Gregory Rose- MCTC- Residency- 4.25hrs
John Akre- Children's Museum- Shadow- 7hrs
This week at MCTC I came early as usual to help set up for class. Sadly, I had missed the skeleton assignment, but I talked to Gregory about how the students had done and what I had missed. After that Gregory and I talked about artists that use collage in their work and began making our lecture. We compiled 5 artists all of which came from different backgrounds and brought something very different to the table. For their next project the students will make three small collages that focus on creating a narrative, the narratives can be different for each individual piece, or all lead into each other for an overarching narrative. The students have some great resources for this, MCTC has large collections of Times magazine going way back. The students also had a large selection of modern magazines to use, the modern magazines alone took up 3 cupboards worth of space. The students were really excited to have a more relaxed class and to focus on composition and concept rather than technical skill. The majority of class was work time with Gregory and I circling and asking questions about what narratives the students are making. It was a very relaxed and fun class period today. This week was also my first experience going to the Children’s Museum. I was pretty nervous about it at first, finding a place to park and getting there was pretty stressful. Once I was there though, everyone was very friendly and helpful. I ended up helping on the 4th floor. John, the artist I was paired with focused on making stop motion animations with kids. He would have the kids hold up shapes and move them around or “teleport” from chair to chair. It was hard to get little kids to participate, but 7 and up seemed to be really entranced by the process.