If you are looking for the Studio Art I and Introduction to Computer Graphics List of Accepted students for the 2009 - 2010 academic year, click the links above or the ones to the left for the complete list.
If this class does not ultimately appear in your schedule contact the Dean of Academics.
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Welcome to the Archbishop Moeller High School: Studio Art / Photography / Art History / Computer Graphics Web Site!
This web site contains course material and other information of interest to the students and former art and photo students of Mr. Gregory O. Stanforth. Return to the Moeller Home Page. Visit the College Board AP Index of course Home Pages to find complete information for any AP Course including AP Studio Art Drawing, 2-D Design and AP Art History Courses. For students of AP Studio Art classes follow this link to the AP Studio Art Digital Submissions Page for Students.
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Class
Expectations: The Art/Photography Department General Policies for Students
GENERAL PRINCIPLES: 1.) Learning is the responsibility of the learner. 2). Learning is internalized by an experience. It is the responsibility of the instructor to present challenging experiences to the learner to assist him in the process of learning. Creating works of art is an experience of discovery, discipline, focus and concentration. All students have talent but directed interest and effort is required to fulfill that talent. Without hard work talent is wasted.
CLASS WORK / ASSIGNMENTS / HOMEWORK: Assignments are not a request - they are required - on time. Late work is unacceptable. There is no incomplete grade. Incomplete or late work is given a failing grade of 0%. At the instructor's discretion, in consideration of extenuating circumstances, and with reasonable early notification of unusual circumstance by the student, a higher grade may be given which reflects the individual situation. Failure to complete any assignment or homework by the quarter exam date for that subject will result in a failing grade for the quarter. Equipment failure of any kind is never an excuse for a late or incomplete assignment. Sufficient time is always given for assignments and due dates are always posted.
THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY: is encouraged and in many cases required for work in the Art/Photo Department. Because of the availability of backup equipment and liberal amounts of time given for assignments equipment failure of any kind is never an excuse for a late or incomplete assignment. If a student chooses not to begin an assignment as soon as it is given they run the risk of an unforeseen difficulty at the last minute and an unexcused late or incomplete assignment.
RETREATS, ATHLETIC AND OTHER COMMITMENTS: The same rule mentioned above applies for outside of class responsibilities for which the student has voluntarily decided to accept. The student has the primary responsibility to complete work for their classes on time and complete with no extra time given. Only an extended school sanctioned excuse for illness will enable a student to receive extra time to complete assignments. We do follow school policy which allows a student with an excused absence (sickness or retreat) the same amount of time missed for completion.
EXTRA CREDIT: is available only to students who have had all of their assignments handed in on time.
CRITIQUES: There are no tests in the traditional sense in Art/Photo Department Classes. Test will be by critique unless stipulated by the instructor. Art History is an obvious exception. Attendance is required for critiques - they are the class tests and therefore no excuse other than a school sanctioned absence will be accepted. Critiques are the means for evaluation in art and therefore all are expected to participate. The class critique is an open forum where the instructor will not only make comments concerning technical and aesthetic problems and success but will encourage the entire class to respond. Positive comments are most desirable because it is more valuable to learn from each other the good things that we have done as opposed to the negative. Likes and dislikes, although important, are only a small part of the class critique. All students will be encouraged to express their opinions which will be directed toward technique and aesthetics. The main goal of the critique is to answer the question - Why? A substantive answer will be expected.
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Attention all AP Studio Art III & IV Students!
Follow this link http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/exam/exam_questions/199015.html
for information on the use of digital images instead of slide film for presentation of art works for the AP Portfolios.
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Why you (especially a high school age artist) should not draw from photographs (even your own) or any kind of work at all, of others. Click the above link.
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AICAD MEMBERSHIP, Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design listing of member links to web sites. Also lists links by Art Major.
For a current listing of all NASAD certified schools, (National Association of Schools of Art and Design) follow the link to the "members list" page - leave the fields blank and you will have a complete up to date listing of all NASAD certified schools. NASAD is the certifying organization for all Art Colleges.
Philosophy
Archbishop Moeller High School has made a commitment to the education of the whole person. To help achieve that goal, the Art/Photography Department emphasizes individual interpretation and expression to allow students to form their ideas and enrich their personal appreciation of the many art forms in today's complex contemporary culture.
Disclaimer
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Any questions, comments, complaints, compliments or suggestions concerning the Art/Photo section of the Moeller Web site please contact the webmaster for the Art/Photo home page at this address; gstanforth@moeller.org. If this site were made of paper you would be able to use it to make inexpensive paper hats, leaky paper cups and schizophrenic origami. If you learn something during your visit you may take complete credit. "We" will not be offended. If you then tell ten people about your experience and they tell ten people, the universe will be so excited that it may cause the following "miracles / events" to occur: Dogs will bark only in emergencies. Cats will pay complete attention. Nothing will be offensive anymore.
Old Quotes:
"A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest." Paul Simon, The Boxer
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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.
President John Adams, Second President of the United States
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
President
Dwight D.
Eisenhower
April 16, 1953
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- Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
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- If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
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- We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
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- Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
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- Imagination is more important than knowledge...
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- It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.
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- The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
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- The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
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- The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
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- Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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- Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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"When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, they called me a communist.
Dom Helder Camara
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- Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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"No business which depends for existence by paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country."
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, June 16, 1933.