CHANGING THE SUBJECT WORKSHOP 


​AT DEEPER LEARNING SAN DIEGO 2022 

DOCUMENTATION OF TEACHER PLANNING AND STUDENT WORK IS THE PURPOSE OF
CHANGING THE SUBJECT

Look through the book Changing the Subject;
changingthesubject.org




What project strikes you at first glance?





​What is one aspect that seems interesting?
(Could be a photo, description, or what is missing)
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Introduce yourself by sharing your impressions to the group.

Put It To Practice 


​Imagine your school made a book like this every year. 

Make a chapter in this book 
by farming the internet or your own phone.
If you do not have a recent project you can make one up. 

These are the components we used in the book,
you can use all, some or none of these. 

Project Title
(The most important, I love puns for this)

Where did the project come from?

Learning Goals


Teacher Exemplar

Teacher Planning

Exhibition
(Where does this project live?)

​Student Work
Jeff's number one rule for teaching of any kind is: "Do the Project yourself." We looked at our phones and did the project ourselves first.

Jeff's Exemplar 

OUTLINE AND DECORATE
​I N HONOR OF THE LATE GREAT WAYNE THIEBAUD
 K I N D E R G A R D E N • T W E L F T H  G R A D E
​A R T • W R I T I N G • M A T H • J E F F  R O B I N
​ANY SCHOOL • ANY CLASSROOM • ANY SUBJECT

Where did the project come from?This project came from my sadness that a wonderful 20th-century artist died. Thiebaud applied to everyone. We all like sweets, colorful lines, and a simplicity that clears the haze and the problems. He distilled what a child would see entering a candy store or a bakery and added colorful outlines that made these confections stand out, highlighting what is delicious in our world. My students loved his work and often used his methods, subjects, and reason for creation in their works. 
Wayne Thiebaud, Pies, 2005
Wayne Thiebaud, Cakes, 1988
Wayne Thiebaud, Cakes, 1963
Learning Goals
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•Use outlines and abstraction to focus your composition

•Use symmetry to organize the image

•Technology: Make a Maquette on Sketch Up or in Photoshop

•Write about the image or the process. Why is Thiebaud's motif so compelling?

•Describe within your mathematical ability a formula explaining your composition
Teacher Exemplar 
I just happen to have lots of images, you can take your from the internet, relax it is for educational purposes, no one here is making money 
My composition, is a sushi Thiebaud image. Thiebaud used sweets as a subject. I used what I feel is my favorite thing to eat and now draw. I know that his paintings are symmetrical and often have an offset pattern like the stars on the flag.

​I used a watercolor painting I made and deconstructed it in Photoshop. To show depth, I reduced the size of each piece of sushi in each row by 20%. Then staggered each row. I then selected the negative space around each piece of sushi and used the paint tool to paint the complementary color of the central part of the sushi and outline it. Then I contracted the lasso tool by 30 pixels and erased the overlap by hitting delete. This process left a Thiebaud-like outline around each piece of sushi. I then made shadows and repeated the outline process. Reducing each piece was easy; however, it needed to be consistent. I used Excel to find the actual size of the sushi 1reduction. So the smallest row is 51% not 40% like I first assumed. Yah math!
This is a little painting I made and used to make my exemplar. Again for this project the work don't have to be yours.
A maquette  I made with sushi instead of sweets.
Student Exhibition 
Student Work (my students work over the years) 
Exhibition- This work could be exhibited around the school, in student publications and online. Most of the work above is in . . .  
and in an online exhibition from Motive and Motif on jeffrobin.com
Jean's Exemplar

In 30 minutes, let's put this to practice, make a chapter in this book.

Use Pages, Google Slides, or whatever software you want.

We will do a gallery afterwards on your laptop.


Project Title

(The most important, I love puns for this)

Where did the project come from?

Learning Goals

Teacher Exemplar

Teacher Planning

Exhibition

(Where does this project live?)

​Student Work







​ 

It wouldn't be educational if you did not assess!


​CAPTURE IT!