Sunday, September 28, 2014

art history: hundreds of years of subordinations visualized in paintings, and how else?

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Published on Sep 24, 2014: http://youtu.be/1x0oxUHOlA8
Interview  made ​​on 08.21.2014 by Juliana Faust, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro and Déborah Danowski and displayed at the International Colloquium The Thousand Names of Gaia: Earth to the Anthropocene Age on 18/09/2014.

I'm not ashamed I don't know! https://magic.piktochart.com/output/2827812-im-not-ashamed

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http://the-toast.net/2014/06/23/women-listening-men-art-history/

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Tuesday, 30 September – What counts as art? What counts as feminism? For whom?
• DUE ASS. #1: Museums & More: logbook 1 + hardcopy in class; electronic copies go to your TA
• finish up Freeland! the whole thing by now!!
Reports, thoughts, analysis of our first class experiences, the museum visits. What assumptions altered as you got involved here? What was surprising? What insights about feminisms emerged? What was new? What was exciting and fun? Where will this beginning take us this semester? What sort of journey have you begun? How will Freeland guide us? The more Freeland you have read, the better! 

ungrounding our assumptions and turning them into compost! 

find them by surprise! WHAT SURPRISED YOU? 
what thoughts about art surfaced for you in your thinking?
what thoughts about feminism surfaced for you? 
what thoughts about how to learn do these lead you to? 


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http://www.guerrillagirls.com     


Guerrilla Girls: Guerrilla Girls Projects, Actions, Appearances &emdash; Shanghai Art Fair placard 
Gorilla/Guerilla 
Guerrilla Girls slide show   

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The official site of the Guerrilla Girls. Fighting discrimination with facts, humor and fake fur!

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Sunday, September 21, 2014

Why is art a political issue at all?

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Alma Lopez NHU web  

Uploaded on Oct 17, 2011: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y1IIu-I7ag  
Author, Artist and Activist Alma Lopez offered a lecture at NHU, about her new book, "Our Lady of Controversy: Alma Lopez's Irreverent Apparition," (University of Texas Press, 2001), a series of essays about the history of Guadalupe and what her pervasive imagery means in our lives.

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WEEK OF 16 SEPTEMBER—NO CLASS SO YOU COULD HAVE TIME TO VISIT MORE MUSEUMS!
You should be in the middle of the museum assignment, already drafting your writing after your visiting and note taking during these hectic first weeks of classes. We did not meet last week to give you as much room to complete it all as possible!! The assignment is due TUESDAY 30 SEPTEMBER!

READ AS MUCH OF THE FREELAND BOOK AS YOU CAN WHILE COMPLETING THE FIRST PROJECT! And come into our Tuesday Seminar this week, the 23rd, after our museuming to consider these questions, having completed this preparation:

Tuesday, 23 September – Why is art a political issue at all?
• You should have read Freeland, Chs 4, 5, 7 by today and be prepared to discuss!
• Check out Freeland’s website: http://www.uh.edu/~cfreelan/ What sort of passionate thinker is she?

THESE ARE THE QUESTIONS WE WILL BE TALKING ABOUT IN CLASS, SO THINK ABOUT THEM AHEAD OF TIME! 

How will we activate web action to see how alive and dynamic women’s studies’ concerns are? That they involve people of passion individually and in groups? What is your stake in all this? How might it matter to you and to those you care about? You will be telling us about your museum experiences! Mentally prepare yourself to talk in class! Notice the Freeland readings for next week too! (in other words, finish up the whole book!)

Have a lot of fun!! 

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From a slide show on the establishment of the National Gallery of Art, here: http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/features/slideshows/paul-mellon-and-the-national-gallery-of-art.html#  



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Bits and ideas from Freeland's book to ponder while visiting, making notes, thinking, and writing. 



p105: "What should be the mood of a museum visit? Is it like going on a picnic, to school, on a shopping trip, or to church? Is money the name of the game, an inescapable fact about art today?" 

p98: "Andrew Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury under President Hoover, was embarrassed when foreign diplomats came to town and asked to be taken to the 'national gallery.' Mellon built the museum (opened in 1937) from his own collection.... The Galley's first director, David Finley, describes the museum's civilizing effects when it was first open during World War II and became a haven for soldiers visiting the city.... Free Sunday concerts, like the spacious galleries and the new practice of selling art reproductions were all aimed to promote an appreciation of beauty and quality among the ordinary men and women of the military." 

