Art and Women Fall 2017: Samella Lewis

Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Samella Lewis

Samella Lewis is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana. Lewis was born on February 27, 1924. Early on, she began to view art as essential to African American life and culture. Lewis's heritage led her to view art as an essential expression of the community and its struggles. Her influence on African American art and culture has been so immense that her impact is yet to be determined. Lewis' deeply-personal art embodies some experience from her own life in each piece. During her long and still active career, she has worked as an artist, art historian, educator, scholar, author, publisher, filmmaker, museum founder, art administrator, curator, gallerist, art collector, etc.

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FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE

Final Exam is Tuesday, December 12th 11:30-12:50pm BE ON TIME!

Due Tuesday 12/5 - Tuesday 12/12

SEMESTER PROJECT (extension) posted and edited on the blog by 11:59pm on THURSDAY 12/14. You may edit posts and projects until 11:59 on 12/14. Projects will be reviewed and graded on Friday 12/15. Read instructions below carefully for requirements.

Projects will not be presented in class. Use the post on the blog as your opportunity to "present" your project to the class. Make sure your post is well edited, includes images and explains the project clearly. Check and triple check that the link to your project is working properly. Include as much documentation of the project as possible.

Based on the discussions and artists' work presented in class and in your readings please create a media based project which focuses on women, women artists, art, art history and a social issue and frame the issue to specifically address how this affects the lives of women and/or how women can be instrumental in solving or raising awareness about this issue. You can choose to focus on a specific artist whose work is socially engaged or addresses socio-economic or political issues, an art movement or another creative approach to raising awareness through the publication of information or creative expression.

The assignment can take many forms: Essay with embedded images. Video: music, documentary, performance, Research paper, Researched article or extensive slideshow with captions or narration (think NYTimes), Workshop or other outreach curriculum, Magazine/Zine, Podcast, Interactive Web Project/Site.

Please remember:

-you must address an audience or group outside of the classroom in some way.

-this can take any form you choose but must include women artists, art history and research.

-it must raise awareness about a social issue.

-You must create a post on the blog for your project. This post will be part of your project grade. The post must include a link to your project (including pdf projects) online.

-Include a resource list and bibliography at the end of your post listing your research and inspiration.

-The post of your project should be a "pitch" or short description of what you have made and should be clear, inspiring and high energy. Imagine you are trying to have a group decide to fund your project for further development this is how you should present the summary on the blog.

-All projects MUST be published and distributed to an audience (outside of the class). Please include appropriate links to your projects online in your post!

-Print projects such as paper zines, essays and pamphlets must be handed in to me in class. Please provide descriptions of how these have been or will be distributed to an audience online or in print.

EXTRA CREDIT if you did not attend the museum trip

(up to 4pts) - due 12/7

Visit the Brooklyn Museum. You must visit the Roots of The Dinner Party exhibition and The Dinner Party and please also find the Mickalene Thomas piece on the 5th floor. Read any supporting materials, wall text and labels for the exhibition and the works you find elsewhere in the museum.

Write a short description of the Dinner Party, the themes and the techniques it uses to address gender, history, art and craft. Choose 2 other pieces in the museum to connect to The Dinner Party. Write how these other works spoke to you and connected to the themes of The Dinner Party.

Please reference the Brooklyn Museum and our textbooks. Cite any research you include.

YOU MUST INCLUDE PHOTOS THAT YOU TAKE!! Include a selfie with the Dinner Party and several photos of the exhibitions and the two additional pieces you choose to help illustrate your descriptions.

~400 words, images and links. See previous checklists for format and editing of your post.

TWO TWEETS tagged #artandwomen

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HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

Due Tuesday 11/28

READINGS: Review Chadwick, Chapters 15+16

POST 4 *mandatory if you DID NOT ATTEND The Brooklyn Museum trip (extra credit +5 if you attended)

Can you name 5 women artists?

Concentrating on contemporary artists, choose 5 women artists to illustrate and briefly explain various themes we have discussed throughout the course about gender, race, class and art history. You can organize your post into genres, 'isms, political or societal messages, aesthetics, techniques or personal narratives. You must choose a clear thesis and the 5 artists carefully. Your post MUST include artists working today. Be sure to illustrate your post with various images (and/or videos) and to cite your research.

