Reinventing the Usual
This introductory activity is inspired by an experimental drawing activity I explored in Gainesville, FL during my 2014 summer studio experience. I credit Lisa Iglesias for providing this educational challenge: drawing with nontraditional tools or in a nontraditional manner. Working through this activity taught me to think more about the process of drawing and the meaning of the drawing process itself. It presented the questions of what does a drawing have to be, what does it have to be made with, and how does it have to be made? Additionally, I questioned what does experimenting with usual drawing processes, tools, and techniques mean to me; what more can I learn about drawing and myself with this activity? This activity will present students with similar questions as well as provide them with assurance that experimentation is okay and that the only failure is choosing not to even play with the new ideas.
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Students will explore tools, processes, and preconceptions of drawing in this activity. They will reinvent their understandings of how a drawing is supposed to look, how it is supposed to be made, and what it is supposed to be made with. The objective of this introductory activity is to help students discover for themselves that the creative and artistic processes can take on many different forms for several different reasons; that exploring these processes can bring about inventive techniques and media ideas; and that they themselves can learn lots of fun new things if they are open to new possibilities. Students will be encouraged to reinvent their ideas and processes of drawing, thus redefining their belief of who they are and what they can achieve as artists.
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Day 4
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AssessmentsArt & ArtistsEgyptian Hieroglyphic Writing history (type your name in hieroglyphs)
Lynda Benglis (Art21: experimentation with materials, 2012) Heather Hanson (Emptied Gestures series, 2013; "an experiment in kinetic drawing") Rebecca Horn (paragraphs 2 and 3) and (Pencil Mask, 1972) "Art has the knack of helping us to see what we would normally miss." Doug Landis (Doug Landis Mouth Art, 2014) Shantell Martin and (Artist Shantell Martin on Drawing - The New Yorker, 2014) |