Posted in Response Assignments on October 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
* First off, don’t forget that you’ve got a great extra credit opportunity (below this post – response to Trixie Minx).
For next week, please read: Take 2: Culture Paper by Andrew Parks.
Consider the following questions and respond to one:
Do you agree with Parks’ assessment of video games? Why or why not?
Can you think of any [...]
Posted in Announcements on October 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Hi folks, first of all, your assignment for this week is below this post — be sure to check it.
Also — Trixie Minx, who wrote one of the articles you read (Minx, Trixie. (2007) Burlesque: The Art of Tease, The Perspective from a Dancer, Root Magazine ) submitted a response to all of your blog [...]
Posted in Response Assignments on October 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Reading/Viewing:
Reggie Legend, arts critic & poet (will be a guest speaker in our class on Tuesday): AIDS in Black America – I’m Liftin’ Your Skirts
Hip-Hop Hopes-Street Bred Music Brings Message of Activism
Graffiti Art: An Essay Concerning the Recognition of Some Forms of Graffiti as Art
View: Street Art: What is up with it? and [...]
Posted in Announcements on October 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Review Assignment #1 (4-5 pages) DUE on October 23rd by email (please send to me as an attachment – preferably Microsoft Word document & include any images you want to include within the document)
Choose any “issue-oriented” performance, set of images, film, cartoon strips, etc. to review. While writing the review, keep in mind the [...]
Posted in Announcements on October 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Ok folks, I’ve created a new blog website on which you will post all of your reviews, including the short one you are to write about the Vodou Riche exhibit. If you were not in class and did not attend the exhibit with the class, you must either a) go see it and review it [...]
Posted in Response Assignments on October 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
No questions from reading this week (but reading/viewing is posted below). Instead, I want everyone to write a cogent, thoughtful short review of the exhibit we just saw – Vodou Riche. Please edit it as best you can. The post with details about reviews is above.
For next week, read and view the following:
“From Black Power [...]
Posted in Announcements on October 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Hi folks — the weekly blog response assignment is beneath this post. For your first review, you must choose an “issue-oriented” performance, set of images, film, cartoon strips, or other art piece to review. Details about your first review can be found here. Please let me know what you plan to review (in a paragraph [...]
Posted in Response Assignments on October 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
NOTE: The due date for Review # 1 has been pushed back to Tuesday, October 23rd.
Reading/Viewing for next week: Responses are due by 8:15 a.m. on October 16th.
Emlinger Roberts, Rebecca. (2005) The Stripper: Victim Art and the Art of Suffering, Antioch Review, Winter, Vol. 63 Issue 1, p23-39 (sign into library with your username [...]
