VVP Salon!

Last week, our students presented work from their individual, weekly practice. There is a lot of collaboration in this class, but the individual practice is a key component to the course. (The word "practice" is even in our course title!) At the beginning of the semester, students work with the course professors to set up a regular production schedule that is based on time and material constraints. For example, a student might decide to write four sonnets per week, working every Tuesday and Thursday from 1 - 3pm.

This semester, students made short stories based on recent memories; sculptures made out of scrap wood; poems written in the voice of famous characters from novels; comics; poems drawn from the journals of a European sojourn; translations from Korean into English; and manipulated, digital images drawn from other images found on the internet. One artist, each week, made a piece, filmed herself destroying it, and then made a new piece out of the destroyed piece.

For our in-class salon, students shared their work, with a sculptor painting a one of his pieces as he talked to us about the process, a writer assigning us all parts as we read her story out loud, and other interactive presentations. As we ate donuts and drank coffee, we celebrated, and participated in, each other's individual art-making practice. Below are some pictures of our little, early morning party.