Tricks of the Trade #1-Following Your Nose

Tricks of the Trade no. 1*

Following Your Nose: Transcultural Image Collection for the Studio Artist

Workshop Leader: Lisa Rybovich Crallé Friday May 11, 2012

9-5 Location Art Buidling: Room 229 limited to 25 students:

Participating Students:
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In this workshop Bay Area artist Lisa Crallé (www.lisaRcralle.com) will guide students in a hands-on explo- ration of the image-archive as an artist resource. Gathering source material is a fundamental part of many artists’ practices. Sourcebooks are great tools to have on hand in the studio and they can help to illuminate the conceptual and formal threads that connect the seemingly disparate things that inform our artwork. A sourcebook can take many shapes and it can contain pretty much anything that relates to one’s artistic process including images, texts, found objects, sound, texture and moving images. Through the accumulation and arrangement of the things that interest and inspire us, we gain a deeper understanding of our work. Beyond exposing students to the practical dimensions of developing an image archive, this workshop will help stu- dents develop expanded world views geared towards developing broader and deeper questions within their work, and will help establish their readiness for professional opportunities and discussions as they arise.

During the course of this workshop students will consider a variety of means available for com- piling their source material, including tactile paper-based collections (such as scrapbooks, field notes, and zines) as well as web-based and digital archives (such as Flickr, YouTube, Pin- terest, dump.fm, Tumbler, and Blogspot). Students will also be introduced to an assortment of established artists’ image-archives (many of which are art-objects themselves), including: Cecil Beaton, Gerhard Richter, Marina Abramovic, Dieter Roth, Ryan Trecartin, and Paul Gauguin.

Materials & Preparation

*Scissors *Digital camera (camera phones ok) *Stack of loose paper (student’s choice of size, color, etc.) (50+ sheets) *Glue/glue stick *USB drive with 5-10 images of your artwork and up to 50 images you find to be inspirational for your artwork. (these can be anything!) *Miscellaneous inspiring reference material (objects, print images, texts, etc.) *Pen/pencil or other marking tools *Several dollars to be spent on campus xerox machines (I will provide funding for this), laptops.

*Tricks of the Trade, a series of hands-on workshops, funded by an Undergraduate Instructional Improve- ment Program grant will take place over the next few quarters, on Fridays, and will be open to up to 25 stu- dents per workshop. The purpose of the workshops is to provide students with in-depth, hands on, expo- sure to processes across disciplines, that they may not have a timely opportunity to explore in a class setting.