ARTS 1301 Corinth
Cheryl McGrath, Instructor
North Central Texas College - Corinth
Summer I 2008 Notebook Assignments
Link to our NCTC
class webpage with class reading assignments
Link
to your Living With Art textbook website, with chapter outlines, images and supplementals
Include the following in a soft-cover,
expandable folder:
Check here often (at least twice a week)
for additional notebook assignments
Put your daily class work in a separate area of your notebook, clearly marked.
Here is how you should organize your notebook -
have dividers for the following sections:
Section 1. Class notes for each day of class (or notes from the textbook if you are
absent).
Section 2. Daily class activities and projects we do in class.
Section 3. Assignments completed outside of class, instructions from this class website.
FOLDER 1 Assignments
Folder 1 with all class notes, projects and
assignments is due on Jun. 16.
1. Table of Contents for your notebook.
Be sure the page numbers in the table of contents
reflect the actual page where your correponding
assignments are located in your notebook.
Number the pages in your notebook, then make a table of
contents. Include all assignments
in your table of contents, with corresponding page
numbers.
You must have a page number in your notebook for
EACH of the items, including class notes
for each day of class. Example
Below - this is only an example:
Section 1 - Class Notes
notes for 6/09/08 - page 2
notes for 6/10/08 - page 4
notes for 6/11/07 - page
8 ........etc.
Section 2 - In Class Activities & Projects(sample only)
Biography
- page 9
6/10/07 What's the Scoop
Picturing Positive Change - page 10 & 11
News Article
- page 12
6/11/07 Your
Style/Icons - page
13-15
6/12/07
Themes of Art/
Seven Intellectuals - page
16...etc.
Section 3 - Outside Class Assignments
Visual Universe
- page 17
Additional assignments
- page 18....etc.
NOTEBOOK 1 - SECTION 1- Class Lecture Notes
Class notes from Jun. 9- Jun. 16
Notes should consist of all the main
lecture topics and artworks we discuss in each class with
corresponding relevant explanations,
definitions, examples, artists and titles. On
Monday, Jun. 16, leave extra pages in your notebook to
complete lecture notes and our in-class assignments for that day; they
will be included in your Notebook 1 grade.
You will have notes for EACH DAY OF CLASS. If you miss class, or part of
class, you may summarize the
textbook sections relating to those days and sections missed, see assignment
readings on the class webpage here.
These notes should be taken as if you were going to need them to
study for an exam. Whether from the textbook
or class lecture, you must include the corresponding
explanations, definitions, examples, artists and artwork titles.
Insufficient notetaking will not receive credit. Email me about in-class
project assignments you may have missed
for alternative projects that you cannot duplicate from the list below or
from fellow students.
NOTEBOOK 1 - SECTION 2 - In Class Assignments - these are your actual in-class
assignments.
You must have these thoroughly completed for full credit
1. Your biography A short one or two paragraphs about your
academic major, your interests, where you
work and whether you have taken art before, what kind of art you
like, where you would rather be other than class.
2. Your article on the news of Art from
newspaper, internet, magazine, or other source.
Bring the article to class on your assigned day to
explain, and include it in your notebook.
The library has an easily accessible shelf containing the
latest Art in America magazines.
If you were not assigned a news article this
week, you will include your news
article next week or the week it is assigned to you.
3. What's the Scoop? - your own caption and story for a newspaper
photograph from class on 6/10
4. Picturing Positive Change - group photo/poster assignment from class on
6/10
Your own completed handout for the poster
5. Seven Intellectuals - your group's theme and your character's
statements
6. Georgia O'Keeffe video questions
Include blank pages for the projects we will do in class on Mon., June 16
NOTEBOOK 1 SECTION 3 - Outside Class Assignments - these are your actual
assignments.
You must have these thoroughly completed
for full credit.
1. Visual Universe Exercise
Visit the NASA Space Center Gallery Page by clicking the link
below.
On this page, click on the box at the top
that says "Multimedia"
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery.index.html
You may also access the images at this link http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/highlights/index.html
By clicking on different categories in the gallery,
you will have a large selection of visuals. Scan through your
textbook while looking at the images in
the NASA gallery. Choose three NASA images
that are similar to three works of art in the textbook in
some way. Explain the similarity, document the
figure number from the textbook and
give the Number/title of the NASA image. Example:
NASA image title Antarctica - Pine Island Iceberg
is similar to textbook
figure 12.6, Dale Chihuly. Violet and Green Persian Set.
Both images have the same basic organic shape
and fill up the space of the frame in the same way.
2. NCTC Campus Art Scavenger Hunt. Look
around campus for ideas or objects that could
be or are "art." Make a list of what you find and include a
short description of how you would
define your finds as "art" if they aren't something obvious.
You may also include objects that
are more recongizable as art, such as paintings and sculpture.
Look in the Provost's office and in the library....
look all over the campus! You should have at least 10 objects listed.
List the location where you found
each piece (what room or hallway or floor). The student(s) with
the most objects/artworks
will receive a bonus of 7 points.
