Monday 3-8-21 2:00PM- 3:00PM ‘One on ones’ with Stacie and Chloe Rusell
Monday’s meeting with Chloe and the illustrator was an expansion off of last Monday’s meeting. The illustrator showed Chloe and I six completed pages of illustrations out of an in progress thirteen page artist book depicting her written autobiography she had shared with us the previous week.
Thursday 3-11-21 9:00AM-10:30AM AJ + Artist Group
AJ opened the beginning of this class time with presenting a slideshow she created on grayscale and monochrome. AJ used an array of examples of this type of work, including work from photographs and paintings. AJ did an excellent job of including the artist groups participation in the presentation by pausing during appropriate moments to ask the artists what they saw in the examples she was presenting. I could tell that this really helped the artists make connections and digest the presented subject matter. After the presentation was over, the artists were free to work on whatever they desired for the remainder of the time.
Thursday 3-11-21 12:00-1:00PM Chloe Russell and Illustration Group
This meeting with the Chloe’s Illustration group was an extension of last week’s beginning endeavor project of the illustrators creating portraits for each of the MSS Faculty to be displayed on the new Fresh Eye Arts website. Some strategies that I notice Chloe implementing into her teaching method are dividing up the studio time and check-ins with the artists through using the tool of playing music that the artists request. She does this by asking the artists what they want to listen to, usually at least one artist has a craving for a particular song. At the end of that song, she then asks the group how their pieces are doing and asks them to hold up their work to their device camera, (in this weekly meeting, everyone is joining from zoom). I would like to incorporate this method into my own teaching practice because I also find that listening to music is extremely beneficial to getting into the headspace that allows for creativity to flow. However, I will only use this method if my students wish to incorporate it into their own class space.