Week 11 Assignment: Open Assignment

One of the projects I enjoyed most from this semester was Stop Motion exploration. When I rolled my dice, I realized that a good way of incorporating collage, video, and storytelling together might be through stop motion. I thought it might be interesting to set a scene and tell a story with scraps of paper and random objects, creating an animated collage.

I decided to use this idea to do a mini exploration as my open assignment to see if this was a successful idea. 

I found that lighting and stability of objects is my biggest challenge. However, I look forward to exploring this further for my final project!

I come from a design background and am often thinking about how I can incorporate what I know about design into the classroom with children. While I think younger children can learn the elements of design and how to incorporate them into their artwork, I think it is the older children who will have more of a connection with how design is used in our world.

A few ideas I have are as follows:

-Create a logo that best describes you, print it out on a 3D printer or t-shirt

-Each student gets a mason jar, they are asked to create the packaging for any material that might be sold in the jar, the more unexpected the better!

-Exploring type with image is an important part of design. Students can do this by cutting type out of magazines and juxtaposing it with drawings or other images they find to make a collage.

-Product design, students will sketch out their ideal backpack, lunch box, water bottle, etc. Extra credit if they can make it from found materials!

-Illustration prompt, all students read the same article or poem and come up with visual responses based on what they read, these images might be seen along with the article or poem in a magazine

-Build your own chair

I have been thinking a lot about my Impact100 project and have chosen to work with Ashley as we both would like to do a project based on positivity. Although we've come up with a lot of ideas, we are having a hard time coming up with something that has not already be done before and that can be accomplished in the next few weeks. We want to get people involved in the "art making" but realize that in order for them to participate it can only be for a few seconds or they will likely not be interested. Still working through some of these ideas...