Thursday, Dec. 5 and Final on Dec. 12

THURSDAY CRITIQUE
Please have your work and artist statement ready to go in the side art hallway. Your proposal will be turned in for the final but if you would like for me to look things over one last time before you turn in it to professional sphere bring it along.

No sketchbook this assignment. Trying to make things a little easier at the end here.

FINAL - Thursday at 9 am. Will clean up the lab and prep for the spring.
Turn in your final proposal, your photo diary, digital files for the department hard drive and behance profile with your material uploaded.

BEHANCE
Please start a profile. Have all three projects / overview shots of gallery and individual works uploaded to your behance. You can also choose a min of 5 photo diary assignments to upload as well. This is a great way to get your work out there in the digital world.

PHOTO DIARY LIST
Diary 01 - Tell a Story (you picked the number of photos)
Diary 02 - Nicholas Nixon / Extreme Close Ups (5 photos)
Diary 03 - Duane Michals / Build it (6 photos)
Diary 04 - Arthur Tess / Photo Collage (3 photos)
Diary 05 - Emotive Photos of a Place (2 photos)
Diary 06 - Wright Morris / Narrative Style with description (4 photos)
Diary 07 - Alt. Process / Photograms (1 photo - digital photo of print)
Diary 08 - Alec Soth / Odyssey Trip (4 photos)
Diary 09 - Documentary (people / place ) (number of shots up to you)
Diary 10 - Meet New Person (5 photos)
Diary 11 - Jill Greenberg / Humanistic Animals (5 photos)
Diary 12 - Portrait Style of Choosing (5 photos)

PORTFOLIO HARDRIVE LIST
Photo Diary
Project 01 - All images of project / Gallery Shots / Artist Statement

Project 02 - All images of project / Gallery Shots / Artist Statement

Project 03 - All images of project / Gallery Shots / Artist Statement

Proposal

Christmas list will be coming soon...

Thanksgiving Break Assignment

OVER THANKSGIVING
LAST PHOTO DIARY / Bring on Tuesday when get back.
Shoot in the five images in the style of one of the following photographers from your syllbus' contemporary photographer section. It's Thanksgiving so the contemporary photographers is a great one to end on. Pick one of the following: Katy Grannan, Martine Franck, Phillippe Halsman, Hendrik Kerstens and or Annie Leibovitz. LAST PHOTO DIARY SO MAKE IT GREAT:)

I will have a list for you over thanksgiving of your photo diary assignments so that you can prep those. I believe Kathryn and Hannah said they would like to make the books together so that way you can ship together.

We have a show for you to apply to for your final. You can choose any body of work that we have worked on over the semester. We will be finishing up edits to your proposals / adding slide list and images and you'll send in work at the end of the semester for the show.

Thursday, Nov. 21

Here is the link for our photo diary book. We will use the cheapest soft cover book. We will talk over these on Thursday.
http://www.artifactuprising.com/site/softcover_photobook#ad-image-0

Class is at noon on Thursday due to critique in Photo I.

Tuesday, Nov. 19

Thank you for taking down and repairing the gallery. Please bring your revised gallery proposals to class printed out for credit. Start working on your tests and plans so that you can start in on material. We will have one of two more digital assignments and then we will get started on getting the diary together before the end of the semester. If you weren't happy with any of those assignments please consider reshooting before we assemble the book. See you Tuesday. We will probably need to replace film developer first thing on Tuesday.

Thursday, Nov. 14

 Please bring your 5 shots of the animals and your street shooting work to class on Thursday. We will look these over. Also please bring your written proposals in the following set up.

COVER PAGE / This includes Name / Title of proposal (page 1)

ARTIST RESUME (pg 2)

ARTIST BIO (this is a short blurb about yourself and art accomplishments) (pg 3)
See examples / some longer than others - you can guess which one is graphics and which one is for artwork.
Melinda Eckley Posey is an assistant professor of art at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee. She holds a MFA from Memphis College of Art in Memphis, TN. Her artwork and design work has been featured on national and local stages.

