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DUE NO LATER THAN THURSDAY @ MIDNIGHT: 1) Select the 2 pieces you intend to show for the YAM exhibit, 2) Submit label info. HERE.

DUE NO LATER THAN FRIDAY, END OF DAY: 1) Complete the sign-up on the Art 3 portfolio list, AND 2) Put your ready-to-hang work IN the Art 3 portfolio (or as indicated for oversize work).

REMEMBER, this annual exhibit highlights the work of EACH art student while ALSO illustrating the SCOPE of the OVERALL art program, Art 1 - 5. Select 2D work you've done THIS year in order to BEST represent the goals of the ART 3 curriculum.

MONDAY: NOTE NEW CLASS TIME/ 1:45 - 3:10 pm

Critique AbEx paintings - start AbEx self-evaluations (DUE FRIDAY)
Prep. for YAM - Add hanging wire to paintings

WEDNESDAY: NOTE NEW CLASS TIME/ 1:45 - 3:10 pm

Field trip to Visual Arts Center to see the Scholastic Awards exhibit.
Prep. for YAM: take down all old master drawings, make selections, add hanging wire to backs of paintings, mat, etc.
Remember, YAM labels are due TOMORROW (THURSDAY by midnight)
Continue AbEx self-evaluations (DUE FRIDAY)

FRIDAY: see HW

Turn in AbEx self-evaluations
WS Check - PROCESS, EXPERIENCE, etc.
Remember, YAM work must be ready by the end of the day, TODAY!
Maggie Walker mural project

PROJECT DEADLINES: 

DUE FRIDAY = AbEx self-evaluation rubric (this includes any changes you are making to your painting)

HOMEWORK DEADLINES:

DUE THURSDAY (midnight) = YAM work selected/online labels
DUE FRIDAY = (WS) EXPERIENCE/Lunchtime Lecture
DUE March 15 = SB & WS CHECK:
- (SB) Daily Drawing should ALWAYS be happening
- (SB) PLANNING/sculpture - CONTINUED, this will be ONGOING throughout the duration of the sculpture project but as you develop YOUR OWN ideas, your PLANNING pages will be specific to YOUR work.
- (SB) 2nd CURIOSITY - art-related free choice (BUT related to sculpture); use this opportunity to FURTHER investigate media, methods, and artists who can help you with YOUR sculpture.
- (SB) PLAY should happen WEEKLY - review ALL PLAY pages from the start of the year.... review how Susie Ganch "plays" and how her work develops because of it! Think about what you are doing with sculpture... in what OTHER directions can you take these experimentations?
- (WS) GALLERY - Photograph all artwork & add to your online gallery with title, date, medium, and measurements. These photos must be high quality/resolution with appropriate cropping/editing/color correcting. PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU MUST BE PROACTIVE HERE... YOU WILL LEARN TO USE THE CLASS CAMERA BUT YOU CAN ALSO GET STARTED ON YOUR OWN.
DUE March 22 = SB Q3 (to include a REFLECTION)

CONTEST DEADLINES:

March 15 = deadline to enter the Asian-American Society Art Competition (art deadline is March 29th)
March 18 = Doodle for Google

HAPPENINGS:

WEDNESDAY = Art Club meeting @ 11:42 am - 12:15 pm (NEW lunch schedule!)
FRIDAY = Interim for Q3
March 7 = YAMM celebration event and exhibit, 6 - 9 pm
March 9 = Figure Drawing Friday!
April 1 - 5 = Spring Break!
April 12 = Future Dragon Welcome AND UN-Lock-in
CHECK THE SCHOOL CALENDAR FOR A COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF EVENTS AND DETAILS

It's time to select and prepare art to hang in the annual Youth Art Month exhibit. This annual exhibit highlights the work of EACH art student while also illustrating the SCOPE of the OVERALL art program. Select 2D work you've done THIS year in order to best represent the content of the ART 3 curriculum

DUE Feb. 28: Put ready-to-hang work (2 pieces) in the Art 3 portfolio (or as indicated for oversize work), write the required info. on the sign up list, AND submit label info. HERE.

MONDAY: EVEN day/Early release

WEDNESDAY: 2 hour delay + Lunchtime Lecture

Daily Drawing
Critique AbEx paintings
Start AbEx self-evaluation (due date TBD, depends on completion of critique)

FRIDAY: ODD DAY

SB/WS CHECK - including discussion of AS #10
Take down Old Master drawings (these will stay at school until they are photographed, after which they will go home for safe keeping)
Clean
(no Maggie Walker mural project today)

PROJECT DEADLINES: 

DUE WEDNESDAY:
- AbEx painting
- WS PROCESS post(s); include your AbEx practice paintings! & tag your post as "PROCESS" category

HOMEWORK DEADLINES: Sketchbook work always includes OBSERVATION and PLAY. Additional details are listed below:

