My First Term - A retrospective

I am now a third of the way through my residency and apparently the longest of the terms. The first term was definitely one of finding my way around and settling in to the school environment. So now that first term of 2009/10 has finished and just before next begins - as a review - here are some of the things I have achieved so far in the residency:-

• set up my studio area
• set up and ran the new lunchtime art video club for year 8 and 9 boys (covered stop-frame animation, live action with special effects editing with final cut express, story boarding, developing ideas, Pixar/Disney animation, Klutz video, William Kentridge, Julian Opie)
• helped set up the GCSE art show in the atrium gallery
• attended school trips to Tate Modern, National Portrait Gallery and Tate Britain
• assisted in the teaching of Year 8, Year 10, Year 11 and Year 12 and been available for ad hoc tutorials
• regular 'art work of the month' updates on school website
• embraced web2.0 as a learning platform (ie this blog)
• created my own website for my professional practice
• continued with the research and refinement of the thinking of my own practice

This is what I will be focusing on in 2010:-

• setting up and running the lunchtime art video club for the year 8 and 9 girls
• creating more of a balance in my school duties versus my own practice to enable the production of more art
• creating a body of work using the 'back end' research from the first term
• participating in two already confirmed exhibitions
• entering more exhibitions and competitions
• securing gallery representation