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Partnership Poster Presentation

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The poster presentation should be done with all who are linked to the same institution or artist.  If you are independent in your partnership, you will be making your poster alone, and if you are paired you will be working together on one poster.  You are to research and prepare a (minimum) 20-24 inch poster on your partner gallery or artist.  Showcase the institution or artist by giving a succinct historical account, and valuable information for knowledge sharing with your peers.  For an institution you are expected to display operational capacities, history and mandate.  For artists you should dissect ways in which the artists’ history and interests have evolved by way of their participation in the art world.  This can include mapping pivotal moments in their career trajectory (such as their first published catalogue, or their move to a specific subject matter or technique, etc) that have signified growth.

You may include images and design strategies in the execution, but it should contain enough information to get a good degree of knowledge, first and foremost.  Please go beyond just regurgitating history and facts, find ways to contextualize the institution or artist, their trajectory, contribution and function within the Vancouver art community, and make it fun!  As well, examine how it structures itself internally or personally, its mandate/focus, funding and administrative structures, (and other insights you feel are pertinent to how one this Institution functions) relate to its place in the larger Vancouver art community context.  The poster should think of your student colleagues as the main audience for the purpose of knowledge sharing.

You may also bring in catalogues, pamphlets, books, etc. to accompany the presentation time.

Please also provide a summary post tagged by your gallery category, of your partner on your blog, accompanied by a small version of the poster for your peers to download.

Due:  October 16th in class & on blog

You can use the Bining lab, info here, or you can use a poster printing place.  This one is available in the Woodwards building, info here.

Partnership Blog

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Every partnership institution must have its own blog.  For those who are working alone with their partnership institution this will be a solo-blog that you will create and report on individually, but for those who are doing the same project together, you can work on your blog together.  There will also be those who are working with the same institution, but on different projects, you will have areas that you will do together and areas that you will do separately. Use the blog to display a comprehensive, active and reflective account of your project and partnership through various phases.

The required elements of the blog, (everyone) and a description below are:

  • project outline/organization or plan (details below)
  • summary of your poster presentation on the institution/artist you are working with and attached smaller pdf of poster for download

Note that your final project synopsis can also be illustrated through various blog posts throughout the term, so keeping up with the blog at different intervals can alleviate the stress of recording it all at the end, and usually ends up in a more attentive report instead of relying on memory.

Please categorize your posts by your partnership, therefore under the “category” selection of a post, label it by your partner so that it will automatically show up in the blog link.  Please ensure you are doing this correctly or I may not be able to see it!

Assignment prompts also located here:

Grand Finale Showcase!

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December 5th – Grand Finale Showcase!

In 3rd floor of Audain, 3:30-5pm (but please come in a bit earlier if you need to set up your piece)

Open house grand finale party to celebrate the end of your partnerships with the community partners. You will present your creative response work (maximum 3-minute presentation unless other arrangements) to the class and partners.

Final Reminders of Due Dates

Creative Response Presentations due today in class for presentation
CBEL Project Synopsis (Hardcopy) due today, or CBEL Project Synopsis blog due December 6th
Final Reflection and Peer Evaluation due December 8th

Week 5

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October 16th – Poster Presentations

You will all be presenting on your partnership institution or partnered artist in class in a poster presentation format. Please give the class an understanding of the history, structure, mandate, exhibition models, artists associated, publications, events, etc… of the gallery or artist. The presentations will take place in two sets, and you will visit each other to communicate about your space and experiences. At the end of the class you will have time to discuss what each gallery’s role and what it means to the Vancouver Art community.

Activity

  • Reflection, what did you learn, what was revealed, what stood out, and a pop quiz!
  • The last half hour will be used to discuss the upcoming screening and next two classes.

Week 4

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October 2nd – The Artist’s Studio

Discussion on the role and purpose of the artist’s studio and how it relates to your/a practice.

Required Reading/Discussion On:
  • Daniel Buren Function of the Studio in Museums by artists p.61-67
  • Rebecca Fortnum Creative Accounting: Not Knowing in Talking and Making from On Not Knowing: How Artists Think 70-87
Further Resources:
  • Glenn Adamson and Julia Bryan-Wilson Art in the Making Artists and their Materials: From Studio to Crowdsourcing 2016
  • Caitlin Jones The Function of the Studio (When the Studio is a Laptop) from STUDIO, p.116-121
  • Mary Jane Jacobs and Michelle Grabner The Studio Reader
  • Edited by Jens Hoffman STUDIO (From Whitechapel’s Documents of Contemporary Art series)
  • Twyla Tharp The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use it for Life
Homework
  • Prepare for being visited and conducting a studio visit for November 6th with peers in the class. Prepare and have work ready to show, can be in process/sketch and have language/writing or previous work for context.  Prepare to view colleague’s work in a critical and rigorous lens, have questions ready, etc.
  • By the end of this term you are to have attended 3 art events either at the University or in the city, one of those events must be with a partnership in this class.  An analysis on the studio visit experience and the events you attended is due November 27th.
Upcoming Due Dates

Poster Presentations for next class, including blog summary & poster upload.