Agenda:

1. Starter - In your sketchbook, write a list of as many nouns you can think of (Shoot for 100+) 

2. Assign seating chart

3. Disclosure Document

4. Students talk about their collages in front of the class - Talk about the decisions you made - context, meaning

5. Artist of the day: Gilbert Legrand, Koki Tanaka

6. How to take care of a paintbrush presentation

7. Sketchbook Mod Podge Workshop

8. Clean up/Sanitize

Agenda:

1. Starter: Design a tool to help you in your life

2. Artists of the day: Casey Jex Smith

3. Drawing/Shading Workshop

4. In your sketchbook, make a value scale and practice different types of shading (cross hatching, circulism, hatching, couture, scumbing) 

5. Work on your 50 Ways to Use a Tool Assignment (Due September 14)

Agenda:

1. Starter: Write down/draw 15 ways to wear a mask

2. Video

3. Artists of the day: Zimoun, Ann Hamilton, Erwin Wurm Video

4. Lighting Workshop

Light Box

5. Work on your 50 Ways to Use a Tool Assignment (Due September 14)

Agenda:

1. Starter: Write down 5 ways you could document your work (Drawing, Photo book, Website, instagram)

2. Artists of the day: Magritte, Jared Steffensen, Rebecca Horn

3. Surrealism Video 0:00-4:22

4. Exquisit Corpse

5. Work on your 50 Ways to Use a Tool Assignment (Due September 14)

Assignments:

1. 50 Ways to Use a Tool  (Due 14 Sept)

2. Check out the class website and write that you did it on canvas!

Agenda:

1. Starter: Draw a quick 4 part comic about your morning! 

2. Artists of the day: Hiller Goodspeed, Jesse Jacobs, Marina Muun

3. Comic Workshop

4. Make a foldable book!

5. Work on your 50 Ways to Use a Tool Assignment (Due September 14)

Agenda:

1. Starter:  If you were an object, what would you be? Draw that object.

2. Artist of the Day: Vija Celmins, Thomas Demand

3. Stand-In Assignment intro

4. Drawing workshop

-video

- Blind contour (draw a person without looking at your paper)

- Draw something from life

5. Worktime

Agenda:

1. Starter:  Write a list of objects you think could be lonely 

2. Artists of the Day: Dalila Sanabria, Barbora Fastrova, James Morrison, Lauren Clay

3. Papier Mache Workshop

Assignments:

1. Check out the class website and write that you did it on canvas!

2. Sketchbooks due today!

3. Stand-in Due 6 October 2020

Agenda:

1. Starter:  Draw some things you encountered this weekend.

2. Artists of the Day: Bryce Johnson, Ellie Goldrup, Meggie Johnson, Sarah Waldron, Choi Rim, yongpa_toinz, Eva Stalinski 

3. Watercolor

Agenda:

1. Starter:  Open your sketchbook to a blank page. Think of nothing. How many examples of nothing can you think of? Draw "Nothing" in your sketchbook. 

Nothing: of no value; something you don't notice, the absence of something

2. Artists of the Day: Keri Smith, Elise Gravel, Mark Lombardi, Jessica Stockholder, Tara Donovan

3. Do this project: Connect 2 Incongruent things

Everything is Connected

4. Using the list of sketchbook artists, adopt their style for a page in your sketchbook:

Molly Egan

Joanna Consejo

Keri Smith

Elise Gravel

garadinervi

Natalya Balnova

Yibin You

Nejc Prah

Mark Conlan

Clemence Dupont

Owen Gent

Other

Some more

Agenda:

1. Starter:  On a notecard write down what you understand about the stand-in assignment.

2. Artists of the Day: Sabina Keric and Yvonne Bayer

3. Assignment Part 2 due Saturday

4. How to take great photographs of your artwork

5. Documentation workshop (AT HOME LEARNERS DO THIS TOO)

a. Take a blurry photo of your art and a photo in focus 

b. Take a photo of your art with shadows over your image and one without shadows

c. Take a photo outside and inside of your art

d. Take a photo with a photo with a messy background and a neutral background 

Agenda:

1. Starter:  On a notecard write down what you learned while doing this project and what you would have done differently if you were to do it again. 

2. Artists of the Day: Rebecca Belmore, Brian Jungen, Teri Greeves

3. https://www.craftinamerica.org/episode/identity

4. Catch up time

Agenda:

1. Starter:  Based off of what you've learned in this class thus far, what would you consider good art? 

2. Participation Points

3. What do you do if you miss class

4. Sketchbook turn in on Canvas

5. Artists of the day: Ben Denzer, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Sophie Calle, James Turrell, Dan Flavin

6. Themes found in artists work (Add on)

7. Research Topics/Themes found in art

8. Think like an artist

9. Art Assignment 

• Choose one and write down the artists process, including themes found, and then try to come up with another assignment someone could do with the information given. 

