FALL 2016
Serving as a Professional Contact
Friends and colleagues,
I want to thank you all so much again for agreeing to serve as a Faculty Committee Member or Professional Contact for our Seniors Capstone Research and Development Project this term and next.
Many of you have served in this capacity in previous years, so you know of the enormous impact you make on the Seniors' evolution throughout their final year at the college. Students should have contacted you or will do so this week.
Please keep me cc'd on your correspondences with them.
In short -
You will see each student for 45 - 60 minutes regarding both the student's work and their research paper.
Some people like to conduct the critiques with both students at once, in order to have a depth full dialogue informative to both. This is fine, as is independent critiques.
From your feed back, the students hope to gain info on their direction regarding both their creative work and their research.
Your critiques should respond to the work at hand. Each student should be bringing you both actual work and possibly digital images of work if its too cumbersome, i.e. installation, 3D, etc.
I have asked that each student prepare themselves before hand to organize their thoughts and questions they have for you in regards to their creative development and research. I hope this will assist in the flow of the critique.
Each will have a journal with them or some sore of note taking tools during their critique. Relying on their memory and selective hearing, I have informed them, is NOT the way to conduct this invaluable time with you.
Please provide the students with other artists in the field, articles, etc. you believe would assist them in their progression.
You may wish to inquiry about their future plans for their work -- how do you think the work will take shape and evolve?
Questions regarding the scale and presentation of work, etc.
You may wish to speak about materials they should consider, provide material sources, etc.
Also you will be reading over their Capstone research papers and providing feed back, written directly on the working draft.
They should be giving you a copy of drafts that have already been vetted through the writing center with minor writing mechanical error / grammatical/and poor spelling.
Should you make any grammatical corrections, please inform me!
Your feed back should be a response to their thesis statements - i.e. is there enough research / evidence grounding their arguments? Other recommendations of bibliographical sources, figures, you can provide would be also helpful to them.
Each student will meet with their Faculty Committee Member at least twice during the semester. The student will set that up with you in the coming weeks.
I ask that Professional Contacts see the student and their work, as well as to comment on their research papers only once during the term.
The student may visit you at your studio, or a another location, or you may travel to meet with the student on campus.
The Professional Contact Committee member will be paid $90 / per student / per term, regardless if their visits are more frequent than the one.
Some Professional Contacts will be at a distance, however via Skype, FaceTime, and/or other digital imaging communicating program.
I hope this is helpful to you. Please contact me should you have any questions or concerns with the students you are working with.
Please keep track of the dates / times and students you have worked with / as well if you traveled to the college and submit to me by Dec. 10th.
Thanks again to each of you!
I enjoy not only seeing you -- but am thrilled of what you bring to the table for our students!!
JEN PEPPER
Studio Art
Cazenovia College
