Course Syllabus Course Number: SA482-01 Course Title: Senior Seminar II Semester/Year: Spring 2018 Days and Times: Mondays 12:30-3:20 Room: Lecture Hall Instructors: Jimmy Baker, Mark Thomas, Paige Williams Instructor Emails: jbaker@artacademy.edu pwilliams@artacademy.edu mthomas@artacdemy.edu Office Hours: By appointment and/or as posted outside instructors’ office doors Credit Hours: 3 Contact hours per credit: 1 Course Prerequisites: Senior Status Required Course Status: Required for all graduating seniors

Whitney Renee

MissionTo create and sustain radical, forward-thinking, contemporary visual artists and designers whose creative contributions make a substantial difference in all the lives they touch.

VisionTo be the most celebrated, relentless, rebellious, cutting-edge and radiant community of artists and designers anywhere, at any time—the seers, the radicals, the innovators, and creative professionals who establish the rules that the future will follow.

Course Description Senior Seminar 2 is a required, team-taught, trans-disciplinary course for all seniors. It connects a student’s undergraduate experience to his/her life beyond the Art Academy as a graduate student and/or working artist/designer. The course is designed to initiate students to both conceptual and practical aspects of life as a visual artist. The course is a guided tour through the completion of writing of the Senior Thesis, and also an investigation, discussion and evaluation of what it means to live and work as an artist/designer in the 21st century. In the process, students will engage in a series of presentations focused on professional development, continue to refine the thesis paper, produce the content for a resume and online presence and present a talk focused on the work presented as the visual thesis. Core Values AAC Educational Objectives Creativity Students engage their imagination, invent new forms, take risks and solve visual problems in unpredictable, surprising ways. Curiosity Through their commitment to inquiry, research and experimentation students define the formal and conceptual interests related to their own artistic process and vision. Individuality Students articulate a unique and rebellious voice in their work in relation to the past, present and future of art and design. Education Students employ and integrate the technical skills, strategies and critical thinking necessary to create cutting-edge works of art and design. History Students determine and defend the role of art and design history in relation to their work and contemporary culture. Community Through their creative practice, students make meaningful connections with the diverse communities in which they live and work.

Veen Bristow

Course Goals What you learn in the course will depend on how seriously and flexibly you align your interests and efforts with these course goals.

• To guide the development of the Senior Thesis to completion.

• To address issues of common interest to senior level students pertaining to the professional

practice, investigation and evaluation of art/design.

• To improve a student’s ability to organize and articulate his/her thoughts on art/design

making, concerning their own work and the work of others.

• To understand the practice and products of art and design by applying divergent thinking

toward research, process, personal content and voice and vision.

• To explore the web of connections between using verbal and visual language

• To develop and articulate, in verbal and written form, workable career, educational and art-

making goals, as well as strategies for implementing and achieving them.

Learner Outcomes By the end of this course students will have completed their senior thesis and senior exhibition. In addition, students should have an understanding of what it will take to live as an artist in the world beyond art school and how to respond to many of the issues and challenges artists encounter. 1. Students will complete their senior thesis paper

2. Students will mount a public thesis exhibition 3. Students will give a public gallery talk 4. Students will engage in a variety of professional development topics 5. Students will write a resume and mock grant/arts proposal application 6. Students will be required to create and publish a portfolio website

Expectations Students are expected to sign in at the beginning of each class session. Students are expected to take notes and engage speakers during lectures and complete all course assignments.

Recommended Texts

Art/Work - Revised & Updated: Everything You Need to Know (and Do) As You Pursue Your Art Career Paperback – October 17, 2017 - $13.50 apx.

