Please Have a look at our Moodle Page for our Up to Date Briefs and for feedback on your assessments! :)

March 9

Agenda for today:

Bring up website and artist statement

• questions, comments, complaints, concerns

Q&A with Elena Barschazki: Art and Design Things

Website and Artist Statement Feedback

Questions for the upcoming weeks

March 3

Today we reviewed our plans for the website and introduced Solo(ist) as an option. Next week Elena will be here to speak with you a bit about her experience, have a look at your websites and artists statements and answer any questions you might have!

February 23

Rest of Jan and Feb was working on the previous work (and two weeks of work experience, followed by the midterm break).

Here is the updated website brief as promised.

And here is a worksheet for thinking about what questions and ideas you might have for Elena Barschazki, who will be our special guest next Monday!

January 12

Artist statement worksheets:

Let's have a look at the first of these worksheets— the Artist Statement Brainstorming Worksheet — and see how things go. Feel free to download the word document below or use the web version here.

Once you have gone through that sheet, have a look at the upcoming outline sheet, we will spend some time going through your brainstorming and then work on the outline together. If you feel comfortable diving into your actual statement after you have completed brainstorming, go for it! (The web version of this document is here)

January 5

review previous work

December 14

review previous work

December 7

review previous work

December 1

Artist Statement Draft

Learning markdown:

This is markdown! https://www.markdownguide.org

You can learn it here! https://www.markdowntutorial.com

This is a slightly better markdown editor that I recommend: https://stackedit.io/app#

(in class we used https://markdownonline.org )

The idea is to work on our artist statements (sample-brief down below in September) and by the end of December have a draft ready to discuss in January.

November 17 & 24

Today we will be working on our grant research projects with the aim to be finished in the second week of December (Tentative Due Date: December 14th depending on when folks finish).

We also introduced Carrd.co where we will eventually be doing our web pages and artist statements (there are other tools if folks prefer to use something else, happy to recommend other avenues).

For our Artist Statements we will split our focus two ways:

1. An Artist Statement for the exhibition in February (for printing and putting on a wall/table near your pieces)

2. An Artist statement for your web-page

The goal would be to have a draft done by the 14th, but we will make this a timed exercise (30 mins + 15 mins edits) just so we have something we can use.

November 3 & 10

Today we will discuss our plans for the coming 6 weeks as well as what projects and tools you might find useful

October 20 & 27

Today we will be working on the Grants and Residences Research Activity with an eye toward submitting a document outlining your research and reflections.

October 6 & 13

Today we will be investigating some funding, learning and travel opportunities associated with your practice. If you are not sure if you want to do these, that's okay, learning about what is out there and figuring out what you are not interested in can be just as important as finding your thing… and who knows, you might just find something you didn't expect!

Grants & Residencies Research Activity

September 29:

Plan for Today:

• Finish up Task from last week

• Group Reflection

• Communicating about Art and Process Youtube Example (part 2)

• If we have time: Discussion of Next Project (Artist Statement) Draft of Brief

September 22

Plan for Today:

• Recap from Last Week

• Introductory Task

• Communicating about Art and Process (A Youtube Example)

Introductory Task (1h):

On a new word doc, let's think through a few things involving communication with clients based on the following scenario:

A new local restaurant who you have never worked with before would like to commission your work (paintings, tableware, statue, mosaics, other endeavour relevant to your practice).

1. What is the scope of the project? What will you be creating for them? If that has not yet been decided, how will you go about determining that?

2. How will you be billing this person? How will you ascertain pricing and budgeting?

3. What information do you need to get started on the project? Assume you do not have the details.

4. Propose a meeting (time, day etc.) and prepare an agenda for the meeting.

Reflections on Intro Task

Looking at an Example Together:

Lets's use the following prompts to discuss this YouTube Video together: as we watch through, see if you can address these points individually, not as general feedback or response, but specific to each question.

• What do you notice about the tone of the speaker?

• What do you notice about the visuals, the focus, the lighting (cinematography)?

• What do you notice about how the speaker refers to themselves, to the audience?

• What emotions do you think the creator is trying to evoke in their viewers? What emotions do you actually feel? Are these the same, different?

• What do you notice about the structure of the video, of each scene?

• What vocabulary do you see the creator use, what level (or register) are they speaking in, is there a lot of jargon?

• Who do you think the primary audience is for this video? Notice how large a following this creator has, is that what you expected?

September 15

Welcome to communications!

My name is Josh—together we will embark on an adventure in communications this year!

What we will (broadly) cover:

• Understanding Tone and Register

• Some types of communication that might prove useful

• How we might use different modes and registers in our lives

• How we might relate to others in our professional lives to achieve our specific goals

• What new tools are available that might make various forms of communication easier (and which might make things tricky or more difficult)

How you will be assessed this year:

50% Skills Demonstrations: in class

50% Collection of Work: in and outside of class with 1:1 feedback

Introductory Task:

On a new word doc, please draft the following scenario and then an email that outlines an initial communication with a client that has expressed interest in working with you on a creative project:

1. What project are you working on with this person (can be real, or invented)

2. How will you be billing this person?

3. What information do you need to get started on the project?

Housekeeping:

• Attendance is highly encouraged

• Moodle is coming

• This site is where a lot of stuff will live

Our Module Descriptor

More for bookkeeping than anything, but figure you might be interested to get an overview.