Everything on the schedule is subject to change.
*WEEK 1*
DAY 1 – Tue, Jan 23
IN CLASS:
– Intro Syllabus
– everyone set up your wordpress blog
– everyone add their full name and photo to Canvas
– Talk about Art Events
– Do Pattern Drawing ice-breaker in sketchbooks
– Intro Zines Project (everyone take notes on elements/principles of 2D – be ready to meet at the library archives with your phone/camera)
– supplies check-in (everyone should also purchase a couple sharpie markers for filling is large areas)
DUE NEXT CLASS:
– complete Syllabus Contract online
DAY 2 – Thu, Jan 25 (We’ll meet at the library archives at 10am – NOTE: the archives has a separate entrance from the regular library)
IN CLASS:
– pick up your supplies in the lobby area of the Star Store at start of class???
– working on Zines Project (finding examples of each of the elements and principles being used really well, and posting to class blogs)
DUE NEXT CLASS:
– submit a link to your class blog (there should be 14 posts about the zines)
ART EVENT: Thu, Jan 25, 5:30-7pm, Converge Exhibit at Gallery 244 at the Star Store
*WEEK 2*
DAY 3 – Tue, Jan 30
IN CLASS:
– Intro Sketchbook – Watch “Making Bullshit” (prep for sketchbooks)
– SB: Glenn Ligon (Art21 Season 6)
– Privilege/Difference intro (2-column privilege lists)
– talk about the Examining Futures assignment
DUE NEXT CLASS:
– go to the library to complete the Examining Futures assignment
ART EVENT: Wed, Jan 31, 6-7pm, Z.Archive Exhibit at Main Campus Library Archives (refreshments)
DAY 4 – Thu, Feb 1
IN CLASS:
– SB: Chris Ware (Art21, season 8)
– everyone will present their Examining Futures assignment
– intro the Vinyl Stickers/Murals assignment (demo pen tool and cameo cutter)
– start self-reflection listing exercises
DUE NEXT CLASS:
– submit your DXF file for your sketchbook sticker online
– if you didn’t complete the 10 lists in your sketchbook during class, finish them (have them ready for the start of class)
*WEEK 3*
DAY 5 – Tue, Feb 6
IN CLASS:
– SB: assume vivid astro focus (Art21 Season 6)
– we’ll cut out as many stickers as possible
– while people are cutting out stickers, others will measure their assigned window, and start drawing thumbnails for their pattern to go in their window mural
DUE NEXT CLASS:
– have 10 thumbnail sketches for window mural pattern ideas
DAY 6 – Thu, Feb 8
IN CLASS:
– Crit the window mural thumbnails
– if there are any remaining small stickers that need to be cut out, we’ll do that
– everyone spends some time creating their mural drawings
– everyone signs up for time slots to cut out their mural drawings (don’t wait to the last minute – give yourself time to fail and fix it in case something goes wrong with your file, the cutting, the weeding, or the transfer paper)
– 11:15am visiting speaker David Teng Olsen
DUE NEXT CLASS:
– small sticker must be ready for installation
ART EVENT: Thu, Feb 8, 6-8pm, Crapo Gallery (lobby of the Star Store) Performance Event
*WEEK 4*
DAY 7 – Tue, Feb 13
IN CLASS:
– SB: Vija Celmins (Art 21 Season 2)
– install our small stickers as a mural in the building
– working on vinyl mural drawings
DUE NEXT CLASS:
– DXF file must be complete and submitted on Canvas by end of our next class session
ART EVENT: Wed, Feb 14, 4-6pm, Frederick Douglass birthday celebration hosted by the Unity House on campus – come see the portraits!!
DAY 8 – Thu, Feb 15
IN CLASS:
– SB: Mark Bradford (Art21, season 4)
– last day to work on mural drawings
– DXF file must be complete and submitted on Canvas by end of class (12:15)
DUE NEXT CLASS:
– Must have vinyl ready to install on your window
ART EVENT: Thu, Feb 15, 12:30, Architectural drawing talk by Pamela Karimi, Star Store 144
ART EVENT: Thu, Feb 15, 4-6pm, CVPA Upper Gallery, Mouthfeel Exhibit
*WEEK 5*
DAY 9 – Tue, Feb 20 – NO CLASS MEETING DUE TO PRESIDENTS DAY
DAY 10 – Thu, Feb 22 [MEETING AT 10am at CCB 115 for a presentation by the Career Development Center]
IN CLASS:
– Attendance will be taken at the event
DUE NEXT CLASS:
– Please install your mural before class (it will be very challenging to try to install everyone’s murals with just 2 ladders during class on Tuesday).
