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Thursday, August 25, 2011

This weeks studio handouts.

Hey WASHer studio crew, your studio handouts are accessible online to read or download from our blog. They will be accessible from sections titled HANDOUTS.

First week surface + space studio handouts and such:
  1. surface [p1] dot
  2. surface [p1] gestalt reading
  3. space [1] sphere blitz
  4. plus Art Fundamentals (AF) textbook ch 1+2
    see Lecture Reading Calendar
  5. surface + space syllabus MW | TH
  6. required textbooks
  7. required materials



Sunday, August 21, 2011

Read through your WASH lecture (for Fridays) syllabus +


WASH lecture
syllabus


**presentation calendar lists names of artists. On the first Friday, you will receive one of these names. You will use the presentation calendar to determine the date you are assigned to present.

*reminder on required texts for WASH [order or pick them up at bookstore ASAP]
  1. In the Making: Creative Options for Contemporary Art
    by: Linda Weintraub


  2. Themes of Contemporary Art: Visual Art after 1980
    by: Jean Robertson and Craig McDaniel

  3. Art Fundamentals: Theory and Practice {TENTH edition}
    by: Ocvirk, Stinson, Wigg, Bone and Cayton {CD or DVD is not required}


You may also access these handouts through BLACKBOARD via www.shsu.edu

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Read your studio syllabus thoroughly.


TTH studio syllabus [1313.02 + 1314.04]
MW studio syllabus [1313.01 + 1314.03]

There will be opportunities to ask your questions and get clarification
about WASH studios the first studio day.

The new WASH Building, 2220 Ave. M, across from Holleman Field. We'll be welcoming our new fall WASH students PROMPTLY at 9:30 am, Wednesday, August 24 with Kathy and Thursday, August 25 with Valerie. Don't miss! It is a full day and you will fall quickly behind if you miss this day!

At 9:30 am on Friday, August 26 we all meet together over in room 108 of art building E.

On the first day bring
1. Newspapers (the equivalent of one Sunday Houston Chronicle in thickness)
2. One roll of plain masking tape (tan or neutral in color)
3. Camera or camera phone
4. Lock (combination style...optional)
5. Sack lunch (we have a fridge + microwave for student use during our one hour lunch break)
6. Layers (temp in WASH house may not be to your liking)

You should also be collecting clean, used, cardboard for studio. You will need it the first weekend.

Saturday, August 6, 2011

WASH materials list

All of these supplies are required & we will be using ALL of them. You can choose to purchase these items anywhere you like. However, at BearKat Books Art Supply (located at 2223 Ave. J in Huntsville) they have put a Kit together and will offer you a 10% discount for purchasing in bulk!!! Purchasing all items separately will cost you at least $193. Purchasing the KIT at BearKat will only cost $172.82 Kits will be available to purchase on Monday, August 20th. BearKat Books open daily 8am-5pm, 936-295-4108.

Write your name on everything! Your scissors, glue, etc looks exactly like everyone else's! Names will help you not inadvertently take your neighbor's stuff.
WASH Visual Journal available at BearKat Books (1) The cost is $14 to purchase outside of kit
Composition Notebook (1)
882-E Scantrons (2)
Large Bluebook BB-2 (1)
Black Twin Tip Sharpies (2)
Black Sharpie Pens (2)
No.2 Pencils (2)
Sharpie fine point permanent pens (8 color set)
Sharpie ultra fine permanent pens (8 color set)
Chartpak colorless blender pen (1)
Cray-Pas Oil Pastels (12 color set)
Liquitex Basics Acrylic paint (5 color set; including black/white)
Paint Brush set (set of 25)
Palette knife set (set of 5)
Strathmore 300 Bristol pad 9x12 (20 sheet pad)
Clearpoint Vellum Paper (10 sheets)
ModPodge Medium (8 oz.)
Tracing Paper Pad 9x12 (50 sheets)
Black Construction Paper 12x18 (100 sheets)
WhiteOut Pen (1)
Single Hole Punch (1)
Utility Knife (box cutter type with additional blades)
X-acto type precision knife with cap and 5 #11 blades
Circle Template (1)
Square Template (1)
Self-healing cutting board 8.5x12 (1)
Binder clips small (set of 12)
Binder clips medium (set of 10)
Push Pins Clear (set of 20)
T-pins 1” (set of 100)
Masking tape (3/4”x60yards)
Blue Painters Tape (3/4”x60yards)
Spray Mount Adhesive (4oz.)
Uhu Glue Stick (medium)
Carpenters Wood Glue (8oz.)
Elmers Glue (8oz.)
18” Cork Backed Metal Ruler (1)
Kneaded Eraser (1)
Sanding Block Medium/Fine (1)
Masonite Squares 12”x12” (2)
Masonite Squares 6”x6” (1)
Additional Required Materials NOT included in the WASH Kit:
Scissors (1)
Mounting Boards (size will vary)
Ream of white copy paper (pack of 500)
Ream of White Card Stock (pack of 250)
White Thread (1 spool)
Black Thread (1 spool)
Sewing needles (small pack)
Bleach Pen (1)
Wax Paper (1 roll)
USB Flash Drive 2GB or 4GB (1)
Blank CD’s (pack of 10)
Blank DVD’s (pack of 5)
Hot Glue Gun (1)
Hot Glue Sticks (package of 50-100)