Please reference the Brooklyn Museum and the exhibitions of the Sackler Center if you visit/visited. Feel free to include or tie in the topic of your final assignment if appropriate. You can use this opportunity to dive into that research for this post if you can find overlap.

~1000 words, citations and bibliographic info and MANY images with captions. See checklist from previous posts.

TWO TWEETS tagged #artandwomen

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Due Tuesday 11/21

NO NEW READINGS

Group 9 presents

3 comments on other student project proposals on the blog. Please leave feedback for 3 other student projects. Help with resources, links to inspirational examples, other projects, articles, books, scholars, and any other resources that might be helpful for various topics. Leave helpful criticism about narrowing of ideas, production direction or tips, distribution ideas and any other help you can provide. Spend time on these!

POST 3 (MANDATORY)
What is modernism? How did women artists in Europe influence the techniques and development of modernism and the movements of abstraction, German expressionism, dada and surrealism and other movements in modernism? What important circumstances aided these and how were women integral in applying the techniques of design and craft in these new approaches to art?

Compare and contrast these with Post-Modernism. What is Post Modernism? How have women artists been instrumental in the development of its main themes? Please include examples of each of the movements within modernism and examples of post-modern art. Explain the specifics of these new approaches to art and art-making in the 20C.

~800 words. Include citations of the class readings in your post (Chadwick and Guerrilla Girls). Please be sure to include at least five images (examples) and two links.

See checklist below for other issues to consider and include in your post. Refer to this checklist for guidance on the post structure and expectations:
-Images should have captions. What is the image? Why is it included? Is it referenced in your text?
-Edit!! grammar, spelling, sentence and paragraph structure.
-Links must link!
-please make sure your links LINK. Why is the link included? Think about how the hyperlink is used online. Integrate your links into your writing. They should augment the information provided.
-Images must be sized correctly and should fit in the body of the blog.
-Check your formats in general. Spacing issues, indentations, font sizes, are your images appearing correctly?
-In body CITATIONS of the READINGS (author, pg)
-Include a brief "works cited" at the bottom of the post with the two (or more) readings you are citing from.

TWO TWEETS tagged #artandwomen

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IMPORTANT! Brooklyn Museum trip will be Friday November 17. We will be meeting in the main entrance lobby at 12:30pm. Please visit https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/ for directions and for more information on the exhibition we will be focusing The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago. Please purchase your ticket when you arrive. Remember that it is a suggested donation and you can pay whatever amount you wish. 0.25, $1 are acceptable donations :)

Due Tuesday 11/14

READINGS: Chadwick, Chapters 14 +15

POST YOUR PROJECT PROPOSAL UPDATE TO THE BLOG Please create a short post explaining what you are making and in what form(s) it will take exactly, how you plan to reach your audience, what content you will be creating and with what research. Please address: why this project is important to you, why you are choosing to make this, how this might intersect with your professional aspirations and your interests, what you hope to accomplish with this project and how it might bring about advocacy or change. Please be sure that the content intersects art, art history and includes female artists in some way.

Group 8 presents

Due Thursday 11/16

Review the readings.

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Due Tuesday 11/7

READINGS:

Chadwick Ch.12 + 13

Group 7 presents

Due Thursday 11/9

Review the readings.

Please let me know if you will be coming to the Brooklyn Museum and if you plan to bring a +1

SEMESTER PROJECT Keep researching and working on production of your semester project. Please remember that the project MUST intersect art, gender and art history in some way and be informed by RESEARCH. Know your topic in depth but also find inspiring examples and artists that address the same issues or use similar techniques. You can continue to adjust and refocus your ideas but if you make drastic changes to the general topic please email me a quick update. I will return your full proposals next week with some feedback. Keep working over the weekend! Remember to talk about your project with friends and co-workers and family and professors and generally with all of the cool people you know! The more you think about it and put it into the world the better you will understand it and the more developed your ideas will become.