Becoming a Graphic Designer by Steven Heller/Theresa Fernandez Used $14.50

Becoming a Design Entrepreneur: How to Launch Your Design-Driven Ventures from Apps to Zines by Lita Talarico/ Steven Heller $13.59

Inside the Business of Illustration by Marshall Arisman/Steven Heller Kindle- $11.99

Art Academy Senior Thesis Resource Book

Materials: A sketchbook/journal and a pen or pencil for note taking. Student Requirements (yes or no):

Do a self-evaluation Yes Do outside research (papers, reports, projects) Yes Gallery talk/Oral Presentation Yes Outside class required workload stated in hrs. 6 Participate in class critiques and discussions Yes Do self-directed work Yes Determine own goals Yes Attend all classes on time Yes Turn in all assignments on time Yes

Dani Tellez

Attendance Regular attendance and active participation are required. Students are responsible for acquiring information missed as the result of an absence. You are allowed one absence without penalty. Each additional unavoidable absence will lower your final grade by five grade points. If you accumulate 4 absences you will fail the class. Two tardies, leaving any class period early, or being asked to leave the classroom will be recorded as an absence. For the purposes of this class tardiness is defined as being more than five but less than fifteen minutes late for a regularly scheduled class. Any student arriving more than fifteen minutes late for a class will be recorded as absent. Be alert and aware in class. Lack of participation will lower your final grade. Grading Opportunities

10 pts. Resume Content 20 pts. Arts/Design Project/Grant Proposal

20 pts. Thesis Talk/Self Evaluation 10 pts. Peer Evaluation 20 pts. Online portfolio

20 pts. Class Participation 100 pts. Total pts. Points in bold are completion points. If you turn in the completed assignment you will receive all of the points. If the assignment is not turned in by the due date, no points will be awarded for that assignment. Grading Standards: Grades will be based on the following:

Attendance Participation/level of student engagement Satisfactory completion of assignments Quality, depth, and originality of work Grading Standards (see AAC Catalog for “Meaning of the Letter Grades”) Late Work Policy Work must be received on due date to receive full credit. Your grade for this course will be calculated in the following manner at both the midterm and at the final. The total number of points you’ve earned will be converted to a letter grade. Students who are failing near the midterm or end of the semester may be given additional course work to fulfill the course requirements at the discretion of the instructors. Learning Assistance: Learning assistance is available through Student Services. Contact Mack Maynard, Director of Students Services for tutoring and accommodations for special needs at 513-562-6273 or mack.maynard@artacademy.edu. AAC Academic Honesty Policy See the AAC Catalog.

Mantha Norton Cell phones, iPods and other media in the classroom policy Turn phones off/silent during critique sessions. No texting during critiques. This syllabus is subject to change. Any changes will be communicated in class. Thesis Paper Schedule 2018 January 17 Thesis Advisors return third draft with comments to student February 12 Final Draft of Thesis due to Advisor and Readers March 19 FINAL THESIS DRAFT Due to Senior Seminar *Submit physical copy in class, and a digital copy at: www.artacademy.edu/seminar Class Schedule and Course Calendar January 17 WEDNESDAY CLASS

Introduction of the syllabus, EXPO discussion, thesis schedule Thesis Advisors return third draft with comments to student.

Assign Resume Submit current resume at www.artacademy.edu/seminar (link on page) by 1/18/18 @ 12:00p.

22 PREP TALK: Mike Ranochak, Creatives on Call “Anatomy of a Resume | Career Prep”

Assign Arts/Design Project/Grant Proposal

29 PREP TALK: Benjamin Cook Websites, Portfolio Hosts, Blogs, Social Media, Photographing Work

Assign Online Portfolio

February 5 PREP TALK: Matt Coors, AAC Gallery Director Gallery Nuts and Bolts Joe Civitello, Chief Preparator, Contemporary Art Center Art Handling, Packing, Shipping, Hanging, Museum Work

FINAL RESUME DUE – Hard Copy

12 PREP TALK: Option 1: Ursula Roma, Lora Innes, Evelyn Pence, Professional Illustrators Participants in the Illustrators 6: Perspectives Exhibition at AAC

Freelance Panel: How to get started

Option 2: Jenny Ustick + TBA, How to navigate galleries and strategies, How to set up a studio, and How the art world works

