SJ Story Map Visual Arts Workshop: Vernacular Typography

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 registrationNo typographic or art-making experience required.Workshop Description:A Closer Look at the Typography that Surrounds UsWhat does typography tell us about the places where we reside? How might a closer look at the typographic landscape of our neighborhoods help us to understand larger social and economic contexts of these places? In this 1-hour workshop, you are invited to join me on a virtual walk in Burbank, an unincorporated area in west San José, for a look at the vernacular typography in my neighborhood. Then, through a series of synchronous and asynchronous prompts, you will be invited to survey the typographic landscape of the neighborhood where you are, and develop lettering for a postcard inspired by the typography you see. This lettering will become the basis for a collection of hyper-local risograph-printed postcards that may become entries in the San José Story Map Postcard Project and exhibition. The workshop will include:<ul><li>A typographic sightseeing tour of Burbank</li><li>An explanation of basic typographic terms, common forms, and sign types</li><li>Guided prompts for designing and lettering hyper local postcards inspired by the typography you see in your neighborhood.</li></ul> Suggested Materials for participants:<ul><li>Smartphone or Camera </li><li>Blank paper, Pencil, Eraser, Black sharpie, Ruler</li><li>Scanner or Smartphone with scanning app (AdobeScan or ScannerPro, for example) </li></ul> Nice to have:<ul><li>Tracing Paper, Other Mark-Making Tools</li></ul>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________________________________________________________________________________________________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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