Hi,

With 4 weeks left TOTAL after this week, I do not intend to take time away to go to a gallery next Tuesday. 

Tuesday: Please be ready to work on models, photographing them, photographing objects you may want to Photoshop in, gathering textures and patterns you want to include, etc. on Tuesday next week.

Thursday next week is a PROGRESS CRITIQUE.

What should you have for that?

1. Preliminary photos of your constructed set using lighting

2. Physical or digital notes/sketches of what your intentions for the project are

3. Be ready to quickly translate your thoughts to the class as we look at your preliminary images

Nov 22nd: OPEN WORK DAY this means you can work inside or outside of class but DO WORK(I won't be here since I will be gone for Suwon Photography Festival 2016 in Korea. 

Nov 24th: HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Nov 29: Open lab time and ROUGH DRAFT OF ARTIST STATEMENT DUE 

Dec 1: INDIVIDUAL CRIT and work day [you must have new images to share that are VERY close to complete]

Dec 6: Work and Print day

Dec. 8: FINAL CRITIQUE!!! [don't be late! at all!]

What do you need for Final critique?

1. 5 images [see assignment sheet for dimensions]

2. Artist Statement posted in the blog.

3. Make some sort of flat folder to protect your work. It must be slightly bigger than your images. Poster board works great for these. And packing tape or duct tape or something. Put your name on it.

4. JPEGS saved in your final folder of each of your final prints as well as the usual layered files and flattened TIFF or PSD files and Put your digital image on the blog.

​Thanks and it is the big countdown!!!

Another Extra Credit Opportunity!

Purdue University Galleries invites you to join us THIS THURSDAY, Nov. 10 from 5:30 - 7 pm for an artist reception for "Robert Pruitt: Escape Velocity," in the Robert L. Ringel Gallery in Stewart Center.

Robert Pruitt makes drawings and sculptures about the complexity of black identity by combining contrasting signs and imagery of disparate Black influences and aesthetics. He layers Science Fiction, Hip Hop, comic books, and black political and social struggles into portraits of his friends and community.

The reception will include comments by the artist at 5:45 pm. Afterwards, members of the Haraka Writers from Purdue’s Black Cultural Center will share original poems inspired by Pruitt’s drawings.

For more information, go to cla.purdue.edu/galleries.
Hope to see you in the Galleries!

Sorry... I know the calendar just shifted a bit but I need to make another change. Today presented itself with an opportunity for you all as a class that I didn't want to pass up. There is an incredibly moving exhibition in the Reuff Gallery in Pao Hall (really just around the corner from the classroom). On Tuesday of next week the curator of the exhibition will be present in the gallery to talk to our class and another photography class at 3pm. Anybody interested can attend. It is not just for our classes. I am told the curator is a dynamic speaker.

So: Tuesday November 8th our class will MEET in the gallery at 3pm. Attendance will be taken as usual so be sure to find me to sign the sheet. Please take time to preview the exhibition in the gallery before class next Tuesday and be ready/feel free to ask questions after the curator speaks. Take notes.

​Thanks!