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.

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)

For our first week art-making event: fabric, plastic sheeting, and an assortment of materials that allows light to pass through them in interesting ways ( i.e. lace, hardware cloth, chicken wire, mesh screening).

For Professor Ted’s class: please bring FIVE magazines that have lots of photographs. You should select a variety of magazines with images of people, nature, objects.

First check out the Material Archive post….and get started collecting! We have also posted the required material list for the ‘art kit’  below. You can choose to assemble these materials yourself, or take advantage of the convenience of having the AU Bookstore do it for you. They offer a 33% discount. The Art Kit can be purchased online at the AU Bookstore (along with the required book, How to be an Explorer of the World by Keri Smith.)

To do this, go directly to the bookstore http://alfred.bncollege.com/ or click on ‘text’while in BannerWeb.

The BFA program requires that you purchase the following list of supplies. For convenience, the bookstore offers the kit at a discounted price, but if you already have many of these items, you are welcome to assemble the materials yourself.

Drawing Pencils: HB, 2B, 3B, 4B, 6B, B
12 Pack of Prismacolor Color pencils
3 Packs Vine Charcoal (30 sticks total)
Oil Pastels 25 pack
Compressed Charcoal 4 pack
4 Bulldog Clips
2 Kneaded Erasers
Art Gum Eraser
Pink Eraser
White Steadler Eraser
6B Graphite Stick
9B Graphite Stick
16” Tool Box w/tray
2 Rolls Drafting Tape
Olfa Model “A”
Olfa Blades- 10 pack
Pack of Assorted Sewing Needles
Pencil Sharpener
Conte Crayons: 2 pack of each White, Gray, Black, Sanguine
Brushes: #8 round, #8 Flat, #10 Flat, #12 Flat, Bamboo
Acrylic Paint: white, black, cad red med, alizarin crimson, burnt sienna, ultramarine blue, pthalo blue, light yellow, yellow oxide
X-Acto Knife
X-Acto Blades 5 pack
2 Boxes of Pushpins (100 each)
Spool of Thread (Black)
18” Metal Cork Ruler
Hot Glue Gun
50 pack Glue Sticks
Sobo Glue
Needle Nosed Pliers
Work Gloves (Leather)
Safety Glasses
Scissors (7”)
Classic Portfolio 23”x 31”
26” x 38” Drawing Board (approx. size. Cannot be smaller than 22” x 30”)
Seam Ripper
Spray Fixative

Thanks to PropMedic on deviant art for the image! ( See at http://propmedic.deviantart.com/art/TF2-Papercraft-RED-Toolbox-77759668)