Melinda Eckley Posey is an assistant professor of art at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee. She received her Masters in Fine Arts from Memphis College of Art in Studio. Posey’s installations render ideas of the "common" object within the gallery space, inviting the viewer to reexamine the object through the lenses of historical, feminist and philosophical traditions of thought. Her artwork has been featured on both national and local stages.

Melinda Eckley Posey is an Assistant Professor of Art and coordinates the Digital Media Art / Art Emphasis at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee. She obtained her MFA from Memphis College of Art in 2008. Her design work has been featured on both national and local stages working for clients such as: Rolex, Polo, Subaru, Discover Card, Wendy’s, LifeWay and the Santa Barbara Institute of Dance.

ARTIST STATEMENT / SHOW CONCEPT (yes this how it works if work not made yet in the real world:) (pg 4)

REQUIREMENTS (Number of pieces / Dimensions / Material / Hanging Requirements for the pieces)
(pg 5)

Staple these together and ready to turn in on Thursday.

Please have all of this graphically treated so that it catches the "gallery owners eye" This is really important that it is not centered word document. Even if no graphic treatment - stay away from center and Times New Roman - you would be amazed at how far a good looking proposal document will get you.

NOV. 12 - FIELD TRIP

Friday if you can help at Chapel hour to hang our Barefoots show. Huge help! Good practice! Meet at student gallery at chapel hour.

FIELD TRIP DAY
Here's what you need for Tuesday. YOU MUST FILL OUT A TRAVEL FORM ON HORIZON'S TRAVEL. Follow this link https://uu-horizons.symplicity.com/index.php?s=StudentHome and look for Art Faculty led class trip / Photography One and Three Field Trip. Fill out the information.

Your classes are excused for the day. Please notify your professors that you will be leaving for a photography field trip to Memphis.

BE AT THE PHOTO HOUSE AT 8:45 AM. We will carpool to Memphis. Bring money for gas to pay your driver, money for lunch at Huey's (here's a link to the menu http://hueyburger.com/menu/), and money to get in the Brooks ($6 with student ID).

AGENDA
Leave photo house
Travel to Memphis by 10 am / Downtown - shoot street photography assignment in digital
11 am / Robinson Gallery to see collection (http://robinsonarchive.com)
11:45 or Noon / Huey's
12:45 pm / Brooks to see exhibition (http://brooksmuseum.org/default.aspx?p=114984&evtid=132975:10/12/2013)
2:00 pm /  Zoo (bring your student ID to get in free) / Five shots for the photo diary in digital form in the style of Jill Greenberg.
4:00 pm / Zoo closes and we leave for home
5:15 pm / Back home:)

We will look over the Jill Greenberg and Stranger portraits on Thursday, Nov. 14. Bring your USB to class then. That day will be developing the street roll that you took in Memphis.

BRING YOUR GLOVES AND COAT. IT'S GOING TO COLD!

Thursday, October 31

Please have your artist statements hung and formatted. They are now all on my office door. I apologize for the delay things got shuffled to the wrong set of papers that traveled to the DMS lab with me today. Don't forget that you will turn in your sketchbook with your additional photographer research on Thursday next week, because we won't have class on Tuesday, Nov. 5th due to Campus and Community Day. We will get started right away on the next project's proposals. More about this on Thursday's class. Don't forget to clear your calendars for Tues. Nov. 12th's field trip to Memphis.

Also I have critique in Photo 1 on Thursday, please come at noon for class or if you would like come early and be part of their critique...first time they are starting to experiment with concept. Would be great if you could come.

FIELD TRIP - I am so excited that this is going to be on when you guys can see it!
http://brooksmuseum.org/default.aspx?p=114984&evtid=132975:10/12/2013

Tuesday, October 29

Have your photos ready to install for Tuesday and your final artist statement to look over.

Thursday, October 24

Revise your artist statements and work on your projects. See u Thursday!

Tuesday, October 22

PHOTO DIARY
Meet a new to you person. Spend some time with them before you lift up the camera.Take five photos of them...or write 5 paragraphs describing the shots that you take of them after you have them based on your encounter.

