GCC ITV Art Appreciation, April, 2012

I teach two ITV classes on the Concordia campus, with students from the Geary County Campus joining us through the ITV.  On April 21, I visited the GCC campus and taught the ITV classes from there.  The students printed their first block prints from foam dinner plates!  The following photos are some of the students as they print their first prints!

(l-r) Perry, Zeyu, Katrina, Kevin, Puja

Bryan, Steven, Cheryl, Rashmi

Denita and Linda

 students observing the first prints  

Gladys, Lisa & Cheryl

Elizabeth & Lisa

Lisa, Srijana & Gladys

Puja & Kyle

Steven & Bryan

(front right) McKayla & Katrina Timms

Kyle Converse and me, Barbara Converse Stevens!  It is the first time in all my years of teaching that I have met another 'Converse'.  We are trying to figure out if we are related.  It was fun to meet face to face.

Each semester the Art Appreciation students work on a class project where each student has a one inch square of a photograph and have to transfer their values and images onto a larger piece of paper.  All the squares go together to make one composition.  None of the students know what they are drawing until we put the squares together.  This is only the second one that the GCC classes have completed.  They did an incredible job.  Remember these are not art students.  Art Appreciation is a general education course so very few of the students have ever had any art classes before.  They do this project around the 5th-6th week of the semester.  They all work so hard to make the piece a success for everyone.  GREAT JOB!!!

The students in this ITV class who worked on this project are:  Kimberley Battersby, Kassiddie Buettgenbach, Denita Carter, Kyle Converse, Rashmi Dahal, McKayla Gonzalez, Zeyu Guo, Steven Hayden-Felton, Cheryl Henderson, Linda Littler, Srijana Mainali, Perry McLeod, Bryan Naber, Shametrice Newby, Lisa Nickerson, Kenneth Perez, Gladys Serem, Katrina Timms, Elizabeth Van Vogelpoel, and Chao "George" Wang.

detail of satin and pleats

detail of face and shoulders

The second start ITV class students (start in mid-March and meet for only 8 weeks) are:  Katrina Autry, Michelle Barnett, Manuel Bueno-Vazquez, Navdeep Kaur, Joseph Riddick, Puja Upadhayay, Kevin Valvo and Wen Wang.