ART 30S/40S OPTIONS

ART 30S & 40S Students...

The challenges below are intended to encourage you to expand your creativity, challenge yourself to do something new, and play with ideas and materials to CREATE something new.

Each assignment requires that you do a bit of research about an artist (keep this in your idea journal) and also try an activity.

Instructions:

Start by choosing one assignment to explore from the list, below. Between now and May 1st, you will work on between 4 and 7 of the choices below, and submit your documentation (photos/video) on Edsby.
You can either do the prompt first and then research the artist OR research the artist and then do the prompt. To research the artist you can watch the video(s) linked to the name of the artist, or research their work on your own (Google, Wikipedia, etc.) in order to answer the questions provided here in your idea journal. For each of these options, make sure to document the whole experience through PHOTOS or VIDEO!
"Researching" the artist means recording the following in your sketchbook:
1. 3 things you find interesting about the video / the artist's work
2. 1 question you have about the artist or their work
3. An explanation of how the prompt might relate to the artist’s work (sometimes it will relate to a specific artwork that they have made, sometimes it will relate to an idea or overall attitude that the artist has)
Once you begin working on the challenge, be light on your feet, play around, have fun, share online with your friends, involve your family. DOCUMENT EVERYTHING with photos. Making things grounds us and helps us feel a little control in times of uncertainty. Use your creative brain to keep your thoughts towards having fun and MAKING ART. Find the joy you can in making stuff, while we're away from each other! :)

1

Gabriel Oroczo - Two Day Challenge
Transform a found object. Consider whether the modifications will enhance the intrinsic nature of the object or disguise its original intention or function. Describe the method of abstraction, camouflage, or alteration. Write a short story in your idea journal about the birth, life, and death of your object.

2

Trenton Doyle Hancock - Two Day Challenge
Create a contemporary superhero/heroine. To what issues and values would this hero or heroine be dedicated? Who would be his or her arch-enemy, or what would be his or her greatest challenge? What would his or her strengths and weaknesses be? What would his or her costume look like? Create that costume and a cartoon or comic narrative to illustrate the hero or heroine’s experiences.

3

Raymond Pettibon - Two Day Challenge
Transform a favorite text, quote, or portion of text into a work of art. Manipulate the words and letters using different types of handwriting, printing, or Photoshop. Consider using a variety of drawing styles and techniques to accompany your text.

4

Paul Pfeiffer - One Day Challenge
What factors contribute to shorter- or longer-lasting public fame? If you were to have fifteen minutes of fame, what would you be famous for? Create a document in video or other media that gives you those fifteen minutes.

5

Martin Puryear - Two Day Challenge
After looking at the work Ladder for Booker T. Washington, create a portrait of a living or historical figure using abstract shapes, forms, or symbolic elements that represent the significant aspects of their life.

6

Chris Ware - Two Day Challenge
Create a 10 panel comic about a day in your life at home during the school closure OR Create an ongoing comic for each day that you are at home.

7

Louise Bourgeois - One Day Challenge
It is said that much of Bourgeois’s work exhibits her childhood conflicts with her father, who was at the same time loving, attentive, demanding and betraying. Think about an individual who evokes strong conflicts in your life. Create a work of art expressing that conflict.

8

Michael Dumontier and Neil Farber - Two Day Challenge
Make several drawings of the same thing. Give/show them to a different friend or family member and ask them to come up with a different caption for each one. Write it down on each drawing.

9

Andrea Zittel - One Day Challenge
Discuss what you would find necessary and sufficient to spend a month on an island. In your idea journal, design an island to meet these criteria.

10

Fred Wilson - One Day Challenge
Select 5 to 10 objects in or around your home that represent your identity. Imagine that you are an archaeologist who has just unearthed these objects. Create a display that includes interpretive labels, illustrations, and related historical information. Photograph your display.

11

John Cage - One Day Challenge
Sit in silence with your eyes closed for as long as you can bear. Record what you hear and/or think about. Make a collage/drawing/painting about it.

