Beginning Drawing

-Students are really into reductive drawing. It really opens up some possibilities in terms of value, texture, and mark-making. I wouldn’t mind introducing it earlier, but students really do need to have a lot of support experience before that happens.  

Introduction to Printmaking

-Find other means to attach collograph materials to plate besides gloss varnish.

-Continue to develop ways for students to work outside of class (as they don’t have access to the press outside of class). The loan system with tools works well. The outside drawing / writing assignments also work well. For the collograph project specifically, I may need to require they purchase gloss varnish so they can create plates outside of class (and print them during class). I could also set up some loan system for the varnish, but I’d need multiple smaller bottles of varnish to make this happen (as opposed to one big bottle). This wouldn’t be as economical. I could find some re-sealable generic bottles to hold the varnish, number them, and loan them out.

2D Foundations

-Introducing color in project #4 is a good move (ie – introducing fall 2012’s project #6 as fall 2013’s project #4). It breaks up (what can be) the monotony of black and white design and allows students to use the color theory knowledge introduced in project #4 in the other color project (project #5).

General Art History

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General Art

-Reiterate the attendance policy and “late” work policy EVERY class. Because this class only meets once per week, students tend to forget this

-Create a dropbox where students submit their “late pass” (they get one each semester). This allows them to turn their project in up to one week late without penalty. I don’t accept late work outside of this. Integrate this policy into the syllabus.

Spring 2014

-I need to find a way to advocate for both my illustration and watercolor classes (so they make minimum enrollment). Some ideas include: setting up a booth in the student center, open house, demo in art gallery, flyers, visiting with students in other classes, and advertising in my own classes.