NOTICE THAT DISCUSSION SECTIONS MEET FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS WEEK! BE SURE YOU KNOW YOUR TA AND WHERE TO GO!
Thursday personal seminars and discussion sections:
Sec. 0301 – SQH 2120: Thursday 3-3:50pm, Clara Montague: montague.clara@gmail.com
Sec. 0302 – KEY 0120: Thursday 4-4:50pm, Anna Storti: amstorti@umd.edu
Sec. 0303 – HBK 1108: Thursday 4-4:50pm, Cara Snyder: csnyder3@umd.edu
Sec. 0304 – JMZ 0120: Thursday 3-3:50pm, Tangere Hoagland: Thoagland3@gmail.com
Sec. 0305 - JMZ 1120: Thursday 3-3:50pm, Jocelyn Coates: jmcoates@umd.edu
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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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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!
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!
Image from: http://hdimagegallery.net/washington+dc+national+mall . ]
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>>> THINK-PAIR-SHARE: take notes [why we do this: https://www.hastac.org/blogs/cathy-davidson/2012/04/08/single-best-way-transform-classrooms-any-size ]
=3 things you know about women's studies ALREADY => pair: which is most exciting? => share with us.
=in grps share what you notice about Freeland's passionate thinking, and what you learn about her on the web you wouldn't know otherwise. Notes for time capsule to future self.
>>> VALUES WRITING: what it does, how it opens us up [why we do this: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/11/25/15-minute-writing-exercise-closes-the-gender-gap-in-university-level-physics/#.Ve70XbRgxUR ]
DOODLING AS FEEL-THINK-ACT: http://www.ted.com/talks/sunni_brown?language=en#
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WHAT DOES IT ALL FEEL LIKE?
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?"
[See also Art and emotion (Wikipedia)]
POWER OR BEAUTY OR WHAT?
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."
[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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More from Freeland:
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."
[Similar objects from NMAI: http://nmai.si.edu/exhibitions/infinityofnations/northwest-coast.html
See also "collections management, and indoor and outdoor spaces for Native traditional care practices and cultural use of the collections" at the Cultural Resources Center link here: http://www.nmai.si.edu/explore/collections/crc/ ]
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...."
[the famous Piss Christ by Serrano Andres (1987) (Wikipedia)]
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Although we don't have a copy of the catalog for the "Erewhon" exhibition (below) or the essay in it that Freeland wrote about it, we do have this online link for the exhibition: [from Freeland's online short CV she links to as "About Me"]:
"Catalog essay for Exhibition "Erewhon" by Jane and Louise Wilson, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, January 2005": http://glasstire.com/2005/02/02/jane-and-louise-wilson-erewhon/
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So, what do you say now? Why is art a political issue at all?
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