Students should fill at a minimum, a one cubic foot box with objects from home. I use the word “home” in the most general sense. A place or an area that you associate with as being where you and your family are from. Objects from your house and the surrounding area. Half the objects can be things you care about and the other half you need to be willing to permanently alter or destroy. MAKE GOOD DECISIONS!

Please consider the following:

Appearance: Color, texture, shape, scale, form

Man made (symmetrical) or from nature (organic)

Seed pods, plants, fungi

Photos or printed material

Soft objects and hard objects

Make sure you have an extensive variety objects!

Artist Materials: charcoal, charcoal pencils, erasers, masking tape, drawing boards

A Group

SeeLAB with Prof. Vajda NOTE: THIS IS NEWLY ADDED!

Students should fill at a minimum, a one cubic foot box with objects from home. I use the word “home” in the most general sense. A place or an area that you associate with as being where you and your family are from. Objects from your house and the surrounding area. Half the objects can be things you care about and the other half you need to be willing to permanently alter or destroy. MAKE GOOD DECISIONS!

Please consider the following:

Appearance: Color, texture, shape, scale, form

Man made (symmetrical) or from nature (organic)

Seed pods, plants, fungi

Photos or printed material

Soft objects and hard objects

Make sure you have an extensive variety objects!

Artist Materials: charcoal, charcoal pencils, erasers, masking tape, drawing boards

MakeLAB with Prof. Green

-Assorted colors of sewing thread ( about 3-4 spools)

-2 balls of yarn in different colors

-1 spool of heavy weight white button/carpet thread

-package of assorted hand-sewing needles ( including a curved needle)

-Box of straight pins

-Good pair of fabric cutting scissors

-2 used stuffed animals ( find med. to large size ones these will be taken apart for class purposes)

-A 3-Ring binder

-Fabric:  You will need a large quantity of fabric for this workshop.  The larger the quantity and variety of patterns, colors, textures, weights the better.  You may buy new materials but we strongly encourage you to use old clothing, blankets, quilts, etc. that can be easily found at places like Salvation Army or your parents storage rooms. Please wash all items before bringing them into class for use.

B Group

FuseLAB with Profs. McMahon and Blomster

-Please see blog for link to Dick Blick website

SeeLAB  with Prof. Deutsch

- 1 set of head phones.  Can use ear bud type.

C Group

CoLAB with Prof. Hunter

- Bring an interesting container – see the blog posting from Prof.  Illuminato. You will need your tools from your toolbox as well as a ½ inch 3 ring binder and paper. It would also be helpful to have interesting fabric, paper materials or smaller boxes on hand for this class or anything left over from your material archive.

MakeLAB with Profs. Green and To

-Assorted colors of sewing thread ( about 3-4 spools)

-2 balls of yarn in different colors

-1 spool of heavy weight white button/carpet thread

-package of assorted hand-sewing needles (including a curved needle)

-Box of straight pins

-Good pair of fabric cutting scissors

-2 used stuffed animals ( find med. to large size ones these will be taken apart for class purposes)

-A 3-Ring binder

-Fabric:  You will need a large quantity of fabric for this workshop.  The larger the quantity and variety of patterns, colors, textures, weights the better.  You may buy new materials but we strongly encourage you to use old clothing, blankets etc that can be easily found at places like Salvation Army or your parents storage rooms.  Please wash all items before bringing them into class for use.

D Group

FuseLAB with Prof. Morgan

Paint and Brushes (please see Dick Blick website http://www.dickblick.com/lists/blicku/JCUFGVSEJB7O4/publicview/ .

-24 inch cork-backed, metal ruler

-Utility knife (Olfa or x-Acto with extra blades)

CoLAB  with Prof. Illuminato

Bring an interesting container – see the blog posting from Prof.  Illuminato. You will need your tools from your toolbox as well as a ½ inch 3 ring binder and paper. It would also be helpful to have interesting fabric, paper materials or smaller boxes on hand for this class or anything left over from your material archive.

Attendance is not only mandatory but it is crucial to your success in Foundations. Roll is taken daily in all workshops as well as for the Wednesday meeting. There are no ‘excused’absences, you are either in class or absent. We understand that you may get sick or experience other difficult situations over the course of a semester, therefore we allow up to three absences without reducing your grade. Keep in mind that this is three absences for the entire semester across all workshops and including the Wednesday meeting. On the fourth absence,  your grade will be lowered by a half grade. (Ex. B to B-)  Please be on time, as three tardies are the equivalent of one absence. Ten or more absences will result in automatic failure of Foundations.

