2014 Design Challenge
– Explore Your Process; or Racing Yourself
This year everyone will
create his or her own personal “Design Challenge”. There is a great marathon metaphor that goes
here. But you will only get that at the
February meeting or if you call me, because I’m not a writer.
Your Design Challenge must
contain at least one element, from each of the following categories:
Category One: Inspiration
Pick at least one of the following:
A piece of music, a theme, or
an image;
You must present this to the
group on November 9th to go with your piece.
Category Two: The Quest
Form a question about what
you want to learn, feel, or explore this year, or ask yourself, how hard do you want to push yourself and in what
ways? Add that to your theme, song, and/or
image and share that relationship with the group on November 9th.
Category Three: The Technique(s)/ Medium(s)
Pick technique(s) or
medium(s) that you want to use to help you explore your question and vision for
your design challenge piece. This will
be shared at the meeting on November 9th.
Don’t panic! It’s fine if all of these change along the way, even
after the deadlines; more on that below, of course it’s fine, we're artists,
sometimes we have to wonder down the wrong path to get where we're going.
This years evaluation process will happen in three parts, instead of the usual one part. So here's the plan...
The evaluation
process:
Part one – Deadlines
There will be three deadlines
and two ways of meeting them.
1)
Deadline 1 – March 15th – Explore - Find
your Challenge for this year.
a.
Way one to meet
the deadline – attend “Exploratorium”
March 8th at Paige’s
Studio. We will explore our own personal
race together using ATC to create mini vision boards. ATC are Artist Trading Cards, if you are
unfamiliar hit the google machine. We
will not be using them in the traditional way, but hey, what can
I say. More details to follow as we get closer to the date.
b.
Way two to meet
the deadline – submit your inspiration, quest, and technique(s) or medium(s)
via email to paige@paigelitfin.com.
2)
Deadline 2 – June 14th - Design - make the transition from words,
ideas and images to the practical work of art you want to create this year.
a.
Way one to meet
the deadline – attend “Design ” June 7th at Paige’s Studio. We will begin to bring our visions into the
practical world with clay, paper, wire and anything else we can find in the
studio. More details to follow as we get closer to this date.
b.
Way two to meet
the deadline – Again via email. If you can’t
take a picture or scan your work I’m happy to live with the honor system, this
year is about racing yourself.
3)
Deadline 3 – September 20th - The Work - Setting aside time to make the
challenge a priority…before the deadline or on the deadline, if that works for you.
a.
Way one to meet
the deadline – attend “Create” September 7th at Paige’s
Studio. We will bring our pieces, such
as they are, and we will work. This day
will have less talk and more action.
b.
Way two to meet
the deadline – you guested it, via email let Paige (me) know what day you set
aside and made the challenge your priority.
Those are all the
deadlines. But don’t worry they are only
part of the evaluation; this is just to help us all stay on track this year.
Part two of the evaluation
will be a self-evaluation. Don’t start
worrying, I’m not sure the exact form this will take, yet, but it will be as
painless as I can make it. I’m also
trying to figure out how to trick everyone into saying nice things about
themselves.
Part three will be the group
evaluation at the November 9th meeting. This will be similar to the last two years,
but with some minor variations.
You must bring your piece to this meeting along with a card that has your name and the materials used in the piece.
Good luck everyone, this is going to be a really great year. WooHoo!!!!
