This is a project that I worked on last semester for my Digital Media for Educators course. We were to make a teaching tool using digital media. It's a rough, but funny animation using Flash CS4 to explain the clay making process from start to finish as short as I could make it, while still covering all of the process and keeping students still interested.
Went to Baltimore Clayworks today to view the show "
More than skin deep." The show was full of pieces with decals, silkscreen, and other printmaking based techniques that I have been experimenting with. Also, it had a lot of pieces playing with texture that really made you want to touch it. Today was just what I needed to get motivated to get back in the studio and produce some great work!
I just registered for fall classes at Corcoran College of Art and Design and I'm extremely happy with my schedule! I start classes on the first week of September and I will be taking 13.5 credits for my first semester. I'm taking my core art education classes ED6020 Development, Behavior, and Learning, ED6060 Digital Art for Educators, ED5000 Graduate Art Education Core, and FN5000 Graduate Studio Foundation. But the class I'm most excited for is CR1400 Clay loves Printmaking! Yes, that is the actual name of the class! Here is the course description :
"Like peaunt butter and chocolate, this whole can transcend its parts. We will explore a range of techniques combining printmaking and clay from singular mono prints to magical multiples. The print side will bring linoleum cuts, screen printing, and 2-D and 3-D mono printing to the ceramics studio. Clay components will include basic slab work and hand building as well as slipcasting. We will incorporate printmaking at both the plastic and post-fire stages of making. Intro level experience with screen printing and ceramic hand building will be helpful."
I really think this class will make my first semester be a easy transition because I will be learning and doing what I love to do! Of course I'm excited about the Art Education classes, but I wanted to make sure I could still take some studio classes in Ceramics or Printmaking so I could work on improving my techniques for my work own work which I combinie the two processes. Now I will be taking a class that is focused just in that! I know I made a great decision with Corcoran, even though I will be in major debt by the time I'm out. I keep on having to explain to my parents that it will be well worth it end the end, and by the look of my first semester schedule I know it will!
Last Saturday July 18th, 2009 I participated in the Mill to Moon Festival up in Slater, SC. This was a community festival celebrating the history and people of Slater, SC and their efforts towards our trip to the Moon in 1969. I set up as a crafter and spent a wonderful Saturday afternoon selling my pottery, talking to the locals, and listening to Blue Grass. What a great way to spend my afternoon and talk about my art!
I have taught swim lessons before, I use to be a dance teacher, and now I have officially taught as an art teacher! When paint is involved, it is definitely a different way of teaching! I taught 2 classes of 5 and 6 year olds at Explore the Art Camp held at the Fine Arts Center. It was a wonderful experience for me because I was teaching along side a staff that taught me art when I was younger. I feel like I have come full circle and I know that I have made a good decision about going to grad school for education.
I did a painting project with the kids and every day we painted on the canvas to build up layers and have a rich colorful painting at the end of the week to take home to mom. The first day the kids painted a tint of a primary color for the background. The second day I taught some printmaking techniques and we did stenciling with monotypes (painting on a piece of foil and then transferring on the canvas, and making ghost prints on a separate sheet of paper!) The third day I set up a still life of flowers for them to draw and paint (this was a bit of a stretch for this age but some actually painted the flowers!) And the fourth day was the last day of wet paint and we used black or white to outline shapes to finish off the painting.
The last day we did a self portrait project that all the kids enjoyed. Before we started drawing we made a color swatch with their own eye color, hair color, skin color, etc. That made it easy when they started drawing and the pictures all came out with some likeness to them!
My mom was joking with me that I finally I had a real class with real kids because when I was younger I always played pretend school. Even though I'm not certified to teach yet, I'm on the way and I can't wait!
Thank you for everyone who came out to the Trillium Art Center's Art Market in Travelers Rest! Here are some pictures from the day. My next Art Market in TR is going to be July 11th.
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