Assignment 1: Portal
- Due Feb 10 by 11:30am
- Points 50
- Submitting a file upload
This assignment asks you to consider communicating a significant message from our lives to another space/time using textile materials and techniques and scent.
You are asked to research an indigenous community living around the Pacific Ocean, including the Americas, Asia, and Oceania. Focus your research on 3 things: general information about the community and select one cultural artifact and one scent that is connected to this community.
If you were to visit this community, what information, artifact, scent would you like to show them from your life/culture. How would you make the connection?
Your assignment is to make this imagined connection physical through the idea of a "portal" made of textile materials that would take the visitor between these two spaces.
Consider the psychology of scent and tactile materials. Use at least 2 of the techniques learned in this module.
Homework deadlines:
Monday, January 27:
Due:
1. Portal destination research - 5 images + notes are due uploaded to the assignment on Canvas.
2. 1 finished sample (appr. 10x10") using a textile manipulation technique or a variation of one of the techniques from the workshop with Janelle
3. Assignment plans and sketches are due - in your sketchbook or uploaded to the assignment on Canvas + plan to have samples of planned techniques and materials this week.
Rubric
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Ideation, research and thought process
including check point #1: reading/research notes; assignment journals, and planning notes.
Appropriately considers assignment guidelines, informed by history of the object/material/process and relevant concepts discussed in class.
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Design and development of form
including check point #1 and #2: finalized plans and texture studies, material samples
Appropriately considers assignment guidelines, informed by history of the object, considers materials/process and relevant artist examples discussed in class.
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Development and Presentation
including check point #2: material tests.
Appropriateness to assignment criteria and personal goals, complexity of considerations for materials, techniques, scale, and presentation.
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Experimentation
Demonstrating motivation and resourcefulness in creating meaningful individual interpretations of the demonstrated processes; Being able to take the leap into the unknown. Going beyond basic solutions, exploring further material, technical, functional and interdisciplinary potentials. Exhibiting drive and passion for the project.
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Craft
Evidence of some practice of each demonstrated technique. Fluency (=mastering) with at least 2 of demonstrated techniques.
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Total Points:
50
out of 50
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