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Advanced Arts Remote Learning Update #2

4/27/2020

 
Welcome to week two of our remote learning updates.  It's hard to imagine that we will be making these for the rest of the school year.  We are so proud of our #AAPG37 family coming together during these extraordinary times to keep classes active and student creativity flowing. While the magic isn't happening at Gallery 37, our work is happening in homes all over Chicago.  Let's check in with our classes and see what everyone was up to last week...

Animation & Sequential Arts

Our animators spent the week learning about the history of the art of storyboarding.  A storyboard is a visual organizer of your animation. Storyboards are an important way for producers and directors in the animation industry to show fellow animators and project contributors the story via a series of cells. Storyboards explain what is happening in a scene, scene dialog, and outline the project’s story via linear “bite sized” chunks.  You know how architects create Blueprints before building houses? Well, the Storyboard is the Blueprint for a film. Storyboards are the ultimate way to plan out your film. By storyboarding a film beforehand, you can completely pre-plan props, settings, camera angles, actor placement and movements, special and practical effects, etc so that when it comes time for actual production everything will work much more efficiently (which will also save the producers $$$$$). Storyboards allow for the right individuals to check for error and fix them before a mistake becomes too large and expensive to fix.

Students were asked to create a storyboard for a long term stop motion animation project.  The production part of this project will take three whole weeks, students will be asked to create a film that is 1.5 minutes long, which is A LOT of pictures to take.  Storyboards have to cover visuals, dialog, and actions that occur in the scene. Storyboards were submitted for approval on Friday and students who now have an approved concept can dive deep into their projects.  We are excited to see what they create.  Check out Alessandra Montero's animated storyboard below:

Creative Arts Ceramics

Jiwon and Patrick are using flexible office hour arrangement to teleconference for the development of lesson plans and assessing the student’s progress. One or the other is available to the students during the day to review their progress, give them feedback and answer questions. Their current project, anti-virus project, is ongoing with students expected to complete a module for the project every three days with daily updates from them for us to asses and give feedback. The results, progress feedback and students responses, to teachers and each other, are uploaded into a virtual gallery on an ongoing basis. Along with teachers the students are able to access the virtual gallery and respond to us and each other. Teachers have also instituted Google hangouts during regular class time. Students are able to meet as a class, see the progress of the project and receive feedback from each other. This time is also used as a general wellness check.

Culinary Arts

Chef Carol and Chef Elizabeth are available for office hours daily from 2:45-4:45 in Google Meet. Additional planning time is daily between 3;45-4:45. Both instructors are also available during this time.

This week's Independent Cooking Project had no theme. Students were asked to create a cooking project of their choice and if they didn't have many ingredients or food to work with, students were asked to create a menu based on the theme of the week.   


Dance

Office Hours - 8:00am-11:00am.

Drawing & Painting

 Alex Goldin and Matt Bozik are available all week, 1:45pm-4:45pm, to post work, receive emails, give feedback. Check in on Monday for late assignments from last week, and Friday for this week's work. Marjorie Boyles is available each week for critiques and feedback via google meets by appointment through Google Classroom. Students have been hard at work this past week working on their portfolio concentrations. Check out their progress!

Photography

Kat & Yasmin will post a NEW assignment each Monday and students will submit the WHOLE assignment by 11:59 PM (before midnight) on Thursday. On Fridays, Kat will post students' completed work to the Google Classroom STREAM and students will provide feedback to each other by 11:59PM. Students are expected to work for this class a minimum of 54 minutes PER DAY. Kat and Yasmin will be contacting students via Google Classroom private messaging at 3PM each day to check in with them. Students should respond to teachers at their earliest convenience so we know they are participating in this course. If students do not reach out, respond, and/or do not submit assignments teachers will contact you directly via email and will notify AAP admin of your absence. Kat and Yasmin are available to students in REAL-TIME from 3-5pm each day. During this time teachers will be checking in with you and providing feedback to your works-in-progress. Kat is available from 3-5pm on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Yasmin is available from 3-5pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Marjorie Boyles is available each week for critiques and feedback via google meets by appointment through Google Classroom. Jackie Nykiel available Mondays-Thursdays through email or google meets.

