Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Individual Meetings: Thursday, October 30th

As a reminder, on Thursday, October 30th, class will be individual meetings. Come to my office during your meeting time with five photographs towards your final project to review.

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Thursday, October 23, 2014

Lecture tonight at 6pm Wathena 131

We will begin class tonight with visiting artist, Randy Reiger. 

He will be speaking at 6pm in Wathena 131 (the lecture hall on the first floor below our classroom). After his lecture ends we will head upstairs and continue class. 

Thursday, October 9, 2014

Project #3: Multiples

Project #3: Multiples

For this assignment you will be required to create 2 composite photographs in the style of Kelli Connell, Anthony Goicolea or Peter Funch.

You will construct a story/emotion/idea using the same person(s) to play all the roles. You may use yourself as the actor or someone else.

Each composite photograph will need to a composite of at least 2 different images. At a minimum you will need 4 photographs to construct your 2 final images.
  
For the critique:
You will post your 2 photographs to your blog and bring in your 2 photographs to project in class for critique.

Due: October 16th

Final Project

Final Project: Self-Assigned

For this assignment you will be required to create a photographic project of your own choosing on a Single Theme. You will be working on this assignment throughout the duration of the semester. This should be a thoughtful investigation/exploration of something important to you or that you are interested in.  Your photographic project will include 10 - 15 final images and will be printed and matted as a portfolio.
  
DUE October 21st: project proposal
  1. This proposal should be about a paragraph long and no longer than one page
  2. You should address:  
         a.  the subject matter/topic you are interested in exploring
         b.  why you are interested in the topic
         c.  ideas of how you plan to visualize these ideas photographically
  3. Print two copies of this proposal to turn in during your individual meeting.
  4. Sign up sheets for individual meetings will be available on October 9th and 14th.

DUE October 30th: mid-way review
  1. 5 digital files for semester long project posted to your blog
  2. Bring those 5 files to my office for an individual meeting to discuss progress

DUE November 11th: First Matted Print
      I will demo printing and matting November 4th and 6th.  
      By Tuesday November 11th you will need to have one photograph printed and matted.

DUE December 2nd: Final Critique:
  1.   All of your final project files to uploaded to your blog
  2.   All photographs must be printed and matted for presentation
  3.   All of your files need to be turned into me as you have done with earlier projects.

Photography Exhibition (December 3rd 1pm-3pm at the student center) : 
  1. Your printed/matted photographs will be on display to public alongside all of 

       the other IDM and advanced Photography classes. 

Monday, October 6, 2014

Tuesday October 7th: Critique of Project #2 and Visiting Artist Lecture

Tuesday's schedule:

The Art Department is hosting a visiting artist, Kristen Cochran, on Tuesday, October 7th.

So that we can see the visiting artist lecture, we will begin class at 6pm in WTFA 131 (the lecture hall on the first floor below our classroom).

Kristen will speak at 6pm and immediately following her presentation (at approximately 7pm), we will go upstairs to critique your projects.




Friday, October 3, 2014

Article and Review - Weather Problems

For any of you who lost power on Thursday due to the storm your article and reviews will not be counted late. Please upload your article and review by the end of the weekend.