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Artists, entrepreneurs, engineers, doctors, etc. all rely on a
creative process for participating in their profession and for
getting their jobs done. The lessons in this topic address how
crafts, tools, and skills define people and how craftsmanship shapes
a place and time in the world. In considering the different ways
to realize ideas, whether working independently or relying on others
with specialized knowledge, the lessons in this topic explore the
role of specialization, hobbies, tradition, and innovation in the
creative process. Whether combining media or re-inventing age old
forms for new audiences, today's artists explore tools for the
ideas within. |
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dictators,
collaborators, managers & soloists
Subject Area: Language Arts
Artists: Ali,
Antin, Barney, Celmins, Herring, Lin, Pettibon, Pfeiffer, Puryear,
Ritchie, Serra, Smith, Stockholder, Wilson
Raymond Pettibon, Paul Pfeiffer, Martin Puryear, Richard Serra,
Kiki Smith
This lesson explores the many different methods of realizing a creative
idea. Students will consider the positive and negative aspects of
collaboration, assistance, and autonomy in the creative process
and will engage in different methods of making art as a group and
as individuals. Students will consider the myth of the 'lone artist,'
work together semi-cooperatively in a Surrealist game, and lastly
compose a group narrative. (Updated for
Season Three!) |
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traditional crafts, contemporary ideas
Subject Area: Social Studies
Artists: Antoni, Mann,
Puryear, Sikander, Suh
What do the tools, techniques, and products created in the past or by
distant cultures communicate about a society? In this lesson students
will consider the way anthropologists study the artifacts of the past
in order to create their own social history of contemporary material
culture. Traditional forms such as woodworking, weaving, sewing, wet plate photography,
and miniature painting will be explored in the work of contemporary artists
as a model for students to adopt a past craft in their own writing and
art. |
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converging media
Subject Area: Visual & Performng Arts
Artists: Antoni,
Applebroog, Barney, Cai, Chin, Hamilton, Herring, Murray, Smith,
Wodiczko
Many artists have innovated traditional media to create new and
hybrid art forms. After exploring the connections and distinctions
between different art forms such as painting, sculpture, film, performance,
architecture, and dance, students will create a work of art that
relies on merging different media. Students will also explore the
role of collaboration in realizing large-scale projects such as
installations, films, and performances. (Updated
for Season Three!) |
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“I
like to talk about the work the way I make it—in a very
workmanlike way.”
— Vija
Celmins
“There’s an organic aspect in
much of my work that maybe has to do with keeping the ‘rules’ really
open. And there’s this hand-made aspect in a lot of the work
that just by nature creates its own signature, creates these organic
kinds of references.”
— Tim
Hawkinson
“A lot
of my work comes from an interest in how things are made and how
things are done. And the way the materials are manipulated and used
and the whole history of that in mankind’s past.”
— Martin
Puryear
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