Massachusetts College of Art

Art, Life and $

Syllabus

Spring 2007

Monday, 9:10 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Room North 181
Instructor: Jane D. Marsching

Email: jmarsching at massart dot edu
Office hours: Tuesday 2:30-4:30, Wednesday 9-10
Teaching Assistant: Maura Jasper
Email: mjasper at comcast dot com
Office hours: by apt.

assignments

requirements

schedule

links

Weekly Schedule (subject to change):

Jan 22
Intros, Logistics, Expectations
Read for next week: Montano, Linda. Performance Artists Talking in the Eighties. University of California Press. 2000.

Jan 29
DUE - Art, Life and $ Questions for Discussion
Kick start to writing an Artist Statement
Discuss possible five year plan approaches

Feb 5
DUE - 5 Year Plan Sketches/Mockup/Idea (Denise Marika visit)
GUEST - Matt Stevenson 11 am
Art21 PBS documentary Artist Interviews viewing
Read for next week: Pressfield, Steven. The War of Art.

Feb 12
GUEST– Our honorable TA--Maura Jasper, SIM grad and founder of Punk Aerobics
Read for next week: Acocella, Joan. “Blocked: Why do writers stop writing?” The New Yorker.

Feb 19 Presidents DAY no class

Feb 26
DUE - Artists Statements for critique –group 1
GUEST - Linda Sevey, Director of Institutional Support at MassArt 9:30am
Read for next week: Myers, Susan, "How do I prepare a budget for an art project?" http://www.artisttrust.org/4artists/grants/faqs/budget.html

Mar 5 Spring Break no class

Mar 12
Artists Statements for critique—group 2

Mar 19
GUEST: Ean White @ Harvard_
DUE - Arts Organization/Exhibition Venue short presentations are due
Read for next week: Gladwell, Malcolm. The Tipping Point.

Mar 26
DUE - 5 Year Plan Final (group 1) (Denise Marika visit)

Apr 2
DUE - 5 Year Plan Final (group 2) (Denise Marika visit)
GUEST – Josh Randall—11 am

Apr 9
Due – Five Year Plan Final (group 3)
GUEST - Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts of Massachusetts Representative to discuss copyright issues and non-profit organizations http://www.vlama.org--11:30 am

Apr 16 Patriots day no class

Apr 23
Portfolio DVD workshop with Nettrice Gaskins
Read for next week: Twyla Tharpe excerpts

Apr 30
DUE - List of Supportive Colleagues (this is private, you don’t have to share with anyone in the class, I’m strongly suggesting that you should be able to identify these people or work to find them at this point in the semester)
DUE - Resumes and Bios
Resumes and Bios critiques
Read for next week: "The Job Interview". Text adapted from http://www.artistresource.org/jobhunt.htm

May 7
Resumes and Bios critiques continued.
Networking session - bring snacks and your address books.