WASH required textbooks {fall 2011}

You may choose to purchase these books anywhere. It is up to you. We have found that Amazon.com has really great prices, and have noted those current prices for each book. You will need to arrange to purchase them quickly, since we will begin using all of them the first week of classes.
  1. In the Making: Creative Options for Contemporary Art {$23}
    by: Linda Weintraub


  2. Themes of Contemporary Art: Visual Art after 1980 {$35}
    by: Jean Robertson and Craig McDaniel

  3. Art Fundamentals: Theory and Practice {TENTH edition} {$30}
    by: Ocvirk, Stinson, Wigg, Bone and Cayton {CD or DVD is not required}

WASH House

2220 Avenue M.


WASH = Workshop in Art Studio and History

The new WASH Building, 2220 Ave. M, across from Holleman Field. We'll be welcoming our new fall WASH students PROMPTLY at 9:30 am, Wednesday, August 24 with Kathy. Don't miss! It is a full day and you will fall quickly behind if you miss this day!

At 9:30 am on Friday, August 26 we all meet together over in room 108 of art building E.

On the first day bring
1. Newspapers (the equivalent of one Sunday Houston Chronicle in thickness)
2. One roll of plain masking tape (tan or neutral in color)
3. Camera or camera phone
4. Lock (combination style...optional)
5. Sack lunch (we have a fridge + microwave for student use during our one hour lunch break)
6. Layers (temp in WASH house may not be to your liking)

WASH House (M-TH) and Art Auditorium (Fridays)

Listen to podcast or watch video before first day of class

We hope you'll look, listen + contemplate before the first day of class.

Listen to the following podcast / mp3
prior to the first day of WASH, Wednesday, August 24 @ 9:30 am

LISTEN Janine Antoni
(audio lecture @ School Of Visual Arts, 2006)
or download it from itunes

OR
WATCH VIDEO Janine Antoni
(video lecture @ Cornell, 2010)

QUESTIONS
As animator, artist, designer, we do not create from nothing. There never is truly a blank page or screen. We ourselves are neither a blank page nor a blank screen. We do not create from nothing, so where do our ideas come from? Why? Where do IDEAS come from? Why are these ideas important to the artist? Why do artists, animators, designers use the specific materials they choose? Why do you? Why choose this material over that? What are these MATERIALS' significance? Why does the artist, animator, designer work in the specific manner with their materials and ideas? Why this method or process and not that? Designers, animators, artists make their work for a REASON? What is yours? Do you know? One reason or many? WHO do we make it for? Our self? Your brother? Men? God? Skaters? All people who wear underwear and have brown eyes? Is your audience many or few? Why these people? What do you want from them? What do they want from the work? Why? What? Where? How?

For each work Antoni discusses, listen for what materials she is using, what she did to or with them, and all the whys? Make a list of her whats and whys. Identify the sources of her ideas. How does she speak about her audience? What of their response? What does she want from them? Why does she love being an artist?

Bring lists/answers with you on Wednesday, January 19, we will be discussing her work in terms of its sources of inspiration, materiality, process, interaction with viewer and why she loves being an artist.

Images are linked to their source site. Click image.

Janine Antoni, Wean, 1989-1990
Plaster impressions in the wall.

Janine Antoni, Eureka, 1993
Bathtub, lard, soap, Corian

Janine Antoni, Slumber. 1993
Performance with loom, yarn, bed, nightgown, EEG machine and artist' REM reading
Janine Antoni, Gnaw, 1992
(video of Gnaw at MOMA)

Donald Judd, untitled, 1971

Eve Hesse, Accession II, 1968

Hans Haacke - Condensation Cube (1963)
Lick and Lather, 1993


Loving care, 1993

Loving care, 1993

Mierle Laderman Ukele, Hartford Wash: Washing, Tracks, Maintenance:Outside, 1973 performance at Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, part of Maintenance Art Performance Series, 1973-74

Yves Klein, Untitled Anthropometry (ANT 100), 1960
WATCH 1962 Ives Klein Anthropometries of the Blue Epoch, 1962

Jackson Pollock, 1950


Janine Antoni, Mom and Dad, 1994

Janine Antoni, Butterfly Kisses, 1996-99
Cover Girl Thick Lash Mascara

Janine Antoni, Mortar and Pestle, 1999

Janine Antoni, Cradle, 1999
2 tons of steel

Janine Antoni, Saddle, 2000
Full Raw Hide; cast of artist's body

Kiki Smith, Tale, 1992.
Beeswax, microcrystaline wax, pigment, and papier-mache.

Janine Antoni, 2038, 2000

Janine Antoni, Umbilical, 2000
Sterling silver cast of family silverware and negative
impression of artist's mouth and mother's hand

Janine Antoni, Moor, 2001
Janine Antoni, Moor, detail, 2001

Janine Antoni, Touch, 2002
Janine Antoni, To draw a line, 2003

Janine Antoni, Caryatid (Crackled green glaze over red oxide on an ovoid bodied vase with a truncated neck), 2003

Janine Antoni, Tear, 2008
Lead, steel, HD video projection with surround sound
4,182 pound wrecking ball 33" diameter
projection 11' x 11'
Janine Antoni, Conduit, 2009
(Detail) Copper sculpture with urine verdigris patina, framed digital c-print

Janine Antoni, Conduit, 2009 (Detail)

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