ART EVENT: Wed, Feb 21, 6:30pm, Star Store room 432 – Mark Cooper visiting lecture
ART EVENT: February 24th – 12PM Dog Derive starting at the New Bedford Art Museum: Grab your dog, coats, best dog outfits, and a travel mug! NBAM/AW! will be providing dog treats, coffee, and hot cocoa for your puppy-guided adventure around New Bedford. Non-dog owner’s are totally welcome! We’ll be traveling in “packs” with two professional dog walkers as well as Roz Crews from The Center for Undisciplined Research to explore New Bedford as a community of dog lovers!
*WEEK 6*
DAY 11 – Tue, Feb 27
IN CLASS:
– SB: Trenton Doyle Hancock (Art21 Season 2)
– Vocab presentation for Neighborhood project
–Intro Neighborhood Project (go start the research/12 thumbnails/2 written paragraphs about your chosen locations)
DUE NEXT CLASS:
– finish any research/12 thumbnails for the Neighborhood Project that you didn’t complete during class, and submit your 2-paragraphs on Canvas
DAY 12 – Thu, Mar 1
IN CLASS:
– SB: Margaret Kilgallen and Barry Mcgee (Art21 Season 1)
– critique of everyone’s thumbnails and listen to verbal presentations of their selected places
– start doing marker-versions of your 6 neighborhood compositions
– work on xacto cutting exercise
– reminder about reflection assignment on Canvas (includes documentation of the stickers/murals)
DUE NEXT CLASS:
– ALL murals must be installed and ready for critique by START of class
– reflection on vinyl murals
– xacto exercise
ART EVENT: Thur, Mar 1, 6pm at Star Store Gallery 244, there will be a performance exhibition with a brief (5-minute) talk about the history of performance art)
ART EVENT: Fri, Mar 2, 5-7pm, Phone booth murals reception at Groundworks, 1213 Purchase St. New Bedford, MA 02740
*WEEK 7*
DAY 13 – Tue, Mar 6
IN CLASS:
– critiquing the vinyl mural drawings during class
– SB: Elizabeth Murray (Art21 Season 2)
– collect xacto exercise
– working on marker-versions of neighborhood compositions
DUE NEXT CLASS:
– 6 marker versions ready for crit
ART EVENT: Wed, Mar 7, 6-8pm, Alumni night for graphic designers, CVPA 306
ART EVENT: Wed, Mar 7, 7-8PM, Art show in Chestnut Student Gallery Exhibit #2 Opens, organized by James Tooker (call for “colorful art in a pop-art style,” open to all CVPA students – email jtooker@umassd.edu to submit work)
DAY 14 – Thu, Mar 8
IN CLASS:
– SB: Kerry James Marshall (Art21 Season 1)
– crit the 6 marker versions of your neighborhood compositions
– start working on 4 cut-paper versions
– reminder about midterm course eval (click this link to access the survey)
DUE NEXT CLASS:
– midterm course eval (click this link to access the survey)
– 4 cut-paper neighborhood compositions
ART EVENT: Thur, Mar 8, 6:30-7:15pm, Crapo Gallery (lobby of the Star Store) Textiles Fashion Show
ART EVENT: Fri, Mar 9, ALL DAY field trip to New York City to see the Armory Exhibition – $15 for bus + cost of Armory admission; contact Elena Peteva to reserve a seat: epeteva@umassd.edu
SPRING BREAK: Mar 10-18
*WEEK 8*
ART EVENT: Mon, Mar 19, 4-5pm Star Store University Gallery – Niki Winning performance event
DAY 15 – Tue, Mar 20
IN CLASS:
– SB: Michael Ray Charles (Art21 Season 1)
– go over the results of the midterm course eval
– crit the 4 cut-paper neighborhood compositions
– reminder about reflection/documentation for neighborhood project
– – reminder about attendance policy
– intro the Movie in Stripes assignment (watch the Color in Storytelling, and Color Schemes videos)
– talk about Movie Watching Day
DUE NEXT CLASS:
– Neighborhood Project Reflection (includes documentation)
DAY 16 – Thu, Mar 22 – MOVIE WATCHING DAY
IN CLASS:
– everyone will watch their film, and take notes on the general colors used and the order they are used in (you can do this from any location you like – you are not obligated to come to the classroom)
DUE NEXT CLASS:
– Having watched your movie and taken notes, arrive to class with your squares masked off, and ready to paint during class
ART EVENT: Thu, Mar 22, 4-6pm, artist talk 5pm, CVPA Gallery
*WEEK 9*
DAY 17 – Tue, Mar 27
IN CLASS:
– SB: Design Matters: The Illustrated Gladwell
– painting the color squares exercise (finish by end of class)
– sketch out 3 rough compositions of stripes for
DUE NEXT CLASS:
– 3 rough composition sketches for crit
ART EVENT: Tue, Mar 27, 4pm (must register in advance) – Main Campus Library Grand Reading Room; Janet Echelman talk
DAY 18 – Thu, Mar 29
IN CLASS:
– SB: Stefan Sagmeister
– critique of everyone’s 3 rough sketches
– everyone will begin work on their final film in stripes composition (must have excellent craft)
DUE NEXT CLASS:
– n/a
ART EVENT: Fri, Mar 30, Caroline Woolard, 11:30am brown-bag lunch (you don’t have to eat anything to come listen to the discussion), CVPA 356
*WEEK 10*
DAY 19 – Tue, Apr 3
IN CLASS:
– SB: Revolution Inspired Video Games
– working on film in stripes composition
DUE NEXT CLASS:
– n/a
ART EVENT: Tuesday, April 3rd, 7-8:30PM – Artist Talk by Kameelah Janan Rasheed,
CVPA 153
ART EVENT: Wednesday April 4, 5:30-7:30PM, Artist Talk at 6:30 – Frederick Douglass Portraits Exhibition opening at the New Bedford Whaling National Historic Park Students featuring CVPA students.
