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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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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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