Sketches (Coming Soon)
This section is still taking shape — part of the living archive. Stan sketched throughout his life, from high school in the early 1940s well into his eighties. These sketches show how ideas found their way into prints, and how designs kept returning years later in new forms.
Videos
Subway Video
Staircase & City Video
Football Video
Stan kept returning to the Brooklyn subway as subject across six decades — from early sketches in the 1930s to prints made as late as 2003. Music by composer Lou Harrison.
Football Video
Staircase & City Video
Football Video
Stan's 1960 commission for a series of football murals at Manuche's Restaurant didn't end there. The research fueled a body of prints that kept evolving over the years. Music by David Karagianis, with game broadcast audio.
Staircase & City Video
Staircase & City Video
Staircase & City Video
From sketches to prints, to reimagined variations. Sketches from growing up in Brooklyn apartments in the 1930s evolved into woodcut prints that were revisited over the years.
Music: The Bad Plus
Artist: Stan Kaplan
Zasis Video
Sketches — Coming Soon —
Staircase & City Video
Watching Zasis perform was inseparable from drawing them. Rob Kaplan, Thomas Chapin, Bill Sloat, and Thad Wheeler entered every performance with nothing pre-planned — and Stan's sketchbook was always open. This video traces how those live observations became prints and ultimately an artist's book.
Sketches — Coming Soon —
Sketches — Coming Soon —
Sketches — Coming Soon —
This section is still taking shape — part of the living archive. Stan sketched throughout his life, from high school in the early 1940s well into his eighties. Organized chronologically, these sketches show how ideas found their way into prints, and how designs kept returning years later in new forms.
Features
First Instruction
Second Instruction
Second Instruction
Create a line gesture as a foreground on the page. Taper the gesture so it is thinner and thicker. Then fill it in.
Second Instruction
Second Instruction
Second Instruction
Using ONE doodle shape, fill in the whole page in and around the foreground shape.
Another Example
Second Instruction
Another Example
Rob's Doodle Project—Phase 1—COPY
Phase One (Option A)
Phase One (Option A)
Phase One (Option A)
Write your name in cursive across the whole page — or choose another word with personal meaning. One word, written large, across the entire page. Then begin changing and enhancing the shape: double the lines, make them taper in or flare out, color them, create areas of positive and negative space. Let the letters become something more than letters.
Next, choose a single doodle shape and let it unfold as a background — behind and around the foreground, throughout the whole page. Most people don't stick to one doodle shape, and that's fine. That's the conversation taking over.
Phase One (Option B)
Phase One (Option A)
Phase One (Option A)
Pick up a pen. Start drawing. No plan, no judgment, no erasing. Let the line go where it wants and follow where it leads. Mistakes become new directions. A design conversation between you and the page.
This is by Jenna Miller.
Phase Two — 3-D, Collage, or Mixed Media
Phase Two — 3-D, Collage, or Mixed Media
Phase Two — 3-D, Collage, or Mixed Media
This is by Sumana Mandala. From Graduate Creative Practice, ASU, 2017.
Phase Three — Performative
Phase Two — 3-D, Collage, or Mixed Media
Phase Two — 3-D, Collage, or Mixed Media
Haley Wilcox's Phase 2 took the form of a telephone. This video shows how she animated it in Phase 3. This is from Graduate Creative Practice at ASU, 2016.