New Course (First Exams 2027)
🌱 Seed 🌱 Real vs Reproduced
I see students draw from a photograph or more often from an image on their phone and rarely from live observation. This is an exploration of how we see what is in front of us, and how a photographic image...
New Course (First Exams 2027)
🌱 Seed 🌱 Public and Private Selves Free
This seed invites you to become a documentarian, a kind of private investigator of something in your own surroundings. Stick with this one thing and document it relentlessly, repeatedly, recording subtle...
New Course (First Exams 2027)
🌱 Seed 🌱 Psycho-geographies
Get your hands on an actual map of a place you live or have lived or that is somehow meaningful to you. It's important that is it a real map, not just printed from the internet ( the object and paper...
New Course (First Exams 2027)
🌱 Seed 🌱 Portrait with Clothing
Choose a real person as your model or a photo of someone dressed in a particular way How does the way the person is dressed express her identity? Paint a portrait of this person where the clothing is...
New Course (First Exams 2027)
🌱 Seed 🌱 Photographing Contradictions Free
This assignment explores how we perceive emotions through images and challenges our associations tied to certain types of images. Through the Creative Strategy of Contradictions, you present meaning through...
New Course (First Exams 2027)
🌱 Seed 🌱 Patchwork Panoramic
Make a drawing that expands over time and space, disregarding heirarchy This activity uses either a large piece of paper folded many times to create lots of uneven small squares or multiple pieces of...
New Course (First Exams 2027)
🌱 Seed 🌱 On the Grid
This activity explores how a grid can create structure or provide the impetus for a drawing. Grid: A pattern or structure made from horizontal and vertical lines crossing each other to form squares Materials:...
New Course (First Exams 2027)
🌱 Seed 🌱 On the Edge
Construct something that is on the edge of collapsing or falling apart, but does not. Use whatever materials are on hand, no special art supplies are required. The artists Fischli and Weiss use furniture,...
New Course (First Exams 2027)
🌱 Seed 🌱 Multiples of One
This could be different-shaped leaves, different bus tickets, different kinds of teabags, tubes of toothpaste... only things that you find or collect; you can solicit (request) but do not buy. When you...
New Course (First Exams 2027)
🌱 Seed 🌱 Modern Miniatures
Create a miniature painting of a scene with a person engaged in some aspect of contemporary culture. What is it that you wish to comment on? You can include a border by mounting on a decorative paper...