AVIVO - Residency - Jes Reyes - 5 hours
Perpich - Residency - Kathryn D’Elia - 6 hours
This week at AVIVO I started brainstorming a lesson plan for the artists that attend open studio hours. Now that I have established myself at AVIVO, I find that I am facilitating special relationships with people, both in terms of their practice and in terms of their lives. The discussions are genuine and the collaboration is exciting. After generalizing the wants and needs of the community, I am edging towards building a lesson on reductive mark-making in drawing because the majority of attendees are well-versed in 2-dimensional design with dry media.
Things accelerated quickly this past week at Perpich. In the Drawing to Painting class, students developed thumbnails based on collaboratively built still lives and then began their grayscale value paintings. There was a short video delivered on how temperature within grays affect depth. The Advanced Painting class is wrapping up their individual projects before I deliver my lesson on Thursday. Some issues arose with time management as many students started ambitious projects, but Kathryn and I walked the room as resources for advice to help students as they continued on. The sketchbook assignments for this week encouraged experimentation with distressed surfaces and implied narrative - which is a perfect precursor to the lesson I will deliver about reinvention through obstruction.