Daily class outlines
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	First Class 8 Sept. 1997 Educational Center of the Arts Arts and Activism Monday & Wednesday 3 - 4 Bob Price - 498.4240 - rprice@leap.yale.edu Class needs ? blank book (supplied or own) ? writing/drawing tools Introduce ourselves - why interested you in taking this class? - what do you hope to share and leave with? Definition of activism What is art? Why is your voice important? How can you convey your voice - appeal to the different senses - the different audiences Youth Solve Problems Using illustrations, collage, &/or words... - how do you get people to listen? - why do you want them to listen?
	Second Class 10 Sept. 1997 Educational Center of the Arts Arts and Activism Monday & Wednesday 3 - 4 Bob Price - 498.4240 - rprice@leap.yale.edu Class needs ? blank book (supplied or own) ? writing/drawing tools ? write in observations Working together or separately on issues why, when, how, where General vs. specific issues. Issues that are important to you. List out in blank book. In groups of three... Using the given image, generate ideas / sketches for a message in a similar form. Photo images - digital camera - enlarging Email - why - free email accounts - access Youth Solve Problems Use words, illustrations, photos, or ? an activist.
	Third Class 15 Sept. 1997 Educational Center of the Arts Arts and Activism Monday & Wednesday 3 - 4 Bob Price - 498.4240 - rprice@leap.yale.edu We will discuss how to determine where to place a message so the information/belief is communicated. There will be two steps to this project. The first we will complete in class, the second will be completed outside of class and placed on Wednesday (17 Sept). You will find five things you believe in - write them down, then determine two that you will use to communicate a message. Each class member will use provided materials to communicate a message within the ECA building for one of their chosen beliefs. The project will be completed before the end of class. The second belief to be communicated will be completed before the next class. The second belief is to be completed using materials found in a bathroom at your home. The second belief will be placed in the chosen location within the ECA on Wednesday. Where to place a message Clear communication Non-destructive Temporary Available 24 Hours Safe for anybody Clear communication The message must be clearer than anything. The message must be easily communicated to the viewer. Non-destructive If a message is destructive to property, then the message is weakened as the focal point becomes the destructive state of personal property. Temporary The message should be removable without damaging anything it was attached to or part of. Who is responsible for removing the message? Available 24 hours For this assignment, the message needs to be available round the clock. Safe for anybody When placing a message, it should not pose a hazard to anyone (e.g. string across a hallway would need to be above where someone walks). World Wide Web To access the website go to www.ctkidslink.org - then select In Our Words. We'll be creating a website for the class and our voice to be heard on the web. During the semester each student should post at least one recommended website that relates to activism. The posting will include a description of the website.
	Fourth Class 17 Sept. 1997 Educational Center of the Arts Arts and Activism Monday & Wednesday 3 - 4 Bob Price - 498.4240 - rprice@leap.yale.edu We will place and share our second message and belief from bathroom materials completed at home. We will revisit the basis of selecting a location and discuss. Where to place a message Clear communication Non-destructive Temporary Available 24 Hours Safe for anybody Clear communication The message must be clearer than anything. The message must be easily communicated to the viewer. Non-destructive If a message is destructive to property, then the message is weakened as the focal point becomes the destructive state of personal property. Temporary The message should be removable without damaging anything it was attached to or part of. Who is responsible for removing the message? Available 24 hours For this assignment, the message needs to be available round the clock. Safe for anybody When placing a message, it should not pose a hazard to anyone (e.g. string across a hallway would need to be above where someone walks). World Wide Web Each student will scan their image and save the file for placement on the World Wide Web. We will look at the Arts and Activism site on the World Wide Web. We will discuss how to use the messages on the web. We will look at Tuesdays messages on the web and discuss ways to design a message for communicating on the web. The class will explore and discuss Jenny Holzer's site on the web. For Monday complete a sketch of how you can use the www for a belief. Email - posting our email addresses on our website. If you don't have an email address get a free one on excite, hotmail, geocities, or juno (e.g. www.excite.com). Software Photoshop and flatbed scanning Pagemill for web publishing Spin Panorama for 360° qtvr images   Fifth Class Third Week 22 Sept. 1997 Educational Center of the Arts Arts and Activism Monday & Wednesday 3 - 4 Bob Price - 498.4240 - rprice@leap.yale.edu We will explore places and locations in the Audubon Street area for placement of our beliefs. The location should be distinguished by public location and linked to the belief. This experience will take place during both classes this week. Upon completion of the Audubon Street placement we will look further into New Haven (next week). Who is the public? What messages do you see in public spaces? What is it important for the public / audience to know? Who do you want to 'talk' to? e.g. neighborhood, all of New Haven, voters, youth, or ? Should the initial group be small or large? IN PAIRS... Determine who to target. What does that community