Concentration Activities

Developing Your Concentration

Activity 1.

Making an Artwork Series

Seminar: Candy Chang: Before I die I want to...

Studio Activity: Public Space Art: While I'm alive I will...

Reference: Synectic Trigger Mechanisms

Seminar: Alexa Meade: Your Body is My Canvas

Studio Activity: Synectic Series

Activity 2.

Think Like an Artist

Reference: Synectic Art Think

Seminar: Kerby Ferguson: Embrace the Remix Survey

Reference: Intrinsic Motivation Drives Us

Seminar: Daniel Pink: The Surprising Science of Motivation

View: Paola Antonelli: Why I brought Pac-Man to MoMA

Survey: A Broader Understanding of Design

Activity 3.

Concentration Topic Development

Reference: Intrinsic Motivation Drives Us

Seminar: Radical Openness - Jason Silva

Seminar: Simon Sinek: Inspire Action

Activity: 1: Developing Visuals for Your Concentration

Studio Event: Intrinsic Metaphor

Seminar: John Maeda: How Art & Tech inform Creative Leaders

Activity: 2: Developing Visuals for Your Concentration

Studio Event: Analogical Art

Reference: Sample AP Studio Concentrations

Seminar : Alexa Meade: Your Body is My Canvas

View: Topics - A Visual Exploration

Reference: Characteristics of a Great Concentration

Activity: 3: Developing Topics for Your Concentration

View: How to use instaGrok

Activity: instagrok Search instagrok How to

Activity 4.

Work Like an Artist

Reference: 14 Strategies to Get Insanely Motivated

Reference: Working Like an Artist

Seminar: Shepard Fairey Working Artist

Reference: Making Time to Make Art

Activity: Debra Fitzsimmons: Making Time to Make Art

Form three groups - each group collaborate on one below

Group 1 Answer #1: One bite at a time.

Group 2 Answer #2: With a Friend.

Group 3 Answer #3: Bring it to the table and sit down.

"Inspiration exists,

but it has to find you working."

Artist: Pablo Picasso

"The advice I like to give young artists

is not to wait around for inspiration.

Inspiration is for amateurs;

the rest of us just show up and get to work.

If you wait around for the clouds to part

and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain,

you are not going to make an awful lot of work.

All the best ideas come out of the process;

they come out of the work itself.

Things occur to you.

If you're sitting around trying to dream up

a great art idea, you can sit there a long time

before anything happens. But if you just

get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and

something else that you reject will push

you in another direction.

Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary

and somehow deceptive. You feel like

you need this great idea before you can

get down to work, and I find that's almost

never the case."

Artist: Chuck Close