While we do not require a note from a doctor or any other documentation relating to your absence, we encourage you to talk to your faculty if you have an emergency that causes you to miss class. Please also share the information with either Profs. Ted Morgan, Michelle Illuminato or Angie To.

*Art Therapy is the marriage of art and psychology. Art is used in counseling settings (social work, nursing homes, hospitals) to help patients cope with/uncover traumatic events and sources in their lives. A therapist may see the art creating process itself as healing, may see the finished art product(s) as tools for diagnosis and treatment, or both.

*Alfred offers “pre-art therapy advising” (preparation for future interest) because an art therapy
degree requires a graduate school education and Alfred does not have a graduate (masters) level art therapy program.

*”Pre-art therapy advisors” are Robin Howard in the School of Art and Design, Gordon Atlas in the Psychology Department (reachable at 607.871.2213), and Corrie Burdick in Education (reachable at 607.871.2810). Fine Art and Psychology student Victor D. Franco may be reached with questions at vdf1@alfred.edu.

*In order to be accepted into graduate school for art therapy, a school typically requires 18 credits of art (diversity in studio subjects: clay, drawing, painting), and 12 credits of psychology (Intro. to Psychology, Cognitive or Social Development, Abnormal Psychology, and sometimes Theories of Personality).

*An “Intro. to Art Therapy” class is being offered by the Psychology Department this spring 2012 on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:20 to 4:35 pm. It is, as of now, offered every other spring.

*For more information, please see: http://www.alfred.edu/academics/pre-art-therapy/
and  http://www.arttherapy.org/

from Weeds by Richard Mabey, ecco press, 2010
To read more go to:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/55894451/Excerpt-WEEDS-by-Richard-Mabey

What is a Storyboard 2

horizontal

Vertical

Build a cardboard / chip board structure.
Use only cardboard or chipboard and hot glue to put it together.  While the structures do not need to be completely finished by the morning they do need to be done to a point where everyone will easily see what you are trying to do.  We posted some links on line (below!) that show some examples of how to work with cardboard — please take a look at these before you start working.

The Harder Hall studio is open from 7 am – 2am. Doors lock at midnight.

The theme is “ In Transit”

Some of you will be building large structures, Max. 6 ft in height – Min. 4 ft. These should be 2 sided so that they are capable of being free standing.

Some of you will be building smaller structures that will be between 18 – 24 inches in height.  These can be flat 2 dimensional objects or can also be 2 sided objects that are free standing

For all of you please be aware of craftsmanship and how cleanly you cut and construct with the cardboard.

Tomorrow we will be meeting in Nevins campus theater at 8 am.  Please leave your cardboard structures down in the Harder studio where we will be looking at them later tomorrow morning.

Here are some tips for working with cardboard and some artists who use it!

http://weburbanist.com/2009/10/19/12-cardboard-artists-who-think-outside-the-box/?ref=search

12 cardboard artists

http://www.feltondesignanddata.com/id23.html

(cardboard airplanes)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZaa5poITWk

(cardboard construction- making a shelf)

http://www.designboom.com/cardboard.html

Cardboard traveling chairs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-OOGDeZjMk&feature=related

(flexible love folding chair)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOa1kHEiIpg&feature=related

(Gomi Style – DIY Cardboard Furniture Reuse Design)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKN7J3hLp7I&feature=related

(ecochair – foldable cardboard furniture)

http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-cetera/temporary-christchurch-cathedral-will-be-built-out-of-cardboard-20110823/

Cardboard Christchurch, NZ structure

http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/MIT/863.07/people/dawn/cardboard.html

(cardboard construction kit)

http://ahome4u.net/cardboard/construction/index.htm

(building a cardboard boat)

This year we’ve invited the amazing delightful group Cave Dogs to direct and inspire the week.

Cave Dogs brings together visual artists, musicians, puppeteers, dancers, storytellers and writers in the spirit of experimental interdisciplinary collaboration. Their performances consist of innovative, large-scale shadow projections with projected video imagery, spoken narrative, and an original soundtrack. The effect is one that will conjure both the dreamlike quality of early experimental film and the humor of contemporary animation.

Take a moment to learn more about them! http://www.cavedogs.org/
P.S. Remember to read the article they sent us below… before the fun starts on September 30th!