Nature:  Image and Object
Program Portfolio
Due:  Friday, June 6 at 9:00 am
Bring your portfolio to Lab II 0219 (our studio)

The purpose of this checklist is to help you assemble your end of the program portfolio.  Remember that your faculty will be reading 25 portfolios and she wants to describe and evaluate your work in the best possible light.  Your job is to make it easy for her.  A well-organized portfolio will be a good reference for you in the future and is often a requirement for entry into more advanced level visual art programs.

    Writing Assignments
    a.  Seminar Response Papers
    •    Hinchman, A Trail Through Leaves
    •    Jonaitis, Art of the Pacific Northwest Coast Ch. 1-5
    •    Jonaitis, Art of the Pacific Northwest Coast Ch. 6-9
    •    Harmon, You are Here
    •    Penland School, The Penland Book of Handmade Books
    •    Klee, Klee and Nature  (2 chapters)
    •    Ireland, Water Library
    •    Braaasch, Earth Under Fire
    b.  Artist Reflections
    •    June Grant
    •    Jim Croft
    •    Patti Warashina
    •    Randi Parkhurst
    •    James Luna
    •    Michael McGrath
    •    MalPina Chan
    c.  Research Paper for the Procession of the Species
    d.  Worksheet from the Seattle Art Museum
    e.  Book analysis worksheet from the TESC Rare Book Room Visit
    f.  Formal Visual Analysis Essay and Worksheet from the Tacoma Art Musuem and Museum of Glass field trip
    g.  Artist Statement and Proposal for Final Project
    h.  Self-Evaluation
    
    Drawing Portfolio (From Drawing Class)
    •    WK1 Intro to Charcoal, Drawing from Within
    •    WK1 Gesture/Contour with Plants
    •    WK2 Gesture/Contour with the Model
    •    WK2 Proportion with a Model
    •    WK3 Shading w/Model
    •    WK5 Forms in Space w/Model
    •    WK6 Perspective with Still Life
    •    WK6 Intro to Color w/Chalk Pastel w/ model
    •    WK7 Color and Exaggeration with Model (Chalk Pastel on good paper)
    •    WK7 Intro to Watercolor with vegetable still life
    •    WK7 Watercolor and Microscopy – Dissecting Scope
    •    WK8 Watercolor and Compound Microscopes
    •    WK9 Watercolor and the Model
    •    WK9 Life Drawing Final Exam w/model
    Nature Journal Assignments
    •    WK1 Find a Site
    •    WK2 Gesture/Contour
    •    WK3 Proportion
    •    WK 4 Shading
    •    WK 5 Field Trip to Nisqually Drawings
    •    WK 6 Event Maps
    •    WK 7 Perspective
    •    WK 10 Color
    Book Arts In-Class Projects
    •    WK1 Paste Paper
    •    WK2 One-Sheet Structure/Stencil Technique
    •    WK2 Bone and Wood with Jim Croft
    •    WK3 Paper Making with Randi Parkhurst
    •    WK4 Paper Decoration with Randi Parkhurst
    •    WK5 Pamphlet Stitch and Accordion Structures
    •    WK6 Link Stitch with Hard Cover
    •    WK 7, 8 and 9  Atlas Project
    •    WK 8 Image Transfer with MalPina Chan
    Expressive Assignments
    •    WK2 Timeline Project
    •    WK4 Procession of Species Costume (write a short description of your costume or a small drawing of it.)
    •    WK6 Atlas Map Page
    •    WK8 Watercolor Microscopy Image
    •    WK10 Final Project


Please organize your program portfolio as follows:

1.  The drawing portfolio may be held together with cardboard, paper, or placed in a purchased portfolio.  Place your notebook with written assignments and your nature journal on top of your portfolio.  Place your name on the different parts of your portfolio.

2.  all drawings must be flat (no rolled work)

3.  organize your artwork into the following sections.


    c.  drawings completed in class (organize by week in chronological order, clip
                 all drawings together with a note that indicates which week they were done
                 (e.g. Week I:  Introduction to Materials)  Place your best drawing of that class
                  on top.

    d.  Nature Journal

    e.  Book Arts In-class Assignments  (if you gave away your project, place a note
        with a description and drawing of the book)  Arrange in chronological order.

    f.  Expressive assignments (clip a note to each one indicating the week and
                 assignment, organize in chronological order)

Credits:  Some of you are missing assignments.  The following shows how I will award credit.  Please place your emphasis accordingly.

2 -Nature Journal
3 -Drawing – Attendance and Participation
4 -Seminar/Museum Field Trips/Artist Lecture – Attendance, Participation and
    Written Assignments
3-Book Arts – Attendance and Participation
3-Expressive Assignments,
1 -Participation in Critiques, Visual Analysis Essay


Overall credit equivalencies:

5  Beginning Drawing  (class, nature journal, drawing expressive work)
4  Lecture/Book Seminar:  Art and Nature
5  Book Arts (class and expressive assignments)
2  Visual Literacy (artist lectures, critiques and visual analysis essays)