Due Next Week (Feb 20) + Make-up work

IF YOU MISSED CLASS Feb. 22:
Take a look at the slide show of preparatory drawings in the PDF I have posted here: Preparatory Slideshow. These drawings are from a range of artists. Notice different elements applied to each sketch – different views, textual explanations, maps. You will see drawings that act as an autonomous sketches, others incorporate and rework photographic images, maps and otherwise. These act as an example of how I hope you will begin to work through your concept.

Above is an example of how you might work into a photographic image with paint, pencil, pen or other traditional materials. You should work DIRECTLY onto the photos. (This is what we worked on in class today.) You may also use tracing paper to capture the space, transfer it to a sheet of drawing paper, and then insert your additions. In class, we utilized the projector to google images and then trace them onto the drawings.

If you missed class you should email me a written description of your ideas for the project by the close of the weekend (Sunday). I will respond to your thoughts and make some recommendations as to how you might start the drawing process. I can also be available next week to meet with you in person if necessary (Tuesday afternoon).

EVERYONE FOR NEXT WEEK:
After you have gone through the analog process, creating a series of sketches by hand, you should scan those sketches and make some additions in photoshop. Feel free to browse the web for usable images that will help to transform your sketch (trees, people, cars, lights, etc). If you are gathering images from the internet you MUST manipulate them in photoshop to make them your own! Keep scale and perspective in mind. Remember, as an element recedes into the distance it should be smaller and with less detail. In the end, you will have a single sketch that was manipulated in both an analog and digital process (by your physical hand and by the stroke of the mouse).

The digital skills you need to accomplish this are: using google images search, downloading images, opening images in photoshop, creating a simple selection with the polygonal lasso, cutting and pasting your selection and transforming the selections scale if needed. If need help with these skills, please be in touch as soon as possible so we can arrange for a tutorial

Due Next Class (on thumbdrive or online):
Two drawings that employ a combination of analog and digital processes to envision your concept.
One arial or map view with notations and/or drawings to indicate how and where you are changing the site.
Be prepared to present your ideas to the group for feedback.

Below is an example of the analog drawing (top) and the analog plus digital drawing (bottom).

Another Way for Women – Public Art Proposal

This assignment asks you to consider Solnit’s theories about how women move in public space and create a proposal for a work of public art.

SITE:
Using the location of the current “Women’s Way” murals, you must reconsider the mural, site and surrounding context. How does a women use this space? How does a woman feel in this space? How does the location of this public artwork currently inform its tribute to a women’s organization? How can you transform this space to either uncover or diminish some of the things that Solnit discusses in “Walkscapes?”

PROPOSAL:
Your proposal should be for the creation of something physical. Performance can be part of it, but not its sum total. You may also transform the space, from a design perspective, in any way you see fit to meet your needs. (Light, sound, space are all malleable). THINK BIG! BUDGET IS NOT AN ISSUE.

PRESENTATION:
Your presentation can be a set of physical drawings or in the form of a book or presentation board. You may also use digital media to create your presentation (Powerpoint, keynote, PDF). Contained within, but not limited to, you must provide the following documentation: drawings, photographs, writing and maps. Each of you must create a physical mock-up (not to scale). That mock-up may only appear in the final proposal as an image. You may also include video and audio, though it is not required.

WHERE TO BEGIN:
You will begin the process by researching. What is Women’s Way? How and when did the current work of art arrive there? What do people think about it? How does it function at day, at night? What are some other local or non-local public artworks that are mean to be a tribute to the work of women?

DUE NEXT WEEK (FEB 22)

• A series of images of the site and its context on disk or thumbdrive
• At least 5 images printed out at 8.5 x 11
• Some internet research about Women’s Way and the Mural completed
• Some initial proposal ideas established – for this you may want to print images, do sketches or write
• Come prepared to class with your drawing toolbox and drawing paper

Assignment 1: Public Log

Choose a single public space. Observe and document this space at least twice over the next week. Spend at least 30 minutes at the site collecting data. How is the space being used, who is using it, how public is it? Enter the data into your public log. Take detailed pictures of the site. Present your findings to the class.

Who is using the site? How are they using it? Is it really public? Who owns it? Who maintains it?