Lab #1

Welcome!

I will post different materials and assignments each week on our Blog page. 

For the next class, which will be on January 30th, you have to:

• Create a Blog

• Participate in a student survey ( lab 3 and lab 4)

• Write an artist statement, post it on your blog and paste the link to your statement to our shared drive here.

Artist Statement 

• Check out Guide

• Resources about artist statement:

Why do we have to write artist statements?

How To Write An Artist Statement: Tips From The Art Experts

Examples 

Some other examples of Artist Statements from Filmmakers:

Yvonne Welbon

Barbara Hammer

Raunak Kapoor

Sky Hopinka

Questions to answer before writing an artist statement:

• What is the intent and purpose of your art?

• What does it say about you as an artist?

• What keeps you motivated every day?

• What is your artist story?

• What questions are you often asked about your work?

• Who is your audience

Be honest about your work. Use simple language and short sentences. Illustrate your ideas to your audience. Remember, It is an opportunity to help the reader envision your work before actually seeing it and present a picture of who you are as an artist. 

Please read the detailed instruction below about how to create a Blog.

How to create your first Blog at blogspot.com(Guide)? 

1. Sign in to Blogger.

Go to http://www.blogger.com/home, sign in with your Gmail, or create a new account for free. (click the “sign up” button at the top right corner) 

2. Click “Continue to Blogger. “ 

3. Click New blog.

It’s time to create a new website,

4. Enter a name for your blog and choose a domain

You must know that since these domain names are free, they would be suffixed with blogspot.com by default. The domain name must be unique, so there are chances that the domain name you wanna choose is already registered. 

5. Start Blogging.

Now, you can start posting posts/articles; click on start blogging!

6. Publish a post/article on the Blogspot website

Write content and title, and hit Publish to publish the post.

7. Change the look of your website. 

Blogger provides you with some free templates which you can use. Alternatively, there are many websites from where you can download the popular and good-looking website’s template for free. 

8. Download the existing template backup and upload a new template to the blogger

Go to My blogs » Template, and you will find a Backup/Restore button. From there, you can download the backup of the existing template and upload a new template(Click Choose File), browse the XML file and click Upload. It may ask you for widgets; click on Keep Widgets.

For more info, please watch the video lessons- 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sDQfu9XqBM 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n-ZpBo7cHI 

Hard drive - Toshiba