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Teaching Art Online: Two Professors Dish

Art Prof Clara Lieu speaks to Macalester College Assistant Professor of Art Megan Vossler and Northland College Professor of Art Jason Terry about their experiences shifting to online teaching. Topics discussed include how Prof Vossler and Prof Terry gathered information and resources to learn how to teach remotely, the tech challenges they encountered, transitioning their course content into an online format, live streaming hands on demonstrations. communicating with students online, as well as student feedback based on the semester so far.

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Art Professors FIGHT: Frank Frazetta, Sci-Fi & Fantasy Illustrator

Art Prof Clara Lieu and Teaching Artists Jordan McCracken-Foster and Deepti Menon debate Frank Frazetta's sci-fi and fantasy illustrations. In "Crit Clash," we assign a point of view to each artist for the purposes of this debate. In this case, Jordan is arguing against Frazetta while Deepti is arguing for Frazetta. These views are not necessarily what Deepti and Jordan think in real life by the way, so you might see them making statements they wouldn't normally make! Watch this debate on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/k6ZMnZGX1z4

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Art School Portfolio Mistakes to Avoid!

Art Prof Clara Lieu and Teaching Artists Lauryn Welch and Jordan McCracken-Foster discuss mistakes you can avoid when preparing an art portfolio for art school. Types of artwork such as fan art, anime, celebrity portraits are generally not what admissions officers at art school art looking for, in addition to cliche images, centered compositions, and blank backgrounds. Prof Lieu, Lauryn, and Jordan explain the reasons why and what to avoid.

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How To Start Creating a Comic

Art Prof Clara Lieu and Teaching Artists Cat Huang and Alex Rowe talk about how to start a comic. There are many components to the process: coming up with the idea for the comic, determining the length, the panel format, designing the environments and characters, the drawing process, figuring out what art media to work in, and more. Watch the video: https://youtu.be/eZDZBeYYzZM

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How Do I Know My Artwork is Finished?

Art Prof Clara Lieu and Teaching Artists Deepti Menon and Alex Rowe discuss how you know your artwork is finished. In every artwork, it's never clear when an artwork is done, what are some signals in your creative process that you can look for? What are visual cues in your artwork that you can look for to determine whether your artwork is finished or not?

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Create an Online Art Exhibition

Art Prof Clara Lieu explains how you can create the experience of an art exhibition online via Instagram. Prof Lieu provides tricks and tips on how to stage photographs to illustrate the experience of seeing an art exhibition virtually as well as ways to increase visibility and engagement for the exhibition.

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Manga You HAVE To Read! Part 1

Art Prof Clara Lieu, Teaching Artist Cat Huang, and Guest Teaching Artist Julie Benbassat talk about their absolute, must read manga books. Julie and Cat provide their insight on a diverse range of manga types and topics: Shōjo, Shōnen, comedy/gag, horror, and mystery. 

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How Do You Recognize Plagiarism?

Art Prof Clara Lieu and Teaching Artists Lauryn Welch and Jordan McCracken-Foster discuss how you define plagiarism as an artist. Prof Lieu, Lauryn, and Jordan provide several examples where artists have been accused of plagiarism, and in some cases where a lawsuit determined the final outcome.

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Illustrator Cat Huang: Artist Profile

Art Prof Clara Lieu interviews Teaching Artist Cat Huang about her artistic development as a child to her time as an undergraduate student at the Rhode Island School of Design where she studied illustration. Cat's current studio practice focuses on comics and illustration.

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How To Brainstorm as an Artist

Art Prof Clara Lieu and Teaching Artists Eloise Sherrid and Alex Rowe discuss different ways that visual artists can brainstorm their ideas to create artworks. Exercises such as word association, mind maps, thumbnail sketches, sketchbooking are all discussed as a means towards stimulating the development of ideas for future artworks.

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