Thursday- The Journey is the Destination!

We will be meeting on the WESTBOUND platform of the Market Frankford Blue line at City Hall Station at 1:00 sharp. If you are late we will leave without you so be sure to be on time!

Erica's show at Vox Populi

I am having a solo show at Vox Populi, all are welcome to attend!

http://voxpopuligallery.org/exhibitions/erica-prince/

ERICA PRINCE

Dollhouse

April 3 - 26 2015 // Opening: April 3, 6-10pm

Dollhouses are understood as gendered spaces for speculation and idealization. They are interpretive play spaces for the enactment of social and identity constructs. In her second exhibition at Vox Populi, Erica Prince presents the dollhouse as an expanded psychological space: unpredictable, fragmentary, and unapologetically tied to its feminine perspective. A large scale cutaway dollhouse exposes empty rooms ripe with potential and a collection of drawings reveal fragile glimpses into the lives that could exist there. Ultimately, Prince continues to question the lifestyle design choices that we make, individually and as a culture, and how they reflect our states of being, our essential and constructed identities and our hopes and dreams for the future.

Next Tuesday March 31

In order to have as much time as possible to draw today at the Academy of Natural Sciences, the critique for your Geo History Map project will be pushed back to next class, Tuesday March 31, in our Tyler classroom at 12:30. We will still ride the Blue line on Thursday.

If you would like to check in or have an in-progress crit with me today about your projects, I would be happy to do so.

Thursday March 26

On Thursday we will be meeting in the lobby of the Academy of Natural Sciences at 1:00. It is right next door to Moore College of Art on the Parkway. You will have to pay for your entrance, which is $13. We will be drawing from the dioramas and reviewing your homework based on the Geo History Maps. 

Homework due March 26

Take some time to explore Philadelphia's development via the Geo History maps found here: http://www.philageohistory.org/tiles/viewer/

Look at your neighborhood, center city and Temple's campus throughout the years.

Take note of the different ways the maps were organized via drawing.

Make a drawing in response to something interesting that you discover. It could be a historical discovery, or something that intrigues you aesthetically about the maps themselves. Begin your research with several preliminary sketches/studies before moving on to the final drawing. 

Next Tuesday March 24

Meeting at Eastern State Penitentiary at 1:00! I will be purchasing group tickets, so please be on time!

http://www.easternstate.org

Thursday March 19

We will be meeting at Reading Terminal Market! We will meet outside the Market on the South West corner, the corner of Filbert St and 12th St, right under the neon sign.

http://readingterminalmarket.org

Upcoming schedule, homework

Today we will be finishing part 2 of the midterm exam, in the Tyler conference room. Please be on time!

Because the midterm took a little longer than expected, we will be meeting at Tyler again next Tuesday to collect sketchbooks, finish Urbanized, and critique the homework.

Homework:
Begin your 2nd sketchbook. Be sure to put your name and contact info inside.
Sit in a public space and make 6 full page drawings (brush pen or china pencil) of the action going on around you. From LIFE! Not photos! They can be candid portraits of people, gestures of people walking or sitting, signage, atmosphere, etc. Focus on gesture, proportion and loose mark making rather than detail.

This will prepare you for our experience next Thursday at Reading Terminal Market and Chinatown. Both are very busy places with constantly moving surroundings.