Artist's Presentations

Crystal Fenner 2009

Tomorrow, Monday, Nov. 23rd, members of the Fine Art Seminar fall 2009 class will give digital presentations on their work, inspiration, progress, and influences.

Presentations will take place in the Art Dept. Mac Lab. 4th Floor, Room 4078, Knight Campus.

The 2nd round of presentations will take place on Mon. Dec. 7th in the same location.

All members of the art department, faculty and students, are invited to attend.

Hope to see some of you there!

Jay Ryan

Cover of the book "animals and objects in
and out of water" by Jay Ryan

I was scouting for some new artist's books for my library and ran across Jay Ryan, a Chicago artist working in screenprinted posters. I was really drawn to his work and thought you might like to take a look. He works with traditional hand screenprinting techniques. He also has some information under "questions" about how he first got started in posters. The image above links to one of many portfolios on his site, The Bird Machine.

Tomorrow, Monday, Nov. 2nd we have guest speaker Richard Whitten, from Rhode Island College, in to speak about the portfolio requirements involved in transferring to RIC.

Afterwards there will be ample time to work at the computers on your artist's statements or Powerpoint presentations. I will open the equipment cabinet for anyone who needs to photograph work. Work can be shot in either the computer lab or one of the open spaces in room 4060, in the art dept.

Steven Mardo, 2D-The Illusion of Depth

This coming Monday, Oct. 19th we have a guest speaker, Steven Mardo. We have other business to take care of as well. Be sure to check your email for specific details and other announcements.

National Portfolio Day

Student work from the School of the Museum Arts Boston

Huge portfolio review day taking place tomorrow in Boston sponsored by SFMA and the National Portfolio Days Assoc. There will be representatives of art programs from all over the country ready to look at your work. Grab 10-15 pieces and head up to Boston for the afternoon.

Here's the link for details.

Sunday, October 4
12 to 4 pm
Hynes Convention Center
900 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02115

This Monday we begin shooting work for portfolio development.

If you have your own camera bring it along. I'm bringing a small digital point and shoot if anyone needs to use it. Or, you might find people willing to trade you some camera time for help with their set-ups. Whatever works. There are also some card readers available. Be sure to bring a flash drive so you can save and transport your images.

We will have on hand a small tripod, and 3 halogen lights, along with backdrop paper for shooting 3-d objects.

I suggest we start with no more than 3-4 items each for this first round. After that we can pull the equipment out as needed.

Class blogs

Links to your individual blog sites are now up so click on over and see what some members have going so far. I enjoyed the comments on our classroom adventures in technology!

Use your blog to start putting down some thoughts about your work, examples of work, and those things that influence it. At this stage it's a conversation between yourself and the rest of the class. It doesn't have to be perfect.

To get started check out Mike Collington's amazing photographs.



If you didn't give me your URL last class you can email the address to me when you're ready.