Course Title: Evolve ideas for professional creative work

Part B: Course Detail

Teaching Period: Term2 2019

Course Code: VART6381C

Course Title: Evolve ideas for professional creative work

School: 340T Art

Campus: City Campus

Program: C6149 - Advanced Diploma of Visual Arts

Course Contact: Deb Williams

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4215

Course Contact Email: deborah.williams@rmit.edu.au


Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff

Nominal Hours: 50

Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.

Pre-requisites and Co-requisites

Nil

Course Description

In this course you will develop, skills and knowledge required to research and explore selected visual art techniques including digital art, printmaking, painting and sculpture and integrate their use into your own creative practice. This course requires a higher level of skill and development and a thorough investigation of art making processes.


National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria

National Element Code & Title:

CUAPPR605 Evolve ideas for professional creative work

Element:

1. Evaluate own practice

Performance Criteria:

1.1 Reflect on the history and development of own practice from a technical and conceptual perspective

1.2 Identify and analyse the external influences  that have shaped ideas and directions in current work

1.3 Evaluate own relationship with work and how this has evolved over time

1.4 Consider how personal experiences and factors  have affected work and the ideas that inform it

1.5 Involve others  in the evaluation of own practice to broaden own perspectives

Element:

2. Develop ideas and thinking

Performance Criteria:

2.1 Use practice and experimentation as a professional development tool

2.2 Allow practical work and critical thinking  to work together as part of the creative process

2.3 Combine a belief in existing ideas with a willingness to move on as new ideas evolve

2.4 Integrate new and unpredictable ideas into the evolving work process

2.5 Deepen or broaden contextual research  to support the generation and maturation of ideas

2.6 Collaborate with other professional practitioners about ideas and research

2.7 Articulate processes and ideas in work in ways that effectively communicate key messages

2.8 Produce experimental pieces, unfinished and finished works as a way of evolving ideas

Element:

3. Integrate ideas and professional opportunities

Performance Criteria:

3.1 Evaluate own professional goals and aspirations  and how they might be affected by new and evolving ideas

3.2 Develop new work projects and opportunities  based on reflection, research and experimentation

Learning Outcomes


On successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

  • Demonstrate an ability to develop a concept for thematically connected artworks
  • Demonstrate a command of advanced techniques which are consistent with your conceptual vision
  • Demonstrate knowledge of materials and tools and how they are used & extended 
  • Demonstrate a knowledge and practice of appropriate Occupational Health & Safety rules in a studio environment.


Details of Learning Activities

Your learning activities will take place in a studio. You will complete exercises and industry style projects. You will also be required to undertake independent study.

RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for learning in this course through our online systems. Learning resources include access to the studios and computer laboratories and relevant software. You will also be expected to make use of the library resources.
In this course, you learn through:
1. In-class activities:

  • Peer teaching and class presentations
  • Group discussion
  • Studio work

2. Out-of-class activities include:

  • Reading articles and excerpts
  • Preparing for discussion
  • Project work
  • Independent research

This course is clustered and delivered in conjunction with VART6313C Extend expertise in a specialised art form to professional level.

The course provides individual specilisation in four areas which include painting, printmaking, sculpture and digital art.


Teaching Schedule

PRINTMAKING SPECIALISATION

 

 WEEK  COURSE CONTENT  ASSESSMENT REQUIREMENTS  ELEMENTS
 1  

Overview of semester delivery.

Course information and requirements

Project outline disseminated before semester break

Project 1C A self-motivated and directed body of work spanning the semester

Submission of 1st draft of independent project  

Outcome 

Proposal, conceptual, visual, and technical research,

completed allotment of preparatory drawings and experimental work,

Resolving a body of work

Resolved works minimum 5 editioned prints (edition size minimum of 3),or a substantial unique construction using the multiple to be discussed with staff.

 

CUAPPR601

1.1 - 1.5

3.1 - 3.3

CUAPPR605

1.1 - 1.5

2.1 - 2.5

3.1 - 3.2
 2 - 4  Studio: Proposal development, material and conceptual preparation  

Creating a body of work

Development of written skills in the production of professional proposals.

Expansion of skills with an extended range of materials and techniques in the production of original prints.

Integration of historical and contemporary influences and philosophical concerns in the development of printed images

Application of new and emerging technology in the production of original print

CUAPPR601

 2.1 - 2.4

 

CUAPPR605

1.1 - 1.5

2.1 - 2.5

3.1 - 3.2
 5  Critique folio, technical and conceptual, to enable effective use of time in the lead up to assessment.   

Set projects including preparatory work. See above

Visual Journal.

For all projects: Students will be required to document in their journal process specific procedures, use of materials and equipment, techniques with visual exploration and experimentation.

CUAPPR601

4.1 -4.5 

 

CUAPPR605

1.1 - 1.5
 6  

Independent exploration

Ongoing project work

  Self Assessment kit  

CUAPPR601

2.1 - 2.4

CUAPPR605

 

1.1 - 1.5

2.1 - 2.5

3.1 - 3.2
 7  

Independent exploration

Ongoing project work

 Self Assessment kit   

CUAPPR601

1.1 - 1.4

CUAPPR605

1.1 - 1.5

2.1 - 2.5

3.1 - 3.2
 8 - 10  Peer reviews including Self Assessment kit  

Individual student presentations on evolving proposal and subsequent outcomes

Discussion and critical evaluation of own practice, and the practice of fellow students.

