Welcome to our group blog! I hope that everyone is starting to get over jet-lag, adjusting, and growing excited about our semester here. This blog will serve as an individual and a group diary, a forum to document your thoughts/experiences/observations as they relate to our class. Each week you'll post a written statement that sums up your thinking, and the processes of how you transform your ideas into your artwork. In additon to a written entry, you'll post 5-10 images that describe your visual thought process or your work in -progress. You may find that your posts will be fairly general initially, and that as the semester progresses, you have much more to show and tell.
For posting the images: please use Flickr (http://www.flickr.com) instead of Myspace, so that your art/research images can be viewed separately from your personal photos. You'll link your flickr page to the blog each time you post. Have a look at last year's blog for example: http://spaceorplace.blogspot.com/. As you rollover and click the title of each post, you are linked to each student's Flickr page, with albums of images that correspond to each post/week of class.
Last year in Florence, Jana Harper taught for the first half semester, and I took over immediately after Spring Break. She devised the blog as a way for me to be included in the class ahead of time. I cannot over- stress how useful the blog was in allowing me to hit the ground running--already familiar with my students as individuals, and the arc of their artistic development before I arrived. I would like us to offer the same opportunity to Ken Wood, who will be your teacher during the second half of the semester. The blog will ease this transition for everyone, it benefits us all.
This is also a handy way to stay connected to your Wash-U peers and your families; to keep them involved in your creative practice in a very immediate way. Remember: the blog is meant to focus on our studio class, although I realize cross-pollination happens. Since keeping Ken in the loop is one of the blog's major aims, I would ask that we try to stay focused on our class work when we post.
Weekly posting is part of your required coursework (each Sunday by midnight, to make sure we keep it nice and regular, OK?). If you need any help with this, please speak up in class, or send me an e-mail: julia_randall@yahoo.com
OK, enough, basta! Again, benvenuti, and I am looking forward to working together and getting to know you all...
Julia
This is also a handy way to stay connected to your Wash-U peers and your families; to keep them involved in your creative practice in a very immediate way. Remember: the blog is meant to focus on our studio class, although I realize cross-pollination happens. Since keeping Ken in the loop is one of the blog's major aims, I would ask that we try to stay focused on our class work when we post.
Weekly posting is part of your required coursework (each Sunday by midnight, to make sure we keep it nice and regular, OK?). If you need any help with this, please speak up in class, or send me an e-mail: julia_randall@yahoo.com
OK, enough, basta! Again, benvenuti, and I am looking forward to working together and getting to know you all...
Julia
