Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Conference 2012
Peter Max
Became popular in the 70s Lots of commercial art products: posters, t-shirts, etc. Painted presidents and celebrities Loved astronomy and wanted to become an astronomer Has made over 1000 posters in the last 20 years
This airplane with his design flew for 10 years and 6 months!
KindergARTen Lessons
Oodles of ideas!
Friday, March 2
Digital Storytelling with Young Artists Featured Artist Talk: Janine Antoni Approaches to Creating 3-D Sculptural Form: A retired educators perspective Eating the Other: Research Lecture on Violence in Contemporary Art Arts Day One Schools Art Extravaganza (music, drama, dance, art) Independent School Arts Educators Unite! (a session to meet with other private school art teachers)
Janine Antoni
Janine is a contemporary artist whose work focuses mostly on process. She often uses her whole body or different parts of it, such as her mouth or hair and with them performs everyday activities to create her artwork.
In these works, she has formed a bust of herself from chocolate and a bust from soap. As part of the artistic performance/process she then licks the bust until the face is erased and washes herself until the face on the soap has dissolved. For Janine, the artwork really is about this kind of love-hate relationship we
Janine spoke a lot about the evolution of her ideas for making art and about how creativity is not linear. How do we nurture the creative process? Can you make an idea come? How is introspection a part of creativity?
VENDORS!
Two huge exhibit halls were filled with every art supply vendor imaginable. You could try out art products, see demos, look at books and get free samples!
At the vendors, there were representatives showing off their products, sample projects exhibited, authors signing their books, and did I mention there were free samples?
Sculpture Ideas
This workshop was awesome! The retired educator worked with high school students to create host forms from cardboard. Then, they glued other objects to the host forms. In this slide, the students constructed their own building blocks from cardboard and then assembled those together. Paint was added to unify the piece.
.. having conversations for hours about the challenges of teaching art in the public schools, trading ideas and sharing stories
Saturday!
Object Renderings: Creating a series of art based on one object A Year with Art21 Educators: Case Studies and Conversations (using contemporary art in the classroom) Evocative and Provocative Pedagogy: Toward a CultureChanging Curriculum (by Olivia Gude) Super Session: In Conversation with Chuck Close A visit to MOMA ISU art alumni reunion
Olivia Gude:
An Evocative and Provocative Pedagogy
Respects non-linear thinking Engages students with the world Allows students to explore vital issues in their life Reaches students where they are (For example, altering the images common on street signs for students who are in Drivers Ed) To make meaning in art, students should be able to evoke and share significant memories and arrive at fresh meanings in their art. (For example, creating art about school horror stories a place where students can share their feelings about social/friendship issues) They should explore a wide range of aesthetic practices. How can students participate in contemporary issues?
Inspiration is for amateurs, the rest of us just show up and get to work.
A Visit to MOMA
SUNDAY: Time for one more session (about Altered Books as sketchbooks) and then time to return to WISCONSIN!: