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Studio Foundation Orientation Project
THE JOURNEY POSTCARD
Dear New Students,
Welcome to MassArt! The summer is upon us and we are preparing for your arrival in the fall. As part of the process, we are excited to share with you your summer art project, which is part of your New Student Orientation program.
Using a postcard format, you are asked to develop a piece of artwork that represents aspect(s) of your journey to MassArt.
Your concept may include important aspects of your journey to Massachusetts College of Art + Design. You might reflect on your place of birth, life at home and growing up. You might include your expectations of life in Boston and life at an art school. You could consider what this decision means for you personally and for your and family and friends. You might consider where you are now as an artist and your thoughts about your future. You could also represent a completely different aspect of the journey that brought you here. How you interpret the journey theme is up to you.
During Orientation, you will participate with a faculty member in an open group critique/discussion of the postcards. Your artwork will serve as an introduction to your faculty.
Along with my colleagues, I look forward to meeting you at Orientation and to working with you during your first year.
Best of success,
Robert Coppola, Professor
Chair, Studio Foundation Department
FORMAT
- The Journey Postcard may be flat, folded, op-up, cut, peeled, extruded, altered and manipulated. It may include a discreet selection of materials. It must be a non-toxic material not composed of any deteriorating food/organic materials. The exhibit will be up for two weeks, your card must be designed to survive for at least two weeks.
- The materials and methods you choose for this representation are entirely open but your work must not exceed the parameters of a postcard format, 8" x 6" x 1/4”.
- You must include an artist statement (25-50 words) as part of your postcard project. Your Artists statement will be hung next to your artwork and must not exceed 4 x 3.
- It must also be installation-ready. (It will be installed using 4 pushpins).
Your work will be your first group exhibition at MassArt. It will be installed in the President’s Gallery and viewed by members of the MassArt community as well as visitors to the college. The Gallery will also be open to your family and friends during Orientation Weekend.
MAILING DIRECTIONS:
1. Postcard project must be postmarked on or before (Friday, August 10th, 2007)
2. It is essential that your first and last name be identifiable. Print clearly on the front of the card.
3. Mail this postcard, with or without packaging (such as a manila envelope) to:
Robert Coppola, Chair Studio Foundation Department
Mailroom
Massachusetts College of Art + Design
621 Huntington Avenue,
Boston, MA 02115
4. If you do not use an envelope, be sure to leave at least 1/2 inch blank at the bottom of the card so that the USPS can add their bar-code strip. | |
