Thursday, September 8, 2016

Additive Project

Each of you will be given a 24"x24" piece of Plywood. This project has been designed to let you come up with new ways of creating volume with a flat object. Each finished product must fit within a 24"x24"x24" cube and come in contact with all six sides. The focus of this project is volume and achieving 3 dimensionality from a limited amount of flat material. Critique is Thursday, September 22nd.

Homework- Due September 13th

Your homework is to exercise the research and development stage of the creative process. You will do this by walking through the steps listed below. Here are the things you will need to bring to class on September 13th:

5 References w/descriptions
One-page typed document (printed out) with a list of 5 websites that you visited for your research. At least one of these websites must be an actual article (not a how-to, or list of pictures) that discusses some type of additive sculpture. Examples of an appropriate article can be a newspaper story, something written for a journal/magazine, or something from Academia/industry). The one-page document must be printed out (no exceptions). It must include one-line brief descriptions for each website. This must be fully complete to receive credit for this portion.

3 Detailed Drawings of your sculpture
The drawings must be in your sketchbook using full pages(both sides when open) The drawing should show good use of the elements of design- line, form, color, texture, etc.  (Note: These are fully-resolved drawings, NOT sketches)

In addition, the drawings should be informative; they should give us helpful information. Please be sure your drawings answer the following questions:
1. How is your sculpture physically organized? Show details.
2. How will the viewer be engaged? Be detailed and use color/texture/collage to show this.
3. What formal qualities are you focusing on? Descriptions/diagrams in the drawings should address this. (positive/negative space, weight/tension, balance, representational/abstract)
4. What concept are you engaging? Again, descriptions/diagrams could be helpful.
5. How is the form of your sculpture communicating? Scale, shape, text, etc.
6. What is the working title? This should be clearly labeled in your drawing.
Materials and project 50% complete
You must come prepared with all materials and tools to work. Project must be at least 50% complete.


Rubric for Homework
5 References = 10pts
3 Drawings = 30pts
Materials/Project = 60pts
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Total Possible  = 100pts

A =100 - 90

B = 89 - 80
C = 79 - 70
D = 69 - 60
F = 59 - 0 

Please be prepared at beginning of class with your own self-assessment based on the above rubric. 



Final Project Due Date

September 22nd- Project Due/Critique

Tom Friedman


Mark Di Suvero


Martin Puryear




Tony Cragg


Louise Nevelson



Richard Artschwager

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