Year 1: MEMORY & IDENTITY
Concept: An art object can house a part of your self.
Cultural Reference: Jennifer Walsh’s sound reliquaries; traditional reliquaries
Student creates a reliquary for a personally significant memory.
Year 2: AUTO- BIOGRAPHY
Concept: Your artwork can tell your story.
Cultural Reference: Auto-biographical and confessional comic/collage books by Lynda Barry,
What It Is and
Picture This.
Students use elementary bookbinding to make a simple book, which they illustrate with an autobiographical story in pen and ink and (optional) collage elements.
Year 3: MEMORY AS A SPACE
Concept: You can create a portrait without a figure.
Cultural Reference: Annie Liebovitz's
Pilgrimmage series, Van Gogh's
Bedroom at Arles, Susan Rothenberg's
Green Studio.
Students review, then use or flout different systems of perspective to create a "self portrait" through depiction pf a space where they locate a significant event/memory from their life.
What next?
Year 4: EXPLORATION
6 self-directed projects, with dialogic peer reflections and crits at the end of each.
