School of Education
Curriculum & Teaching
Prof. John Toth, Ph.D. / jtoth@hunter.cuny.edu
PORTFOLIO COVER
for the post modern educator
AIM: Students will understand how to graphically represent an image that synthesiszes their extended art experience during this course
OBJECTIVE: Make a Portfolio Cover Image / artwork that captures the journey of your experience in The Arts this semester.
LINE OF INQUIRY: How do artists use layering to make artworks that synthesize experiences that happen over time.
ART ELEMENT: Portfolio Design
The Arts Standards for NY
The Arts Standard 3
Visual Arts - Reflect on, interpret, and evaluate works of art, using the language of art criticism. Students will analyze the visual characteristics of the natural and built environment and explain the social, cultural, psychological, and environmental dimensions of the visual arts. Students will compare the ways in which a variety of ideas, themes, and concepts are expressed through the visual arts with the ways they are expressed in other disciplines.
Rubric
art supplies
1:45
15
Umberto Giacometti, “Unique Forms of Continuity in Space” MoMA
Rossiter and Mignot, “Washington and Lafayette at Mount Vernon” MMA
DANCE / URBAN BUSH WOMEN, at Lincoln Center
MUSIC / Frank London, at Lincoln Center
THEATER - FLY, at Lincoln Center
Henri Matisse, "The Red Studio," 1911. o/c
SKILL ACTIVITY:
Conceptual Design:
Look
through your art portfolio for themes. Can you findconnections between your images and your feelings about life. Find a system for organizing all of your artworks in a way that says something about yourself.
Organizing artworks, concepts and ideas.
The choice of a Visual Design System can effect the way ideas are understood. Your organizing method could resemble various features: maps, diagrams, puzzles, game boards,
book, storyboards, collages, montages, hyper media, chance operations and chaos
theory.
2:15
2:45
3:00
30
15
15
You need to know the size of your biggest art work that will be included in your portfolio. this should suggest that you would need a cover that is slightly bigger by about 1 to 2inches so that the extra paper acts a border to frame each artwork.
If you don't have the tools to cut thick cardboard, foam core etc, I do and will help you cut and drill holes if need be and problem solve.
ART HISTORY
- Henri Matisse
SOCIAL STUDIES
- Jacob Lawrence & Lanston Hughes, Migration series. Artist and writer collaboration.
ART EDUCATION: Practice and Theory. Lincoln Center Institute
portfolio, synthesis, archive, sample, selection
