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mired in grading
April 2, 2010
Seven hours at the Monastery today and I’m not even through grading one class’s assignments (although I did get them all photographed, so it should go more quickly now).
So far I’ve only been evaluating work from the drawing classes, as those are the portfolios I’ve got to return first, but here’s a sneak peek from the printmaking class’s bookwork project:
A series of three pop-up folios by Sabrina Fenyvesi, in collaboration with her son Gabriel Fenyvesi.
For fun this afternoon I picked this set of four taped-together linoblocks, left over from my class, out of the garbage and printed it (a little crookedly) on a singlet.
This is an introductory linocut project I borrowed from Melissa Harshman: cut up multiple copies of an image into pieces the same size as your small test blocks, hand them out randomly to the class, demo the transfer process and cutting and printing, and then have them mix and match blocks with their classmates in order to print the reassembled image. I even used the same image I saw her use (Chuck Close’s portrait of Philip Glass), because it’s so fantastic, and has a good balance of interesting open shapes (that hair!) and solid blacks (what better to torment students with when insisting their hand printed blacks aren’t salty?).
Posted by jodi on April 2, 2010 at 9.05pm
Categories: teaching
Comments on "mired in grading"
Wow, Jodi, these are both such incredible projects! I’m loving those linocut blocks all together. And that book project!!!!!!!!! I can’t wait to see what YOU are getting out of this and what you are making out of all this. I hope your experience at Nipissing has been inspiring.
Posted by NJStacie on April 2, 2010 at 11.13pm :: link
Jodi, it’s been great reading about your teaching experience and seeing photos of the amazing work your students have done. Thanks.
Posted by Kathode Ray Tube on April 3, 2010 at 5.44am :: link
jodi, will you sell these, or make me one on a long sleeved tee? I love it! I love PG.
Posted by staceyjoy on April 4, 2010 at 11.50pm :: link