cities that we never finished building. And we intend to tell them all.
Marie Mendez
Landscapes with a Corpse, Izima Kaoru.
Koike Kiko wears Gianni Versace, 2004.
Week 10 Activity: Landscapes with a Corpse
This is the last week that Glenn picks the activities. Starting next week, You pick what you’re going to do. For our last “Glenn” project we return to photography. We looked at Photography in Week 2 with our Instagram Activity. That was Social Photography or Relational Aesthetics. This week we’ll try somewhat more traditional photography. But there’s still a twist. We’re imagining our own demise. Landscapes with a Corpse is Izima Kaoru’s twenty-year-long photography project. This week we’ll try a photograph of our own earthly departure in his style. Full detail on the Landscapes with a Corpse page
Galleries, Wk 10
See our Gallery Page!
Points
All points through the end of Week 9 are now up on BeachBoard. Here’s what you should have to be on track for each grade level:
A pace – 454 – 104 peeps
B pace – 403 – 17 peeps
C pace – 353 – 9 peeps
D pace – 302 – 6 peeps
F pace – 301 – 7 peeps
Wk 9 Activity: V-log/ About Me Video from Anna Joy on Vimeo.
Top 10
- Anna Joy Floresca – 694
- Diana Martinez – 693
- Evan Huang – 668
- Marlyn Castillo – 652
- Allison Wendell – 615
- Bowas Yang – 610
- Nicole Ilagan – 597
- Quynh Ong – 574
- Conny Ramirez – 572
- Connor Bailey – 572
Amir Kiani
Alonzo Urita
Jack Taylor
About Me ART 110 from Jack Taylor on Vimeo.
Conny Ramirez
Welcome to My Website from Conny Ramirez on Vimeo.
Aubrey Delos Reyes
Dominic Erich
Jake Mercadante
Jake Mercadante
Intro to my blog tho from jake mercadante on Vimeo.
Emily Bondoc
Welcome to the #emilystravels blog! from Emily Bondoc on Vimeo.
Diana Martinez
INTRO from Diana Martinez on Vimeo.
Amber Reyes
Angelica Camacho
Allison Wendell
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I have taught this course every semester since 2005
Students in conversation with artist Christine Hudson at the CSULB School of Art, Merlino Gallery. Hudson is in conversation just outside the gallery. Inside is her installation of 125,000 ceramic teeth.
WHY DO YOU WISH TO CONVERT THE COURSE TO A HYBRID OR FLIPPED FORMAT?
As the School of Art’s flagship General Education course reaching out to the entire campus community, Art 110 should be available in as many formats as students desire to experience it in. Given the way students live, work, and learn in 2014, I believe the hybrid version of the course may come to be our most popular version.
Students in 2014 are immersed in media. We acknowledged this fact when we took the books out of the 1st floor of the University Library and replaced them with a Starbucks and a computer lab. While sipping on her latte a CSULB student has 5 screens in front of her: her own device, plus 4 more on the Starbucks wall. Our course design must appreciate and leverage the deeply wired nature of our digital native students.
From teaching both 100% face-to-face and 100% online versions of this course I have come to believe that for many students the hybrid format will be ideal. While some students need the flexibility of 100% online, many feel a sense of loss at not spending time interacting with their peers. Equally, given the fast paced lives our students live, the speed with which they experience content, and the vast range of both content and experiences now at their fingertips, many students no longer seek the experience of 150 minutes a week of lecture.
Our students spend a lot of time online, yet they also deeply value face-to-face experience. By embracing the power of both formats we can offer education that matches the way students live their lives today, simultaneously “IRL & URL”.
REASONS CONVERTING THIS COURSE TO A HYBRID FORMAT WILL ENHANCE STUDENT SUCCESS
It makes sense for the School of Art to maximize enrollment in Art 110. Taught in UT-108 we have enough seats for 378 students. Yet as enrollment goes up, the course must become more generic to accommodate a wide range of learning styles, preparation, and experience. By maximizing online resources and student choice, a hybrid class could feature both large enrollment and large flexibility for individual students, something hard to achieve with traditional instruction.
The CSULB School of Art offers a truly unique resource: 5 student art galleries with new exhibitions each week of the semester. The CSULB SOA Art Gallery Complex is a completely unique facility where students can consider 60 different exhibitions by 60 different student artists in a single semester. I am not aware of another American institution where students can have such a rich experience. The SOA Gallery Complex and University Art Museum are ideal for face-to-face instruction. For the academic aspects of the course students can work with faculty created video talks and other online materials, choosing special interest topics, and working at a pace and time slot that best meets their personal situation.
Students interacting at the CSULB, School of Art, Gallery Complex.
