Art 295—Career Preparation and Portfolio for Visual Artists (3 units)
Spring Semester 2005
Room 4610
Thursday 1:00-3:50

Instructor: Anna O’Cain
Phone: 760-757-2121 ext. 6268
Email:aocain@miracosta.edu
Office Hours M, 3:50-4:20 T110

This course is for students of art who are interested in pursuing a four-year degree in fine art or graphic design to develop both a traditional and a digital portfolio of their artwork. Course topics include contemporary issues in art, careers in art, gallery and art school opportunities, methods of documentation of artwork, written and visual elements of various portfolios needed for the artist, and professional exhibition practices. Additionally, artists and curators will be invited to speak in the class and we will visit art museums, Modern Postcard, design studios and galleries.

Field trips may include visits to the following art venues:
(Additional galleries will be added to this list.)

• David Zapf Gallery, San Diego, CA
• Kruglak Gallery, MiraCosta College
• San Diego State University Gallery
• Museum of Contemporary Art ( La Jolla and/or Downtown)
• San Diego Museum of Art ( Balboa Park)
• William Cannon Gallery (Dove Library in Carlsbad)
• Quint Gallery, La Jolla
• Oceanside Museum of Art

Light and photograph flat and three-dimensional artwork
Digitize film and prepare digital files for screen and printed output
Learn portfolio requirements of galleries, museums and design studios
Prepare a traditional portfolio
Optimize images for the web
Create “tear” sheets for the portfolio and/or publicity needs
Submit images to Anna Rozman, our web expert, for placement on a class website
Give a public presentation of their artwork and the completed portfolio
Organize an exhibition of recent art produced at MiraCosta by class members
Read and respond to questions on the course textbooks

• Five descriptive and analytical reviews of artworks (current exhibitions) (1-2 pages)
• Research paper on two artists who have influenced your work (2-3 pages)
• Résumé
• Letter to college for transfer or to potential employer
• Artist’s statement (one page)
• Biographical statement (one page)
• Slide description list
• Bibliography, outline, oral presentation with “bookmarked” images on contemporary artist
• Press release for exhibition

Two copies of all written assignments will be required. Unless otherwise noted, all written assignments must be typed, double-spaced with standard margins. Drafts of edited papers should be stapled to final paper.

Attendance and participation in all class discussions and all group projects 20%

Written assignments 30%

Final Project (Portfolio, public presentation, and exhibition) 50%

Final: Portfolio, Public Presentation, Art Exhibition (50% of grade)

• Resume - 5 points
• Letter to college for transfer or to potential employer - 5 points
• Sheet of 35mm slides (12 to 20), properly labeled - 5 points
• Slide description list - 5 points
• This includes printed "tear sheets," 2 - 3 images per page - 5 points
• Artist's statement - 5 points
• Biographical statement - 5 points
• Web materials to Website Director - 5 points
• Public Presentation of artwork - 5 points
• Exhibition - 5 points

• Transportable media (appropriate to lab facilities)
• Two 36-exposure rolls of Kodak EPY (ASA 64) film
• Two 36-exposure rolls of Fugi Sensia or Kodak Elite (ASA 100) film
• 35 mm adjustable camera with fresh battery or manual digital camera
• Gray card
• Slide labels
• Archival slide storage sheets
• Fine point permanent marker (not a Sharpie, please see example)
• 3-ring binder for class notes, handouts, drafts of writing, plans art projects
• Additional expenses: presentation needs for exhibition, invitation (8-10 dollars, Modern Postcard)

There are lockers for storing supplies in the Business Building courtyard. You should be prepared to work with appropriate materials for every class. This class can be fun and productive. Take care and help each other.

Read through Practical Handbook for the Emerging Artist as soon as you can. Specific chapters will be assigned in both texts throughout the semester. Supplemental articles will be provided.

