Nguyen Khoi Nguyen

I am proud to be an educator as well as a practicing artist. Here are sample works from my students.

Class: Video I

Assignment: Camera Reality (playlist of 11 videos)
Make a 3-5 minute movie that uses the camera as a main character and/or the medium of video as a subject.
Your video should expose the process involved in making the movie, and question: what is real? You can work within already existing techniques like: mock-documentary, a movie inside a movie, surveillance footage, or come up with an idea and form all your own.

Assignment: Fortune Cookie Movie (playlist of 16 videos)
Use a fortune from a fortune cookie to make a 3-4 minute movie. The fortune should be the catalyst, the inspiration, your starting point. How you specifically use the fortune and to what degree is up to you.

Class: VIdeo II

Assignment: Memory Movie. (playlist of 5 videos)
Create a movie that plays with the idea of memory. Consider: How do we remember? How do we forget? Have you ever had a conflicting memory where you experience the same event as someone else but you remember it differently? You can use editing techniques like flashback, transition effects, or come up with your own way of depicting a memory.

Assignment: COVIDEO (playlist of 6 videos)
Make a film that deals with themes of dystopia/crisis/disaster. Draw on the experiences you’ve had dealing with the pandemic–directly or indirectly. Your movie could speculate on how this crisis will end, or leave us hanging… You can be autobiographical or draw from secondary sources (family, friends, news) or some combination of both. Remember, just as in life, an audience will accept bleak subject matter as long as there’s at least a little bit of light (humor/love/joy). 2019.

Class: Animation & Motion Graphics

Assignment: Title Sequence (playlist of 5 videos)
Pick a book you love that has not been made into a movie. Make a title sequence for the book as if it was a movie. Use typography and graphics that create strong brand identity, highlights themes, characters. Animate the typography.

Assignment: A Day In The Life (playlist of 7 videos)
Create a character study where you animate an original character going through a series of daily activities.

Class: Multimedia Storytelling

Assignment: Video Story (documentary)
Create 3-5 minute documentaries that tell the stories of community partners.

Assignment: Photo Story
Photograph the Govans Farmers' Market in Baltimore, MD.

Class: Comics Creation

"The Best Loyola Comics 2020." Comics Anthology, 2022.

Class: Graphics I

Assignment: Logo Project
Choose a company, organization, or festival from Baltimore or your hometown and design three new logos.

Assignment: Album Design
Create two album designs (front and back). Students work with real bands who need album art.

Class: Introduction to Drawing & Painting

Assignment: Large Contour Drawing
Draw the hand with line only. 18 x 14. Consider proportion, the qualities of your line, composition, and how to scale a small drawing into a larger drawing. Pencil on paper.

Assignment: Contour Line Bike Drawing
Create an 18 x 24 detailed line drawing of a 10-speed bicycle. The bike is placed in the center of the class for you to draw from for the duration of the assignment. Pencil on paper.

Assignment: Multi-view Drawing
Draw multiple views of the same object scattered across a composition with three overlaps and two extensions off the page. Consider value, line, scale. Overlap to create depth. Pencil on paper.