Otis College of Art and Design Integrated Learning: Spring 2008
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- If you are a student, what is your major ? If you an instructor, mentor, teaching assistant or other, what is your area of specialty?
- I am a Painting Major, currently a Junior
- What specials skills do you bring to Integrated Learning? Anything goes here.
- I do have previous knowledge of creating and executing lessons through the Otis Teaching Program (ACT), I play guitar, and crochet, i have worked in ceramics and have considerable technical skill as a painter.
- What medium do you feel comfortable working in?
- as far as a medium within the confines of my major...oils are my preferred medium
- Is there a medium, different from your own that you are interested in exploring creatively?
- jewelry design...possibly beadwork
- What is your strongest asset?
- my ability to think on my feet
- If you chose WSC, why did you choose it?
- ...i enjoy working with people and the people who had previously gone through this section of IL have great things to say about that aspect...
- What expectations do you have for this class?
- very high expectations
- What would you like to accomplish for yourself as a member of this class?
- i would like to add more to my experience as a teacher
- Have you worked with an outside company using your creative your skills? Explain.
- no
- Are you comfortable on the computer? List software.
- yes and no
- Do you feel comfortable sketching out an idea?
- yes
- Phone Number
- 310-967-9125
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Please consider:
How do the materials and execution support meaning.
Support why the scale is so large.
Address the meanings associated with elephants. (Ganesh, republicans, a 2000 lb elephant is in the room, an elephan never forgets. What do the WSC members and the Library members think it means?
Thanks,
Please post revised
patty
Jessica Chung
Aya Masuda
IL: Elderspace
Neighborware Project: On Site Sculpture (Mascot) Statement
Our idea is based on the conceptual understandings surrounding the presence of a public sculpture, an art object that creates a separate site filling an empty space with meaning.
In the case of the spatial gap between the Westchester-Loyola Village Library and the Westchester Senior Center, there was a lack of a common marker matching the lack of interaction between the two sites. Creating a “common” sculpture, which performs as a link between the two locations, aids the communication between and about the two sites. The creation of this work fills the spatial gap and adds a community marker, adding to the conversation surrounding both the eventual artwork and the further emphasized spatial relationship between the two sites.
When choosing our subject we decided upon a representational sculpture, a stylized depiction of an elephant. The physical presence of an elephant suited both our aesthetic and contextual needs, the weight and presence of the figure (especially in a dual representation) added to sculptures ability to best personify the weighty subject of a lacking interaction between the two locations. The ability for a work of art to create a common site and a location based vernacular is essential to the successful building of a link between these two important community locations.
The brilliance of this project lies in its specificity to the site and its ability to be tailored for the communal needs of other sites. We can see other locations utilizing this project idea to fill and link other locations in need of social interaction.
I happend to see your workspace the other day. Lovely water colors. I like the metaphor of being frozen and "defrosted"
Maybe you can paint some of our delightful elders.
Maybe an artful response like that will make nice NEIGHBORWARE.
Patty
Patty