SKETCHBOOK
Don't forget to keep going on your sketchbooks for research. Five photographers (for each section) research for the sections of Cameraless Photography and Narrative Environment. This is worth 100 points so make sure that you are commenting on the research that you find and pasting it into a sketchbook.

PROJECT
Start taking pictures!!

Thursday, October 17

PHOTO DIARY

Documenting the story of a place and people. Number of shots is left to you all. 

PERSONAL ASSIGNMENTS

H- 10 or 15 pictures of light in a space / light as the subject

A - Old photos of a battlefield / research and if time photos of place in modern day

K - Photos of kid in different locations

PRINT OFF YOUR FIRST ROUGH OF YOUR ARTIST STATEMENT. Have in class for Thursday. 

Tuesday, Oct. 15

Good job with your photograms today. Don't forget your odyssey in the style of Alec Soth. Four photos of places and people on your journey. Take more if you get a chance.

Personal Assignments
Take 10 example shots of your project. Bring to class on Tuesday next week. We have critique in class on Tuesday. Come at noon instead of 10:50.

Have a safe break!

Tuesday, Oct. 8

PHOTO DIARY
Create four images of Wright Morris's style of photograph. Simple narrative environment with a detailed caption. Have these photos for Tuesday class.

PHOTO ASSIGNMENT
H - Lumberjack cinderella
K - Quirky portraits in symmetrical environment
A - Chickasaw history environments

Thursday, October 3

Please have your proposal typed out and printed for next class. Have your photographs for your diary - 2 photos of a place that retains emotive feeling (happy / sad / errie / etc) with or with our people in the frame. One photo without people in shot and one with. See if you can find a place with personality no matter if it alone is the subject or if other people there. 

Tuesday, October 1

Please bring your sketchbook with five photographers per section covered. Non sequential and sequential narrative. Have an idea for your next project and a category that it falls under. Good job with critique today. One big project down two more bodies of work to go. 

Thursday, critique day

Hi Ladies,

Make sure the work is hung up and lighted at the beginning of class at 10:50. We will meet in the gallery. Please hang up your artist statement with a piece of magic tape on the back and adhere to the side of your work. 

Artist statement formatting 

3 inch margin from the top. Start with your paragraphs. Align with no tabs. Double space between paragraphs. Rest should be single spaced, 11 pt., Georgia font. Should be something that is on everyone's computer. Double space at the end. Then have your name in italics and the year. Put a comma between name and year. We will try and keep format the same so can have this look cohesive as a show. 

Ashley - you were the only one I didn't get to have a last look at your artist statement. If you want to stop by my office tomorrow (wed at 9 am) I can look things over for you. 

Think about this working together as a show so please don't hang your work too high. Bring your sketchbook to class to show research for the project.

 The other artist research will be due next week (sequential and non sequential artists / 5 of each). Due Tuesday after critique. 

Tuesday, Sept. 24

Hey guys,

I will be having critique in the other class so if you want you can head over to the student gallery and start assembling images. I will try and meet your over there as soon as I get done with critique. I'm hoping critique will only run an hour. We will look over your printed off artist statements and look over final prints as well as layout then. Good luck this weekend. Looking forward to seeing how this all comes together in the gallery space.

Thursday, Sept 19

Please bring your types artist statement to class in Thursday. Shoot more of your projects. 

PHOTO DIARY 

Arthur Tess / photo collage with physical objects must have symbolism and be unsettling. Other option surrealistic unsettling portraits with repeated imagery. Three photos must be done for the option that you choose. 

Tuesday, Sept 17

Please work on your revised artist statements and shoot more for your projects. It's going to be a work day for the students in photo one so please come at the beginning of class and we can spend most of the class time in discussion and talking out ideas. See you then!

Thursday, Sept. 12

Please start to write your artist statements. Come with a printed out copy to class.

SPECIFIC ASSIGNMENTS
Continue to work out your series (H). Find a photographer your love (A) and pattern your work off of theirs. This will help you find that artist statement direction. (K) Keep working out your triangle series.

