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Small Group Feedback Session #2 on Tuesday

You will be meeting with your small groups this week to discuss your ideas for your response artwork in conversation with artist research subject. (You can see the full assignment details linked here.)

This discussion will be facilitated by sharing the 3 different ideas and sketches you have posted to your blog over the weekend. (Group assignments are linked here.)

Please be generous in your conversations. Your task is to help each other make the best possible artwork. You are here to offer each other both the support and criticality we all need to develop our ideas into the best versions possible. 

In order to receive credit for this meeting, please post notes to briefly articulate your conversation on your blogs before Thursday’s class.(Also: Why not take a quick picture to make it cute?)

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Small Group Feedback Session #2

Today after our critiques, you will spend the remaining class time checking in with each small group member for a 15-20 minute studio visit. Use the following questions to guide the conversation and have one person take notes for each artist’s studio you visit. Notes should be turned in to me by the end of class. If I don’t see you, put your notes in my box in the art office.

Start this time by talking through any questions the artist might still have from their 6 small works critiques as well as look at the new work in progress. 

What is most compelling about the artwork? Why? 

What is the least engaging artwork in the studio. Why?

What themes, ideas or patterns do you find to be emerging in the works you see and have seen so far from this artist? 

What new things can you learn about the artist based on the studio space today?

Is there anything significantly different about how the studio is being utilized since your last visit? If so what? 

How much new work has been made? How would describe this new output of work? What is the next step?

What ideas does the artist seem to be interested in currently? If there are many ideas at work, what seem to be the primary ones? Why? secondary ones? Do you see any contradictions?

What does the studio suggest about the artists current material, formal, and emotional interests?

What does the studio suggest about the artists relationship to process?

What does the studio suggest about the artists thinking about presentation strategies?

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Small Group Feedback Session #2

In preparation for our first critique of your studio projects coming up next week on October 16th and 18th, we will spend some time today talking with your small groups about where your projects have evolved.

To refresh, the small groups are:

Courtney, Joshua, Sheena

Grace, Claudia, Aika

Kristen, Liz, Jennifer

SeulGi, Mary, Brandon

Hye Yun, Vivian, Kate

Miro, Andrea, Simone, Duy

To help guide your conversation, use the following questions to get started talking about what you plan to show for the critique next week:

What, specifically, is it that you intend to make? How does this artwork fit into the larger project?

What is this work inspired by?

What is the concept, process or function of your piece/s?   What is the scale?

What materials do you intend to use and why? How do the materials and techniques you are choosing strengthen the concept or function of your work?

What sensation or mood do you want your work to embody?

What do you wish your work to communicate?

How do you intend to present your work for final critique?

Show your work in progress to help the conversation be as productive as possible. If you have materials, mock ups, sketches or samples, please be sure to allow your group members to see your progress so far so that they can provide feedback and suggestions.

I will need one page of notes per artist at the end of class to insure that you receive credit for the small group feedback session.

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These two images are of an important project by artist Mike Kelley called “Deodorized Central Mass with Satellites” made from from untidy clusters of plush toys suspended from the ceiling and sleekly lacquered reliefs attached to surrounding walls. The 10 wall base components of the project activate the work as dispensers of pine-scented air freshener, which automatically send their cleansing spray into the room at timed intervals.