Week 5: Feedback discussion 1

1. Introduction and Outline of Class
• This class aims to provide critical feedback to all students. Each person will be asked questions of their work and will be expected to offer background thinking, process information about their thinking and making processes and thoughts regarding how the work might progress from this point.

• Students are expected to collate the responses to their work in their journal.

• All students are expected to have work ready for discussion and to take an active role in the consideration of work.

• Each discussion of an individual’s work will take between approximately twenty minutes

Discussion/crit process
What do you see? (Description of art) How is what you see put together? (Formal analysis) What does the artist want you to know or feel after seeing this work? (Interpretation) What is your opinion of this work and why do you feel that way? (Informed judgment)

A scanning method works well, also. This is when you ask your students to first direct their attention toward the sensory properties of the artwork. Next, you direct their attention to the formal properties. Thirdly, you discuss the work's expressive qualities. Finally, the technical properties of the artwork are discussed.

2. Class Aims
• Students will become practiced in sharing ideas about their work and taking on the perspectives offered by the group.

• Connections between the work of different students will be made and references exchanged

• Staff, using the assessment criteria particular to this course, will formally respond to the work produced at this point. Each student’s engagement will be a factor assessed in this feedback. This feedback is formative and intended to provide a measure of achievement at this point, half way through the course.

3. Independent Study
• Students are expected to collate the responses to their work in their journal.


4. Intended Student Learning Outcomes of the Course (objectives)
By the end of the session students will:

• Demonstrate an ability to make informed decisions based on awareness of wide ranges of procedures.

• Resolve drawing problems and develop strategies for presenting them.

• Be familiar with and critically engage in the discourse surrounding drawing at an introductory level.

• Have developed a studio practice, which incorporates acquisitive, open-ended and self-reflexive learning.

• Be familiar with the principle of a self-directed practice at a basic level


5. Relevant Bibliography
• Staff may offer additional reading material following or during the discussion process

session contact- Jim Speers j.speers@auckland.ac.nz