Hiya!
Well, you survived Summer ’16! Congratulations! To those who are done, done, a really big Congratulations!! To everyone returning to The Beach next semester, enjoy your one week off! I’m sure it’ll be plenty busy!
Good luck with grad school, GRE’s, work, family, life, and all the other things you guys are working on. And thank you for being a part of Art110 this summer. It was really nice getting to know you online, and meeting a few of you F2F.
Happy Trails!
Final Grades
As you know, we had 1,000 points possible in the course, with 900 needed for a final grade of “A”, 800 = “B”, 700 = “C”, 600 = “D”, and 599 & below = “F”. Since a few of you actually wound up with over 1,000 points, I’m calling those “A+” or Super-A’s. You should know that there’s no such thing on your official university transcripts, there’s just the regular “A”. Which is pretty good! Congratulations and thank you to everyone who participated this summer. Here’s the final breakdown:
A+ – 4 peeps
A – 11 peeps
B – 4 peeps
C – 0 peeps
D – 0 peeps
F – 4 peeps
Class GPA = 3.13
Congratulations to all. And thank you to all. And here’s our 4 “super A’s”:
Lisa Mann, 1,224 points
Hiten Master, 1,113 points
Rannah Jahedi, 1,102 points
Lisa Bernhauser, 1,002 points
Course Docs
I’ll be taking the Summer Roster & Summer Syllabus off the class website menus soon. Making room for Fall. But even though those materials won’t be featured on the menus, the information will still be here on the BeachArts website. If you ever want to go visit a classmate’s blog to see what they’re up to, you still can use the roster. If you want to check the syllabus, to remind yourself what you did when working on a resume, or transferring units to another school, it’s still here.
Last Activity
For the last activity last week you chose a lot of different things. Here are a few of them:
Adam made a very cool summer synthesis project. He started by doing another Automatic Drawing, and then used that drawing as a GIMP (Photoshop like, Open Source software) template to make a collage of some of the Activities & Artists from our summer adventure.
Kelly used Week 12 to convert her Art110 website to a Sailing website. Very cool! This home page screen-shot shows how powerful a sailboat and a smile can be in setting both the content and the tone of a site.
I didn’t talk a lot about ePortfolios this summer, but I can’t encourage you enough to think about one. You’ve been using a great ePortfolio tool all summer. You could convert your Art110 website to your ePortfolio… or make a new WordPress site… or use any other platform you like… but what a great thing to have!
Whether you’re taking more classes or starting a career, a website is a great place to document some of the great work you do. Obviously if you’re an employee or if you have clients, you’ll need to be sensitive about what is and is not appropriate to make public. But don’t let that stop you from showing what you’ve done.
Start now!
Keep building!
As some of you know, Layla really got into our Graffiti Writing activity. She metup with some classmates at the Venice Art Walls, then later went to Sunken City in San Pedro, and later still went to Davenport Ditch near Santa Cruz. For her final activity she decided to give stencil making a try. She cut stencils of various presidential candidates.
Niko decided to try Street Photography again, and shot this long-exposure of a person dancing with fire.
Rami’s already returned to New York for his final year at Parsons. He decided to shoot some more Street images. Well, returned to New York, but then headed down to Rio for the Olympics! 😀
Happy Travels
Thank you again for spending part of your summer with us. Have a wonderful rest of summer, a great fall, and a great life!
Comments? Questions? What great art did you see, make, or experience today?