DUE FRIDAY = SB & WS CHECK:
- (SB) Daily Drawing should always be happening
- (SB) 1st CURIOSITY - Global Focus - what can you learn from the ways that non-western cultures have used sculpture?
- (SB) PLANNING/sculpture - use the Projects page to get prepared for the sculpture unit (this will be ONGOING)
- (SB) PLAY should happen weekly - review ALL PLAY pages from the start of the year.... what's next? What is staying the same? What is changing? SUBJECT? CONTENT? MEDIUM? Look at how Susie Ganch "plays" and how her work develops because of it!
DUE Feb. 28 = YAM work and online label info.
DUE March 1 = (WS) EXPERIENCE/Lunchtime Lecture
DUE March 15 = SB & WS CHECK:
- (SB) Daily Drawing should always be happening
- (SB) PLANNING/sculpture - continued, this will be ONGOING throughout the duration of the project but as you develop your own ideas, your PLANNING pages will be specific to your work.
- (SB) 2nd CURIOSITY - art-related free choice (but related to sculpture); use this opportunity to further investigate media, methods, and artists who can help you with YOUR sculpture.
- (SB) PLAY should happen weekly - review ALL PLAY pages from the start of the year.... think about what you are doing with sculpture.... in what other directions can you take these experimentations?
- (WS) GALLERY - Photograph all artwork & add to your online gallery with title, date, medium, and measurements. These photos must be high quality/resolution with appropriate cropping/editing. PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU MUST BE PROACTIVE HERE... YOU WILL LEARN TO USE THE CLASS CAMERA BUT YOU CAN ALSO GET STARTED ON YOUR OWN.
DUE March 22 = SB Q3

CONTEST DEADLINES:

March 15 = Asian-American Society Art Competition (this is the entry deadline but the actual art deadline is March 29th)(read the info. for details)
March 18 = Doodle for Google

HAPPENINGS:

MONDAY/TUESDAY = EVEN DAYS/Early release for students
WEDNESDAY = Lunchtime Lecture
FRIDAY = Colossal Clean-Up; an annual NAHS tradition. All Art Club and NAHS members - and those who want to be - should attend. Community service hours are available for those who participate for the full 4 hours.
Feb. 27 = Art Club meeting @ 11:45am
March 1 = Interim for Q3
March 7 = YAMM celebration event and exhibit, 6 - 9 pm
March 9 = Figure Drawing Friday!
CHECK THE SCHOOL CALENDAR FOR A COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF EVENTS AND DETAILS

What will you exhibit for Youth Art Month?
This annual exhibit is meant to highlight the work of EACH art student while ALSO illustrating the SCOPE of the OVERALL art program @ Maggie Walker. Select something that you've done THIS year (in class or in your sketchbook) that represents the Art 3 curriculum. Your choice must be made, your work must be matted/ready to hang and your label info. must be submitted by February 22nd (NEXT Friday).

MONDAY:

Discuss YAMM (Youth Art and Music Month) event and exhibit
Artist Spotlight #10
Review homework & deadlines - reminder that sketchbook work should be done on a regular basis, using the check points to keep you on track along the way!
PAINT - REMEMBER TO DOCUMENT AND POST YOUR PROCESS AS YOU WORK!

WEDNESDAY: If you are in the women's dressing room studio, your work will be moved before Friday because of the Maggie Walker mural project.

PAINT! Before you start:
- Review the AbEx "cheat sheet" that you were given - where did you start, where are you now, where do you need to go?
- Step back from your painting so you can take it all in and fully answer the questions above!
- REMEMBER TO DOCUMENT AND POST YOUR PROCESS AS YOU WORK!
Individual/small group critiques - "Am I finished?" "Which way is up?" "What content have I explored through this painting?" "What is the title?"
- Consider:
  - Painting the edges
  - Signing your work (optional) - signature or not, write your name on a stretcher bar and indicate which way is "up"

FRIDAY:

PAINT (quick, just a few last-minute things). There is no more in-class painting time after today; the final critique is next Wed. (because next Mon./Tues. are EVEN/Early release days) so you can work on your own if needed. DON'T OVER-PAINT.
Clean up!!! Wash brushes, put away paint, etc.
Maggie Walker mural project

PROJECT DEADLINES: 

DUE February 20:
- AbEx painting
DUE February 22 - AbEx self-evaluation

HOMEWORK DEADLINES: Sketchbook work always includes OBSERVATION and PLAY. Additional details are listed below:

DUE February 22 = YAM work and label
DUE February 22 = SB & WS CHECK:
- (SB) Daily Drawing should always be happening
- (SB) PLANNING/sculpture - use the Projects page to get prepared for the sculpture unit (this will be ONGOING)
- (SB) 1st CURIOSITY - Global Focus - what can you learn from the ways that non-western cultures have used sculpture?
- (SB) PLAY should happen weekly - review ALL PLAY pages from the start of the year.... what's next?
- (WS) PROCESS post(s); include your AbEx practice paintings! & tag your post as "PROCESS" category
DUE March 1 = (WS) EXPERIENCE/Lunchtime Lecture
DUE March 15 = SB & WS CHECK:
- (SB) Daily Drawing should always be happening
- (SB) PLANNING/sculpture - continued, this will be ONGOING throughout the duration of the project but as you develop your own ideas, your PLANNING pages will be specific to your work.
- (SB) 2nd CURIOSITY - art-related free choice (but related to sculpture); use this opportunity to further investigate media, methods, and artists who can help you with YOUR sculpture.
- (SB) PLAY should happen weekly - review ALL PLAY pages from the start of the year.... think about what you are doing with sculpture as.... in what other directions can you take these experimentations?
- (WS) GALLERY - Photograph all artwork & add to your online gallery with title, date, medium, and measurements. These photos must be high quality/resolution with appropriate cropping/editing. PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU MUST BE PROACTIVE HERE... YOU WILL LEARN TO USE THE CLASS CAMERA BUT YOU CAN ALSO GET STARTED ON YOUR OWN.
DUE March 22 = SB Q3