Theatre

Class: Mon-Fri 3pm-5pm. Time will be shared between Google Meet as a whole group, smaller groups, or with individual students with both instructors - whatever is best for the pieces being developed. Students will work a full two hours - likely a half hour teacher meet, then 45min group work meet, and 45 minutes individual prep. Office Hours via Email Officially 2pm-3pm with Mr. Weddington. Office is really always open as students have questions via email.

This week the students are working on Voices of the Pandemic - original monologues showing a multitude of voices representing varying views and experiences while experiencing the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. We can't wait to see how this turns out!


Video Production

Office hours: 3-4pm Jake M,T & W Claire T,TH & F Zach M,W Tracy Th & F. Students will be given an article & video related to ongoing project each week. The video and article be accompanied by a student discussion sheet for responses and dialog. Students will continue work on their video project. They will continue filming footage or collecting found footage for their project. Independent raw footage will be due Tuesday. Video skill and technique lesson of the week will be assigned and assessed remotely. Weekly Google Meet-ups are planned to touch base with students.

Vocal Arts

No Update.

Come back next week for more updates from our Advanced Arts Classrooms!
Until then...
Stay Safe, Stay Healthy, Stay Home!

Advanced Arts Remote Learning Update #1

4/17/2020

 
We are excited to announce that now that Spring Break has ended, Advanced Arts has hit the ground running with our NEW Remote Learning programming. Each of our classes has a remote learning plan in place so that even if we can't gather at Gallery 37 for class, we are still connected as a school community, creating, and learning during these extraordinary times.

Now, lets check in and see what our students and staff have been up to...

Animation & Sequential Arts

The fun and learning hasn't let up in Animation & Sequential Arts for students, despite not having their powerful computers and animation programs with them at home.  They're taking it old school and learning all about traditional animation techniques! First they utilized light boards and 100 SHEETS OF PAPER to create traditional hand drawn animation just like their Disney Forefathers did years ago. After that students learned all about the history of stop motion animation, how it came to be, different genres, genre defining creators, and more were discussed in this historical intro to the genre.  With historical knowledge in place students moved on this week to their FIRST stop motion animation project, which they all created using the FREE app Stop Motion Studio which works on all smart phones! Students were given a basic program introduction and then asked to create a short video that tested varying aspects of the genre. The results have been fantastic so far and we look forward to seeing what these amazing animators will do in this new program next!
Check out student Faith Lasley's video "Milo's Quarantine" for a taste of the stop motion fun!

Creative Arts Ceramics

Teachers Patrick and Jiwon are using flexible office hour arrangements to teleconference class plans.  Both teachers are available to students during the day to review their progress, give feedback, and answer questions. The current class project is an anti-virus project. It is an ongoing project and students are expected to complete a module for the project every three days with daily updates to asses and give feedback.  The results, progress feedback and students responses are uploaded to their class gallery.  Both students and teachers can able to access the virtual gallery and respond to us and each other. The class has also instituted Google Meetups during its regular class time.  Student’s are able to meet as a class, see the progress of the project and receive feedback from each other!

Culinary Arts

Both of our incredible chefs are available for office hours daily. So culinary students have many opportunities to check in and get feedback!  The class has been holding a weekly discussion Google Meet on Fridays.  The class has also implemented a weekly recipe challenge.  The results have been delicious and the students have been having fun trying to one up each other for the title of best dish of the week. The first contest was a POTATO CHALLENGE and students competed to make the best potato based dish. 

Congratulations to Justin and Moises who TIED for first place.  Justin made a perfect baked potato and Moises created some mouthwatering smashed jalapeno potatoes!

