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pedagogy [art foundations]

streaking in the WASH building
my students have gone mad in the best of ways.

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art foundations, SHSU Art, teaching, WASH foundations

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kathy wash 2012

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art foundations WASH - SHSU, original blog

WASHers (Hannah, Ollie, Alexandra, Dante, [a little extra help from table 1, Wendy], Katie, and David) become human dots comps translating a really traditional foundations project in which they learn to use 2D space using Gestalt perception principles. For me...

Streakers at WASH
Close your eyes

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kathy wash 2012

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Table seven’s (Hannah, Ollie, Alexandra, Dante, [a little extra help from table 1, Wendy], Katie, and David) second try because the first try…well kind of duded. This is were seconds become firsts. Thanks for making this project easy to grade...

Popsicle sticks play date in Paris!
True madness of a modular nature
Jada please, please bring me as chaperon

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kathy wash 2012

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This is a serious sample of a blog process post! Go Jada! First a brief history about popsicle sticks. They were invented by an eleven year old named Frank Epperson in 1905. So they’re more than a hundred years old!...

Making students go on a play date with their art materials

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art foundations, SHSU Art, teaching, WASH foundations

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kathy wash 2012

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art foundations WASH - SHSU, original blog

So we do this modular madness project in which students choose 100 to 1000 cheap found objects to create a three dimensional work that responds to the formal and conceptual elements of the materials. Step one was to go home...

“If we are to make living art–…

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kathy wash 2012

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“…and an art of living–we must be willing to stand knee-deep in the rapids of the human condition, accepting that life, by its nature, is turbulent, powerful, and mysterious.” Julia Cameron0

am so looking forward to see what happens with
your modular MADNESS!

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kathy wash 2012

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I found the play date pics and today’s kicking it into gear very…well, you guys wowed me! wow on!0

read your modular madness project sheet before class
Lee’s T-play date

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kathy wash 2012

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cups with Ollie0

Larry Lessig | Video on TED.com

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art foundations, mundane ramblings, SHSU Art, teaching, WASH foundations

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kathy wash 2012

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art foundations WASH - SHSU, original blog

Larry Lessig on laws that choke creativity | Video on TED.com not sure i agree with title; but piece is interesting.0

Modular Madness PLAY DATE!

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kathy wash 2012

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WASHers play with their modules! Do it before Monday. Document it. Post up! Sarah chose plate madness. Now that is some serious repetition and rhythm in a very good way!0

WASH up at the Menil Friday

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kathy wash 2012

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See you in front of the Cy Twombly Gallery of the Menil campus promptly at 11. I would leave Huntsville between 9:15 – 9:30. If you are prone to get lost, leave earlier. Cy Twombly Gallery Download and bring handout....

3D Modular Madness Wednesday ICE DAY adaption

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kathy wash 2012

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COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING BEFORE MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14 Listen and PLAY with your Modular Madness materials Layout/dump out objects Play with them and arrange them according to their intrinsic qualities…line, shape, texture, function, etc Make/play with materials into 5 arrangements; carefully...

Blog check up grade

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kathy wash 2012

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On Monday, February 14th your blogs will receive their first grade. Anything posted after 9:30 am on that day will not be graded. You will receive 3 blog check up grades through the course of the semester (about one per...

american cardboard idol

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art foundations, SHSU Art, teaching, WASH foundations

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kathy wash 2012

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art foundations WASH - SHSU, original blog

a few of the top contenders (photos shot by lee and krystal) Katy (source object: drink umbrella) Tony tests the functionality of the cardboard umbrella Zach (source object: magnolia seed) Danielle (source object: magnolia seed) Kevin (source object:...

Modular Madness research

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kathy wash 2012

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Modular madness materials to collect and research to do before Wednesday. Bring 100 objects (found or cheap…no craft crap…ie beads) Bigger objects = 100 (ie cups…5” or larger) of ’em Smaller objects = 1000 (fingernail clippings, hair, tea bags, toothpicks,...

It takes guts…

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kathy wash 2012

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..to stand up in front of three adults and in front of ~40 of your peers and let them crit your work! Yes many projects have room to improve but that takes guts to stand there and listen to what...

WASHers beginning to post up on
repetition and rhythm photo shoot

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kathy wash 2012

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here are a couple shot by Krystal A shot from Sarah Shot by Donovan0

repetition and rhythm

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art foundations, SHSU Art, teaching, WASH foundations

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kathy wash 2012

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art foundations WASH - SHSU, original blog

my students’ are starting to post up (on their blogs) on a little home photo project these are by Krystal0

Lecture 3 (2/4) Project

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kathy wash 2012

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“Always trust yourself and your own feeling, as opposed to argumentations, discussion, or introductions of that sort; if it turns out that you are wrong, then the natural growth of your inner life will eventually guide you to other insights....

Yipee!

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art foundations, mundane ramblings, SHSU Art, WASH foundations

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kathy wash 2012

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art foundations WASH - SHSU, original blog

only in the south do they cancel school for one inch of snow. well it is that icy, crunchy, kind of snow and we would so totally crash as we tailgated and texted our way to school on that slick...

really–a frozen load!
NO classes today, Friday, Feb 4.

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kathy wash 2012

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YES! more time to work on your cardboard projects and get your blogs up to date!!! Well and to roll over and sleep in. I know you guys are so sad because now you’ll have to wait for my three...

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