Discussion of contemporary and historical contexts of Printmaking

CUAPPR601

1.1 - 1.4

 2.1 - 2.4

 

CUAPPR605

1.1. - 1.5

3.1 - 3.2
   MID SEMESTER BREAK    
 11  

General Studio, individual tutorials, Proposal discussion, Technical support

Self directed projects

  

Resolving a body of work

Development of written skills in the production of professional proposals.

Expansion of skills with an extended range of materials and techniques in the production of original prints.

Integration of historical and contemporary influences and philosophical concerns in the development of printed images

Application of new and emerging technology in the production of original prints.

CUAPPR601

 4.1 - 4.5

2.1 - 2.4

CUAPPR605

1.1 - 1.5

2.1 - 2.5
 12  

General Studio, individual tutorials, Proposal discussion, Technical support

Self directed projects

  Resolving a body of work

Expansion of skills with an extended range of materials and techniques in the production of original prints.

Integration of historical and contemporary influences and philosophical concerns in the development of printed images

Application of new and emerging technology in the production of original prints.

CUAPPR601

4.1 - 4.5

2.1 - 2.4

CUAPPR605.

1.1 - 1.5

2.1 - 2.5
13

General Studio, individual tutorials, Proposal discussion, Technical support

Self directed projects

 Resolving a body of work

Expansion of skills with an extended range of materials and techniques in the production of original prints.

Integration of historical and contemporary influences and philosophical concerns in the development of printed images

Application of new and emerging technology in the production of original prints.

CUAPPR601

4.1 - 4.5

2.1 - 2.4

CUAPPR605

1.1 - 1.5

2.1 - 2.5
14

General Studio, individual tutorials, Proposal discussion, Technical support

Self directed projects

 Resolving a body of work

Expansion of skills with an extended range of materials and techniques in the production of original prints.

Integration of historical and contemporary influences and philosophical concerns in the development of printed images

Application of new and emerging technology in the production of original prints.

CUAPPR601

4.1 - 4.5

2.1 - 2.4

CUAPPR605

1.1 - 1.5

2.1 - 2.5
15 - 16 Final resolutions for assessment  editioning, presentations considerations and refinement 

CUAPPR601

5.1 - 5.4

CUAPPR605

1.1 - 1.5

2.1 - 2.5
17 Assessment

Resolved works minimum 5 editioned prints (edition size minimum of 3),or a substantial unique construction using the multiple to be discussed with staff.

Student staff print exchange print
All finishing students will complete a resolved print for exchange.
It is required that you submit an editionable print (i.e no unique states) and that your print edition is of an acceptable standard in order for it to be included in the folio.

CUAPPR601

5.1 - 5.4

CUAPPR605

1.1 - 1.5

2.1 - 2.5
       

 


Learning Resources

Prescribed Texts


References


Other Resources

Printmaking  

  • Imprint’ quarterly publication of the Print Council of Australia.
  • Lambert, Susan, Print: art and technique, V&A Publications, London, 2001.
  • McCann, M., Artist Beware, Watson-Guptill, New York, 1979.
  • Petardi, A. Printmaking, London, 1959.
  • Grishin, Sasha, Australian Printmaking in the 1990s, Craftsman House, Sydney 1979
  • Simmons, Rosemary., Dictionary of printmaking terms, London : A. & C. Black, 2002.
  • Ross and Romano The Complete printmaker New York, Free Press 1972
  • D’arcy Hughes, Ann & Vernon-Morris, Hebe The printmaking bible : the complete guide to materials and techniques San Francisco, Calif. : Chronicle Books, 2008
  • Noyce, Richard. Printmaking at the edge London : A. & C. Black, 2006
  • Covey, S. Modern printmaking : a guide to traditional and digital techniques, Watson-Guptill,  USA 20o16
  • Morgan, Luke (editor) Intersections and counterpoints : proceedings of the Impact 7 International Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking Conference, Monash University Publishing, AUS, 2013
  • Lembach, Leah. Proof : the rise of printmaking in southern California, Getty Publications USA, 2011
  • Watrous Madison, James. American printmaking : a century of American printmaking, 1880-1980 , Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 1984 

It is strongly recommended you attend Galleries on a regular basis in order to engage in contemporary visual art.

 

This information on this list are suggestions and a starting point only, please ensure your research goes beyond this list.


Overview of Assessment

Assessment for this course is on going throughout the semester. Your knowledge and understanding of course content is assessed through completion of a body of work that demonstrates concept development, understanding of materials and adhering to the guidelines of working in a studio.


Assessment Tasks

Printmaking   Assessment Tasks

 

Independent project  - includes written proposal, research,

Portfolio, including visual diary and a resolved body of work

Exchange Print portfolio

 

 


Assessment Matrix

Other Information

Feedback: 

You will receive feedback by teacher on your work.  This feedback also includes suggestions on how you can proceed to the next stage of developing your projects.

 

Plagiarism

RMIT has a strict policy on plagiarism. Please refer to the website for more information on this policy.

 

Special consideration Policy (Late Submission)

All assessment tasks are required to be completed to a satisfactory level. If you are unable to complete any piece of assessment by the due date, you will need to apply for an extension.

Please refer to the following URL for extensions and special consideration:

http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=qkssnx1c5r0y;STATUS=A;PAGE_AUTHOR=Andrea%20Syers;SECTION=1 (unresolved)

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