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The next Recipe Challenge is... Depression-era or WWII era recipes. The recipe must be made in two hours or less/video-taped or submitted as a complete recipe with a photo.

This week's independent project is: Cheapest Dinner. Students must make a meal as inexpensive as possible. The student with the cheapest and most delicious meal wins!

We can't wait to see the results of this... and wish we could eat all the entries!


Dance

Our dance students are choreographing, critiquing, performing and revising dance videos for NBA and for their final show (May 20 & 21). Students outside of the classroom are collaborating to create a book that will address the role of dance and its importance through cultural influences in and out of contemporary culture and current events. This is an on-going project that will eventually be turned into a video. All students have a clear understanding of strong participation habits of advanced dancers and we are very proud of them all. The first week students struggled with virtual integration, how could they not? But these students have worked hard to build confidence and embrace their new learning structures.

But seriously, lets all DANCE those COVID Blues away!

Drawing & Painting

Alex Goldin, Matt Bozik, and Marjorie Boyles are available each week for critiques and feedback for students via google meets by appointment and through Google Classroom. Fridays the class does a check-in via GoogleClassroom and Email. Teacher Alex Goldin is be available from 1:45pm to 4:45pm on weekdays. He even live broadcasts himself painting during his office hours so his students can join him and they all can work together collaboratively! All Drawing & Painting students are in the middle of finishing their portfolios, teachers will hold check-ins on Fridays and Mondays for weekly work work drop offs- where students share what they've been working on each week.

Students are expected to complete a single piece each week.


Photography

Teachers Kat and Yasmin post a NEW assignment each Monday and students submit the WHOLE assignment on Thursdays. On Fridays, Kat posts students' completed work to the Google Classroom STREAM and students will provide feedback to each other. Students are expected to work for this class a minimum of 54 minutes PER DAY. Kat and Yasmin stay in contact with students via Google Classroom private messaging daily 3PM to check in with students.

Kat and Yasmin are available to students in REAL-TIME from 3-5pm each day. During this time they will be checking in with students and providing feedback to works-in-progress. Kat is available from 3-5pm on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Yasmin is available from 3-5pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Marjorie Boyles is available each week for critiques and feedback via google meets by appointment through Google Classroom. Jackie Nykiel available Mondays-Thursdays through email or google meets.

Keep up the good work Photographers!


Theater Arts

Mr. Weddington and Ms. Mostad will meet with students daily as they all get into the new routine of online school. This past week focused on breaking down assignments into bite sized pieces appropriate to one class period. The class spends approximately 1 hour per day checking in with students as a large group, students then have one hour to complete work at their own pace. Mr. Weddington is available one hour prior to class time via email (virtual office hours) to check in with students about work due for the day or preparations for our school showcase. Class virtually meets form 3-5pm daily. The Focus Topic of the Week was... Meisner, Acting Attention, and active listening. Teachers coached students as a group going through Meisner's techniques and hosted discussions on showcase development.

Video Production

Video Production started this week off with an online critique for their Self Portrait projects. The students and teachers watched and responded to each other with considered and constructive feedback. Each student found new and exciting ways to experiment with filming while at home; found footage, editing, sound design, and text! You can tell they each found specific ways to represent themselves in a video Self Portrait, from digging into personal archives, to collaborating with friends, to gathering gifs online. On Wednesday the class had its first Google Meet Up, where everyone checked in and the teachers introduced the next project!

The students are now working on their treatments for their new upcoming project and we can't wait to see what they will look like!

The Video Production Team's Office Hours:
Claire - Tuesdays Thursdays and Fridays
Zach - Mondays and Wednesdays
Tracy - Thursdays and Fridays
Jake - Mondays and Tuesdays


Vocal Arts

Vocal arts is getting their virtual classroom ready for some individual and group performances. In the meantime students have been catching up with each other and sharing what they have been doing to keep their voices busy while at home!

Come back next week for more updates from our Advanced Arts Classrooms!
Until then...
Stay Safe, Stay Healthy, Stay Home!


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