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<\/a>\u201cIt was nice to have something that really forced me to think over what we had accomplished, and how the small assignments totaled up to a pretty profound change in my thinking,\u201d Sharapan said of the Pecha Kucha assignment. The faculty voted her as having given the night\u2019s best presentation.<\/p>\n
Understanding the Visual 1 focuses on visual cultures and presentation, and on integrated experience and inquiry. By exploring topics fundamental to all areas of art and design, students develop skills in research, presentation, critique and discussion to foster critical thinking. The class seeks to develop students\u2019 abilities to formulate arguments and defend positions relevant to today\u2019s culture, through initiating an historical and contemporary context for art and design.<\/p>\n
UV-1 is part of MIAD\u2019s First-Year Experience, an exploration of new ways of seeing, thinking and creating. Inquiry and research-based modes of learning help first-year students connect and contextualize the works they are creating. Students explored their personal creative processes in Research, Practice and Methods courses, while learning about context in UV-1. A recent RPM exhibition<\/a> at MIAD featured class projects by all of the Foundations students.<\/p>\n Sharapan\u2019s Pecha Kucha presentation on her UV-1 class focused on \u2018gestalt,\u2019 the thought that \u201cthe whole object is greater than the sum of its parts.\u201d She believes it is the unsaid theme of UV-1. To Sharapan, placing art or design in its proper context is one of the keys in this principal.<\/p>\n Foundations year at MIAD is a holistic preparation for becoming a visual creator. First-year students experiment, overcome hurdles and challenge their own preconceived notions about art and design while building their futures.<\/p>\n \u201cYou can\u2019t just take things at face value, you have to contextualize them. You have to relate it to yourself,\u201d Sharapan said. \u201cYou have to ask \u2018why\u2019 to try to understand how something came about. To understand what it is, you have to know where it came from.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Sharapan learned about the importance of personal perspective throughout the class. She reflected that artists and designers must be aware of their own perspective, and should try to look at their own work as their audience would.<\/p>\n The students voted Foundations student Josh Christensen\u2019s presentation. He talked about the importance of having fun while creating art because it makes the creation process more enjoyable and allows artists to express themselves more fully.<\/p>\n Christensen said the class taught him to see with an \u201cartist\u2019s eye,\u201d taking time to notice details and beauty he had previously overlooked. He, along with several other students, cited a field trip that examined Kohler kitchen and bathroom fixtures as a perfect example of it.<\/p>\n \u201cI wanted mine to reflect not only what I\u2019ve learned in class but also what I\u2019ve learned just being here at MIAD,\u201d Christensen said of his presentation. \u201cReally the main theme of my speech was that I\u2019ve learned to be myself not only in my art but also in life. UV-1 has helped me be able to express myself in my art.\u201d<\/p>\n Christensen drove home his theme of having fun as he walked back from the podium to his seat as the song \u201cExpress Yourself\u201d played.<\/p>\n First-year student Margaret Sharapan used to think of fine art and design as \u201ctwo branches on a tree,\u201d but Foundations course Understanding the Visual 1 has shown her they are \u201cco-dependents that give and take from one another.\u201d On December 8, the entire Foundations class gathered as eleven of the first-year students, one from each … Continue reading Foundations Students\u2019 Pecha Kucha a Contemporary Tradition<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.miad.edu\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/a>