Modern Vintage Show [5/11/2012]

Images of installed work at:

Modern Vintage

[Redtree Gallery]

Spring 2012: In-Progress

In-progress images of Spring Quarter 2012 thesis work:

[INSPIRATION]

[Bisque-its]

[Work Station]

[Before glaze firing]

[Coral color out of the kiln]

[Beginning of color palette]

Nostalgia: Winter Quarter 2012

In-progress images of studio work [Winter Quarter 2012]: 

Intense Yellow underglaze being applied to edges/ interiors of form:

Work being installed for Dry Run Senior Thesis Exhibit.

Nostalgia

5' x 1.5'

Porcelain

Retro: Table Runner (Advanced Ceramics, Spring 2011)

Today I installed my final advanced ceramics piece of the year, a retro-inspired table runner. The pieces are clay slabs painted with underglaze, about 1/2" thick and ranging from 3"-7" in diameter. 

My studio table is about 31"x 68".

The photos go through a small progression of in-progress work to the final studio set up.

Field Experience: Hughes High School

Our art education content III field experience this Spring quarter took place at Hughes High School, a Cincinnati Public School near The University of Cincinnati's main campus. Our objective this quarter was to teach in teams of two and work one-on-one with a table of students in the art classroom.Our content class was given a lesson plan by our mentor teacher and we were to teach the students about still lifes through the use of four different artist with varying styles. 

Mark Fox

 Rice gallery . (n.d.). Dust: rice gallery. Retrieved from http://www.ricegallery.org/new/exhibition/dust.html 

 Portia Munson

Munson, P. (2011). Portia munson. Retrieved from http://www.portiamunson.com/home.html

Kehinde Wiley

National portrait gallery . (2011, april 26). National portrait gallery:recognize! hip hop and contemporary portraiture. Retrieved from http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/recognize/paintings.html

My stylist says . (2011). Kehinde wiley art: my stylist says. Retrieved from http://www.mystylistsays.com/chloe-loves/kehinde-wiley/ 

 Janet Fish

Amherst bulletin . (2007). Amherst bulletin: into the light: mount holyoke college exhibits the luminous work of janet fish. Retrieved from http://www.amherstbulletin.com/story/id/92201/

My teaching partner and I had an interesting field experience in that we originally started with two students, and then each week after that we would have two new students that were absent in the  previous weeks. So we were always re-teaching our first lesson and constantly coming across this hurdle of: How do we build on the knowledge base each week that we establish the week before when we always have new students?

In our last two visits we made to Hughes, all five of the students we had taught were present  and we did a small project based on the work of Kehinde Wiley's layering and photorealistic processes. Using bristol, vintage flowered wallpaper designs, magazine figure cutouts, markers, and glue, the students collaged figures with background patterns and made a piece reminiscent of Kehinde. Here's some examples of the working process of our students and their results:

 A major part of our Hughes experiences was figuring out and exploring the uses of philosophical inquiry in the classroom. We had a lot of discussion with our students over the course of our teaching and we mainly wanted to get them just talking about art. 

A discussion activity called Yes, No, Maybe... that we did with the work of Mark Fox, posed the question to the students of: Do you consider Mark's Dust installation art? One student took the role of 'Yes,' and one took the role of 'No.' Through forcing the students to take sides, it required them to think about what they value and what they personally consider art.

They are so used to going through the motions of art class that it was really great to see how we could challenge them and dig into deeper levels of artistic understandings. Our mentor teacher noted to our content class that students who never perform in her class were fully engaged in our lessons and were really excited for us to come to class on Friday afternoon. It was a really great feeling to know that we could be thrown into this unknown situation and come out with such great results! It was a definitely a quarter of experiencing 'the unknown' and figuring out how to deal.

Shelfari: Building Your Classroom Library

Shelfari is a site that we have discussed in class that I thought would be really helpful for building a classroom library. It would be a great way to get book suggestions and look into resources that you may have never thought of! Shelfari would definitely be of assistance when doing artist and lesson research as well as exploring new areas of artistic study. Shelfari. (2011). Shelfari. Retrieved from http://www.shelfari.com/

ArtWorks Cincinnati

ArtWorks is an amazing non-profit organization that provides many opportunities for ways to get involved in the art community of Cincinnati. The site contains information about calls for entries, public art projects, ways to volunteer, and ways to donate to the organization.
Artworks. (n.d.). Artworks. Retrieved from http://www.artworkscincinnati.org/