Tattoo production time! Printing in class, tests, designs and consultation
ALL TATTOOS must be printed and ready to apply for our class party on Wednesday! Make extras to share.
Let’s print some quick posters and invite other students to join us if they want a tattoo.
WEDNESDAY
TATTOO PARTY! 11:30 – 2pm – Bring snacks, cloths, water bowls, and your tattoos, and your adventurousness!
Apply your tattoos to each other, to yourselves, to friends and go wild! Bring snacks, and remember – you only have to participate up to your comfort level, no one has to get/give temporary tattoos they don’t want. Come take pictures, share snacks, DJ, have fun.
BLOG posts with documentation of your tattoos in ideal presentations, with a description and title will be due on the blog – along with ALL other blog assignments and art projects WEDNESDAY April 9th at noon.
This is the FINAL deadline for all work in our class – there will be no late work accepted after this date.
Human beings have been tattooing themselves for thousands of years. For religious and spiritual reasons, for beautification, remembrance, for rites of passage, for sex, as expressions of identity and belonging; of protest, of love and sometimes – of possession and hate.
Artists have explored many of these ideas in artist-tattoo projects, utilizing self-conscious, and conceptual strategies in designing and applying tattoos. The resulting works are sometimes surprising, provocative or difficult, funny, or emotionally moving.
Students will create a tattoo piece. You can use the transfer paper or other print and drawing techniques to make one, or multiple tattoos. You can also consider ways to present your work – on a body, in a performance, or in a video. Finish your tattoo somehow – to present to the class and on the blog as a finished artwork.
**** While your work may be a proposal and sample of a permanent tattoo, I would recommend you do NOT apply a real permanent tattoo/mark on yourself or others to complete this assignment. After critiques you are free to do what you like with your own body – but for class, you will not make a permanent body alteration, please.
Consider artist tattoos by:
Jana Sterbak
Douglas Gordon
Catherine Opie
John Murchie
Shannon Gerard
Artur Zmijewski
Michelle Lacombe
David Shrigley
Jordan Bennett
Santiago Sierra
Alethea Arnaquq-Baril
Students will document finished works for addition to the blog. Include a title, a short description and one to two images or video of your work.
Works must be posted on the blog ONE WEEK after final class – with a title and description to receive a final grade.
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Prep for in class exercise on Wednesday – SHOW US YOUR TATTOOS
DEMO for printing on Tattoo paper and demo assignment – with a partner, make a tattoo based on the work of MICAH LEXIER that involves more than one body to complete. Make and document in class!
WEDNESDAY:
Watch and discuss the documentary: Tuunnit: Retracing the Lines of Inuit Tattoos
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Discuss ideas for tattoos
Work time and printing in studio
Review work time next week, and plan tattoo party!
From 11:30 (SHARP) to 1pm we will be having our critiques for:
Ana
Cheyanne
Charys
Kayla
Esais
GO TO OPEN STUDIOS – 2-530 pm and/or 7:30-9 pm Students must visit MFA studios/Captstone studios during this period. Nathan will be present to support technical questions if you would like to work on your projects in the lab.
BLOG assignment: Capture a few images of student work from Open Studios and comment on the experience of visiting the artists, studios and the works on your blog.
Diane will be leading Candice Hopkins around Open Studios and hosting the visiting speaker lecture. I’ll see you walking around – let’s high five!
Open studios 2025 information:
We look forward to welcoming everyone to Guelph for MFA Open Studios 2025! 🌟
MFA Open Studios is a free event open to the public where you can meet and greet our MFA students, see their current projects in their studios, and attend the Studio Art Lecture in Contemporary Art given this year by curator and writer @candicebhopkins!
Leading up to the MFA Open Studios and the Studio Art Lecture in Contemporary Art on March 19, we will introduce our first and second year candidates! Stay tuned to learn more about their diverse practices! 👀
Open Studios is on Wednesday March 19, 2025. The event will run from 2:00 pm to 5:30 pm and 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm.
Please visit the link in our bio for more information about the event including complimentary parking and registration for free tickets to the lecture.