need to know? Share the target audience and message/belief with Bob Price First address the location - how to present a message at that location. In the Audubon Street area need to approach the locations and who is responsible for them. In pairs find two locations (each person responsible for one) Compile list of contacts to post on the web for future use. Sketch out how the message is to be presented. Sketch in your notepad - possibly to post on the web as a model to others. Share the sketch with Bob and at least two other students from another group. (note positives about the sketch and location and provide quality input) Share web page designs in notepad with Bob in pairs. Needs for message/beliefs to be Technology Digital camera - why and how to use Extensions - Photoshop, PosterWorks, Web Who has interest in working on the 'homepage' to Arts and Activism and links to ECA? Sixth Class 24 Sept. 1997 Educational Center of the Arts Arts and Activism Monday & Wednesday 3 - 4 Bob Price - 498.4240 - rprice@leap.yale.edu Share notepad sketchings of location and belief/message in groups. Share positives and suggested extensions. Who is targeted? Will the directed community understand the message? How is the message being communicated at the location? How will you go about posting the message? Put message in a location for each person in the group. Document the message with a camera, sketch or scanning the message. Take a photo of the message in the location it is posted. Share web page designs in notepad with Bob in pairs. Needs for message/beliefs to be Class will go out and look around the Audubon Street area in pairs to determine their message location. Look at Arts and Activism webpages and discuss design and who is interested in working on the pages. Email addresses of everyone in the class   Seventh Class Fourth Week 29 Sept. 1997 Educational Center of the Arts Arts and Activism Monday & Wednesday 3 - 4 Bob Price - 498.4240 - rprice@leap.yale.edu The class will continue work with the Audubon Street message. The messages should be completed by the end of class or by the beginning of Wed. class. Each pair will photograph their message/belief in the location it was placed. Will model using the digital camera in class. Will talk about using as part of a message and how to use including downloading pictures and photoshop. Will model PageMill and work with web pages of those pairs that have finished the Audubon Street project.   Eighth Class 1 Oct. 1997 Educational Center of the Arts Arts and Activism Monday & Wednesday 3 - 4 Bob Price - 498.4240 - rprice@leap.yale.edu Message in ECA using collage. Will determine a message using no more than several words, then incorporate with visuals from magazines. Consider placement when designing the collage. Will continue with webpages. Model use of digital camera with computer. Installation/posting of Audubon Street beliefs. COMPLETED Heidi & Tim - animal rights and vegetarian views...MEAT DOESN'T GROW ON TREES installation with message in chalk and meat dangling from the tree. Dinko & Vedran - SUPPORT THE ARTS in chalk on sidewalk where many feet travel. Thera & Beau - making people think about alternatives - poster (8.5 x 11) - SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL COMMUNISTS - with photo of African American children in t-shirts with hammer and cicle. TO BE COMPLETED ON MONDAY Alexandra, Sean & Greg - installation next to sidewalk using fence and located in the aqueduct with a large question mark - getting people to think. May include video interviews on the street. Kevin & Tara - Malik Jones case using two sided poster on the sidewalk. If interested in using the digital camera, sketch you idea out in your notepad and present to a group of bob and two other students. Ninth Class 6 Oct. 1997 Educational Center of the Arts Arts and Activism Monday & Wednesday 3 - 4 Bob Price - 498.4240 - rprice@leap.yale.edu Class took a self tour of downtown New Haven to look at the potential locations and ideas for messages and beliefs. Tenth Class 8 Oct. 1997 Educational Center of the Arts Arts and Activism Monday & Wednesday 3 - 4 Bob Price - 498.4240 - rprice@leap.yale.edu Compared different websites to determine which were representative of youth voice. Eleventh Class 15 Oct. 1997 Educational Center of the Arts Arts and Activism Monday & Wednesday 3 - 4 Bob Price - 498.4240 - rprice@leap.yale.edu Class met with Laurel Vlock about doing cable access program on youth voice. Key to session was students determining if it was their voice being heard or their voice through the direction of others. The program will include video clips created by the students to be used while being interviewed on the program. Twelfth Class 20 Oct. 1997 Educational Center of the Arts Arts and Activism Monday & Wednesday 3 - 4 Bob Price - 498.4240 - rprice@leap.yale.edu Discussed how they felt about doing the cable access program. Needs and questions were discussed. Showed two video clips - one Bob Dylan from a Pennabaker documentary and the other an Ikea tv advertisement that modeled a problem and solution. Both showed how a message can be delivered in a short and effective way. Asked them to observe commercials and how they are effective / or not in delivering an idea/message. Thirteenth Class 22 Oct. 1997 Educational Center of the Arts Arts and Activism Monday & Wednesday 3 - 4 Bob Price - 498.4240 - rprice@leap.yale.edu Modeled 'storyboards' of message ideas that I created. Had the class critique my message. Excellent input from the class - great observations and ideas to improve on. Then had them develop ideas in their groups. Met with the groups individually, then had the class critique each of the five groups. Fourteenth Class 27 Oct. 1997 Educational Center of the Arts Arts and Activism Monday & Wednesday 3 - 4 Bob Price - 498.4240 - rprice@leap.yale.edu We will watch several psa's - then discuss how they are effective. We will then work on and critique each group's project.