12

Richard Serra - Two Day Challenge
Check out some three-dimensional art in your community (here are some images of artworks in Winnipeg). Consider the materials used to create them, and consider how the materials relate to the site on which they are located. Create a design for a public art piece in the Fort Richmond area.

13

El Anatsui - One Day Challenge
Anatsui talks about his sculptures “giving form new life, or bringing about new hope.” Design a work of art from something that is broken or discarded.

14

Sally Mann - One Day Challenge
Take a series of photographs of a place that is important to you. Try to capture different aspects of that place by taking the photographs from different angles and distances, at different times of the day or year, with and without people in the photograph. Select one photograph that best represents your feeling about the place and tell why you have chosen it.

15

Doris Salcedo - Two Day Challenge
Create a work of art that communicates something about a group of people without using representations or images of any human figures.

16

assume vivid astro focus (avaf) - Two Day Challenge
Select one of avaf’s artworks and use it to inspire your own work in a different medium. What was it about avaf’s work that inspired this transformation?

17

Jeff Koons - One Day Challenge
Select an object, idea, or element from popular culture that you think is important but misunderstood or not taken seriously. Appropriate and transform it to make a work of art that reflects its significance.

18

Stephanie Syjuco - One Day Challenge
Create a slogan for a banner or sign. Print the words on paper using large type. Crumple, fold, or otherwise manipulate the sheet of paper until the printed words say or suggest something different than the original slogan. What does the new version reveal?

19

Margaret Kilgallen & Barry McGee - One Day Challenge
Create a visual logo for yourself. Write about what you feel your logo represents.

20

Lynn Hershman Leeson - Two Day Challenge
Create a multimedia work that simultaneously utilizes and critiques technology.

21

Pepon Osorio - Two Day Challenge
Create a work of art (e.g., a story, video, journal entry or sculpture) about an experience from your childhood that you recall very differently from the recollections of the adults in your life.

22

Bruce Nauman - One Day Challenge
In your idea journal, design an object that appears to be functional but really is not.

23

John Baldessari - Two Day Challenge
Baldessari talks about text and image as interchangeable forms of language and describes the process of making his photomontages as building a poem from words, but with images. Create a poem out of images, and an image out of words, based on a single theme, word, or idea.

24

Mark Bradford - Two Day Challenge
Many of Bradford’s paintings include non-traditional collage elements, such as hair salon end papers and billboard remnants. Bradford describes these elements as “materials that have memory.” Select a material that for you evokes a specific time or a place, or one that symbolizes an aspect of your identity. Use this material to create an abstract, multimedia self-portrait.

25

Trenton Doyle Hancock - Two Day Challenge
Hancock has many objects in his studio that once belonged to his family. He calls these objects “echoes,” and says that because they are in his presence the objects “echo” into his work. How are these “echoes” apparent in his work? What are the important items that you have from your friends or family that create specific “echoes” for you? Create an artwork inspired by one or more of your “echoes”.

26

Nick Cave - One Day Challenge
Design a costume that allows the wearer (it doesn't have to be you) to assume a new identity. Film or photograph the wearer interacting with others in public. How does the costume allow for a unique exchange with those in the community?

27

Leonardo Drew - Two Day Challenge
Choose two materials (other than those featured in this video segment) that have symbolic associations. Create a diagram or plan for using one or both materials to convey an idea or story. Share your process by writing a description that could accompany the work.

28

Kimsooja - One Day Challenge
Create a video or series of photographic images that describe how you see yourself in relation to your school, community, city, or country.

29

Minerva Cuevas - One Day Challenge
Using Cuevas' artwork Del Montte (2003) as an example, subvert an advertisement or redesign an ad campaign in order to alert viewers to a hidden truth behind a specific company or business.

30

Damian Ortega - Two Day Challenge
In this episode Ortega discusses understanding architecture “from the inside” and creating a “space to protect yourself.” Design an interior space that’s about protection. Consider the different ways of defining “protection,” including emotional and physical protection, as well as the protection of civil liberties and rights.