Check out this great video my friend, Mrs. Turner from Harriston High School made.  It does a great job of how to use your phone for taking photographs of your artwork. 

Think you've got the idea!?  take this Kahoot quiz to see if you can spot the better photographed artwork: 
https://create.kahoot.it/share/photographs-of-artwork-which-is-better/aa8fdce5-fb23-441c-8214-e60e730a2d10

Check out the prompts for this year's Inktober if you'd like to participate. 

Check out this link for a design competition sponsored by Ringling College of Art and Design.  https://www.ringling.edu/themeparkdesigncompetition/



 Entertainment Design PreCollege ScholarshipApplications Now Open
 The Theme Park Design Competition presented by Ringling College of Art and Design is your chance to share your unique vision for the future of entertainment design!


 Winners Will Receive:- Top Winner Receives: $20,000 tuition scholarship to Ringling College of Art and Design undergraduate program 
- Runner Up Receives: Full Tuition scholarship to Ringling College PreCollege program 
- Third Place Receives: Half Tuition scholarship to Ringling College Precollege program
- Each of the top three winners will receive an Exclusive VIP "behind-the-scenes" experience with Universal Studios with complimentary travel and accommodations
- All remaining finalists receive a Ringling College/Universal Studios merchandise prize package.
Submitted work from all finalists will be included in an exhibition at Universal Creative and/or a Universal Studios-owned facility.

 Who is Eligible to Enter?All U.S. high school students currently enrolled in grades 11 and 12

 Are You The Next Theme Park Designer? 
Apply Now!Applications Close November 30th

 

 For more information visit https://www.ringling.edu/themeparkdesigncompetition/ or email [email protected]

 Want To Learn More About Entertainment Design?
 
Visit The Entertainment Design Website
 

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Are you wanting to see what colleges offer in visual arts?  Are you wondering what visual art college opportunities are available to you???  Are you wondering how your portfolio measure up at this time?

This is a wonderful event that I highly recommend that you attend if you are looking to pursue secondary options in visual arts.  This is a one-day event held in Atlanta at the Fox theater, organized by the National Portfolio Day Association, where art and design schools provide free portfolio reviews and information to prospective students. These events offer a valuable opportunity for students to receive feedback on their work, learn about different schools, and gather advice on how to improve their portfolios before applying to college. 

Want more info??  Check out the website and register to attend: https://nationalportfolioday.heydays.io/conventions/3277

I'm so excited to present at this year's NAEA in Louisville.  Check sched for the links to my presentations, or click on the NAEA presentations tab to see this year and previous year's presentations.  Also, feel free to peruse my website and get other ideas for your classroom! 

If you'd like to check out how you can make your own texture blocks for gelli printmaking, see this awesome video:  https://youtu.be/XS_1F0jYoBw

For those of you who were not in class when we made websites, this is a class requirement for EACH of my classes.  You will need to make a website, and send me the link through Remind.  All the artwork you create this semester will go onto that site. 

Link to video: ​https://streamingcobb.cobbk12.org/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=7ab6e8b6-431d-4c55-a4d8-ae21014c2ad7

​Here is the art 21 link to Julie Mehretu's video: art21.org/watch/art-in-the-twenty-first-century/s5/julie-mehretu-in-systems-segment/

​From art 21: 
“Trying to figure out who I am and my work is trying to understand systems,” says Julie Mehretu, shown working with her assistants in Berlin on seven large canvases for a show at Deutsche Guggenheim. “The thing that keeps me going is the painting,” she says, “and in getting lost in doing that a language is invented.”
Mehretu’s abstract compositions reference modernist architecture, Google Maps, Coliseum-like buildings, and defaced structures. Mehretu is also shown working on the biggest project of her young career: a 21 by 85 foot long mural commissioned by a major financial institution in Lower Manhattan, to be completed during the most severe financial crisis since the Great Depression.
Characterizing the task before her as “absurd,” she wonders “can you actually make a picture…of the history of capitalist development?”