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Senior Project/Seminar Class
Professor Ann Bavar Professor Tim Ross
Course Description
A yearlong course supporting an art major’s independent development of a consistent body of artwork. The work will stem from each student’s area of concentration. The culmination will be an exhibition in the East Room on the Manhattanville campus.
Course Content
The critique:
A.
The importance of sharing ideas
B.
Suggestions are not personal attacks
C.
Art as a process
How to look at art:
A.
Content verses materials
B.
Meaning versus intent
C.
What other art does it relate to?
The senior show:
A.
What do you want your art to say?
B.
What to hang and how to hang
C.
Other places to show
D.
The announcement card
Writing:
A.
Resumes and cover letters
B.
Job and grant applications
C.
How to deal with a deadlines
After Mville:
A.
What kind of job do you want?
B.
What type of skills do I have?
C.
The importance of networking
D.
Where to find information
o
Attendance
o
Class participation in critiques (feedback from your
classmates is so important)
o
Sketch book
o
Attendance at listed Art Department events
o
Artist Statement
o
Artist Resume
o
Grant Proposal
o
Three museum and three gallery visits (total 6) –
all documented in a journal. Three of these visits are to be one- page reaction
papers.
o
Slides
o
Exhibition announcements
o
Exhibition in East Room
Grading
This
is notice that grading will deviate from guidelines listed in
the
catalog.
If your
project warrants it, you will receive a grade as low as C- on your
transcript.
§
Preparation and final Presentation of Senior Project
Exhibit
70%
§
Class attendance, grant proposal, artist statement and
slides - 25%
§
Sketchbook – 5%
The class
will be divided into two groups with attention given to media.
Senior
exhibition dates in the East Room are:
Group A – March 29 – April 2
Setup - Sunday, 3/28 or Monday, 4/1 before 12:00
Break-down - Art must be removed Friday,
4/2 by 1:00
Reception – TBA
Setup - Sunday, 4/4 (Palm Sunday)
Break-down – Friday, 4/9 by 2:00
(Note
that Mon., 4/5 Passover begins)
Byles,
David and Orland, Ted, Art &Fear, The Image
Comtinuum, OR, 1993
Barnet, Sylvan, A Short guide to Writing About Art,
Longman, NY, 2000
Benjamin, Walter, Illuminations,
Schocken Books, NY, 1978
Berger, John, The Sense of
Sight, Vintage International, 1993
Camenson, Blythe, Great Jobs
for Art Majors, VGM Career
Horizons, Illinois, 1997
Davis, Guide to Art on the
Internet, I books, NY, 2002
Freeland, Cynthia, But is it
Art?, Oxford, NY, 2001
Gardner, Howard, Creating
Minds, Basic Books, NY, 1993
Gayford, Martin and Wright,
Karen, The Grove Book of Art Writing,
Grove Press, NY, 1998
Ghisrlin, Brewster, The
Creative Process, University of California Press, Calif, 1984
Smith, Constance, Art
Marketing 101, Art Network, CA, 2002
Vieth, Ken, From Ordinary to
Extraordinary, Davis, Mass, 1999
New York Foundation for the Arts
New York State Council on the
Arts
Arts Edge
www.artsedge.kennedy-center.org
World Wide Arts Resources
Art Job
Open Studio
Americans for the Arts