This course is a lecture/lab course; attendance to all lecture and lab hours, as well as writing group workshops is mandatory. Exchange phone numbers or email addresses with other members of the class. Should absences occur it is necessary for the student to determine what they have missed and what is required with regard to homework, fieldtrips, and any other assignment BEFORE asking the instructor. Internet, slide lectures, video presentations and demonstrations will not be repeated. Field trips will take place during and outside of class.

Two absences are permitted without any explanation.

A student may be dropped without notice if three absences occur.

Attendance may be taken at any time during the class.

Tardiness or leaving early will count as one half of an absence.

Attendance is mandatory at all lectures, critiques and demonstrations.

Writing groups will need to meet outside the regular class hours. The writing center will help set up guidelines for group work.

Each student needs an email account. This will be a very important mode of communication in this course.

All assignments must be presented on time. Late assignments will not be accepted without prior consent of the instructor. Late assignments will be downgraded one letter grade.

It is the responsibility of the student to drop the class.

All written work must be original and stated in your own words; all sources must be sited. MiraCosta has a strict “academic honesty” policy that will be followed in this course. If you need extra help with written assignments please schedule an appointment with us or take a rough draft of your paper to the Writing Center for editing.

2/18 (Fri.) Lincoln’s Day, College closed (College also closed on Sat. 2/19)
2/21 (Mon.) Washington’s Day, College Closed
2/25 (Fri.) Last Day to file petition for degree/certificate for spring
Last day to file a petition for Credit/No Credit
March 21-26 Spring Break, no classes
4/28 (Thurs.) Last day to withdraw from full semester courses and receive “W” (unless instructor has set an earlier date)
5/21- 5/27 Final examinations

Art 295 Class Final: May 26th, Thursday, 1:00 – 3:00 PM

A student with a verified disability may be entitled to appropriate accommodations. Please contact your instructor and/or Disabled Students Program and Service Office for further information.

Plagiarism and cheating constitute violations of academic honesty whether perpetrated actively or passively. Disregard for written or verbal instructions on course work may, at the discretion of the professor, represent academic cheating. All violations and suspected violations of academic honesty will result in actions taken against the parties involved, and will be documented in writing with the Dean of Student Activities and the Dean of appropriate school. Sanctions may include no-credit on the assignment in question, course failure, or formal charges of student misconduct. Formal charges can result in academic probation, suspension, or expulsion.

Art Speak A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements, and... by Robert Atkins

Art Spoke A Guide to Historical... by Robert Atkins

Contemporary Art and Multicultural Education edited by Susan Cahan and Zoya Kocur

Mixed Blessings by Lucy Lippard

The Dematerialization of the Art Object by Lucy Lippard

The Bride and the Bachelors(Five Masters of the Avant-Garde) by Calvin Tomkins

The Blurring of Art and Life essays by Allan Kaprow, edited by Jeff Kelley

Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art (A Sourcebook of Artists’ Writings), edited by Kristine Stiles and Peter Selz

 Stuart Foundation http://stuartcollection.ucsd.edu

Eduardo Kac http://www.ekac.org/

Sophie Calle http://www.lightfactory.org/

Graffiti http://www.billboardliberation.com/

http://www.graffiti.org

Yoko Ono, One Woman Show , 1996 http://www.amadeushouse.com/frmoca.html

Regina Frank http://www.regina-frank.de/level2/adress/main.html

http://www.artcyclopedia.com

Robert Smithson http://www.diamondial.org ( detroit visual resources)

Maya Lin http://www.pbs.org/becomingamerican/ap_pjourneys_transcript5f.html

Guerrilla girls http://www.guerrillagirls.com/

K.O.S. http://www.diacenter.org/kos/index.html

Electronic sketchbook example:
http://theplace.walkerart.org/urban_diary/intro.html

Getty http://www.getty.edu/artsednet/

Center for Land Use Interpretation http://www.clui.org/

Art minimal and conceptual only http://members.aol.com/mindwebart3/page12.htm

(art) n laboratory, Chicago http://www.artn.nwu.edu

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles http://www.MOCA-LA.org/

Museum of Jurassic Technology, Santa Monica http://www.mjt.org/

Los Angeles County Museum of Art http://www.lacma.org/

Guggenheim , New York http://www.guggenheim.org/

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego http://www.mcasd.org/

Museum of Modern Art , New York http://www.moma.org/

P.S.1, New York http://www.ps1.org/cut/main.html

Art In General http://www.artingeneral.org/

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis http://www.walkerart.org/

