Week 3--That's a wrap!
This week was an exciting one for students-studio access resumed! Larger lecture classes are still being held online for the time being. Most studio classes are under 20 people, so it’s more intimate and there aren’t a lot of people in the building. The cafeteria was revamped over Christmas break and it’s so nice to have new tables, chairs and couches. It’s an instant upgrade and marks the school as a proper university instead of looking like a high school. I swear, the old furniture was probably brand-new when I went on my school tour back in 1995!
Soon I’ll have pictures to show of my works in progress. This week was mostly meeting and greeting classmates, gathering supplies and getting our bearings. It’s weird to be back in the school after so long and it’s going to take a bit of time to get used to the new schedule.
FIBRE 327
This was mostly a meet and great class, but we all talked about our projects and some had things to show. I disassembled one of the frames I bought from the thrift store for my project. I thought the picture inside was a mass-produced picture. It kinda is--it's someone tole picture from 1974!
These are layered pictures cut out from a kit and assembled. Kits are hard to find these days. The top layer of the images were faded. I thought it was neat because there's a frame within a frame and the illustration is backed on an old oranges box. Aw! Someone took a lot of care to frame this. You can even see the glue stains on the picture. It's easy to imagine that it hung on someone's wall for years and years until they passed or something.
FIBRE 419
We met in small groups for some show and tell and discuss an assigned reading from Sherry Turkle's book Evocative Objects. Sherry Turkle is a neat author with a long history of writing about people, psychology and how we interact with things. I read Life on the Screen years ago and as an early Internet user, I felt so seen.
FIBRE 451
We went over creating a reading journal in OneNote. We have three chapters from Art/Work to read and there are three groups presenting each chapter. I felt bad I used my studio time to read and draft the journal entries, but quiet time is such a premium to me, as spring is just around the corner, which means lots of birdie screaming.
I went shopping Thursday afternoon to buy more supplies. My challenge is finding the right armature for what I'm building. I bought 16x16" square canvas and a 12x12" shadowbox frame.
Soon I’ll have pictures to show of my works in progress. This week was mostly meeting and greeting classmates, gathering supplies and getting our bearings. It’s weird to be back in the school after so long and it’s going to take a bit of time to get used to the new schedule.
FIBRE 327
This was mostly a meet and great class, but we all talked about our projects and some had things to show. I disassembled one of the frames I bought from the thrift store for my project. I thought the picture inside was a mass-produced picture. It kinda is--it's someone tole picture from 1974!
These are layered pictures cut out from a kit and assembled. Kits are hard to find these days. The top layer of the images were faded. I thought it was neat because there's a frame within a frame and the illustration is backed on an old oranges box. Aw! Someone took a lot of care to frame this. You can even see the glue stains on the picture. It's easy to imagine that it hung on someone's wall for years and years until they passed or something.
FIBRE 419
We met in small groups for some show and tell and discuss an assigned reading from Sherry Turkle's book Evocative Objects. Sherry Turkle is a neat author with a long history of writing about people, psychology and how we interact with things. I read Life on the Screen years ago and as an early Internet user, I felt so seen.
FIBRE 451
We went over creating a reading journal in OneNote. We have three chapters from Art/Work to read and there are three groups presenting each chapter. I felt bad I used my studio time to read and draft the journal entries, but quiet time is such a premium to me, as spring is just around the corner, which means lots of birdie screaming.
I went shopping Thursday afternoon to buy more supplies. My challenge is finding the right armature for what I'm building. I bought 16x16" square canvas and a 12x12" shadowbox frame.