SJ Story Map Visual Arts Workshop: Digital Imagery & Waterway Stories

SJ Story Map & SJSU College of Humanities & Arts

Put your story on the San Jose Story Map! Register today for our free online workshop and start creating your San Jose Story.

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Be inspired! Get creative! Take away great ideas, tips, and techniques!Register today for our FREE online workshop and start mapping your San Jose Story. Open to all SJSU students. A Zoom link will be sent to you after registration.Workshop Description:In the first half of the workshop you will be introduced to example postcard designs and learn how to use the postcard template. Snap a picture on your mobile device or professional camera of water features or related imagery in your neighborhood that gives visual form to your experiences with water or thoughts about humanity&#x27;s relationship to the hydrosphere. Bring the photograph and some ideas about who/what you would send the postcard to &amp; what you might write.The second part of the workshop is designed for students who need help with their file exports for the contest submission. 6:30 - 7:00 Digital Imagery &amp; Waterway Stories - Robin Lasser (she/her), Department of Art &amp; Art History (Photography) In this portion of workshop we will:<ul><li>Review Examples of Student Projects</li><li>Review setup of the template in Photoshop</li></ul>7:00 -8:00 Artist Presentation, Photoshop Exports, &amp; Contest Submission Workshop - Adrienne Defendi, MFA Candidate, Department of Art &amp; Art History (Photography). Topics covered in this portion of the workshop will include:<ul><li>Using the Postcard Template</li><li>Exporting for the Competition</li><li>Feedback on designs (time permitting)</li></ul>Required Workshop Resources<ul><li><a href="https://www.sjsu.edu/ecampus/teaching-tools/adobe/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Photoshop </a>(free for SJSU students, download before workshop)</li><li>Template (need link): 4 x 12 inch “canvas” in photoshop at 300 dpi</li></ul>Inspirational Prompts from Robin Lasser:Water connects us. Even in this time of social distancing. This is true regardless of whether you live by a large or small body of water, over an aquifer, in a rain forest, the desert, or in a large city or small town where a network of human made waterways are underground. The rain that falls in your backyard originates as evaporated steam half a world away. Our drinking water can come from a well, or a local reservoir, or it may be brought in from hundreds of miles away by pipelines and diversion of water from rivers. NOTE: If you are outside for any of these activities, please practice social distancing by keeping a 6-foot physical distance between your family, housemate, and others for safety and health!1. Respond to the question—“What are you waiting to see wash up on your shore?” The ‘shore’ can be literal—the edge of a pond, lake or river, a beach or rocky seaside bank—or it can be metaphoric —something you are hoping will happen or something you have been missing because of the pandemic. 2. Explore your neighborhood watershed—take picture of your neighborhood water features with your phone, tablet or digital camera.Is there a pond nearby? A creek? Maybe there is a wetlands or areas that flood in the spring when it rains. Can you find the storm drains on your street? What about those metal plates on the sidewalk that say ‘water? What does that mean? Do you hear tiny peeper frogs in the shallows of a marsh or do birds come by and visit your bird bath? 3. Neighborhood “beachcombing”—what objects can you find along the “shorelines” of your neighborhood block? Is your sidewalk a shoreline? Yes! There is water deep underground, in the surface soil, collecting underground, flowing though pipes into homes, and in the air as humidity, fog and clouds. Are these anthropogenic (human-made) objects or representative of our wild nature residents in the form of bird nests, flowers, insects, toads, plants. 4. Park shorelines—what objects can you find along the shorelines of your local park or lake on your nature walk? Are these anthropogenic (human-made) artifacts such as fishing gear, flip flops, toys or bottles, or representative of our wild nature residents?5. Try making a map of the outdoor watershed on your block. Include all those storm drains, water main plates in the sidewalks, water fountains, visible hoses and pipes, drainage ditches, low areas on walkways and streets that flood, as well as any creeks, or ponds that are obvious. After the workshop students are encouraged to submit their finished designs to the <a href="https://projects.cadre.sjsu.edu/sjstorymap/wishyouwerehere/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Wish You Were Here Correspondence Exhibition Design Contest </a>(Nov 1 - Dec 6th). All Submissions to Wish You Were Here will also be considered for the San Jose Story Map Contest which will open early 2021.This event is sponsored by San José State University’s <a href="https://www.sjsu.edu/humanitiesandarts/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">College of Humanities and the Arts</a> and is organized in partnership with SJSU’s <a href="https://sjsu.edu/thompsongallery/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Natalie &amp; James Thompson Gallery</a> &amp; the <a href="https://projects.cadre.sjsu.edu/sjstorymap/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">San Jose Story Map</a> project.About The San Jose Story Map ProjectThe <a href="https://projects.cadre.sjsu.edu/sjstorymap" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">San Jose Story Map</a> uses the power of stories to reveal San Jose in a new and different light. Contest entries must be original literary or artistic compositions relating to San Jose:<ul><li>Literary Entries 750 words max (any