Tuesday, 8 September – Women’s Studies, what is it about? (updated)

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Reading, Writing, Assignment Schedule

NOTICE THAT WE WORK IN EXPERIENCE SETS! WE BEGAN THE FIRST ONE IN THE LAST CLASS! look at the TAB: EXP SET 1 to see the whole set at a glance.... 

Readings are of several sorts: some will be discussed in depth in class or section, some will help you with each assignment, some are background reading to enrich discussion and class experiences. You will need to faithfully complete all to do assignments well, especially the final learning analysis.

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

WHAT WE DID THE FIRST WEEK: LOOK AT LAST WEEK'S POST: 
http://wmst250fall15.blogspot.com/2015/08/books-for-our-class.html

Tuesday, 1 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, Tangere, Cara, Clara, Anna and Jocelyn 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! 

WHAT YOU NEEDED TO PREPARE FOR CLASS THIS WEEK! 

Tuesday, 8 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 example below in red, scroll down]

• Check out  Pérez’ teaching site: http://ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu/faculty/profile.php?person=12

• Start finding the artists in Perez on the Web. Bring in an example to share. 

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 Perez to help us care about it all? 

<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  

(See what KK did below: Ester Hernandez: do something similar and bring in the results!)

WHAT YOU NEED TO PREPARE FOR NEXT WEEK'S CLASS! 
Keep re-examining experience sets to see how the experiences are coming together: http://wmst250fall15.blogspot.com/p/notice-that-presentations-are-essential.html

Tuesday, 15 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? 

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 time we meet! Mentally prepare yourself to talk in class! Notice the Freeland readings for next two weeks too!

THEN NOTICE THE WEEK OFF FOR MUSEUM ASSIGNMENT! examine the tabbed instructions (top of webpage): TAB: #1: MUSEUMS 

WEEK OF 22 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 29 SEPTEMBER! 

WHAT TO DO IF YOU DON'T HAVE BOOKS YET: 

= consider digital version if available
= check out Library Reserves at McKeldin
= share with class buddies
= look up on the web: see what you can find out and read about
= look for articles on Research Port by same author or similar materials

In this case find out some of the artists mentioned in the book and look them up online whether you have the book yet or not!!! how do you find out? GOOGLE!! try "chicana art perez" and find out who they are....

DON'T DO NOTHING! DO DO RESEARCH! IN LIBRARY AND ONLINE! ALWAYS DEMONSTRATE THAT YOU DID AN ALTERNATIVE ACTIVITY AND WHAT YOU LEARNED FROM IT! 

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WHAT SHOULD YOU DO IF YOU MISSED CLASS LAST WEEK? (see this on the TAB: CLASS INFO as well) 

·       TALK TO AT LEAST TWO CLASS BUDDIES IMMEDIATELY. 

WE BEGAN THE PROCESS OF MEETING CLASS BUDDIES LAST WEEK. If you missed that please make a point of introducing yourself to the people sitting on either side of you as you come into class this time. Share contact info. You will need class buddies throughout the semester. 

Make a date to get together and share notes and experiences: that means you do with the buddies what we did in class: several exercises.

Volunteer to do this for new folks if you were there last week! Reviewing what we did before is to your advantage in all ways. You will learn and reflect upon the experiences as you share them.  WE WORK IN EXPERIENCES!

Ordinarily even before you come back to class, call buddies up or email them and find out if any thing you need to plan for is happening the day you return, and make sure that you know about any changes in the syllabus. Try to have done the reading and be as prepared as possible to participate in class and with your projects when you return.

·       MAKE A DATE TO MEET WITH CLASS BUDDY TO GET NOTES AND SHARE EXPERIENCES AND DISCUSS WHAT WENT ON IN CLASS WHILE YOU WERE GONE. You are responsible for what happened in class while you were gone. As soon as possible, get caught up with notes, with discussions with buddies and finally with all the readings and assignments. Always talk with class buddies first. This is the most important way to know what went on when you were gone and what you should do.

·       AFTER YOU HAVE GOTTEN CLASS NOTES AND TALKED ABOUT WHAT WENT ON IN CLASS WITH BUDDIES, THEN MAKE APPOINTMENT TO SEE YOUR TA. If you just miss one class, getting the notes and such should be enough. But if you've been absent for more than a week, be sure you make an appointment with your TA and possibly with Katie, and come in and discuss what is going on. We all want to know how you are doing and how we can help. Or, while you are out, if it's as long as a week, send your TA or Katie email (Katie at katking@umd.edu) and let us know what is happening with you, so we can figure out what sort of help is needed. You may need to contact section members or class buddies as well.

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

BOOKS ARE NEVER THE WHOLE OF WHAT WE DO, THEY ARE ONLY A BEGINNING SPOT FOR EXPERIENCES AND ENGAGEMENTS! they are fixed in time, but we and our artists and art activisms and social justice issues are not! 

We practice INQUIRY LEARNING in this class. You will need to read the books and will report on your readings in our final project, the Learning Analysis, but along the way we are working with people, feelings, actions, ethics, power.... 

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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Google: https://www.google.com/

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Find the person's website online: http://www.esterhernandez.com

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Even if you don't have the book YET, you can use online bits on google, here is the index: notice the search string: "chicana art perez index": 

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One of the artworks in the book can be found online: 

http://www.americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=34712

From a Smithsonian exhibition: http://americanart.si.edu/education/corazon/

This particular artwork in that exhibition: http://americanart.si.edu/education/corazon/galeria_06.cfm

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Use Google to find videos too! https://www.google.com/videohp?hl=en&gws_rd=ssl


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Uploaded on Dec 7, 2009

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.

https://youtu.be/DqTDZOe_K8E

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