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Students in the interdisciplinary Artist as Activist class - co-taught by visual arts and humanities faculty - have been venturing out in the field to learn from other artists who have expressed their visions and belief systems through their art. First stop: Keith Haring: The Political Line at the de Young Museum Keith Haring was an American …
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The Sculpture 1B artists were given a design challenge: construct his or her spirit animal out of cardboard and transform their person in some way. Students merged math and art by generating paper prototypes that helped them brainstorm the best strategies to design a simple, yet beautiful form. Some students chose to transform their heads, …
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Printmaking bridges drawing and painting. The Advanced Drawing and Painting artists are taking their favorite drawings from their life drawing sessions and transforming them into prints. Many students are working with reductive lino cut techniques while some students are gravitating towards incising into Styrofoam and inking and printing from that surface. Others are working with …
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The Advanced Drawing and Painting artists are continuing with their weekly life drawing sessions in the art studio. While students worked solely on newsprint for their first sessions, students are now working on different surfaces and with a range of materials, from white china marker to conte crayon to ink. Students are recognizing that this …
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We ventured to SCRAP (SF's Scroungers Center for Reusable Art Parts) to collect materials for the next project of the term: Transformed Treasures. They faced a challenge very similar to an episode of Project Runway. The challenge: in 20 minutes, students had to select a lot of one type of object, collecting everything in paper …
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