Source: https://museability.org/curricula-vitae-2/
Timestamp: 2019-04-22 22:03:38+00:00

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Art 1- I teach the use of design elements and design principles to create aesthetic pleasure. Additionally, I lead in artistic technique, self expression, and creativity through a variety of two-dimensional such as graphite, colored pencil, oil pastel, pen, marker, tempera paint, and collage. I also teach a minimal amount of three-dimensional media, including plaster wrapped gauze and low-fire clay. My intention for this class is to allow students to play with media and learn how to use creativity as a means of communication. To aid in this effort, students are also responsible for creating “spirit drawings” or pictorial journals in their sketchbooks.
Art 2-4: Drawing (and more)– This class is essentially an extension of Art 1, with the addition of some more advanced media such as watercolor, charcoal, and colored pastel. Occasionally, students are afforded the opportunity to use acrylic paint as well. As we focus on the human face and minimal perspective in Art 1, we concentrate on the proportion of the human body, the body in motion, and more advanced perspective.
Because drawing is the foundation of art-making, we continue with drawing processes as we move to various techniques of painting and mixed media. In the context of painting, we concentrate on color theory and the use of compliments for de-saturation. I challenge the students to use black, white, and brown as a last resort, and to mix their own colors from pure primaries (emphasizing magenta). Students also learn to stretch their own canvases panels and use alternative surfaces such as cardboard, poster board, clay, and foam core panels for painting and mixed media.
Additionally, we do a small amount of ceramics. Using high fire clay, students learn how to manipulate and create using ceramic building techniques such as pinching, coiling, slipping, and scoring. Students also learn how to build from slabs and decorate using sgraffito, pressing objects into the clay, and adding appropriate appendages. We also use a variety of finishing techniques such as iron, cobalt, and copper washes, colored slips, underglazes, low fire glazes, and high fire glazes. We do a minimal amount of throwing on the wheel, according to the class size and wheel accessibility. Students are made to use mind maps to generate original ideas for artwork once they have learned foundations. Students are made to use mind maps to generate original ideas for artwork once they have learned foundations.
Art 1301– This class is Art Appreciation. I lead it in round- table form (as I am not a lecturer, rather, a leading collaborator). We read about and discuss the differences between the arts in Western, and some Eastern cultures, the elements and principles of design, various media and processes, and modern art (18th -21st centuries). Students learn to critique artwork according to style and content, as well as write critique and research papers in MLA format. Syllabus is available upon request.
Art 390- Art for Elementary teachers is a class that informs future elementary teachers about the various learning stages of a child, how to work with a child and his or her creativity within those stages, and how and where to guide individual children in the visual arts in general. Additionally, I spent a much time stressing the importance of making curricula relevant to children today and guiding students in how to inspire their future students to think for themselves. Syllabus is available upon request.
Art 369– This class is the same as SFASU’s Art 390, above.

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