Independent Project 2008
Ms. Anderson
Your Independent Project is worth 20% of your Exam grade.
Your Exam grade is worth 20% of your Final grade.
You will complete this project on your own time with the format provided.
The work associated with this assignment is on top of your regular class work.
Plan your schedule accordingly---DO NOT LEAVE THIS PROJECT TO THE LAST MINUTE!!
This project is going to be an exploration of URBAN ART in NYC. You will be able to explore your own
interests based around the concept of Urban Art. When composing the project consider Elements of Art,
Principles of Design, mediums, materials, size, transportation, and storage of project.
For this project you will create your own” roadmap” that reflects your journey through the world of Urban
Art in NYC. You will personally create your experience by visiting locations that emanate the Urban
Community. Through this process you will document the places visited by taking pictures, sketching,
writing manifestos, saving documentation, souvenirs, mementos, etc. The Final project that you will
compose will be a Personal Manifesto or Personal Reliquary integrated with an art medium. You will
document a collaboration of all places visited during your journey!
Places that must be visited:
The City Reliquary (www.cityreliquary.org )
*Everyone must visit then you will choose 5 locations from list below:
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Lower East Side Tenement Museum (www.tenement.org)
Staten Island Ferry (take a ferry ride ) (www.siferry.com)
Queens Museum (view the Panorama) (www.queensmuseum.org)
Flushing Meadow Park (World’s Fair Grounds- Unisphere)
Walk over Brooklyn Bridge (or bike ride)(**see below)
New York Aquarium (www.NYaquarium.com)
Metropolitan Museum of Art (www.met.org)
Coney Island Astroland Park (www.coneyisland.com)
Queens Botanical Gardens (www.queensbotanical.org)
NYC Transit Museum (www.mta.info/mta/museum)
Museum of the City of New York (www.mcny.org)
P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center (www.ps1.org)
5 Pointz - Graffiti Mecca (5ptz.com)
Sculpture Center (www.sculpture-center.org)
Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum (www.nycwax.com)
** Walking the bridge: Walking the Brooklyn Bridge is an all-time favorite New York activity; although there's no doubt that the
Lower Manhattan views from the bridge now have a painful resonance as well as a joyous spirit. A wide wood-plank pedestrian
walkway is elevated above the traffic, making it a relatively peaceful, and popular, walk. It's a great vantage point from which to
contemplate the New York skyline and the East River.
There's a sidewalk entrance on Park Row, just across from City Hall Park (take the 4, 5, or 6 train to Brooklyn Bridge/City Hall). But
why do this walk away from Manhattan, toward the far less impressive Brooklyn skyline? Instead, for Manhattan skyline views, take
an A or C train to High Street, one stop into Brooklyn. From there, you'll be on the bridge in no time: Come above ground, then walk
through the little park to Cadman Plaza East and head down slope (left) to the stairwell that will take you up to the footpath.
(Following Prospect Place under the bridge, turning right onto Cadman Plaza East, will also take you directly to the stairwell.) It's a
20- to 40-minute stroll over the bridge to Manhattan, depending on your pace, the amount of foot traffic, and the number of stops you
make to behold the spectacular views (there are benches along the way). The footpath will deposit you right at City Hall Park.
Project can be in any form or medium, Brainstorm ideas:
Photography
Architecture
Film
Magazine Layout Design
Animation
Illustration
Product Design
Computer Graphics
Web Page Design
Graffiti
Fashion
Sculpture
Drawing
Ceramics
Printmaking
Silk Screen
Craft and Jewelry
Wood Working
Painting
Lithography
Etching
Carving
What Inspires You?
This is your opportunity to draw your own “roadmap” for personal creative development.
Do you give yourself enough credit for what you do?
Creating art requires us to think outside the box, whether it’s about the objects or elements
we select, how we use our supplies, or the way we assemble it. It requires us to creatively
combine unrelated thoughts and materials with nothing but a vision of what we think we’re
going to create or believe we can create. It takes a leap of faith.
Do you give yourself enough credit for what you create?
I’m not talking about how good of an artist you are, I’m talking about the fact that you sit
down and face the blank canvas, paper, etc.! Creating anything takes courage; it takes belief
in yourself to know something, even if you feel that you don’t know enough. I think it says a lot
about the human spirit of each and every person...despite the unknown, we know we must
move forward, no matter the fear or anxiety, we must create art…and so we take a leap of
faith.
Do you give yourself enough credit for what you know?
We show our humility and our sense of humanity when we put our art out to be seen and make
ourselves vulnerable to others’ opinions and criticism. We are at our most fragile when we
display what has come from inside our hearts and minds, and we show our belief in humanity
when we do; believing most will be honest but not brutal. It takes courage to be able to hear
what someone has to say and not have it reflect how we feel about ourselves. We must believe
in ourselves enough to know what we know, and we must believe in ourselves enough to take
that leap...
Proposal and sketch: due date: TBA
Includes:
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Name
Class color
Mediums and materials used
Short explanation
-why you chose to do this?
-how you plan to execute?
-explain idea
5. Sketch on back of proposal of your brainstorm ideas
** Proposal must be typed!!!!
Paper:
A one page typed paper on what you learned, topic in which you explored, the artist you researched, or
the area of art you chose. Explain how you achieved your goal, created the piece or any problems you
encountered along the way.
Paper will be read during presentation by student!!
Then handed in to teacher
Requirements for paper
-12 pt
-double spaced
-1/2 inch margins
-Arial or Times Roman font
-Include a bibliography (list all sources, web sites, articles, museum and galleries visited)
Submitting work:
-Each student will be given a scheduled day for presentation of their project.
-On the morning the project is due you are allowed to drop it off in W106 or W004
- All work must be professionally mounted…PRESENTATION COUNTS!
- Paper is to be handed in the day the project is due!!!
Find Ideas & Concepts from:
-Internet
- Other Artist’s work
- Art books (from library, book stores, textbooks, magazines, and comics)
- Other Art projects you have seen
- Museums or exhibitions
- Browse through and art or craft store
- Discussions with friends or family
*** YOU ARE THE ARTIST! YOU WILL CREATE EVERY ASPECT OF THIS PROJECT! NO
ASSEMBLY KITS OR COPYING OF ARTIST’S WORK!!!
Project Due: TBA
***Presentations of projects will be conducted during the last two weeks of school.
***Each students will be assigned a presentation date.