This is the second semester that students are conducting interviews of artists, inventors, and creative entrepreneurs, in order to learn directly about how individuals nurture …
The primacy of vision…
The course focuses on the primacy of the visual experience, so rather than look at slides of art, we try to see as much work …
Final Meeting – December 10th
We had our last meeting on Friday. We looked at the Rose Parade Projects, and spent most of the time working on the “Doorway to …
11th Meeting – November 19th
Update: A new VoiceThread was posted on November 29th. Please respond by midnight, on December 2nd. SKETCHBOOKS ARE DUE ON DECEMBER 3rd. It is crucial …
10th Meeting – November 12th
UPDATE: No VoiceThread for this week. I’ll add a couple questions to next week’s Vthread. UPDATE #2: Here are the photos of the first round …
9th Meeting – November 5th
We began by talking about the effects of early educational experiences on our current creative identity. We watched a clip from Truffaut’s film “The 400 …
8th Meeting – October 29th
We watched one episode of John Cleese’s video, “The Human Face.” In the second half of the class the assignment was to make two expressive, …
7th Meeting – October 22
We began by watching two short films about Christo, the famous maker of gigantic site specific art projects. First was a profile from “60 Minutes,” …
6th Meeting – October 8th
Excellent responses to the night project! We had everything from shoe box dioramas to sophisticated short films, and ‘audience’ participation pieces. Here are photos of …
5th Meeting – October 1st
NIGHT PROJECT BRAINSTORMING: Describe what you did, where you went, in a few sentences. Next, begin to think of ways you might convey this experience …
4th Meeting – September 24
We checked in about the experience of collaborating on the first team project, a wiki on Light + Space art. Next we framed the frottage, …
Colors of the City project
This is the second semester that the students of Visual Thinking have gone out to do field studies in some of the most color-filled neighborhoods …