Study plan as a whole.

New students may find it interesting to see another person's study plan. I have posted 4 on this blog, My overall study plan , My G1 study plan, My G2 study plan and my practicum study plan. PLEASE NOTE: your study plan may be very different. I don't do academic writing so my study plans are in plain English.

Guidelines: You develop this detailed plan in conferences with your faculty advisor and perhaps with other students with similar interests. The plan is a study contract that states specifically what your goals are, what you want to learn and why, and how you will go about achieving these goals in the context of the MFAIA program and its degree criteria. You and your advisor must agree upon the plan. THIS STUDY PLAN MAY BE USED AS PART OF AN INTERIM TRANSCRIPT. Please take care in its preparation.

Briefly identify the Areas of Inquiry that will provide the academic and artistic context of your overall studies.

Sculpture

Digital media

Writing

Exploration of creativity, expression, faith, emotion and process

Overall Goals: Broadly, what do you hope to achieve by the time you are ready to graduate? What themes, metaphors, life interests or fields are prominent in your practice or that you wish to explore? We suggest that you start with assessing the current state of your artistic practice. Then describe the direction in which you would like your art work to evolve. What skills and knowledge will you need to gain to support that growth?

I do recognize that Goddard provides narrative transcripts but as part of my goal for studying at Goddard I am trying to obtain 18 hours of course equivalent transcripts in each of the following areas— sculpture, digital media and writing. Therefore it is important for me to look at my study with that outcome. Though I have no immediate goal to teach, it is important for me to plan my study in preparation of what I think might happen in my future. Having these transcripts along with my narrative transcripts offers me the opportunity of teaching these disciplines at a college level.

Exploration of the nuances of sculpting, both of my own personal process and that of others will be part of my graduate study while at Goddard. In addition to that, as new technology is created and infiltrates the studio an examination of the processes and how it can relate to traditional sculpture is necessary. Using the innovative technology, as a tool and exploring the affect they have on the traditional artists will also be reviewed. It is my desire to use the research and the processes in my own creations and then bridge the gap between traditional and digital through my writing, and tutorials.

I’d also like to explore my own expression, Focusing and honing my abilities as a writer. Possibly also incorporating other means of sharing that expression through other media.

I have a yearning and desire to educate and help others explore themselves and will do so with a variety of media. Education can be as simple as how to, or as (deep) as introspection of my self and encouragement to others.

Critical Development, Theory and Context: What critical discourses and theoretical concepts will you engage with over the course of your graduate studies? Identify the central fields of study; cultural, social, artistic and political frameworks; or other areas of knowledge that you plan to explore and describe how you see this contributing to your overall creative development.

Working through the process of using digital technology myself helps me to bridge that gap between traditional studio and the digital tools. Because of my own exploration and incorporation of these tools I feel that I can better educate others, as well as identify with the affects of using them in my creative process. It will however be interesting to see how other traditional artists come to terms with technology and if they will embrace it or shun it.

Because technology is changing and growing it will be necessary to keep engaged with the advances. Just as digital photography and printing has changed the photography, new advancements in digital technology will be changing the field of sculpting. It will even change the way that bronze casting has been done for centuries. With such changes come a great deal of uncertainty and psychological barriers between the creator and the tools. It will be interesting to explore these barriers.

On a more personal note—through writing and exploration of creativity it is important to allow myself to become vulnerable to others in order to assist them with their process of growth and healing. In turn, the sharing affects my own growth as well.

Resources: What resources will you use to enhance your artistic and critical development? Mention reading and writing; library, gallery or museum research; workshops, classes and conferences you may wish to attend; persons you hope to interview or consult, and agencies or organizations with which you might do practicum work. Include a preliminary Bibliography and a list of your other key resources here.

While studying and working through the four areas — sculpture, digital technology writing and expression I would expect to use a wide variety of resources including not only reading books, but because of the advances in the areas that I am interested in papers and journal articles are more timely as they introduce the newest concepts. Along with attending the computer graphics conference SIGGRAPH I plan on creating a contact list of sources from this conference that also have their hands on the pulse of this new technology and are willing to share.

Reading is an integral part of my creative process not only for the technology aspect of this study, but also for my desire to becoming a better writer by exploring the writing styles and voices of other writers.

It will also be important that I expose myself to my own creative process and the creative process and life of those that I am interested in interviewing. With the subjects of Creativity, expression, emotion I’ll continue to expand my research and resources through self-exploration, reading and interviews of others.

RESOURCES
SIGGRAPH conference

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Practicum: What are your preliminary plans for your practicum? How do you envision the practicum project helping you to explore a variety of ways in which artists might live and work in the world?

Practicum does not apply at this time.