The first week of classes There was a visiting artist named Emmy Bright working with the foundations students to make an art installation by the end of the week.
Day One:
On day one the students were introduced to the visiting artist and they did a lecture presenting their work. We were then divided into groups to create linoleum folds/stamps. Our homework that night was to make four letters carved in a creative font or text by the next day as well as a 100 word autobiography of us as an artist.
Day Two:
The next morning all the students came in with their handwritten or typed autobiographies and we had to keep reducing the number of words in our autobiographies. It went from 100 words to 3 words. Our next task was to use the full alphabet that we made as a group and stamp our three word autobiographies onto big pieces of paper. The homework for that night was to find cardboard as tall as us and use our stamps to make prints the size of our hight.
Day Three:
Day three was when we got into different groups and we made designs using the prints that we made. We also used cardboard to stabilize the structures and secure them with paper mache. Our homework was to coat the cardboard in two layers of paper and then set our patterns onto the surface.
Day Four:
The fourth day was putting there three letter autobiographies to the murals and letting them set.
Day Five:
The last day was installing the murals in the art space and thanking the guest artist for working with the students.