Additional Materials
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Last week we worked on ePortfolios and this we’re creating a “Hi, it’s me! Welcome to my website!” vlog to put on our “About” or “About Me” pages. Full details on the Vlog Activity Page.
Points
All points through the end of Week 8 are now up on BeachBoard. We’ve had 464 points possible so far and here’s the number you should have now to be on track for each grade level:
418 points = A pace – 103 peeps
371 points = B pace – 18 peeps
325 points = C pace – 6 peeps
279 points = D pace – 7 peeps
278 points = F pace – 9 peeps
Top 10
- Diana Martinez – 628
- Anna Joy Floresca – 625
- Evan Huang – 606
- Marlyn Castillo – 594
- Allison Wendell – 553
- Bowas Yang – 550
- Mimi Ly – 548
- Celine Phan – 539
- Nicole Ilagan – 536
- Connor Bailey – 527
ePortfolios
Lots of nice work last week! Here are a few samples:
President Conoley’s blog
1st Person? Or 3rd Person?
Allison put up a nice “About Me” on her site. She wrote it in 3rd person.
It’s always a question whether to write about yourself in 3rd person or 1st person and people make both choices all the time. For sure it’s YOUR choice!
3rd person does have a certain authorial or definitive quality, but ultimately it feels detached and sometimes a little weird when “I tell you that Glenn is a smart and wonderful person”. In my own opinion, 1st person is stronger. It’s more direct, more connected, and perhaps more honest. It feels more conversational with your reader.
Another question I’ve spent way too much time thinking about is, as an interviewer, if your questions should be phrased “tell us” or “tell me”. Tell us has a nice democratic quality, in that you’re not trying to be Interviewer-God, you’re just the audience member who happens to be asking the questions, so you ask the interesting guest to “tell (all of) us” about something.
In the end though, I think “tell us” has the same disconnected, affected quality. I find “tell me” to be more direct, active, and connected. If your interview is compelling, the audience will be plenty happy to hear the interviewer ask “tell me” of the interesting guest.
Again, I don’t want to press this too hard, since plenty of peeps do prefer to write in 3rd person, but in my judgement, we’re not writing obituaries here! 1st person is more active, connected, and dynamic. It lets YOU talk about YOUR PASSION. And whether you’re trying to be a screenwriter, a fashion merchandiser, a vintage car restorer, an awesome cosplayer, a passionate marine biologist, a rockin band, or anything else, that active and connected communication is almost as important as the thing you do so well. It’s the way you bring people into your world and get them to hire you, play with you, support you, etc. IMHO. 
Wk9: Galleries – Oct 19-23
Restart
curated by Bethany King, – Gatov West – TAG: king
Restart expresses the impact of spirituality on art. Featured artists express Jesus’s influence on their lives through mixed media works.
Salon des Refusés
curated by André Stevenson – Gatov East – TAG: stevenson
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
BFA Ceramics – Merlino Gallery – TAG: hudson
Christine Hudson presents an interactive installation of numerous handmade porcelain teeth in her BFA exhibition.
Heather Hassenbein
BFA Ceramics – Dutzi Gallery – TAG: hassenbein
Heather Hassenbein’s BFA exhibition features wall-mounted works that reflect natural and abstract themes.
Sculpture Program Group Exhibition
Werby Gallery – TAG: csulbsculpture
The Sculpture Program Group Exhibition is self-organized and features artwork by the BFA Sculpture program.
ARTIST TAGS
Hi guys, I want to remind you to be sure to use the Artist Tag on your post each week. That tag is the ONLY WAY we can really say “thank you” to your peers, the CSULB Student Artists who came in early to open just for us, and also for their months of work preparing their exhibition. A LOT of you are missing Artist Tags and it’s really not fair to the artists.
Last week we had 3 shows. In Gatov West, Gatov East, and Werby was the CSULB SOA “Advancement Show.” In Dutzi was a printmaking exchange show. And our one Solo Artist Show last week was Brian Davis in Merlino.
Advancement tag: csulbmfa – 34 tagged posts
Printmaking tag: csulbprintmaking – 16 tagged posts
Brian Davis tag: davis – 7 tagged posts
Thank You! To the 57 of you who tagged your artists! Unfortunately that means 86 of you did not tag an artist for week 8. PLEASE DO IT THIS WEEK!
WHAT’S AN “ADVANCEMENT SHOW”?
In the arts, like Fine Art or Dance or Theatre for example, there isn’t the “academic” degree of “PhD.” Instead the “terminal degree” (highest you can go) is the MFA (master of fine arts). So artists can get a BA or BFA and then just as some history or philosophy majors get an MA and then a PhD, while others just go straight to the PhD, artists can get an MA and then an MFA, or just go straight to the MFA. When you’re in an MFA program, maybe halfway through, you have to “Advance to Candidacy”. “Advancing” means that the School is approving what you’ve done and where you’re headed and you can now work on completing your thesis. Again, in “academic” disciplines your thesis is typically a long written work, but in the arts it is typically a thesis Art Exhibition, Dance Concert, etc.
