True Story of Arashi from Osaka (Nami no Arashi jitsuroku banashi), UTAGAWA Hiroshige 3 (Shigemasa) 歌川広重三代目(重政), Japanese print, 1874
Welcome to almost mid-term time!
Hope everyone had a nice time visiting the Museum. It was really nice to have Professor Freedman join us! Her photos are below!
It was a nice time to get out of the classroom and enjoy an excellent tour of the Museum, and even have a behind the scenes feeling to it all with us being the only ones there! Again remember it is free to all students!
Some amazing works of art at the Museum and we highly recommend going back and taking a longer look at the works on display. You can always take a sketchpad and a pencil and use the works on display as inspiration. And very much recommend viewing the Lessons of the Hour video installation for its entire duration, as we talked about it is an amazing work that plays with cultural and historical aspects, components of time and space, and crosses across to all kinds of different mediums from film and video production to comic books and photography.
Lessons of the Hour, Isaac Julien, installation view, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, 2020. Photo credit Henrik Kam
Speaking of the installation as mentioned by Alexis the artist is coming to campus (we are working on creating an ‘Academic’ meet up for this event):
Wednesday, November 8
6 p.m. (reception and viewing to follow at JSMA)
Location: PLC 180
For next week:
- Bring your supplies for more drawing time, and also please bring your My Visual Story Creative Journal Two: Oct 10th/Oct 17th and Comic Book Project Checklist, we will check in individually with you about where you are at with your projects. If you are feeling stuck in the process do NOT worry, that can be normal for this time of the term so if you are stuck please be ready for us to help you along!
- Keep an eye out for announcements and communication from Mazzy about upcoming out of class events.
- Be ready also for signing up for 1:1 meetings with Robert. There will be a sign up sheet for this available at class, so please bring your calendars.
Best,
Robert and Mazzy