genre)</li><li>Photographs</li><li>Images of material work</li><li>Video</li><li>Audio/Sound recordings</li><li>Links to externally hosted web projects</li></ul>We welcome stories that explore San Jose’s hidden histories, unheard voices, diverse communities, and dynamic neighborhoods. A special, themed category called “Covid Chronicles” has been introduced for stories written while or about sheltering in a place in San Jose during the pandemic. For contest details and submission guidelines see the <a href="https://projects.cadre.sjsu.edu/sjstorymap" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">San Jose Story Map</a> website.Led by Revathi Krishnaswamy (English &amp; Comparative Literature, SJSU) &amp; Rhonda Holberton (Digital Media Arts, SJSU), The San Jose Story Map project is part of SJSU’s <a href="https://www.sjsu.edu/humanitiesandarts/Faculty_Development_Resources/What_Is_Deep_Humanities.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Deep Humanities Initiative</a>. This project is made possible with support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Visit calhum.org.Submit your finished story/visual art to the <a href="https://projects.cadre.sjsu.edu/sjstorymap" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">San Jose Story Map</a> contest! About <a href="https://projects.cadre.sjsu.edu/sjstorymap/wishyouwerehere/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Wish You Were Here </a>(Correspondence Exhibition &amp; Design Contest)Students from across disciplines as well as the greater San Jose Public are invited to attend a series of workshops to help translate their personal experiences of living/working in San Jose into visual form that can be adapted into a postcard format. The workshops will culminate in a design contest that runs from Nov 1 - Dec 1 and return 1 winning kiosk design (for postcard distribution and return) and 15 postcard designs that will be printed in runs of 500 each. Wish You Were Here grew out of a series of brainstorming sessions with the Natalie &amp; James Thompson Gallery and faculty from Art &amp; Design departments at San Jose State University about ways to meaningfully connect the themes from the San Jose Story Map with the visual arts while Sheltering in Place. Wish You Were Here serves as way to collect multidisciplinary contributions of visual &amp; text based work focused on placemaking in San Jose with sub-themes of:<ul><li>Sheltering in Place</li><li>Sustainability</li><li>Cultural History</li><li>Generational Connectivity</li><li>Transformation </li></ul>To ground the students exploration of ‘correspondence as exhibition’, a panel featuring the directors of 5 Bay Area Alternative Art Exhibition Platforms will discuss the ways they have responded to Social Distancing as well as lasting impacts this time might have on platforms for art viewership and production. In the Spring Semester the Thompson Gallery will feature an exhibition of ‘correspondence art’ mailed to the gallery or dropped off to the kiosk. A digital exhibition of submitted designs (hosted by San Jose Story Map) will go live at the same time.________________________________________________________________________________________________Additional Creative Workshops:<ul><li><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/o/sj-story-map-amp-sjsu-college-of-humanities-amp-arts-31477397109" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Visual Workshops</a></li><li><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/o/sjsu-san-jose-story-map-project-amp-cla-31438363775" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Writing Workshops</a></li></ul>After the workshop students are encouraged to submit their finished designs to the <a href="https://projects.cadre.sjsu.edu/sjstorymap/wishyouwerehere/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Wish You Were Here Correspondence Exhibition Design Contest </a>(Nov 1 - Dec 6th). All Submissions to Wish You Were Here will also be considered for the <a href="https://projects.cadre.sjsu.edu/sjstorymap" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">San Jose Story Map</a> Contest which will open early 2021.About <a href="https://projects.cadre.sjsu.edu/sjstorymap/wishyouwerehere/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Wish You Were Here </a>(Correspondence Exhibition &amp; Design Contest)These creative workshops will culminate in a design contest that runs from Nov 2 - Dec 6 and return 1 winning kiosk design (for postcard distribution and return) and 15 postcard designs that will be printed in runs of 500 each. Wish You Were Here grew out of a series of brainstorming sessions with the Natalie &amp; James Thompson Gallery and faculty from Art &amp; Design departments at San Jose State University about ways to meaningfully connect the themes from the <a href="https://projects.cadre.sjsu.edu/sjstorymap" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">an Jose Story Map</a> with the visual arts while Sheltering in Place. Wish You Were Here serves as way to collect multidisciplinary contributions of visual &amp; text based work focused on placemaking in San Jose with sub-themes of:<ul><li>Sheltering in Place</li><li>Sustainability</li><li>Cultural History</li><li>Generational Connectivity</li><li>Transformation </li></ul>About The <a href="https://projects.cadre.sjsu.edu/sjstorymap/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">San Jose Story Map</a> ProjectThe San Jose Story Map uses the power of stories to reveal San Jose in a new and different light. Contest entries must be original literary or artistic compositions relating to San Jose:<ul><li>Literary Entries 750 words max (any genre)</li><li>Photographs</li><li>Images of material work</li><li>Video</li><li>Audio/Sound recordings</li><li>Links to externally hosted web projects</li></ul>

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