I Am
This was a multi-week final project that students individually proposed, and went through multiple stages of peer and instructor feedback. Each project was required to integrate at least two types of media we studied in the course, including sound, video, animation, and photography. Projects were assessed based on use of technical skills; creativity and risk-taking; and commitment to the work.
Isolation
This was a multi-week final project that students individually proposed, and went through multiple stages of peer and instructor feedback. Each project was required to integrate at least two types of media we studied in the course, including sound, video, animation, and photography. Projects were assessed based on use of technical skills; creativity and risk-taking; and commitment to the work.
All in a Day
Students initially considered activities that individuals do, spanning from morning to night. The creators were encouraged to adapt and design sequences to employ animation’s unique qualities of movement and visual storytelling.
Taking Shape
The project begins with the creation of small architectural models in paper which will then be used to further explore form through photography, painting and expressive drawings. Through this iterative process, you will begin to gain an understanding of material practice through the exploration of spatial relations, line and the power of light and shadow.
Aspect of Self
Create a 2-3 minute video that explores an aspect of yourself that others may not easily see. The caveat is that you must not be seen or heard in the video.
Drawing into Wood
Visually interpret your Drawing Project (a human figure with both an interior and exterior location and 2
sets of complementary tertiary colours) as a wood sculpture. You can choose any aspect of your Drawing
Project; the figure, the landscapes, etc. You can employ colour, or just leave the wood surface bare.
City Symphony
In this project, you will work in groups of 2-3 people to create a short 2-4 minute documentary inspired by the “city symphony” silent films and the different documentary modes we covered in class.
Climate Crisis Triptych
This project addresses raising awareness on the climate crisis within the context of our ECUAD community. Students created a triptych - a three-panel graphic design - that stand cohesively as a whole or individually.
Upcycling
Through the application of a structured design process, material analysis, investigation into understanding 3D construction methods; how things are assembled and from form studies, students generated design concepts and developed models towards an upcycled product.
Design It Better
For this project, students worked in teams to develop a design plan for designing something better from their daily everyday life.
Material Play
Through the examination of one of the most ancient of craft technologies - basketry -
students used the weaving technique to develop an object that serves a specific function.
Secret World
After creating a storyboard, students illustrated tonal and colour backgrounds and developed characters for their story. They applied basic human anatomy (informed by life figure drawings) to construct the characters. In the final stage students completed the storyline and had a choice to work alone or join a team in order to produce a (printed) booklet, popup-book and/or 3D model of the story.
Poetry Zine
In this project, students design a physical zine for their chosen poetry.
There are no limitations in content and the language of this poem. One of the project goals for students is to explore different forms of visual expressions, semiotics and find ways to manifest and communicate through mark making.
TransForm
This project introduces you to three-dimensional thinking by inviting to create a series of abstract forms/objects/patterns responding to your selected precedent
Unfamiliar Portraits
Explore how to make familiar images unfamiliar through the lens of self-portraiture.
Prints As Protest
Estisol Transfer and Wood Type Examining the role of printmaking in political and social movements (contemporary and historical), and experimenting with combining image and text
Crown Power
Based on a selection of 10 drawings from your 300 gestural memory, imagined, and observed sketches, design a clay crown that celebrates a particular set of ideas, communicates a concept, or is a reminder to oneself.
Four Footed Fantastical Beasts
Students groups constructed mixed media sculptures referencing the humanoid creatures in Edward Topsell’s The History of Four-footed Beasts and Serpents Woodcuts, 1565.
Shelf
Everyone in the class was given a wooden shelf, 7x24 inches. The task was to create an artwork that somehow included the shelf and used both 2D and 3D approaches. To get ideas started, students could choose one word as a point of departure: Overgrown, Remembered or Obsession.
Call Number
Construct a mixed media sculpture that responds to an ECUAD Library book & call number given out by the Library Staff. Attention will be paid to location of the work in the library: siting, angle of vision, safety, height & size, etc. The work will be situated in the same place as the book (call number) used by students.