AP Art: Young Arts, College Visits, and Artist Research Project

This week in AP Art is the last to enter the Young Arts contest which closes on Oct 16, 2015.  Enter for a chance for scholarships and a chance to be nominated for the U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts.  

We will also have the Hartford Art School visit tomorrow, Wednesday at 10:20 to discuss their program and review portfolios.  Above is a great video showing one of the school's recent pop-up shops in town.

Finally, we will begin our artist research project this week so each student will be assigned two artists that reflect their work in some way.  Create a presentation with a cover featuring the artist's image, a short 1 page bulleted biography with sources and 20 full size images of their work.  Below is the master list of artists.  After the research and presentation you should create a piece inspired by anything you learned about either or both of the artists.  We will share the presentations next week and have a short visual and written test on them afterwards.

Emily A- Alex Katz & William Kentridge

Emily B- Marjane Satrapi & Walt Kelly/Jeff Smith

Sam- Robert Rauschenberg & Starn Brothers

Kyle- Jasper Johns & José Parlá

Alana- Swoon & Judith Supine

Luke- Will Eisner & Farel Dalrymple

Kayla- Chuck Close & Gustav Klimt

Alix- Sebastião Salgado & Raymond Pettibon

Maria- Yayoi Kusama & Banksy

Rachel- Yoshitomo Nara & Takashi Murakami

Natalie- Jenny Saville & Lucian Freud

Nicole- Shepard Fairey & MCEscher

Jamie- Alphonse Mucha & William Klein

Rosalie- Gregory Crewdson & Marilyn Minter

Chrissy D- Sigmar Polke & Donald Baechler

Mikenzie- Nam June Paik & Valerie Hegarty

Isabella- Lauren Greenfield & Erwin Wurm

AP Art: Shows and Contests

The Brooklyn Museum is currently showing a terrific exhibition on the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei that I would highly suggest visiting (along with the installation by street artist SWOON).  The video above shows some of the scope of the show and the difficulties putting it together with Weiwei not being allowed out of China at the moment.

Also any undergraduate students who are taking AP Art next year show check out the video below of a Masterclass artist and director Julian Schnabel for the Young Arts program because the contest is now open for next year. There are categories such as: photography, fine arts, writing, and film so whatever your strengths are I'd really highly suggest you submit work now!

AP Art: Young Arts

The Young Arts Scholarship Competition (formerly known as the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts) is open to creative students grades 10-12 and in addition to the millions of dollars in awards (up to $10,000 to each student), they also award students participation in Master Classes with the likes of: Edward Albee, Frank Gehry, Julian Schnabel, James Rosenquist, Kathleen Turner, Bruce Weber, and Robert Redford.  Some of YoungArts’ work is featured in its Emmy nominated HBO series YoungArts so you can take a look on the web and see how it works.  I've had a few students win this award in the past and trust me it's well worth applying for!!