May 4, 2016

I completed dissertating, with Samuel Barber’s Cello Concerto Op.22 playing in the background, and packed my bags for School. What’s happening!? Melissa is now completing the final painting for her carefully conceived MA show, and has procured the requisite grey paint to cover her exhibition boards:

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Mr Garrett was working his magic:

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Me? I had moved onto MA Art History Project assessment. Designing a website to articulate a defined area of art historical research is a ‘big ask’, as they say. Besides subject knowledge, the student must learn web-development skills, have an instinct for design, and be able to anticipate how a broad public might might wish to access the material.

Throughout the day, I held occasional pre-assessment/feedback tutorial discussions with those students whom I’d not been able to see on Monday. Feedback, in my opinion, is as much about the student feeding the assessors a self-evaluation of their credit and deficit as it is the assessors’ evaluation of the same.

On with the MA Art History Research Project assessment, while Phil ‘the Porter’ goes far beyond the call of duty, as ever:

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At this is a time of year, we all exceed our employment contracts, and for good reason. Do what you can, rather than what you’re paid for.

During the day, I began recording samples of sounds in the studios: scraping, hammering, sanding, and painting were among today’s extractions. I’m endeavouring to accumulate and combine these into a collage of some sort. Mr Garrett, hammering:

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The evening was taken up with student references, the completion of project assessment, and preparations for tomorrow’s British Landscape, exam class.

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