South High School- David Olsen- Residency 4hrs
MCTC- Gregory Rose- Residency 3hrs
In Gregory’s class this week the students worked with positive negative space from a large still life. The still life was constructed of a ladder tied together with random objects like a baby doll, a bike, and a phonogram’s horn. This proved challenging for some students but Gregory and I circled the room answering questions and offering feedback. Gregory and I have talked about slowly having me become a larger part of the classroom and started that today by allowing me to do role. It’s also helping me to learn all the student’s names. Another part of this is I brought observational line drawing up to Gregory and he liked my idea so much that he is going to help me to incorporate it into the next lesson. I’ll be bringing examples of my own work that show this technique in and helping to make the presentation for how to use the technique. I can’t wait!
In David’s class I was introduced to his TA from the University of Minnesota and together we started making examples for his class on Tuesday. We’re building pieces that are constructed out of slabs and have negative spaces that run through them. I spent almost all of my time at SHS today working on it. The only thing I did other than work on the example was to try and find artists that used the same technique for David’s presentation.