Also we will be starting at noon on Thursday. The younger students are in the dark room for the first time. If you would like to help these guys print I could always use the extra hands. Thanks again for your help today Hannah:)!

Tuesday, Sept. 10

For class assignment - three photos of the perfect crime. Two photos must feature another person. Third photo you must be the subject. Please have these images to show in class on Tuesday. Check out Mitra Tabrizian for reference. http://mitratabrizian.com/perfect.php

For project -

K- triangle photos in new york
A - find a macro lens or crop down the photos
H - shoot photos with yourself present that represent value

Thursday, Sept. 5

Hi guys,

Please have your individual assignments ready to look over on Thursday class. See you then!

H - 12 photos of women coming out of the gym on campus
A - 12 photos of just the iris of different people
K - 12 photos of a white rectangle interacting with a landscape

Tuesday, Sept. 3

Please have a printed out hard copy of your proposal to turn in on Tuesday next week. Find at least two  - three photographers to reference in your proposal that your work's look or idea is aligned to. You will spend your first week of Sept. idea shooting and testing out the look of your idea. In Class exercise - build something or take something apart in a series of photos similar to Duane Michals work. The series of six will be on one slide in your photo diary with a title handwritten underneath. Have a great Labor Day weekend!

Note - If you are interested AIGA is tonight. This is a group of graphic artists, photographers, videographers, professional creatives that work in industries across the USA. It's a great way to get exposure for your work and get involved on campus. Come and check out the meeting at 6:30 pm Thursday, August. 29 in at A72. Come see what we are all about! Don't forget about the slide lecture at 4:30 pm in A72 and gallery talk at 5:30 pm tonight.

Thursday, August 29

Please tell a story of a moment with a series of five close up photographs. Look to Nicholas Nixon for inspiration. http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=4315. Have these ready for class on Thursday. 

We will look over your in depth revised proposals on Thursday. Please talk about layers of depth. Find several photographers that work with a similar idea or concept that you are linking your work to. Think about that final product on the gallery wall. 

Tuesday, August 27

Please bring your written proposals for your next body of work to class. Should be one page and answer the questions -
1. What is your work?
2. Why do you want to do this body of work?
3. How many photographs? How is it to be displayed?
4. What photographer thinks about this subject in or works in a similar fashion?

Make sure you pull off your photos from In-Class Tell a Story assignment and start researching on Narrative Photography set of 5 photographers for your sketchbook. See you Tuesday!

Welcome to Class

Welcome to class!

Welcome to Photography III. This will be one of your best guides to keeping up with assignments during this course. Look here for inspiration, thoughts and assignments. If you would like to purchase film for the course. You will be using a mixture of both darkroom and digital techniques. Make sure you bring your camera and sketchbook to next class. You can find your supply list on http://www.freestylephoto.biz/student-supply-lists/63107. 

Here is the list of events for the art department for the semester. You need to attend 75% of these - this means five events for the semester. I will get you a list of senior shows that you can attend as soon as it comes out. 

Art Department Fall 2013 Schedule of Events

Pizza Party: TBA

Thursday, August 29, 2013: Angela D. Lee “Stories Beneath the Water” Closing Reception @ 5:30 p.m. Lecture: Thursday, August 29, 4:30 p.m., PAC room A-72

David Patchen Glass Show: September 3- October 3, 2013

Poster Sale: Sept. 12 - 13 / SUB Hallway

Art Retreat: Chickasaw State Park: October 4-6, 2013

Rod Crossman show: October 8 – November 14, 2013

         Opening Reception: October 8 @ 5:30 p.m.

Teresa Prater Show: November 19 – December 17, 2013

            Opening reception: November 19 @ 5:30 p.m.

Christmas Pottery Sale: SUB 8-4:30 p.m.

Christmas Party:  TBA

Laquita Thomson Show January 7 – February 18, 2014

            Opening Reception: January 7 @ 5:30 p.m.

Poster Sale: Feb. 6 - 7 / SUB Hallway

Travis Townsend Show: February 20 – April 10, 2014

Josh Brunet Show May 25 – September 4, 2014

            Closing Reception & Lecture: September 4 @ 5:30 p.m.