Week 11 - Tattfoo Tan Studio Visit

This week we went on a field trip to visit the studio of Tattfoo Tan.


Introductions, group discussion of Tattfoo's work and Q&A session.






Tattfoo's syllabus books for some of his projects:

• New Earth Resiliency Training Module
• Nature Matching System
• Sustainable. Organic. Stewardship. Action Guide

Students explore the studio


Next the students learned how to make raspberry jam with help from Tattfoo.







 




Finished jam before sealing jars.




Boiling jars to create vacuum seal.



Tattfoo shows the class how to make fire. Image by Syndey Kaye.


Daniel, Rob, Boyan and Zihong give it a try.






Tattfoo shows some of his preserved foods and milkweed from his garden




Tattfoo and students give each other tarot card readings from a customized deck of Tattfoo's desgin.

HOMEWORK / FOR NEXT TIME

We have the week of Thanksgiving off from class and the following week, 11/30 we will have our pre-final critique.

Everyone should have something to show.

Bring as much as you can toward the finished version of your final projects including prototypes, first iterations, a dry run of a performance, etc. It should be more than sketches or ideas at this point. This is a great opportunity for you to get in-progress feedback from your professors and peers.