On September 11, 2022 I met with my Supervisory Team
Title of thesis- ChromaTheory: On Abstract Painting, Color & Otherness
PROGRESS REVIEW
Please provide a reflection of your progress to date
Since my Fall 2022 acceptance at LJMU and Transart Institute, to date, I have attended, documented, & completed 17 PGR Supervisory meetings. During them, I received from supervisors, Mark Roughly (lead LJMU), Robyn Ferrell (TT), and Borinquen Gallo (TT), direction re: first year LJMU PGR and Transart milestones, including all else that I completed:
~LJMU PGR registration
~APSS Induction
~Research Ethics and Governance Canvas course trainings
~Equality for Diversity and Inclusion (EDI)
~LJMU's Doctoral Academy Welcome
~Program Approval
~First Progress Review
~2021-2022 TRAINING PLAN:
~~Studying for Success at LJMU
~~Questionnaire Survey Design
~~eDoc for PGRs Workshop
~~Academic Writing for your PhD
~~Postgraduate Dissertations: writing your aims and proposals
~~Creative Research Methods
~~Create and Deliver an Effective PowerPoint/Slide Presentation...
~~~ Objective completed: Personal Effectiveness-Domain B - top training area priority, Skills: Networking" of my first-year training program.
~~~Objective completed: Knowledge and Intellectual Abilities-Domain A- top 2 training area priorities, Skills: Research methods - practical application, Academic literacy, and numeracy
~~~Objective completed: Engagement, influence, and impact- Domain D- top 3 priority training areas, Skills: Communication media, Publication, Global citizenship
~2022-2023 TRAINING PLAN- approved
~ATTENDED between SEPTEMBER 2021-JULY 2022 these 1st year Transart for PhD Intensives:
~~Transart Orientation
~~Session 10: Methodologies, workshops with Abbey Odunlami & Elena Marchevska
~Session 11: Transart New York City mini residency
~Session 12: Formed in Entanglement
~Session 13: Sounding Bodies- A Workshop with Zeerak Ahmed
~Session 14: Curating as A Political Action
~Session 15: Ars Moriendi with Mia Van Leeuwan
~Session 16: Tracings- WAYS INTO WITTGENSTEIN" WITH MICHAEL BOWDIDGE
~Session 17: The Kinesthetic Pictorial- Lost is Found- A workshop w/ Tia Halliday
~Session 19: JULY 2022 Liverpool Residency 15-29…attended 12 days. During week 2, Mark Roughley and I met twice. I completed my Ethics approval request. Since, I’ve received UREC Favourable Ethical Opinion & Approval for Minimal Risk with Registration Number.
SCHEDULED 5 artist interviews- AUGUST 2022
Completed and recorded the first and will complete 4+ more- SEPTEMBER 2022
PRAXIS WORK- approximately 16 hours/month in studio, producing 50 +paintings on canvas, linen, and paper- OCTOBER 2021-CURRENT
TRANSART 1st year PhD PEER RESEARCH GROUP meetings, including JUNE 2022 when I received productive peer critiques of my praxis or studio work- Since JANUARY 2022-current
DISSERTATION RESEARCH- Attended “Every Summer Needs a Plan: A 3-Day Remote Writing Retreat"- set summer dissertation reading schedule- Early JUNE 2022
Since, regular attendance of Tuesday/Thursday Online Faculty Writing Accountability Group
EXHIBITED in 3 group exhibitions
INCLUDED (painting and statement) in Contemporary Color text
VIEWED/visited multiple in-person art exhibitions in NYC, NY, Liverpool, ENG, Baltimore, MD and Wilmington, DE- JULY 2021, and JULY 2022
NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts) Coaching Sessions. Since I have rebuilt, rewritten, and relaunched from OPP to Squarespace (web hosts), my professional website, www.ginadominique.com JUNE-SEPTEMBER 2022
SCHEDULED one-person exhibition of my praxis work at Stevenson University Greenspring Art Gallery, Stevenson, MD for JULY-OCTOBER 2023
DOCUMENTED all the above, and more, in detail on TT required:
PROCESS BLOG & READING DIARY on www.ginadominique.com
and on LJMU required
eDoc PROJECT HISTORY
Summarise your key objectives for the next 12 months
My key 2022-2023 academic year objectives are:
1. READING on Auto-ethnography, Feminist Aesthetics, Psychoanalysis, etc.
2. WRITING my first dissertation/exegesis/thesis draft
3. CREATING in my studio- to complete paintings and at least one sculptural or installation pieces, and possibly a digital work
4. COMPLETING, submitting and receiving approval of LJMU Confirmation of Registration Form
5. ATTENDING 2022-2023 LJMU Training sessions to complete stated top objectives
6. ATTENDING 2022-2023 2nd year PhD Transart sessions, including optional November NYC mini residency (pending pandemic status)
7. MOUNTING my solo exhibition at Stevenson University Greenspring campus Art Gallery, Stevenson, MD
8. ATTENDING summer 2023 LJMU Transart Liverpool residency (pending pandemic status)
Training & Development
Reflections on research training undertaken
I undertook so very much, and though it was quite productive, reflecting upon it leads me to have as one of my top training objectives this academic year, a better work-life balance.
Have you undertaken any teaching-related activity in the last 12 months?
Yes
If yes, please provide details below
I am a tenured professor of Art at City University of New York, Lehman College, where throughout the academic year, I teach painting, color theory and BFA Thesis students.
Training plan
My 2022-2023 training outline submitted and approved (record is in eDoc)
Concerns-
Do you wish to raise an issue of concern about your research degree? (Not related to the pandemic)
I am good, and the research degree is good. Thank you.
