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Freshman art students create books on cultures

By Matthew White On April 21, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Course: Freshman Semiar @ Bunker Hill Community College.
Speical thanks to Kate Castelli from the AIB Illustration Department for working with our BHCC students.

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Cut, Fold, Culture: Making Books

By Matthew White On April 4, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Assignment: Create an artist-book based on a culture.

Last week, students in my Freshman Seminar course at Bunker Hill Community College had an opportunity to work with book-arts expert Kate Castelli. Kate showed the students how to create some simple folded book structures that can be built and modified into their own [...]

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Teaching App Development: Critique

By Matthew White On March 26, 2011 · Leave a Comment

These two audio/slideshow recordings are from a critique session on 3/24/2011. Students are just beyond the midpoint in their capstone projects, and have diagrammed some user-flow and design mockups. The comments and critiques were quite interesting, and I believe, helpful.

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Students Discover Art Through Social Issues

By Matthew White On March 23, 2011 · 1 Comment

Freshman Seminar is a foundation art course course, team taught with senior professor Courtney McGlynn, at Bunker Hill Community College. This module has students take a current event article from the news, and create an abstract collage. Also part of the module is a field trip to the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (See [...]

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Literal to Conceptual – Seeing Art in Person

By Matthew White On March 10, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Yesterday, we brought our Freshman Seminar students to the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. Students are working on the second module of the course where they discover and learn the process of conceptualization. Their assignment entails taking a current event article and creating a collage, based on interpretation.

The key to this assignment [...]

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User Flow and Critique at Bunker Hill

By Matthew White On March 8, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Here are some snapshots of students in my iPhone and Freshman Seminar courses at Bunker Hill Community College. Creative brainstorming, mind mapping and conceptualization; hammering out ideas!

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Summer Teaching Wrap Up

By Matthew White On July 30, 2010 · Leave a Comment

So, my summer classes are over, and it’s been fabulous to say the least. I completed teaching three courses this summer..Graphic Design Techniques, Market-Design-Promote, and Digital Imaging with Photoshop. Two of the three are part of the Young Artist Residency program for High School Students at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University (AIB), [...]

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Learning to crop in Photoshop, by hand…

By Matthew White On June 25, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Introduction to Digital Imaging @ Bunker Hill Community College..

Now, this class is all about Photoshop, and the techniques used to do all sorts of manipulations to digital images. I also think it is important that the technicalness of the tool be balanced, to some extent, with a more tactile application. So far, I’ve found [...]

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Digital Imaging Class @ Bunker Hill Community College

By Matthew White On June 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment

This summer, I am teaching Introduction to Digital Imaging at Bunker Hill Community College. Its an introductory Photoshop class.

These photos are from day 2 of the class. This exercise was about seeing the results of JPEG compression. The students had to save 4 versions of a high res photo at different compression rates, then [...]

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This is summer school that you want to be at

By Matthew White On May 14, 2010 · Leave a Comment

I am slated to teach two classes this summer. The first is at the Art Institute of Boston @ Lesley University, and the other is at Bunker Hill Community College.

At the Art Institute of Boston, I am teaching again in the Pre-College program for high school students. The class [...]

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