Details about The Delaware Contemporary Project

The text below is the same as the one on the handout I distributed on March 31 during our field trip. Let me know if you have questions.

Extra-Credit Opportunity

 If you want three bonus points toward your final grade, all you need to do is to attend the Liberal Arts Symposium this Friday in the Young Gallery (1st floor). Check-in with me before it starts at 5 pm and directly after it concludes around 6 pm. If you're there for both check-in times, and you don't scroll through your phone during the presentations, you'll get three extra credit points. 

If you can't attend the symposium for work or commuting reasons but still want the opportunity to earn three extra-credit points, see me and we'll arrange a different assignment.

Assignments for Next Week: April 5 and April 7

 Tuesday, April 5: Zine Reading

If for whatever reason you didn't submit your zine when it was due on March 24, have it ready to go at the start of class. I will be up on 3 during the lunch hour if anyone needs help.

Thursday, April 7: Presentations 

Each student will have about 5 minutes to present their draft ideas for both the art and the writing components of The Delaware Contemporary project.  

Zine Workshop This Thursday

 Each student needs to have their "content" for their zine finished by the start of class on March 24. We will make the books in class, but you need to be ready to Xerox when the class starts.

Questions: csmith@dcad.edu

FINAL Catalog Entry Due This Thursday

Please note: There can be no extensions or late submissions. You need this document for your FYP review.

Questions: csmith@dcad.edu

Exquisite Corpse Zine!

 Ew! Exquisite Corpse! If you're thinking this is really morbid, you're not wrong. What happens when two words with really different meanings crash together? Surrealism! Click Here.

In class today we're going to compose, edit, and construct an 8-page zine based on permutations of Emily Dickinson's famous poem, "I Heard a Fly buzz - when I died -". Please follow directions. This will be fun and funny. Language has resources that we are barely aware of.

Ukrainian Cartoonists Document War

 

If you live in a media landscape that is totally tuned out of current events in the world, you might not know that Russia's invasion of Ukraine is the biggest and most threatening that Europe has seen since Adolph Hitler in World War 2.

Artists and writers have responded. What do you think about art and politics? Do artists have a responsibility to respond to injustice? Why or why not? Here is a link to a cartoon published yesterday. Maybe art is a more truthful vehicle to express the horror of war when compared to standard journalism? See also this.