First Year Portfolio (FYP) Information

 First Year Students!

Sending you a reminder that you need to sign up for your first-year portfolio presentation. The sign-up is live. 

Below is the email I sent right before spring break for your reference.

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Hello DCAD Students!

I am excited to share several things with you today concerning the first-year portfolio event. Please read this entire email.

1. After sending this email I will be sending access to our First Year Portfolio SharePoint. You will be given access to two folders. One is the “FYP – Student Documents” folder were you can find all the instructions and presentation materials we reviewed with you at our common hour zoom event last month. The other is a folder with your specific name in which you will upload your presentation and supporting documents. (more on what you need to upload next)
2. In your folder on the First Year Portfolio SharePoint please make sure you upload your presentation along with the outline with reflection responses and you catalog entry. If you are unsure what any of those things are please refer back to the instructions or ask your Program Chair.
3. Uploading your materials should be very simple. Once you are in your folder you simply click on the “Upload” option in the top navigation bar. You will then click “Files” and select the files you are uploading wherever you have them saved on your own device or USB. YOU MUST UPLOAD ALL MATERIALS BY APRIL 5^th AND NO LATER.
4. First Year Portfolio sign-ups are found here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/904044DAEAA22A4FE3-first

Please click the link and choose a time slot to sign up. There are four slots for each time frame. The Zoom link for your specific meeting date and time will be emailed to you prior to the event. If, for some reason, you do not receive a zoom link for April 6^th please email me directly.

If you have questions please reach out to either your Program Chair(Tad, Rachel, John, Melissa, Casey, & Ron), the Dean’s Office(Katy or me), or our Registrar(Hailey McCracken). We are all looking forward to your presentation and enjoying the time to discuss your artwork.

Best,

Krista Rothwell  | Assistant Dean

Assignment for Thursday, April 1

 This is really simple: Improve your catalogue entry. For some of you, this will take five minutes, for others considerably longer. That's OK. I want to make sure that you have the best possible product for your First-Year Portfolio Review next Tuesday. Fix everything! Typos, grammar, misspelled words, flat-out mistakes, etc.

Remember: No classes that day, April 6. Upload your newest version to Populi no later than 9:00 am on April 1. 

Questions: csmith@dcad.edu

Social Event! This Friday, April 2, 5:30, Delaware Contemporary Opening!

 

DCAD Event! Meet me at the front of 600 Market St. this Friday at 5:30 pm. It's about a 15-20 minute walk. If it's pouring down rain, bring an umbrella. You are also free to drive yourself. You can experience Jasmine Combs's "Object" directly (not through your computer monitor). Next month, May 7, we're

 participating in this opening, "Definitive Work." See below for details.

Lecture/Interview with Andy Grundberg: How Photography Became Contemporary Art

 

This event takes place this Thursday evening, April 1, at 6:00. No registration or anything is needed. Just go to this page and the event will be live-streaming. 

This will be a great talk not only for photo majors but for all artists and designers. We now live in a world that is saturated by lens-based art. Everybody captures images every day. Tune in to this talk and learn more. 

Welcome Back! Check out these Art-Comics!

 

I know that I constantly refer to this art-blog, Hyperallergic, all of the time. To be honest, the site itself could serve as a textbook for this class. Everything about it is focused on "Writing for the Arts," which happens to also be the title of this course.

Here is a link to a long list of comics that deal in some fashion with art and design. Maybe some of you still need a jolt of inspiration for the Jasmine Combs project we're doing with the Delaware Contemporary? Why not a single page of a graphic novel or comic art? That could be really cool.

Maps Glover! Awesomesauce Artist Talk

A couple of weeks ago, Micahel Loria, an arts journalist writing for the Washington City Paper, published an extended piece about his work and life. His participation in the Awesomesauce gets extended treatment. Read the whole piece here.

And don't forget to attend our final individual artist talk of the series featuring Maps Glover.

This afternoon, March 20, at 4:00 pm

Topic: "Face/Mask/Window" : A Virtual Talk with Maps Glover

Time: Saturday, March 20th at 04:00 PM EST

Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/98907960495?pwd=N015cEpzOFBwc1UxWGNYUHFSN2F2dz09

Meeting ID: 989 0796 0495

Passcode: window

 

Delaware Contemporary Project!

 

We introduced this innovative assignment over a month ago, and we've talked a lot about Jasmine Combs's video-performance-poem, "Object."

The due date for your work is Thursday, April 8. 

Along with your artwork, you will submit a piece of writing, maybe a poem, maybe a brief essay, maybe something else that's hard to classify. Your text should be at least 300 words, but you might have a good reason to make it longer or a little bit shorter. 

Please carve out some time during Spring Break to work on this. Reach out to me with questions (as some of you already have): csmith@dcad.org.

Have fun with this! Take some risks.  

You can submit the work physically at a drop-off location in the lobby of 600 Market St. or you can submit the work as a digital file.