Reflection on W.O.E. Visit on April 18, 2011

Please answer these questions no later than Wednesday, April 20th at 12:30 pm.

1) Did you accomplish your goals for today's visit? Why or why not?

2) Could you gage whether or not the W.O.E. students understood the printmaking processes you tried to explain? How do you know if they "got it" or not?

3) What was most helpful (prop/metaphor) in trying to explain your chosen method of printmaking?

4) What are your expectations for our upcoming studio session with the W.O.E. students on April 25th?

5) What can you do to make the studio visit on April 25th go smoothly? What do the W.O.E. students need to do to make everything go well? What do the two instructors need to do (Steve, Myself)?

Preparations for April 18th Visit to W.O.E!

Please give a detailed description of your goals and game plan for our next visit to W.O. no later than April 18th at 9 am.
Thanks!

Great Expectations

Please answer the following for a discussion on Wednesday, April 6, 2011. The W.O. students will also be responding and blogging as well.

1. What were your expectations for yesterday's visit with the other students?
2. How did you prepare and did your preparations make a difference in the way you felt about the visit?
3. What happened that was beyond your expectations?
4. What happened that you had already anticipated might happen?
5. How will you prepare for our next visit in two weeks?

Ready for Action!

Before Monday, April 4th, please post your plans for our visit to Whispering Oak. What activities will you try? What visual aids/information will you bring? What are your expectations for this session? Please remember to dress appropriately in jeans and a t-shirt. Thanks:)

Service-Learning

You will have two weeks to complete this reading and the exercises in it. Please post your answers to the exercises on the blog no later than April 4th at 1 pm.

Population BOOM

Read the Nat Geo article about the global population boom posted on our website and answer these questions:
1) Which topic (water, food, energy, development) are you most interested in working on and why?
2) What information from this article can you use in your topic and how would you present this information to the 4th graders (use a game, create a slideshow, etc.) ?
3) What additional information do you need that this article does not supply and where will you look for it?
Due Wednesday, March 23rd at 1 pm.

Letterpress madness!

This week find three prints or  artist's books created (at least in part) through letterpress. Write a review of each piece which includes a discussion of the subject, content and form and describe how letterpress is used (if you can tell). This is a good site to try http://www.birdpress.com/BooksPortfolios.html and so is this http://flyinghorse.cah.ucf.edu/ (flying horse is UCF's fine art press which we hope to visit in the next few weeks).

Due Wednesday, March 23rd by 1 pm.

Printmaking Research, Part Two

There is no assigned reading this week (the linoleum reading isn't due until after spring break), but I am asking you to complete another research assignment and post it here. This is due Wednesday, March 2nd by 1 pm. Follow the guidelines on the website.

Printmaking Research

Please read "Printmaking Today" and then follow the guidelines for research. Both items can be found on the course website. Then post your research on contemporary printmaking here. Due Wednesday, Feb. 23rd by 1 pm.

Collagraph Reading Response

Relief Printing, reading response

1) What are some ways to make a relief block or plate that you had not considered before reading this chapter? What sorts of things do you need to consider before you choose a method for creating a relief block or plate?

2) Which relief techniques from the reading are you particularly interested in and why?

3) Find an example of a relief print online and post a link to it. Why did you choose this piece? What do you appreciate most about it?

Monotype

From the examples you've seen in the printshop and from readings so far, what seem to be the best uses for monotype if combined with other printmaking techniques?

Your comments are due by 1 pm on Wednesday, Feb. 2nd.