city college of san francisco // fall 2014 //
september - november
Classes are held at the historic Fort Mason Building in the gorgeous Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Marina.
book in blurb: linear visuals in a hand-held form
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For this class we will create and publish a book on Blurb! This is an excellent class for someone who is interested in how their work translates into accessible, hand-held and analog book format or for someone who would benefit from working Blurb interface in a collective setting. The class will begin with critiquing our pre-existing visuals and texts that we have been meaning to make into a book. We will discuss the various formats of art books, from graphic novels to monographs to visual poetry, including brief lectures on ancient and contemporary book formats. Next we will begin organizing and conceptualizing the linear progression of the book we want to create, including editing, layout and content. We will also learn the basics of setting up and navigating the introductory avenues of the online book publishing interface of Blurb. Students should have their own lap top to bring to class for creating their Blurb account, accessing all of their files and for working on the books outside of class time. We will then publish our books and ideally present the finished objects on the final class day.
No Paint Brushes Allowed!:
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October 23 - November 11
Thursday nights 6:30 - 9:30 To Register - enter the course # AR494 + $135 early reg. fee |
Whether you are already exploring new ways of painting and want a new group of people to work with or you are just beginning to branch out, this is the class for you to dig into paint! We will be emphasizing the relationships we have with paint as a material and vehicle for expression, as opposed to what can be represented by painting. We will workshop pour techniques, recursion, immersion, dipping and other inventive techniques for painting. We will not be standing quietly in front of easels, but will instead be working our whole bodies to get paint on surfaces—substantial quantities of inexpensive paint, buckets, water and box fans will be necessary and encouraged. Projects will embrace larger scales, un-stretched and raw canvas, other substrates and unorthodox tools. Class will include short lecture and demonstration followed by studio time and short critiques. Get ready to paint with paint!!
Line & Song: creating drawings from listening
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Tony Orrico, “unison symmetry standing” 40” x 26”. Photo by Michael Hart, courtesy of tonyorrico dot com
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October 20 - November 24
Monday nights 6:30 - 9:30 |
Though we are usually taught to draw what we see, in this class we will draw what we hear. Many of us listen to music while working, but here we will listen to music in order to generate work. This is a fun, interdisciplinary class that emphasizes the relationships of how two seemingly disparate genres can be interrelated. We will be exploring various music genre as a way to develop line drawings. From Classical to Death Metal and many other music styles in between we will collectively listen to music and draw what we hear. Through careful listening and movements of the body we will explore the interconnectedness of absorbing one media through the sense of hearing, and then transliterate that sense into touch through drawing. A variety of materials and scale will be practiced, from graphite, to charcoal to ink—from small hand-size scale to large life-size scale drawings. Class participation during studio time is strongly encouraged to share in the phenomenology of drawing with different senses. This is an excellent class for people looking to expand their way of drawing, and to engage in experimental modes of creation.
