Studio Proposal Guidelines. Due Tue, Sept 6th.

Due Tuesday, Sept 6th via email

Please use the following outline as a structure for your Studio Proposal. Be sure to answer each section with as much detail and good information. List specific artists and books/texts you will be researching, actual benchmarks you will set for yourself along with deadlines (real dates) for experimentation and small works, a real attempt at a thesis statement, and a solid goal (or set of goals). Your goals will be your material output and may also be learning objectives- ex. technical exploration that works towards mastery of a technique or material use. 

The self-assessment should give an indication (for you) as to how you will know if you have accomplished your goals. How will you know? State your method in that section. Presentation and documentation don't require any information, I have placed those sections there to remind you of those steps. Be thorough and let me know if you have any questions.  

Studio Proposal Outine

I.               Research (Introduction to a topic)

a.     Artists/Art movements

b.     Other areas of research

II.             Path of Inquiry (Deeper investigation of a topic)

a.     What direction will I take? Focus.

b.     What does the road look like?

c.      Where do I think it will lead?

III.           Development of Thesis (Beyond the topic)

a.     The thesis statement is the sentence that states the main idea of your project and helps control the ideas within the paper. It is not merely a topic. It often reflects an opinion or judgment that a writer has made about a reading or personal experience.

b.     For our purposes the Thesis may also be experimental, but it must have a goal in mind. It is still not simply a topic. 

IV.            Material Goal (Defense of topic? Purpose of Experimentation?)

V.              Action Plan (How will you get there?)

a.     Small works – define them according to need/purpose

b.     Deadlines of Small works

c.      Benchmarks

d.     Hard Deadlines- critiques

VI.            Self Assessment

a.     Process

b.     Formal/aesthetic

c.      Conceptual/communicative

VII.          Presentation

a.     Artist Statement

b.     Oral presentation at critique

VIII.        Documentation

a.     Appropriate photo/video documentation

                                               i.     3-5 images. High quality jpg.

b.     Uploaded to personal website

                                               i.     Includes statement

                                              ii.     Includes images and/or link to video