When we see an “MFA Show” or “BFA Show” in the galleries, that exhibition is the presentation of the student’s graduate or undergraduate thesis to the university and wider community. As you’ve seen, the galleries also have “Group” shows, like Photography Club or Printmaking Exchange. And there are also “non-degree shows,” by both grad students and undergrads. A “non-degree show” is just a way of saying that it isn’t their “Thesis Exhibition,” instead it is some work or some progress toward a thesis exhibition that they’d like to show.
Money!
Asian Cultural Council – Individual Grants
The Asian Cultural Council (ACC) provides funding for artists and scholars who seek to grow in their craft or field to conduct research and study, receive specialized training, undertake observation tours, or pursue non-commercial creative activity in the United States or among the countries of Asia.
Deadline: 11/01/2014
asianculturalcouncil.org/apply/individual-guidelines
asianculturalcouncil.org/our-programs/individual-grants
[email protected]
No, Art110’s “Brittany Binder” is not the fashion model from Sugar Land, TX, but she’s the only “Brittany Binder” I could find a photo of. So here’s the wrong “Brittany Binder,” and I’ll try to have a photo of the right one for next week.
INTRODUCING BRITTANY BINDER
Brittany Binder is going to join me in looking at your collective 429 posts each week! Brittany is a 2nd year graduate in the CSULB SOA Art History program. She’s actually working on TWO degrees, or to be more precise a degree and a “certificate.” She’s working on an MA in Mexican-American Art History and also a Certificate in Museum Studies. I’m not sure if her schedule will allow it, but perhaps she can come say “Hi” in UT-108 on a Tuesday, or spend a few minutes with us at the SOA Galleries on a Thursday. As you might know, in addition to all the Art Galleries at the SOA, there is also the “University Art Museum” (UAM) down on the other end of campus by the Horn Center & the Business Department. Brittany is working on a show that will open at the UAM later this semester. Perhaps we can arrange an opportunity for you to go down, see the show, have a conversation with Brittany, and blog about it for extra credit.
Anyway, I mostly wanted to let you know that Brittany is joining us and I’ll take the liberty of saying on behalf of all of you, Welcome Brittany!
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ePortfolios!
Yes, it’s that week I’ve been going on about since day 1. It’s time to make “our” websites really OURS! Details on the ePortfolio Activity Page!
SOA Galleries
Visit our Gallery Page for info on this week’s artists and the TAGS you should BE SURE to use with your Artist Conversation post!
Points
We’ve got 7 weeks up on BeachBoard now and the total possible is 406. Here’s how many points you should have to be on track for each grade level:
A pace = 365 points – 105 peeps
B pace = 324 points – 15 peeps
C pace = 283 points – 7 peeps
D pace = 242 points – 7 peeps
F pace = 241 points – 9 peeps
Top 10
- Diana Martinez – 566
- Anna Joy Floresca – 560
- Evan Huang – 533
- Marlyn Castillo – 530
- Alison Wendell – 492
- Mimi Ly – 490
- Bowas Yang – 488
- Celine Phan – 481
- Nicole Ilagan – 470
- Connor Bailey – 469
The Homies: Stephanie Mejia, C-Dawg, Diana Martinez, Allison Wendell & Anna Joy Floresca
Painting at Venice Beach!
Diana Martinez
VB from Diana Martinez on Vimeo.
Anna Joy Floresca
Venice Beach Week 7 from Anna Joy on Vimeo.
Bowas Yang
Kiara Kensie
Venice Beach from Kiara Kensie on Vimeo.
Conny Ramirez
Venice Art Walls from Conny Ramirez on Vimeo.
My friends and I went to Venice to legally spray paint on the infamous art walls as part of our art class assignment, it was a great experience and here's what I was able to get from it.
Blood Moon
Evan Huang shot the last “Blood Moon” (Lunar Eclipse) of 2014!
Lunar Eclipse, by Evan Huang
Marlyn Castillo
Marlyn Castillo at Venice Beach
Mimi Ly
Mimi Ly
Melanie Coli
Melanie Coli
Savannah Cheung
Savannah Cheung
Andrew Aragon
Andy Aragon
Anthony Diaz
Diaz
Plastic Castle! Photo by Diana Martinez
Plastic Castle @ The Whiskey
We finally got a video of Plastic Castle (Andy ‘n Diaz) at the Whiskey thanks to our intrepid reporter Diana Martinez.
Other Exciting News
In other exciting news this week, Glenn got a new surfski (a fancy kayak)
Glenn’s new Fenn Mako XT surfski