Mack Maynard/Alex Seibert, AAC Student Services Director

Graduation 101 Final Draft of Thesis Paper due to Advisor, Readers

19 NO CLASS President’s Day

26 PREP TALK: Lee Taylor, Associate Creative Director, Curiosity Preparing for an Interview Assign Gallery Talks Chelsey Hughes: Thesis Show Promo Session @ 2:45 March 5 PREP TALK: Dave Humphrey, Artonomy Taxes, Insurance, and Personal Finance Arts/Design Project/Grant Proposal DUE - Hard Copy 12 NO CLASS Spring Break

19 Gallery Talks See Thesis Groups and Dates Schedule FINAL THESIS DRAFT Due to Seminar *Submit physical copy in class, and a digital copy at www.artacademy.edu/seminar

26 Gallery Talks See Thesis Groups and Dates Schedule

April 2 Gallery Talks See Thesis Groups and Dates Schedule

Online Portfolio DUE - Online Submission

9 Gallery Talks See Thesis Groups and Dates Schedule 16 Gallery Talks See Thesis Groups and Dates Schedule 23 Gallery Talk See Thesis Groups and Dates Schedule 30 Gallery Talks See Thesis Groups and Dates Schedule

2018 Thesis Exhibition Schedule Week One 3.19 - 3.23 Jenny Horsting Nikki Nesbit Cara Gallagher Erin Yohey Cody Bechtol Kim Kells Week Two 3.26 - 3.30 Christine Hitchmough Rachel Liston Erinn Berger Jane Rivers Week Three 4.2 - 4.6 Dylan Grubbish Bruce Bennett Austin Favreau Shawntez Robertson Logan DeGolyer Taylor Bills Shelby Hardesty Week Four 4.9 – 4.13 Taylor Wellman Grace Gentry Brevyn Fleming Joe Jatczak Dylan Robinson Rochelle Smith

Week Five 4.16 – 4.20 Lindsay Shroyer Carly Simendinger Sydney Lamb Andrea Bacca Kelsey Smith Zach Schwab Week Six 4.23 – 4.27 Ryan Khosla Syndey Rains D J Gathers P J Doll Cody Perkins John Platt Week Seven 4.30 – 5.4 Julia Waldorf Hailee McElroy-Herin Zach Gibson Mandy Clements Kavon Taylor Brandon Benitez Bill Spry Hannah Parker

Projects 1. Resume Project 10pts – Due: February 5: Hard copy and digital submission to: Digital submission link will be provided here: http://www.artacademy.edu/calendar/thesis.php You will be required to turn in a hard copy of your final resume for use in Advanced Tutorial. 2. Project Grant Proposal 30pts – Due: March 5 Please see the provided grant application for information.

3. Online Portfolio 20pts – Due: April 23 You will be required to prepare the content for a personal website, blogspot, carbonmade, etc. online portfolio that must contain a minimum of these requirements:

- Images or video of your work - resume - contact info - bio

Digital submission link will be provided here: http://www.artacademy.edu/calendar/thesis.php 4. Gallery Talk 20pts You will be required to lead a group in the discussion of your work on display. Adhere to the criteria and talking points below in your discussion. Presentation Criteria and Talking Points Address the following in your presentation

- Introduce yourself and your work

- What is the premise of this work?

- Why is your work important to you?

- Discuss the process of your work

- Discuss your historical references and influences

- Present specific points of discussion about three works

- Present a conclusion and open up to questions.

- Take charge of the presentation space

- 7 – 8 minute presentation w/ Q+A

- Strive for a confident speaking volume and engagement with the audience

- This talk should be a professional discussion to a public audience.

- Do not make this a casual talk to your peers.

Each thesis group is responsible for deciding the order, and leading the audience through to the next thesis presentation. 5. Participation Grade 20pts You are required to show up to every class on time, and stay for the entire class. You are expected to participate in all aspects of the class.