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Celebrating Black Artists

When the average person is asked to imagine an “artist” they usually think of the dead white guys (Da Vinci, Van Gogh, Picasso, Warhol). This is because the art world, reflecting our larger society, has long excluded people of color and ignored their stories. That’s why one of my goals in Multimedia is to expose you to artists of color working today.

As you prepare to exit the class, I hope you have a very different understanding of art and artists than the old-fashioned picture I had in high school. And as people around the country fight to affirm that Black lives matter, I wanted to highlight some of the amazing Black artists we studied this year in Beginning and Advanced Multimedia. 

These artists create complex portrayals of the Black experience that challenge simplistic stereotypes. They have helped me to think more critically about our past, present, and future. I hope you’ll take some time to look through these images, explore the artists’ wider bodies of work, and discover new Black artists. During this isolating time, I also hope this helps you to feel a greater connection to, and perhaps even outrage over, what’s happening in the world right now.

Thanks for looking! 🖤 

Manzel Bowman

Kara Walker

Lorna Simpson

Carrie Mae Weems

Devon Shimoyama

Tiffany Lenoi Jones

Ezra Wube

Kehinde Wiley

Titus Kaphar

Mickalene Thomas

Omar Victor Diop

Ja’Tovia Gary

LaToya Ruby Frazier

Adrian Piper 

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End of Year Videos

These are the videos we screened at our end-of-year party! They showcase some of the great work made in Beginning and Advanced Multimedia this year. 

Big thanks to the students who stayed involved during distance learning and participated in our “Life During Covid-19″ project. YOU helped keep this little community alive, and that means the world to me. 💖

A slideshow of great artwork created during distance learning:

Our “Life During Covid-19″ group video project:

Some of my favorite artworks from this school year:

Honoring students who went above and beyond this year:

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Video Lesson 9!

Recap: We are wrapping up the year with a final screening on May 29th! You can contribute by submitting a video clip for our Covid-19 project or creating a “goodbye” to close out the screening. 

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Video Lesson 8!

Recap: We are making a group video about life during Covid-19! I go over the show/tell prompts you can use to collect video clips. I explain WHY I really really want you to participate <3

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Friday Check-In: Starting Our Final Project!

Hi everyone! 

On Monday I will release a new video lesson going into greater detail about our final project (a group video documenting our lives during Covid-19). 

If you want to get a head start on filming your part this weekend, feel free! Here are the directions, followed by my example clip. 

I chose “Show us what comforts you”:

I chose to edit a few related clips together and use narration so that people would understand what they were seeing. You can respond to the show/tell prompts in whatever way makes sense to you. 

Upload your clips to the google drive folder linked on discord, or email them directly to me. 

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Video Lesson 7!

Recap:

-We will spend our last few weeks creating a group video project together!

-The theme of our video will be “Life During Covid-19″

-Take a look at the ideas I’ve pulled together for inspiration, and then let me know what YOU’RE interested in doing for this project!

Artists mentioned:

-The Journal

-Our very own Sydney Scott!

-KQED’s “Senior Year Interrupted” Project

-LaToya Ruby Frazier on Art 21

-Corona virus maps for CityLab

-Jeremy Cohen’s rooftop video

-Thao & the Get Down Stay Down zoom video

-Bolero zoom video

-A Social Distance video collab

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Fun Challenge

“Make art for fun.” This week we played lots of Drawful and made a few new artworks. Take a look:

By Max

By Yujin

By Ms. Rutsch

By Zach 

By Eva

By Samit and Smit

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Thursday thoughts...

Hi all! Hopefully you’ve had a chance to watch this week’s video lesson. 

In the video, I try to remove some of the pressure of coming up with a great idea from scratch. Instead, I encourage you to incorporate play, parody, and randomness into your art-making. That way maybe art could actually be...fun?

As you think about “making art for fun” here’s another idea you can try:

Re-make a pre-existing artwork. 