p78: "...anthropologist James Clifford, has juxtaposed the displays of totemic objects in the British Columbia Museum of Modern Art (as modernist abstract-shape sculptures) with their exhibition in Northwest Coast Indian galleries. After significant religious items were returned to tribal peoples, there were disagreements about how to display them. One group decided they should not be displayed at all. Another showed them as individual objects with commentary, whereas still another exhibited them only in a ceremonial context that recreated the potlatch ceremony in which they would traditionally be employed." 

p28: "I have argued that contemporary ugly or shocking art...has clear precedents in the Western European canon. Art includes not just works of formal beauty to be enjoyed by people with 'taste', or works with beauty and uplifting moral messages, but also works that are ugly and disturbing, with a shatteringly negative moral content. How that content is to be interpreted remains a matter for more discussion...." 

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Wednesday, September 10, 2014

What should you be doing? Checking in....

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Wondering what you should be doing now for Women, Art, and Culture? How to know yourself what you should be doing week to week, and even plan ahead? 

First, check the Home tab of our website, YES! 




Second, notice that you can peek ahead by looking at the Experience Set 1 tab to see what is coming up in this set, and what the deadlines for all assignments are (at a glance!)





Third, you should already be in the thick of Assignment 1! Look at the tab 1: Museums. Remember, these are not just "a paper" but a whole range of experiences, that culminate in a project. You cannot do the "paper" the night before and expect your result to be acceptable. It doesn't work that way. 




What does this mean? You need to think of the whole Experience Set as ...well, a SET!! 

You need to come to class because what we do there will help you in the project at hand! If you must miss class, ask two class buddies for help! See the Class Info tab, scroll down for instructions for when you miss a class!

If you are just adding the class NOW, you need to do this very set of things to catch up also! Mainly, contact two class buddies (if you don't have yet be sure you makes some in tomorrow's Thursday seminar!!). Make a time to get together and discuss what has happened in class. Talk for AT LEAST an hour for each class you missed! AT LEAST! Remember that the best learning happens when you teach what you are learning to someone else. So be excited if someone asks you to meet with them about a class they missed! This is to YOUR advantage!



This week's Thursday seminars should be wonderful for making sure you are on track with Experience Set 1, the project for these first weeks of the class, and the paper you turn in on the 30th that documents these experiences. 

NOTICE THAT 


WEEK OF 16 SEPTEMBER—NO CLASS SO YOU CAN HAVE TIME TO VISIT MORE MUSEUMS!
You should have started the museum assignment already, already visiting and doing what you can during these hectic first weeks of classes. But we will not meet this whole week to give you as much room to complete it all as we can!! The assignment is due TUESDAY 30 SEPTEMBER!

READ AS MUCH OF THE FREELAND BOOK AS YOU CAN WHILE COMPLETING THE FIRST PROJECT! And come into our Tuesday Seminar on the 23rd, after our week of museuming to consider these questions, and having completed this preparation:

Tuesday, 23 September – Why is art a political issue at all?
• You should have read Freeland, Chs 4,5,7 by today and be prepared to discuss!
• Check out Freeland’s website: http://www.uh.edu/~cfreelan/ What sort of passionate thinker is she?

THESE ARE THE QUESTIONS WE WILL BE TALKING ABOUT IN CLASS, SO THINK ABOUT THEM AHEAD OF TIME! 

How will we activate web action to see how alive and dynamic women’s studies’ concerns are? That they involve people of passion individually and in groups? What is your stake in all this? How might it matter to you and to those you care about? You will be telling us about your museum experiences next week! Mentally prepare yourself to talk in class! Notice the Freeland readings for next week too!

Have a lot of fun!! 

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From a slide show on the establishment of the National Gallery of Art, here: http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/features/slideshows/paul-mellon-and-the-national-gallery-of-art.html#  



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Bits and ideas from Freeland's book to ponder while visiting, making notes, thinking, and writing. 



p105: "What should be the mood of a museum visit? Is it like going on a picnic, to school, on a shopping trip, or to church? Is money the name of the game, an inescapable fact about art today?" 

p98: "Andrew Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury under President Hoover, was embarrassed when foreign diplomats came to town and asked to be taken to the 'national gallery.' Mellon built the museum (opened in 1937) from his own collection.... The Galley's first director, David Finley, describes the museum's civilizing effects when it was first open during World War II and became a haven for soldiers visiting the city.... Free Sunday concerts, like the spacious galleries and the new practice of selling art reproductions were all aimed to promote an appreciation of beauty and quality among the ordinary men and women of the military." 

