2017 Surface Design Challenge - Surface Design in Many Mediums
NOTE: In case the explanation of the Challenge was somewhat confusing at the meeting, I've extracted this write up from the NewsBlog so you can reference it separately. If you scan to the bottom of this post, you will see the January Blog.
This
is 12 month challenge running from January 2016 through December 2016
culminating in a single, cohesive piece of work for our 2017 Member
Show (Venue TBD). The goal is to demonstrate the infinite variety that
emerges when different 'design eyes' create art using a single set of
guidelines. There only a few suggested guidelines that are merely
intended to invoke similar thoughts in the viewer. If you are attending
any of the surface design workshops for the Florida
CraftArt pieces, you may want to consider also producing your 'piece of
the month' during those sessions.
Every
month will be done on a consistent surface size (you choose the size).
You want an eye on the end goal (12 pieces) that will be joined
together. For example, a 12" square surface would yield a pretty big
object (nominally 3' x 4') However, this size is your choice and if you
don’t want them all the same size, it’s up to you. If you want to mix
your media, you decide. All 12 surfaces will be joined into a
single piece for presentation in the show. Hence the "consistent size" suggestion, for
potential ease of assembly.
Each
month’s piece will highlight the challenge theme as follows. Each piece
could also highlight the same or different surface design techniques or
methods across the year.
- January– Your Favorite Color (this could set the tone for your overall piece - or not)
- February – Lines
- March –Triangles
- April– Squares, Rectangles, Parallelogram
- May – Circles, Ovals
- June– Other Geometrics (octagon, hexagon, kites)
- July– Nature/Flowers
- August– Nature/Animals
- September– Household Objects, either inspirational or reused
- October– Architectural/3Dimensional and/or ‘other’ objects, inspirational or reused.
- November– Abstract Design
- December– Your choice; something to tie them all together or perhaps you made two and can’t decide between them
- January – Assemble & Deliver for the show
Members
should keep a running journal of each piece so it will be easy to
describe the methods applied to each. This will accompany the submitted
piece and will produce a 'dialogue' that can be read by the audience.
If you feel that this challenge is too confining (or time consuming),
you are still be able to enter work of your own choice. As always, you
can enter up to two pieces in a member show so a second piece is of your own choosing.
