Jennifer D. Anderson ARTIST | EDUCATOR
Teaching
Student Work | Design
When I teach two-dimensional design, I focus on teaching visual literacy. Students learn the elements and principles of design through creation, as well as the analysis, interpretation and critique of a wide variety of images from contemporary advertisements to masterpieces of art history. Students then apply this to assignments that ask them to generate creative [...]
Teaching Philosophy
“I have said for many years that problem solving is greatly overvalued in our society. Problem creation is much more interesting. The questions you ask yourself are the most interesting ones, because they put you in a jam. Then your solutions are going to be more personal solutions, not art world solutions. If you can [...]
Sample Assignment – Drawing
Art 151 Assignment #1 – Drawing Often art is about taking a playful and creative stance when looking at a familiar object. Take these two images for example, the upper by Andy Warhol and the lower by Jim Dine. In both of these drawings, the artists have selected a common place object, investing it with [...]
Sample Assignment 2 – Design
Line Assignment Due Date: End of Class March 12th Artistic Inspiration: Arturo Herrera, Untitled, 2001, Acrylic on canvas Items Needed: Image of an object or character Tracing Paper Drawing Materials Illustration Board Assignment Objectives: To investigate and exploit the use of line for visual interest and abstract purposes To begin: Use tracing paper to [...]
Student Work | Drawing
In my drawing classes, students develop both perceptual and conceptual skills through observation, use and understanding of media, compositional evolution and exposure to the diversity of contemporary and historical drawing. Drawing then is allowed to function as an language and practice for students to gain understanding about items and ideas.
Sample Syllabus
Art 110 – Color and Design: Two Dimensional Orange Coast College Tuesday/Thursdays 6:30 – 9:40PM AC315 Jennifer D Anderson – Instructor Email: jdanderson@occ.cccd.edu Office Phone: 432-5512 Office: AC109 Office Hours: Monday/Wednesday 4:00-6:00PM and by appointment Required Text Design Basics by David A. Lauer and Stephen Pentak, Edition 8 Course Description A [...]
Student Work | Printmaking
My printmaking classes emphasize the creative potential and conceptual breadth of the media by introducing students to a variety of ways and means of creating the printable matrix. Inspired collaboration and communal efforts are highlighted in special projects as over all the media is emphasized as a synergy point where a wide variety of previously [...]
Special Projects | LAPS Posters
As an educator, I highly value experiential learning and feel students learn the most when they are challenged and given the chance to apply their skills to “real” situations and problems. For this special project, students in my spring 2009 screen printing classes created posters for the Los Angeles Printmaking Society’s 20th National exhibition. Students [...]
Special Projects | Big Prints
From 2 feet by 4 feet to 4 feet by 8 feet, my printmakers have been working on big, large, can we say massive, woodcuts this semester. The project was a perfect tie in to the Impact – The Big Print exhibition that was at our gallery early this fall. Drawing inspiration from large relief [...]
Special Projects | Collaborative Anthology
FatKidsAreHardToKidnap3b Spring 2010 my printmaking students at Orange Coast College had the wonderful opportunity to work collaboratively with Professor Davi Loren’s Short Story workshop to produce an illustrated journal. The process was a lot of fun and challenged all who participated! The collaboration occurred in several ways. Each class first worked independently, then the writers [...]