Projects 1 & 2 update

Hi everyone, because of the delay with the wire shipment, I'm putting off assigning Project 2 until next week. Please bring all your mask-making materials to class Friday September 30th. After the crit of the finished Project 1 2-d illustrations, we'll work in class on the masks so that they'll be ready for submitting to the Fourth Wall Project Halloween Show.

Project 4 Day of the Dead Self-Portrait Puppets

Many thanks to Alice Stanne for shooting these photos of the class's final projects in May 2011: Day of the Dead-style self-portrait puppets. The actual final product each student created, an 8" x 10" photo collage self-portrait with their puppet, isn't shown here, just the puppets:

Project 3 Masks

Project 3 required students to research myths, legends, & folktales from their own specific ancestries, sketch out & construct character masks from the myth they chose, photograph models wearing the masks, & then create mixed media illustrations incorporating the photographs. These are the finished masks only, not the final illustrations: