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How to Critique | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios | Summary and Q&A

The importance of constructive critique and guidelines for offering thoughtful feedback on the internet and in art.

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• 💗 Critique is a valuable learning tool that helps us grow personally and intellectually.
• 🥋 Spending time with a piece of art before forming an opinion can lead to a deeper understanding and appreciation.
• 💦 Celebrating and highlighting the successful aspects of a work fosters a positive and encouraging environment.
• 💦 Personal connections and questions can provide meaningful insight into the work.
• ❓ Being mindful of our language and avoiding meanness contributes to a supportive and constructive online community.
• 🆕 Participating in critique can offer fresh perspectives and a chance for personal growth.
• 🏛️ Building a community of shared critique can enhance the experience for everyone involved.

[DIGITAL TONE] This week, I want to talk to you about something that's been weighing on my mind lately, and that's the issue of critique. If you spend any time on the internet, it's something you come across frequently. If you're the victim of internet trolls or if you are an internet troll, listen up. There is an etiquette to critique that has bee... Read More

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Q: why is critique important on the internet.

Critique on the internet helps us learn and grow by offering different perspectives and teaching us about various ways of thinking and looking at things. It is a constructive process that can help shape our beliefs.

Q: How can we offer thoughtful critique?

Firstly, be attentive and spend time with the work before forming an opinion. Avoid being lazy in your critique by providing specific feedback that goes beyond casual and generic words like "interesting". Look for aspects of wonder and celebrate the successful elements of the work.

Q: Do you need to be an art expert to offer critique?

No, everyone can offer their opinion on art. Find your point of connection to a piece, whether it reminds you of something personal or has specific qualities you appreciate. Consider the decisions made by the artist, the skills on display, and don't hesitate to ask questions if you can't think of declarative statements.

Q: How should we interact with others' work online?

Pretend you are in the same room with the person you are critiquing and think about their feelings. Avoid being mean or making unnecessary value judgments. Instead, focus on offering constructive feedback, discussing the aspects of wonder, and creating a supportive community.

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The internet is filled with critique, but there is an etiquette to critique that has been practiced in art schools for a long time.

Critique is not about changing someone's mind, but about learning and shaping one's own beliefs.

Some guidelines for critiquing include being attentive, avoiding laziness, being generous, finding a personal connection, and avoiding being mean.

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Assignments are a personal challenge from an artist using specific materials, a driving idea, or technique. Viewers on YouTube even send in their assignments and the hosts review some of the favorites that teachers can use as models for their students. The theory discussions, dubbed “The Case for…” tackle contentious topics in the art world, like the value of Warhol’s pop art to the idea behind minimalism. These videos could act as excellent jumping off points for class discussions or explorations of specific movements, periods, or artists. Additionally, The Art Assignment features seven videos explaining everything from how to critique art as well as how to negotiate the common sticking point about how “my kid could make that.”

As the collection is intended for older audiences, it would not be advisable to use these videos with elementary school students. To that end, the hosts assume that viewers have a foundational understanding of the elements of art, major movements and periods, as well as some of the most famous names in art history. Middle school is the starting point because the assignments can definitely be used in those classrooms, but some of the discussions might be best left to high school and even advanced-level students due to the depth of content and the sensitive nature of some of the topics. These videos are also available on YouTube .

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This video explains concrete, practical strategies that both art teachers and art students can apply to group critiques in the classroom.

Discussion led by Art Prof Clara Lieu and Teaching Artists Cat Huang, Lauryn Welch , and Casey Roonan .

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Critique is an essential component of the artistic process. This tutorial will demonstrate and explain concrete, practical strategies for both art teachers and art students which they can apply in their artistic process.

A wide range of critique formats will be shown and explained: one-on-one art critiques, small group art critiques, methods for self-critique, large group art critiques within an art class, and more.

For every art teacher, leading art critiques during an art class is an ongoing challenge.

Every student, every artwork, and every art critique is different. In the context of any art critique, teachers need to be alert, responsive, and ready to handle any circumstance that arises in the conversation.

Art students have their own challenges as participants in a group critique, how do you speak articulately about your own artwork? How do you make comments that are tactful and that will impact your peers in a positive way?

This video provides a comprehensive look at critiquing art.

Video Walkthrough

• What is an art critique?
• First critique is important
• The need for engagement
• Set ground rules
• Students need to back up their points
• Positive feedback
• Be candid & constructive
• Separate yourself from your art
• Listen & be less defensive
• Critique is a “test”
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• Be fair with time
• Split the class when needed
• What to critique: t humbnail sketches , or the final art?
• In-progress critiques catch mistakes
• One-on-one critiques
• Consider skill & subject
• Stick to the prompt
• Set aside personal bias
• Get many opinions
• Take initiative
• Use simple language
• When students don’t talk
• Negative social dynamics
• Keep calm & control the situation
• Facing an inactive class
• Don’t ignore rude behavior
• Shut down inappropriate topics
• Let a student take time when emotional
• Sensitive topics are necessary
• Warn students of offensive work
• Do research before showing the final piece

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Art Prof has a number of videos on how to perform an art critique. And for most people, they follow the rules and give other members 3 crits for every post of their own in the crit channel.

Some do it to “follow the rules” and others do see that providing crits to fellow members generates positive community interactions.

People appreciate being “seen” and often tend to respond to the same members that responded to them. But there are more benefits to critiques than may be apparent.

The most useful benefit is that you are training your eyes and mind. With each critique, you are learning how to look at art and see things you like and things that you don’t like so much.

You notice the “vibe” or the feeling the piece generates. With practice you can see tangents, perspective and proportion. If there are colors, you can see if they work well together or distract from the piece.

You get used to looking at a color snapshot of a piece and turning it into a black and white photo so you can better see the values.

You make sure in each piece you have a range of values/tone – from the darkest darks to the lightest lights.

And with all that information in your head, you can look at your own work and run through that checklist. So each time you give someone else a critique, know that you are gaining something too.

You are working your “art brain muscle” to be able to identify areas in your own art that may need a little more work or attention. Critique of someone else’s art makes your art better.

The other benefit that you can realize from exercising your crit muscle is being able to separate your product from yourself. The first few times someone critiques your work, it may be difficult for you.

As you give and get critiques, you start seeing that it’s simply a matter of determining if the piece needs more work.

It may take time, but you eventually realize that the critique is not judging your artwork, but suggesting ways it can be improved.

It is not a valuation of you as a person. And it is not an evaluation of you as an artist. It’s about the piece, not the person.

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Commentators questioned why long-awaited renovations have suddenly become urgent.

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Israeli media has been critical of the decision. The Jerusalem Post said: “This failure to represent Israel in a world-class event spells another low point for the current administration.”

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Artist Ruth Patir, who is representing Israel at the Biennale, made a shock announcement on the first preview day of the event that she would keep her exhibition at the pavilion closed to the public until “a cease-fire and hostage release agreement is reached.” She issued a statement on Instagram stating: “I firmly object to a cultural boycott, but since I feel there are no right answers, and I can only do what I can with the space I have, I prefer to raise my voice with those I stand with in their scream, ceasefire now, bring the people back from captivity.”

Protestors on the Rialto Bridge. Photo: Margaret Carrigan.

Demonstrations organized by ANGA took place as planned outside the Israel pavilion and on Rialto Bridge the following day, April 17, further criticizing the pavilion and Patir’s closure of it.

“ANGA does not applaud empty and opportunistic gestures timed for maximum press coverage, and leaving video works on view to the public, while Palestinians are killed by Israel every hour and millions face imminent famine,” it said.

ANGA was reached for comment on Israel’s decision to withdraw from next year’s architecture biennial but did not respond by publication time.

Palestine does not have a pavilion at the Venice Biennale because Italy does not recognize it as a sovereign state. Palestinian art is the focus of the official collateral event “South West Bank: Landworks, Collective Action and Sound” at Palazzo Contarini Polignac and of “Foreigners in their Homeland,” and unofficial collateral event organized by the Palestine Museum U.S. at Palazzo Mora.

In the Israel-Gaza conflict that has raged since October, the latest figures say over 37,000 Palestinians have been killed, including more than 15,000 children; 1,139 Israelis were killed during the October 7 attacks by Hamas.

Since the war broke out, protests, boycotts, cancelations, and withdrawals have been made at major events and venues in the art world. Other major cultural events have also faced protests against Israel’s participation in recent months. The Eurovision Song Contest in May provoked considerable backlash, including protests and boycotts. In the U.K., viewership fell by almost a quarter compared to 2023, according to the Guardian . In February 2022, the European Broadcasting Union excluded Russia from participating in that year’s contest due to its invasion of Ukraine.

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We are thrilled to announce our fourth vLLM Meetup! The vLLM team will share recent updates and roadmap. We will also have vLLM collaborators from BentoML and Cloudflare coming up to the stage to discuss their experience in deploying LLMs with vLLM. Please register here and join us!

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• [2024/04] We hosted the third vLLM meetup with Roblox! Please find the meetup slides here .
• [2024/01] We hosted the second vLLM meetup in SF! Please find the meetup slides here .
• [2024/01] Added ROCm 6.0 support to vLLM.
• [2023/12] Added ROCm 5.7 support to vLLM.
• [2023/10] We hosted the first vLLM meetup in SF! Please find the meetup slides here .
• [2023/09] We created our Discord server ! Join us to discuss vLLM and LLM serving! We will also post the latest announcements and updates there.
• [2023/09] We released our PagedAttention paper on arXiv!
• [2023/08] We would like to express our sincere gratitude to Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) for providing a generous grant to support the open-source development and research of vLLM.
• [2023/07] Added support for LLaMA-2! You can run and serve 7B/13B/70B LLaMA-2s on vLLM with a single command!
• [2023/06] Serving vLLM On any Cloud with SkyPilot. Check out a 1-click example to start the vLLM demo, and the blog post for the story behind vLLM development on the clouds.
• [2023/06] We officially released vLLM! FastChat-vLLM integration has powered LMSYS Vicuna and Chatbot Arena since mid-April. Check out our blog post .

