12:00- 2:45
Look at preparatory drawings for South Lake Union temporary installation/line intervention. Discuss materials to be used, choice of location, audience, temporary nature of the project.
Following discussion and break, begin installation of line intervention at location. Documentation of all work and process (through drawings, photos, or collage) to be included in Final Artist Book (see below for all staged due dates).
2:45- 3:50
Presentation and discussion of Art + Design collaborative book project. See critique questions (to be attached).
Wednesday, Nov. 18
Critique South Lake Union line interventions on site. Introduce 7 Day mapping project. Distribute moleskines (to be used for 7 day mapping journal, to be included with final book).
Friday, Nov. 21
Bookmaking workshop with Dan, Ruthie, Marc, Kristen, Jessica; multiple stations with demonstrations and projects.
Week 4 – November 24-28
Monday, Nov. 24
12:00- 3:50
Workshop on writing narrative for final proposal (one narrative will described the proposed work, a second narrative will describe the project following completion; some version of these will be included in final book). Further discussion and examples of narrative structures, artists' books and tracking works (see list of artists). Begin preliminary sketches on your book form. Build dummies. Students responsible for providing cover and paper materials.
Wednesday, Nov. 26
No class – Happy Thanksgiving
Friday, Nov. 28
No class – Happy Thanksgiving
Week 5 – December 1-5
Monday, Dec. 1
12:00- 3:50 pm
Work day on Final Artist Book. First narrative draft due, with discussion in class.
Wednesday, Nov. 3
12:00- 3:50 pm
Work day on Final Artist Book. Discussion on book format (and its relation to the content). Narrative revision due, with peer response in class.
Friday, Dec. 5
10:00-11:50 am
Gallery visit: Western Bridge
Week 6 – December 8-12
Monday, Dec. 8
12:00- 3:50
Work day on Final Artist Book. Tracking completed by this date. Revision of narrative due.
Wednesday, Dec. 10
12:00- 3:50
Critique of Final books. Training for Drawing Smackdown, time permitting.
Friday, Dec. 12
1st Annual Cornfounded Drawing Smackdown
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Description of Final Artist Book
ARTIST BOOK: Investigating Site, Shaping Meaning
Now that you know your site well, your final project will be an artist book that documents/reveals your investigation. Your surveillance of this site will have no doubt expanded, modified, and challenged the original meaning of the site. Your research and interpretations will be ‘contained’ in the form of an artist’s “book” (a book of your definition). Your artist’s book shall include the following elements:
q 1- Narrative – Describe your site in writing. How is it defined by borders/boundaries? What are the characteristics of your site? What is the intended use of this site and how is it actually used? Who are its former/current/future occupants?
q 2. Drawing/Painting – Create no less than three renderings of your site. Show us your site from discrete angles, at different times of day. Materials are open, but consider which materials best tell your story (watercolor, pen and ink, ballpoint pen, pencil, sharpie).
q 3. Research Findings – include all of the following:
· * Digital photos that document your site investigation/intervention
· * Photos/video +/or audio from your seven days of tracking
· * Collage using found elements that relate to your site: additional images, nature, urban detritus, rubbings, sounds, video.
Your challenge is to find a book structure that best integrates all of this information while making sound aesthetic choices. Choose a structure that expresses your site: use a structure we’ve made in class, modify one, or combine various attributes of a variety of books, boxes, bindings, etc. Any size is OK. Challenge the idea of what parts a book has, what books are/do, and how books appear. Think about the properties of the material you are using (wood, metal, plastic, paper, leaves, fabric, rubber, road maps, envelopes, bags, vellum, pencil, pen, string, etc.) and work with those limits/opportunities. Be prepared to talk about all of your material choices.