CONTEST DEADLINES:

March 15 = entry form for Asian-American Society Art Competition (the actual art deadline is March 29th)(see info. for details)
March 18 = Doodle for Google

HAPPENINGS:

WEDNESDAY = NAHS meeting/INDUCTION @ 11:45 am in the Black Box (Art Club members are invited and highly encouraged to attend); Water Fountain Gallery artwork is DUE today!
WEDNESDAY = Parent/Teacher conferences
Feb. 18/19 = EVEN DAYS/Early release for students
Feb. 20 = Lunchtime Lecture
Feb. 22 = Colossal Clean-Up; an annual NAHS tradition. All Art Club and NAHS members - and those who want to be - should attend. Community service hours are available for those who participate for the full 4 hours.
Feb. 27 = Art Club meeting @ 11:45am
March 1 = Interim for Q3
March 7 = YAMM celebration event and exhibit, 6 - 9 pm
March 9 = Figure Drawing Friday!
CHECK THE SCHOOL CALENDAR FOR A COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF EVENTS AND DETAILS

Welcome to Q3/Semester 2; it's time to plan for next year:
1) Art 4 (then, for some of you, Art 5)
2) Topics in Digital Media/Graphic Design (then Digital Art)
3) Survey of World Art (VCU - 8 credits)
4) Photography (VCU - 3 credits)
3) Film Studies (VCU - 3 credits)
4) Digital Video or Photojournalism Seminars (for seniors)

NOTE: Since it is technically now Q3 and we are STILL finishing up work from Q2, it is VERY important that you work EFFICIENTLY (and multi-task) because we need to start the next unit of study (sculpture) ASAP!

PLEASE be vigilant in your PREPARATION by checking the weekly agenda in order to be PROACTIVE and ORGANIZED in your work habits.

MONDAY:

Critique/finish practice paintings (which way is up?)
Prepare large canvases, easels, space, materials, etc.; this includes establishing a strategy for how/where you will store your work day by day

WEDNESDAY:

Daily drawing (assuming all sketchbooks have been graded)
Start final paintings (then next Monday and Wednesday.... maybe next Friday but that's it for in-class studio time)
REMEMBER TO DOCUMENT AND POST YOUR PROCESS AS YOU WORK!

FRIDAY: Figure Drawing Friday!

The focus of today's figure drawing will be the use of EXPRESSIVE searching lines and MARK-MAKING to FIRST establish a well-proportioned form. THEN, use of COLOR and/or ADDITIVE/SUBTRACTIVE methods will be used to enhance/refine the form and to further suggest EXPRESSION.

PROJECT DEADLINES: 

DUE February 15 = AbEx painting (needed additions or changes will need to be done outside of class time) + PLUS PROCESS posts
DUE March 1 (this is a change, again) = Photograph all artwork & add to your online gallery with title, date, medium, and measurements. These photos must be high quality/resolution with appropriate cropping/editing. PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU MUST BE PROACTIVE HERE... YOU WILL LEARN TO USE THE CLASS CAMERA BUT YOU CAN ALSO GET AHEAD ON YOUR OWN; DO NOT PROCRASTINATE.

HOMEWORK DEADLINES:

DUE February 22 = SB CHECK (includes PLANNING/sculpture + 1st CURIOSITY) & WS CHECK (includes PROCESS/AbEx + EXPERIENCE/Lunchtime Lecture)
DUE March 15 = SB CHECK (includes 2nd CURIOSITY)
DUE March 22 = SB Q3

CONTEST DEADLINES:

March 18 = Doodle for Google

HAPPENINGS:

FRIDAY = Figure Drawing Friday!
Feb. 13 = NAHS meeting/INDUCTION (Art Club members are invited); Water Fountain Gallery artwork is DUE today!
Feb. 13 = Parent/Teacher conferences
Feb. 18/19 = EVEN DAYS/Early release for students
Feb. 20 = Lunchtime Lecture
Feb. 27 = Art Club meeting @ 11:45am
March 1 = Interim for Q3
March 7 = YAMM event (Youth Art and Music Month), 6 - 9 pm
March 9 = Figure Drawing Friday!
CHECK THE SCHOOL CALENDAR FOR A COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF EVENTS AND DETAILS

Art 3/Weekly Agenda:

(25) Week of February 25th

(24) Week of February 18th

(23) Week of February 11th

(22) Week of February 4th

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