This class period was initially intended to serve as a tutorial on how to cheaply frame/present 2D work (timed to help folks prep for submitting to the student show).
Mary Ann went off script to talk about school politics, funding, changes in teaching, hiring process, and how this impacts students--how they can position themselves, BFA vs BA, purpose of a Master's.
She introduced the first homework assignment during this class (to draw 25 of some icon or object), and told students "if you make 25 using just pencil and paper, you have boxed yourself into a corner. You have grown up in conservative times. So have your peers. Keep that in mind."
In hindsight, only maybe one of the students seems to have actually pushed the limits of drawing with that assignment, using unusual materials and combinations of composition and subject matter--and she was a non-major. I wonder what it means and looks like to grow up in non-conservative times. Do students need examples to illustrate something like this? Or does a concept like this just take time to take root?
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