We’ve already talked about re-creating scenes from a movie like the artists of Shrek Retold. 

You can also take someone else’s Scratch game and modify it using your own characters and backgrounds. I modified giraffecheesecake’s “dog hop, run and jump” to create a game about navigating the NYC subway in a wheelchair. My game isn’t meant to be fun, but you could make one that is! 

And for my challenge submission this week, I borrowed the composition of a medieval artwork I saw in a book....

to create this drawing: 

This is a strategy I use a lot! I find that having a pre-made structure for my scene allows me to focus more on fun details and storytelling. 

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Video Lesson 6!

Recap: To complete your art challenge…

1. Make art for fun

2. Post what you make on the discord by Monday 5/11

Artists / tools mentioned:

- Walker Mettling’s book of drawing games

- Original art by Adv. Multi students Kylie Kane, Ryan Yamagami, Andrew Gibson, Chris Healy, and Mark Ruiz and Multi student Samit Ahir

- Goldvision, “Grand Theft Auto Pacifist: Intro”

- See Hear Party

- AI meme generator Imgflip

- 9 Eyes

- Trump Ties on twitter

- Tiny Pricks on instagram

- Bad Lip Readings, “Biden 2020″

- “Read my Lips” by A Thousand Points of Night

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Connection Challenge

“Create an artwork that helps you connect with others.” Here’s what we made!

Allen collaborated with friends to create this portrait of another friend: 

Ms. Rutsch did mail art: 

Max and Zach collaborated on these memes for Sonny:

Maddy created an exquisite corpse with her mom:

Samantha had her friends customize one of her characters:

Max drew minecraft characters and his mom drew the background:

And some of us worked on these canvases: 

Add to canvas 1 here: https://aggie.io/y8_ha6g2_7

Add to canvas 2 here: https://aggie.io/xkr8t52npj

Add to canvas 3 here: https://aggie.io/60sq3pj7sn

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Video Lesson 5!

Recap: To complete your art challenge…

1. Create an artwork that helps you connect with other people

2. Post what you make on the discord by Monday 5/4

Artists mentioned:

-Ray Johnson

-PostSecret

-r/Place

-Adrian Piper, “Calling Cards”

-Felix Gonzalez-Torres, “Untitled” (Ross in L.A.)

-Robin Bell’s instagram

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Obsession Art Challenge

“Create an artwork about a current obsession.” Take a look at what we made:

By Samantha

By Max O.

By Alex

By Lotte

By Zach

By Samit

By Max H. 

By Ms. Rutsch

By Madison

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Wednesday Check-In!

Make a tribute to someone you’re obsessed with using these easy photo transfer techniques! 

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Video Lesson 4!

Recap: To complete your art challenge…

1. Create an artwork about a current obsession

2. Post what you make on the discord by Monday 4/27

Artists mentioned:

-Natalie Rutsch

-Gregory Blackstock

-Mark Dion

-Anne Griffiths

-Luisa Caldwell

-Shrek Retold full movie

-Skyrim IRL compilation

-Kristoffer Zetterstrand

-Laurie Anderson

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Escape Art Challenge

“Create an artwork that helps you escape your current reality.” Here’s what we made! 

By David

By Eva

By Samantha

By Sydney

By Ms. Rutsch

By Allen

By Megan

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Video Check-In: 4/15

A 3 minute video showing 3 crafts you can make at home! Escape the quarantine through the magic of *~DIY~*

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Video Lesson 3!

Recap: To complete your art challenge…

1. Create an artwork that helps you escape your current reality

2. Post what you make on the discord by Monday 4/21

Artists mentioned:

Kirsten Lepore, “Sweet Dreams”

Sabine Timm’s Instagram

Philipp Klein, “Ski Movie”

Cyndi Sherman’s Instagram

Nina Katchadourian’s Seat Assignment Series

Adrian Piper, “Mythic Being”

Andy Goldsworthy