Agenda:

1. Starter:  From last times discussion on illustration vs. art, what is the difference between the two?

2. Your assignments

3. Artist of the Day: Oliver Herring

4. Think like an artist

5. Experimentation time! 

• Fedex Day

Rule: Clean up after yourself and Make something cool to present to your peers

Agenda:

1. Starter:  What do you think makes a good art assignment?

2. Artists of the day: Tanya Aguiñiga

What themes come up in her work? What is her process?

3. Art Assignment 

• Choose one and write down the artists process, including themes found, and then try to come up with another assignment someone could do with the information given. 

With a group, answer the following questions:

• What themes could you find in the assignment? 

• What process did you notice?

• What was the assignment you came up with? 

• Using the assignments you came up with, combine your assignment with others to create a new assignment you could do in class. 

• Present your group assignment you came up with

Assignments:

1. Think Like an Artist inquiry ideas and questions 

Agenda:

1. Starter:  Draw some costumes you saw over the weekend and then combine them into one costume.

2. Pick an artist. Pretend you are that artist in your sketchbook. 

3. Using the Artist you picked create an art assignment making sure it allows autonomy and includes limitations

Agenda:

1. Starter:  Draw part of your experience with Covid-19

2. Artists of the Day: Miranda July

Watch this video interview

In your sketchbook, write an assignment based on Miranda July's work

3. Update grades and work time on your assignments

Agenda:

1. Starter:  Write a list of things you know how to do that you could potentially teach someone else.

2. Artist of the Day:  Deb Sokolow

3. Watch and do the following art assignment and answer these questions: What are the limitations in the assignment? How does the assignment allow autonomy?

Deb Sokolow's art assignment

4. Work on your art assignment

Agenda:

1. Starter:  Make an assignment based on the word "nothing"

2. Artist of the Day:  Barry McGee and Margaret Kilgallen 

3. Art Must Be Beautiful video

In your sketchbook answer the question: Do you think art must be beautiful? Did the video change your mind?

4. Vinyl Workshop

Make some shapes and we will iron them onto fabric next time!

Agenda:

1. Starter:  Make up an assignment based on "patterns"

2. Artist of the Day: Keri James Marshall, Henri Matisse, Frida Kahlo

Watch the 2 videos on Matisse and Kahlo and answer the question: What stood out to you about each of these artists? 

3. Vinyl Workshop

Make some shapes and we will iron them onto fabric next time!

Agenda:

1. Starter:  Fill up an entire page in your sketchbook of things you can see. 

2. Artist of the Day: David Shrigley

3. Vinyl Workshop and Make Something!

Agenda:

1. Starter:  Make a list of symbols that describe you (Words can also be included)

2. Assignment: You are going to design your own capes. These will be a symbol of how each one of you is unique and important. Draw your own identity cape. 

To help you brainstorm ideas for your identity cape consider the following:

o Think to yourself about the different ways that you identify.

o Think about your hopes and dreams.

o What are you proud of?

o What symbols, if any, do you want to put on your cape?

o What colors do you want to use? What do the colors symbolize for you?

o What words could you incorporate that represent you and your experiences?

Agenda:

1. Starter:  Make a four part comic about your day using whatever materials you have available to you (pencils, chalk, grass, etc.)

2. Watch this video about the elements of design

3. Artist of the day:  Vija Celmins Ocean Drawings

4. By yourself or with help from a friend, write down an assignment you could do using only objects found in a location of your choice (this could be a kitchen, a park, a bus station, your bedroom, the lake, etc.) Submit your project ideas on canvas.

5. Find an object you want to draw. Zoom in as close as you can to the object, so you can just see the texture. With a pencil or pen draw that texture practicing your mark-making and shading techniques. You're welcome to use your phones to take zoomed in photos if you'd like. 

Agenda: 

1. Starter:  Pick your own artist and write down what you learned about them! Draw a page in their sketchbook something inspired by the artist you choose. 

2. Watch this video on watercolor techniques

3. Watercolor in your sketchbook something inspired by the artist you chose using a technique you learned from the video

Agenda: Be Curious

1. Starter:  Finish the following question as many times as you can in 5 minutes: What if...? 

Examples: What if I put a burger in space? What if the sky was green? What if I was the size of a quarter? 

2. What are you interested in? What are you passionate about? Create a piece of work using text incorporating something that is important to you.