Hi,

Great session last Friday with Art Ducko, and we are very excited about the progress you all are making on your comic books.  Again, please feel free to reach out to Art Ducko for help in designing your comics as well as taking part in their events:

Art Ducko email: UOcomics@gmailcom

Art Ducko Facebook: facebook.com/ArtDuckoMagazine

Art Ducko Wixsite: uocomics.wixsite.com/artducko

Art Ducko Instagram: @artduckomag

Art Ducko Class Presentation Slides: https://blogs.uoregon.edu/myvisualstory/files/2019/10/Art-Ducko-Slides.pdf ( PDF File)

For this upcoming Friday, please be sure to bring in your completed Journal #5 and be ready to think about your UO academic goals and your academic interests.

Reminder that there is a study session this Tuesday (Oct. 29) evening at 5:00pm, and Giovanna will be contacting everyone with the details.

See you all Friday!

Best,

Robert

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Hope to Resist: Battling Erasure and Inserting Our Histories into National Narratives

Public Talk and Book Signing with Helena Maria Viramontes

Monday, October 21, 4pm
Erb Memorial Union Ballroom, University of Oregon campus, Eugene
This public talk also includes readings from Their Dogs Came With Them and Under the Feet of Jesus with Helena Maria Viramontes, author of Under the Feet of Jesus. Presented by the UO Common Reading in partnership with the UO Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies and the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society.

Public Conversation, Book Reading, and Book Signing: Writer Helena Maria Viramontes

Tuesday, October 22, 6pm
Downtown Eugene Public Library (100 W 10th Ave), Eugene
Helena Maria Viramontes, author of the UO’s 2019-2020 Common Reading book selection Under the Feet of Jesus, in conversation with local organizations and activists concerned with issues such as farm labor, migrant labor, environmental racism, Chicana feminisms, and access to quality healthcare, food, and transportation.Presented in partnership by Eugene Public Library, UO Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies, UO Common Reading, and the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society.

Hi,

This week we will be continuing to design out your comic books.  The focus this week will be on page, panel, and character design.

Notes/reminders for this week:

1. I forgot to mention this but there is a “Midway Student Experience Survey” that you will be receiving an email from the University about.  For this College Connections class (the Friday class) you do NOT have to do these!  We will have lots of good check in time throughout the term so I don’t think you need to do another bit of feedback.  I do though VERY much recommend filling these out for the ENG 280 and ENVS 203 classes.
2. REMINDER: Two ‘Academic’ opportunities coming up this week:  Today at 4:00 in the EMU Ballroom Helena Maria Viramontes will be giving a talk and doing a book signing (bring your books if you want them signed!).  Tomorrow Helena Maria Viramontes will be giving a public talk at the Eugene Public Library at 6:00.

Again, really start to design out your Journal assigned tasks:

1. Sketches for at least your first two pages of your comic book. As in sketch out the panel designs you want for your comic pages (what is happening on page one, what is happening on page two, and so on)?
2. Start to identify in rough draft sketches and/or written descriptions the bits of action that will occur in each of the panels.

As always if you have any questions please let me know!

Best,

Robert

Hi,

Enjoyed our time at the Museum of Art last week, and hoping you all found inspiration for your comic book themes and visual style from the exhibitions and artwork on display at the museum.

This week it is very important that you have completed in full your Creative and Discussion Journals #2 and #3.  In class this week we will be doing group activities around getting everyone to the stage of having a good amount of your brainstorming ideas down on paper.

I expect everyone to come to this week’s class ready to discuss and continue to develop on the following:

1. What is the specific theme from Under the Feet of Jesus your comic book will address?
2. What is the specific citation from Under the Feet of Jesus that you will be using in your comic book? And how will you incorporate this citation within your comic book design?
3. Who are your main characters of this comic book story?
4. What bits of action will occur in the comic book?
5. What are your initial sketches for the layout of your comic book pages? As in sketch out and outline what action will take place on each of your pages (what is happening on page one, what is happening on page two, and so on)?

Of note we will also have two students from last year’s FIG talking about their work on the comic project.

As always please let me know if you have any questions.

Best,

Robert

Hi,

JSMA  front doors!

For our second class meeting this Friday (Oct. 11th) we will be meeting at the UO Museum of Art.  Please meet us either at the front doors or inside the front lobby of the Museum at noon next Friday.  See: https://jsma.uoregon.edu/location-and-hours

For this class please bring in:

1. Your first Creative and Discussion Journal, be sure to fill in answers to question #3, and please feel free to add more details to the other questions and/or to your first theme drawing (hint: if you have not read the book this would be a great time to read at least some of it to make your connections to the book in your answers even stronger, remember I will be collecting this first Journal when we meet at the Museum in order to evaluate your work this first week),
2. An attitude ready to introduce yourself more to the class,
3. An attitude ready to explore and talk about the Museum’s exhibits!

And as always if you have questions please let me know (rmorris1@uoregon.edu).

Best,

Robert