(7) Week of October 15th

PLEASE USE TIME @ LUNCH AS YOU CAN TO MAKE PROGRESS ON YOUR OLD MASTER DRAWING, SINCE CLASS TIME FOR THE NEXT TWO WEEKS WILL BE USED FOR FIGURE DRAWING INSTEAD. TAKE PHOTOS EVERY TIME YOU WORK, IN ORDER TO HAVE EVIDENCE OF PROGRESS TO BE POSTED ON YOUR WEBSITE.

Daily Drawings will be suspended this week in order to save time for working with the guest artist - do those drawings on your own!

MONDAY: see HW ​

• SB Check - show your work for AS #2 (because we didn't do this last week!)
• Review requirements for AS #3 & PROGRESS posts.
• Move to Black Box for figure drawing with Thomas Van Auken

WEDNESDAY: 

• Put revised SB instructions and new WS (website) instructions into your sketchbook. Review them, work on them as you can, ask questions as needed. 
• Questions re: AS #3 or PROGRESS posts?
• Move to Black Box for figure drawing with Thomas Van Auken

FRIDAY: modified schedule, periods 1/3 only (no class but check in @5th pd. for attendance)

• This is to make for the cancelled field day/pep rally from last week; Maggie Walker mural project will be rescheduled
• Don't forget that you can always come in to work on your old master drawing during extended lunches, any day of the week! 

HOMEWORK:​ Since the next 2 weeks will be spent figure drawing with Tommy Van Auken, you will want to find some time to work on your Old Master drawing on your own. Come in at lunch if you can. You may take it home but be careful with it!

• DUE MONDAY = Make your Weebly website (make sure that you have emailed your URL to MM before class meets so it can be added HERE).
• ONGOING (do this to be prepared for an open notes quiz to be assigned soon) = Review the information about the Italian Renaissance and the Old Masters as contained in Artist Spotlight entries, the Projects page,  and HERE. Bolster your notes as necessary & use these resources to complete the vocabulary list.
• DUE  Oct. 26 = AS #3
• DUE Oct. 26 = SB Q1 DUE; make sure to have PLANNING for the Old Master drawing as well as for AS #3. 
• WEEKLY:
  • Check itslearning/mosleyart.com each Sunday evening, in order to be prepared for the week.
  • Once introduced, Artist Spotlight entries are to be complete by the same day of the next week.​

HAPPENINGS:​​​

• MONDAY AND TUESDAY (+ Oct. 22 & 24) = Figure drawing with guest artist, Tommy Van Auken
• WEDNESDAY = NAHS @ 11:45 am
• Oct. 24 = Art Club @ 11:45 am ($8 dues by end of Q1/Nov. 2)
• Oct. 29 = field trip to Visual Arts Center
• Oct. 31 = Lunchtime Lecture; the daily schedule has been modified for the whole school/lunch has been extended specifically for this event/attendance is expected.
• Nov. 2 = Fall Art Walk (First Fridays); you and your family are invited!
• CHECK THE SCHOOL CALENDAR FOR A COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF EVENTS AND DETAILS​

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LUNCHTIME LECTURES 

• October 31, 2018 - Amanda Adams, VMFA (Japanese Aesthetics)(extended lunch schedule will accommodate a longer lecture)
• January 16, 2019 - Kirk O'Brien, cartoonist (Politics in Cartoons)
• February 20, 2019 - Sasha Waters Freyer, Dept. Chair, Photo/Film @ VCU
• May 1, 2019 - John Freyer, Associate Professor of Cross Disciplinary Media @ VCU (Social Practice Art)