Sunday, January 27, 2019

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. 

Homework- Due January 31st

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 August 30th:

5 References w/descriptions
One-page typed document (printed out or emailed) 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 ready to work
You must come prepared with all materials and tools to work. All sketches must be done and a plan made to execute your Project.

Essay: Large Scale of the 1960's and 70's
Read as much as you can and look at the images. Answer the questions here: https://goo.gl/forms/Qt4loFBUVCzege1k1


Rubric for Homework
5 References = 10pts
3 Drawings = 30pts
Questions = 30pts
Materials/Project = 30pts
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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

February 12th- Project Due/Critique

Tom Friedman


Mark Di Suvero


Martin Puryear




Tony Cragg


Louise Nevelson



Richard Artschwager

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