The New Museum, New York http://www.newmuseum.org/

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago http://www.mcachicago.org/

The Mattress Factory http://www.mattress.org

School of Visual Art http://www.sva.edu

Art 295 Spring 2005 12-Week Calendar:

 3/10/05 Thursday
Richard Baker speaks in Kruglak/Kit HudnutCareer Services: Resume Workshop

 3/17/05 Thursday
Bookmarked presentations of influential artists/Exhibition Committee work

(Tuesday, 3/29/05: Studio Photography/Copy Stand Photography)

 3/31/05 Thursday
Bookmarked presentations, committee reports, tear sheet examples

 (Tuesday, 4/5/05: Studio Photography/Copy Stand Photography)

Events to go to:

• Cannon Gallery, Juried Biennial opens, 5-7pm, Sat. 4/2/05
• UCSD, MFA student exhibition in honor of Alan Kaprow, “Now “Happening,”
• April 7 th, University Art Gallery…see handout

4/07/05 Thursday
Tear sheets, begin Photoshop work/Work in Writing groups

(Tuesday, 4/12/05: Studio Photography/Copy Stand Photography)

Events to go to:

• Thursday Night Thing or TNT, downtown Museum of Contemporary Art: Ryan M. McGinness lecture, “Pain Free Kittens” exhibition opens at Quint Gallery in La Jolla, Saturday, 5-7 pm)
• Roy McMakin Exhibition opens, SDSU, Friday, 4/8/05, lecture at 6pm
• Joseph Kosuth…conceptual artists pioneer speaks, Sherwood Auditorium, Museum of Contemporary Art, April 12, at 7pm (see handout)

4/14/05 Thursday
Work in Photoshop/Writing groups

(Tuesday, 4/19/05: Studio Photography/Copy Stand Photography)

(Craig Baldwin, Culture Jamming, Media distribution lecture, 1pm CSUSM)

(See poster)

4/21/05 Thursday
Dave Anderson, Visiting Artist Lecture

Information should be transferred to Modern Postcard for exhibition announcement

DUE: Final Resume

(Tuesday, 4/26/05: Studio Photography/Copy Stand Photography)

Events to go to:

• Dave Anderson Exhibition opening, Crossing Tracks Gallery ( Adams and 32 nd), Friday, 4/22/05, 6-9PM

4/28/05 Thursday
Symposium, events to be announced 9am to 4pm, on MiraCosta Campus

Press packages completed and transported to Newspapers in San Diego County.
Xerox posters made for distribution

5/5/05 Thursday
Dina Rubiolo speaks about her work and class proceeds with plans for exhibition, Dina stays to see examples of class work and hear about exhibition plans.

Exhibition postcards must be mailed!

5/12/05 Thursday
Field trip: Museum of Contemporary Art, Registrar Mary Johnson will take us into the vaults of the museum and will talk to us about the structure and jobs within a museum

Biographic material (1-2 paragraphs), Artist Statement (1-2 paragraphs), and slides of artwork need to be delivered to Anna Rozman for inclusion on the website by the end of this week.

5/19/05 Thursday
Lab day to complete tear sheets and other components of final portfolios

5/26/05 Thursday
Field trip

Portfolios completed and submitted Tuesday, May 24, T110 9-12 or my box before 1pm

• Half-inch three-ring binder or appropriate size folder
• Artist Statement
• Biography
• Resume with class website link included on the resume
• Slides labeled correctly (10-20)
• Slide Description
• Tear Sheets of artwork in plastic sleeves (5-10)

5/27/05 Friday
Closing Reception for Art 295 Exhibition…Commencement

 5/30/05 Monday
Take down exhibition