DAY 20 – Thu, Apr 5
IN CLASS:
– SB: Paula Scher
– working on film in stripes composition
DUE NEXT CLASS:
– have film in stripes ready for critique
ART EVENT: Fri, Apr 6, Noon, CVPA 104 – Tomashi Jackson artist talk
ART EVENTS: Sat, Apr 7, 1-3pm BFA Exhibit at CVPA Gallery, 3-6pm MFA Exhibit at Star Store, 5-7pm MFA Exhibit at New Bedford Art Museum
*WEEK 11*
DAY 21 – Tue, Apr 10
IN CLASS:
– Intro Final Assignment
– critique Film in Stripes
– reminder about reflection (including documentation)
– do course evals
DUE NEXT CLASS:
– reflection (including documentation) on Canvas
– have at least 3 questions [with your name on them] ready to ask representative from New Bedford Art Museum (turn these in written on a sheet of paper with your name)
DAY 22 – Thu, Apr 12
IN CLASS:
– SB: James Victore
– in-class work on thumbnails + in-process presentations of ideas
DUE NEXT CLASS:
– Mock-ups (rough paper pamphlet) due for final assignment
ART EVENT: BFA exhibit at Groundwork, 1213 Purchase St. New Bedford, MA 02740 (use the Maxfield St. entrance to building); as a part of AHA night
*WEEK 12*
DAY 23 – Tue, Apr 17
IN CLASS:
– SB: Pentagram
– critique of mock-ups for the Final Assignment
DUE NEXT CLASS:
– 3 finished pages due for crit
ART EVENT: Wed, Apr 18, 4-6:30pm, gallery talk 5pm at CVPA Gallery
DAY 24 – Thu, Apr 19 – UPDATE: NO CLASS MEETING DUE TO FLIGHT CHANGE
DUE NEXT CLASS:
– be ready for an in-process crit of final – at least 6 pages complete – rep from NBAM might attend this critique
*WEEK 13*
DAY 25 – Tue, Apr 24
IN CLASS:
– SB: David Carson
– in-process crit of final assignment – at least 6 pages complete
– work on final assignment
DUE NEXT CLASS:
– 3 more pages complete
– make sure your sketchbook is labeled for each day of sketching
DAY 26 – Thu, Apr 26 [WORK DAY – NO CLASS MEETING]
– work on Final Assignment
ART EVENT: APRIL 26, 4:00-6:00 PM, CHARLTON COLLEGE OF BUSINESS, ROOM 115 – Design Solutions for New Bedford/Fall River talk
ART EVENT: Wed, Apr 26 IN BOSTON: AIGA talk about how to work with clients, 6:30pm
ART EVENT: April 27, from 3-5pm – CVPA Building Sound Installation Event with opening statements by Chris Grimley
*WEEK 14*
DAY 27 – Tue, May 1
IN CLASS:
– crit at least 9 pages done
– check all the sketchbooks for the start of class sketches (I’ll walk around and check each person individually)
– reminder to bring best work from our class to our final (this will go into the foundations exhibition next fall)
– 11am Roz Crews is giving an artist talk in class
– Work on Final Assignment
DUE NEXT CLASS:
– Finished designs for the New Bedford Art Museum
– select your best work (1 project only, please) for the foundations show (put your name clearly on the back); Megan will be selecting from the collected works for the Fall Foundations Exhibit
FINAL: Fri, May 4, 11:30-2:30pm
- taking the Service Learning Survey/Evaluation
- Critique the final projects
- Turn in your best work from the semester for next fall’s exhibition