Leave extra pages in your notebook for June 16 in-class projects and notes
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FOLDER 2 ASSIGNMENTS - Due
June 23
Table of Contents for Notebook Two (same table of contents format as Folder
One....see above)
NOTEBOOK 2 - Section 1 - Class Notes for each day of class
with all corresponding definitions, descriptions,
explanations, artists names and titles: June 17, June 18, June 19, June 20 & June 23
NOTEBOOK 2 - Section 2 - In Class Assignments
1. Printmaking - your monotype
- one person in your group will include your relief/intaglio print, signed by each group
member
2. Four Stones for Kanemitsu printmaking video questions from 6/17
3. Abstract Expressionist painting - cut your completed
painting into sections for everyone's notebooks
4. Venn Diagram - comparison of two paintings from
June 18
5. Photography - Stereotype portraits - and thorough explanations with
documentation. At least one person
from your group will include a print of your group's portrait.
You may also print out your own photo
in addition to your group's photo to include in your notebook as part
of this assignment. (Include thorough documentation
from all this assignment's requirements).
Leave blank pages in your notebooks for the assignments we do in class on Monday, June 23.
NOTEBOOK 2 - Section 3 - Outside Class Assignments
1. Design Aerobics - as explained in class, divide a paper into six or nine
sections. For each section,
illustrate one of the elements of art or principles of design using dots. Do the same
using lines,
( you will have two sheets of paper, each with six or nine designs). Label each section
with
its appropriate element or principle.
Dots
Lines
Dots must be rounded or colored and shaded. They may overlap, touch,
stack on top of each other and vary in size in each area.
Lines may vary in length and expand and contract in any direction. They
should begin thin and grow in thickness and then get thin
again so they remain lines and not shapes.
2. Photo Essay - click here
end of notebook 2
assignments
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FOLDER 3 ASSIGNMENTS - Due
June 30
MUSEUM VISIT PAPERS ARE DUE ON JUNE 30, click
here for instructions - scroll down the page to Museum Assignment
Table of Contents for Notebook Three (same table of contents
format as Folders One and Two....see above)
NOTEBOOK 3 - Section 1 - Class Notes for each day of class
with all corresponding definitions, descriptions,
explanations, artists names and titles: June 24, June 25, June 26 & June 30
NOTEBOOK 3 - Section 2 - In Class Assignments
1. Documentation for your group's Cultural Design project from June 24
2. Documentation for your group's Blockbuster Museum exhibit from June 24 - from handout
given in class
3. Documentation and evaluation of your assembled sculpture from June 25 class
(Make a sculpture from 5 different materials such as paper or plastic.
The sculpture
should be based on a sculpture from the textbook or a sculpture
you have seen.
Photograph your completed sculpture to include in your notebook,
or draw a sketch of it)
4. Your group's "craft boutique" documentation
5. Maria Martinez video questions from class on June 26
Leave some blank pages for the projects we do in class on June 30.
NOTEBOOK 3 - Section 3 - Outside Class Assignments
1. Logo Designs/Posters - as described in class, redesign two existing
logos from famous corporations, or
design two of your own logos. Or you may design a poster to promote your group's
portrait exhibit, your group's NCTC film or the Blockbuster Museum project.
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assignments**********************************************************
FOLDER 4 ASSIGNMENTS - Due
July 7
ART FROM HOME PRESENTATIONS DUE July 8 & July 9. See Art
From Home Presentation
Table of Contents for Notebook Four (same table of contents format
as Folders One,Two and Three....see above)
NOTEBOOK 4 - Section 1 - Class Notes for each day of class
with all corresponding definitions, descriptions,
explanations, artists names and titles: July 1, July 2, July 3 & July 7
NOTEBOOK 4 - Section 2 - In Class Assignments
Bring materials for in-class mask making project on Monday, July 7 (paper plates,
markers, crayons, tape, paper, scissors, glue)
Mask research and sketch is due with Notebook 4. Your actual completed mask
is due Tuesday, July 8 and points will be added to your
notebook 4 grade for the mask on Tuesday (after we have a Mask Gallery
exhibit).
1.Whose Grave is it anyway? Question from July 1; The Grave Unearthing
question and your answers to two of the five questions on art from Paleolithic to
Roman Art.
Click here for specifics
2. Group project - DIGITAL DARING ACTION ADVENTURE GAME -
concept and documentation for your game design from July 1.
Specifics were given in class.
3. Artist's Survey Results - from class on July 2.
4. Your group's presentation documentation on art styles between Baroque and Postmodernism
from July 2 & 3
5. Your group's results, documentation and explanations (including museum product)
from the
Exhibition on Childhood and Alley Life in Washington DC in
the 1940's - from July 3
6. Your research information, documentation on culture and purpose for your mask
from a non-western
culture from July 7(we will see a mask making video and go to the
library for mask resource materials on July 7).
Non-Western culture means Africa, Asia, Pacific Islands and Native
America or Central/South America. It does
NOT include Egypt, Europe or Mardi Gras from the U.S.
NOTEBOOK 4 - Section 3 - Outside Class Assignments
1. Postmodern/Green Building Design sketch and documentation click here
Cheryl
McGrath, Instructor
Resources for some of your notebook assignments may be accessed at the
Living
With Art Textbook Website