Art 112 – Three Dimensional Design – Summer 2013
Instructor: Ross
A Brown
E-mail: ross.brown@bellevuecollege.edu
www.owingsbrownstudio.com
Phone: (425)564-2233
(wood shop) office, (425)564-2586
Office: C154 A
Office hours: Monday
through Thursday, 12:30-1:30, if you need to find me look in C 160
ART 112,
Three
Dimensional Design course provides the essential foundation for all 3D design
and fine arts areas including Interior Design, furniture design, industrial
design, jewelry and sculpture.
Course goals and
objectives:
This
course will cover the four basic design elements used in creating in three
dimensions, mass, space, Time, and light. Working in three dimensions is
characterized by its physicality. Three-dimensional objects exist in real
space; they are tactile; they are responsive to variations in light and point
of view; they elicit response to material as well as form. Engineering is an
issue of believability as well as of manufacture. The primary goal of this
course is to help students develop an understanding and appreciation of the
interaction of form in space and the effect of time and light on both of these
elements and ways to manipulate them. Another goal of this course is to develop
a shared vocabulary, both visual and verbal, to facilitate further work. This
shared vocabulary serves as the basis for the constructive criticism and
exchange of ideas that are important in the formal study of art.
Course outcomes in
reading:
1)
Research
on projects will require the use of the library or internet (see section on
notebook/sketchbook requirements).
2)
Students
will be required to follow written instructions on all projects.
Course outcomes in
writing:
1)
Students
will describe, analyze, critique, and write about the visual characteristics of
works of art (description, observation, analysis, and reflection).
2)
Students
will describe, analyze, critique, and write about process and materials used in
their projects.
Course outcomes in oral
presentations:
1)
Students
will give an oral report on public art.
2)
Students
will be required to discuss the results of their projects as well as of the
works of other students using vocabulary learned from class lectures.
Subject
area content standards to be addressed:
1)
Art
criticism, reflection and analysis.
2)
Art
history, the evolution of thoughts and ideas expressed in visual terms.
3)
Art
production, the experience of process and materials to express a visual idea.
4)
Aesthetics,
the discussion of the principles that underlie human values. Context, content, and
intent.
This
course will prepare students for:
1)
Integrated
and interdisciplinary learning:
Students will connect and apply what they learn about 3 D art to other
art forms, subject areas and careers.
2)
In
a variety of research projects and studio projects students will be required to
be self-directed learners.
3)
All
activities that focus on creative expression will require students to be
effective visual communicators.
4)
Working
on projects in the studio setting will make students better collaborative
workers.
5)
In
planning strategies for successful art projects and in problem solving during
project development, students will be constructive thinkers.
6)
In
creating quality art works that show pride in workmanship, students will be
quality producers.
7)
In
caring for supplies, tools, and
materials, students will be responsible citizens.
Grading
The
student should be cognoscente that this is a studio class and this means that
the student’s interaction with the instructor and his or her class mates
creates the best and most effective learning environment. With this in mind
students are expected to attend all studios and labs. Attendance can affect a student’s
grade. Students will be evaluated on each of three “design/ build” studio
projects and one outside assignment. The evaluation will be on grasp of
concept, design (the object created), craftsmanship, creativity, and studio
participation (attendance). Each of these five areas will be given 0 to 4
points based on the object created and the research on the project (notebook/sketch
book). The sketchbook/ notebook will be
evaluated on three areas, conceptualization, artist research, and process and
materials. Each of these three areas will be given 0 to 4 points based on the
depth of presented research. Created object and sketchbook/ notebook are to be
turned in the day of the critique. See
evaluation form and “What you need to cover in your sketch book/ notebook”, on
the class web site.
Books and materials
A
list of books that the student might find useful for this course will be posted
on the class web site. There are no required readings.
There
are a wide range of materials that the student might use to create each
project. Your lab fee will cover some basic materials, but if you find that you
would like to work with other materials this will be at your own expense.
Expenses for this class will range from $0 to the national debt.
Shop safety
It
is our intention to get your attention concerning your safety and the safety of
others in the C 160 shop. As a student entering into this shop you must
recognize that there are certain risks
inherent in working with industrial tools, including, but not limited to the
exposure to high heat, loud noises, the use of sharp edged power tools,
exposure to dusts and fumes and other industrial shop hazards. The instructor
and the shop technician will instruct you in the safe and proper way to work in
this shop.
Note
from instructor:
As a professional artist over the past forty
years I have lived in a culture that gives me the right to express my visual
thoughts as I see fit. With this freedom I have created works of art that have
met with some success, but none with failure, even though it may have felt like
it at the time. I feel that for this freedom that is given I have the
responsibility to share my visual opinions even if no one buys them. I share my
passion for art by continuing to create it, by showing it in traditional art
galleries, by displaying it in public gardens, and most importantly by teaching
what I love to do to others.
Affirmation of
Inclusion
I
feel that art is a global visual language and can be shared by anyone with
anyone. So I invite you to have this visual conversation with your fellow
students and me.
http://bellevuecollege.edu/about/goals/inclution.asp
Student Code
To
copy someone else’s idea identically will not assist you in developing your own
opinion, but understanding how they came up with that idea will.
http://bellevuecollege.edu/policies/2/2050
Student Code.asp
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students registered for classes at
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