vLLM is a fast and easy-to-use library for LLM inference and serving.

vLLM is fast with:

• State-of-the-art serving throughput
• Efficient management of attention key and value memory with PagedAttention
• Continuous batching of incoming requests
• Fast model execution with CUDA/HIP graph
• Quantization: GPTQ , AWQ , SqueezeLLM , FP8 KV Cache
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vLLM is flexible and easy to use with:

• Seamless integration with popular Hugging Face models
• High-throughput serving with various decoding algorithms, including parallel sampling , beam search , and more
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vLLM seamlessly supports most popular open-source models on HuggingFace, including:

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DAAP student works to make design careers accessible to all

Jerrell francisco is on a mission to introduce diverse students to design-based careers.

Peering into classrooms throughout the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP), Jerrell Francisco notices very few students who look like him.

That’s far from uncommon according to a 2021 study from the National Endowment for the Arts, which found that diversity is sorely lacking across America’s art spaces .

Francisco, a communication design major at UC, hopes to change that through his capstone design project.

“A lot of people will throw terms around like diversity, equity and inclusion,” Francisco said, “but really what we’re talking about is equity of opportunity. That’s what I’m trying to level up.”

As he embarks on his final year as a Bearcat, Francisco’s creative mind helps him design a compelling message for underrepresented groups. His project has two forms of inspiration: strong artistic flair — and, just as crucially — a background that’s likely familiar to much of his intended audience.

From his start to a career in art

In the beginning, Francisco didn’t seem like the ideal design candidate. For one thing, his adopted parents were laser-focused on education — a STEMM (science, technology, engineering, math and medicine) education. The design field wasn’t even part of the equation.

Jerrell Francisco. Photo/Jerrell Francisco

Francisco’s life took a turn when his father received a job in southwest Ohio as the principal at Princeton High School. The big move from Michigan to Cincinnati ended well for Francisco, by his own account.

“There was this new program where 20 high school students got to do a class for the National Health Association … researching the opioid epidemic in Ohio,” Francisco said.

As the Princeton High School students’ research period wrapped up, they were surprised with full-ride scholarships to UC.

The catch? All Princeton students had to enter a STEMM field to receive the scholarship, and Francisco didn’t meet the requirements for his desired industrial design major. Luckily, he could attend UC Blue Ash College and learn about applied graphics communication under professor Patrick Schreiber. Francisco discovered his passion for the arts from that class, leading him to communication design at DAAP.

A-DAAP-ting to a new frontier

While Francisco has flourished at UC, he sometimes still feels like an outsider among the design community. Diversity isn’t known as the art world’s strong suit, despite the work of programs such as DAAP to attract people of various backgrounds. Francisco hopes to use his voice to diversify the space.

The arts, in Francisco’s view, involve “taking what’s in your head and learning how to put it outside.” Design is transferable across all backgrounds, ethnicities and skill sets, with diversity leading to a greater range of experiences from which to draw creative inspiration.

There are things I’ve learned (here) that I could break down so much faster if there had been more diverse opportunity or more diverse people sharing their opinions.

Jerrell Francisco

“There are things I’ve learned (here) that I could break down so much faster if there had been more diverse opportunity or more diverse people sharing their opinions,” Francisco said. “Those are really needed for us to progress.”

Rather than just talking about the need for change, Francisco challenged himself to have a positive impact. He found the perfect means to make a difference through DAAP’s capstone design project.

A capstone project for all kinds

DAAP students work on capstone assignments in their final years to showcase creative expertise along with forward-thinking ideas in partnership with the 1819 Innovation Hub . According to associate professor of communication design Reneé Seward , “DAAP capstone projects allow students to go research and understand a visual communication problem of interest to them. These self-defined senior projects have led to new companies being developed and entrepreneurial efforts.”

For Francisco, the DAAP capstone project provided a superb window for him to give back to students who may be interested in design but lack direction on entering the field.

“I plan on using the skills I’ve gained to make one big website … to give younger students as much practical application or value as I can,” Francisco said.

His page will describe what communication design is, run through principles of pattern and design and offer tips on building a website and online portfolio.

Due to his time at UC along with his co-op experiences , Francisco craves a future as a key art designer. This career path, which involves crafting promotional materials for TV shows, movies and video games, is one that he’d never heard of before college — and that’s a problem he’s striving to solve.

Francisco ultimately hopes that his capstone project will be bigger than a personal stepping stone toward graduation.

“I’m a great designer right now because of [my mentor],” he said, “so to be that for someone else, that’s definitely the goal.”

Featured image at top: Jerrell Francisco working on a design project. Photo/Jerrell Francisco

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