p78: "...anthropologist James Clifford, has juxtaposed the displays of totemic objects in the British Columbia Museum of Modern Art (as modernist abstract-shape sculptures) with their exhibition in Northwest Coast Indian galleries. After significant religious items were returned to tribal peoples, there were disagreements about how to display them. One group decided they should not be displayed at all. Another showed them as individual objects with commentary, whereas still another exhibited them only in a ceremonial context that recreated the potlatch ceremony in which they would traditionally be employed." 

p28: "I have argued that contemporary ugly or shocking art...has clear precedents in the Western European canon. Art includes not just works of formal beauty to be enjoyed by people with 'taste', or works with beauty and uplifting moral messages, but also works that are ugly and disturbing, with a shatteringly negative moral content. How that content is to be interpreted remains a matter for more discussion...." 

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Friday, September 5, 2014

WHAT TO DO FOR SECOND TUESDAY CLASS! READING AND ASSIGNMENTS!

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Tuesday, 9 September – Women’s Studies, what is it about?
• Bring in our book-museum,  Pérez’ book, Chicana Art.
• You are encouraged to bring in laptops or other electronic devices. How will we use them in class?
• What is Web Action? How will we activate it? (see below in red!)
• Check out  Pérez’ teaching site: http://ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu/faculty/profile.php?person=12
• Start finding the artists in Pérez on the Web. Bring in an example to share. (See what KK did below: Ester Hernandez: do something similar and bring in the results!)

<See another curation done by Pérez, described in her teaching site:  CHICANA BADGIRLS CATALOG 2009 IN PDF HERE!> http://www.516arts.org/images/stories/PDFs/chicana_badgirls_catalog.pdf

Women’s Studies is a scholarly field, a range of feminist actions, a set of issues that matter to women, an analysis of power and knowledge, and an intersectional intervention into dominant social structures. Our class is an introduction into all of these, by way of engaging the interrelationships between Women, Art, and Culture. How will we use Pérez to help us care about it all?

WEEK OF 16 SEPTEMBER—NO CLASS EITHER TUESDAY OR THURSDAY SO YOU CAN HAVE TIME TO VISIT MORE MUSEUMS!
You should have started the museum assignment already, already visiting and doing what you can during these hectic first weeks of classes. But we will not meet this whole week to give you as much room to complete it all as we can!! The assignment is due TUESDAY 30 SEPTEMBER!

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WHAT IS WEB ACTION? how can you experiment with learning in real time on the web? what does this mean? 

1) find someone in Pérez book whose work you like. (what if you don't have the book yet? remember it is on reserve at McKeldin. and remember YOU HAVE THE WEB!! how will that make it possible to do this assignment even if you don't have the book yet?)
2) what sort of web search and action turns up things they are doing NOW? 
3) read bits about this person using the INDEX in Pérez. 
4) how do you put what is in the book TOGETHER WITH what you find on the web? 




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Ester Hernandez, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2004 Community Leadership Awards (Helen Crocker Russell Award) - for fostering community and raising social consciousness through her groundbreaking art, for her work with Creativity Explored, and for inspiring and mentoring the next generation of artists.

Citizen Film has been collaborating with the San Francisco Foundation since 2004 on the Community Leadership Awards, under the direction of Sophie Constantinou.
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http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/11/25/15-minute-writing-exercise-closes-the-gender-gap-in-university-level-physics/#.VA4MTkvXYds

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/330/6008/1234  
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Monday, September 1, 2014

OUR FIRST CLASS! WELCOME!

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<<<EXPERIENCE SET ONE: WHOSE ART IS IT? HOW DO YOU KNOW?>>>

Tuesday, 2 September – Welcome to our course!
• Bring in as many course books as you have so far
• Bookmark the course website, be sure you are receiving coursemail
• Check out which section you are in and meet your TA
• Learn how to do Ass. #1: SEE COURSE SITE TAB: 1:MUSEUMS 

We jump right into the thick of it all! Today we will met each other, make some class buddies, learn about the books for the course, and think about how to use the course website. Katie, Sara, and Cheyenne will introduce themselves. We will talk about how the class is structured as a series of experiences. And we will start immediately with experience #1 – your museum visits and what to do! It all starts right away and you should make plans for museum visits NOW! 

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Do you have any art, craft, game, or maker practices? Katie creates websites, spins and knits fiber, and is learning to draw on the iPad app Paper, plays in the virtual world Second Life. What would you like to share? 





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