TWO TWEETS tagged #artandwomen

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Due Tuesday 10/31

READING: REVIEW Chadwick, Chapter 10 and READ Chapter 11

UPDATED FULL PROJECT PROPOSAL WITH RESOURCES

~One page - printed and handed in - explaining the topic you have chosen to focus on and research, the medium you hope to explore in creating your project (research paper, essay, video, art project etc.) See the project description on the syllabus for more details and to help formulate and design your project. This is a very self-designed assignment. Please use this opportunity to plan a project that focuses on your talents, your strengths and as an opportunity to learn and explore something of your choosing.

Please be as specific as possible. Also include some RESEARCH you have done or are planning, inspirational examples you are looking to as models and other resources you plan to use. Remember that this should be a portfolio piece for you. Be thoughtful in designing how this project might best fit into your professional ambitions.

Group 6 presents

TWO TWEETS tagged #artandwomen

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Due Tuesday 10/24

READINGS: Chadwick, Chapter 9

Group 5 presents

Due Thursday 10/26
READINGS: Chadwick, Chapter 10

Keep researching and exploring ideas on your topic for your semester project. Please remember that the project MUST intersect art, gender and art history in some way. I will return your proposed project topics with some feedback on Tuesday 10/24 and a full proposal and research list will be due 10/31. If you have changed your topic or have immediate questions you would like answered before Tuesday, please email me or see me after class.

TWO TWEETS tagged #artandwomen

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Due Tuesday 10/ 17

REVIEW for midterm exam

See this Study Guide in preparation for the exam. This list is still subject to some small revisions. It will be finalized by Thursday 10/12.

Group 3 presents

Post 2 Due - Gender Roles, Subject and Power

What were the expected roles of women in Europe in the Middle Ages? How did roles for women change throughout the Renaissance and into the 19C? Please explain how these roles influenced the lives of women artists and the subjects of their work. Using references to the readings and to discussions in class, please use examples through the 19C to illustrate the challenges women artists faced. How did they overcome these or reference them in their work?

~800 words. Include citations of the class readings in your post (Chadwick and Guerrilla Girls). Please be sure to include at least three images and two links. See checklist below for other issues to consider and include in your post.

Refer to this checklist for guidance on the post structure and expectations:

-Images must be appearing and sized correctly and should fit in the body of the blog.

-Images should have captions. What is the image? Why is it included? Is it referenced in your text?

-Edit!! grammar, spelling, sentence and paragraph structure.

-Links must link -please make sure your links LINK. Why is the link included? Think about how the hyperlink is used online. Integrate your links into your writing. They should augment the information provided.

-Check your formats in general. Spacing issues, indentations, font sizes, are your images appearing correctly?

-In body citations of the class readings (author, pg)

-Include a brief "works cited" at the bottom of the post with the two (or more) readings you are citing from.

Due Thursday 10/19

Midterm Exam in class

No tweets this week

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Due Tuesday 10/10

READINGS: Chadwick, Chapter 8

Due Thursday 10/12

READINGS: no new readings. Review: Chadwick Chapter 8

Group 4 presents

TWO TWEETS tagged #artandwomen

REMINDER Midterm Exam (Exam 1) is on Thursday 10/19

See this Study Guide in preparation for the exam. This list is still subject to some small revisions. It will be finalized by Thursday 10/12.

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Due TUESDAY 10/3

READINGS: Chadwick Ch.6 + Ch.7 and Guerilla Girls pg.47-57

Due THURSDAY 10/5

Topic due for Semester Project

Choose a possible topic for your semester project. Type up a few sentences (or a whole page) with the idea you would like to pursue. You will hand this in at the beginning of class. Your topic can focus on an artist, a genre, a style, a social issue addressed by an artist/artists, a collective of artists, artists as activists, a particular theme throughout several artists' work, a specific artwork analyzed, etc. Please specify how you plan to share this project with an audience. We will discuss these ideas further in class.

*Remember this project should fit into YOUR portfolio and also satisfy something that you want to accomplish.

TWO TWEETS tagged #artandwomen

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Due TUESDAY 9/26

READINGS: Chadwick, Ch. 3, Guerrilla Girls pg.18-38

Group 1 presents

Due THURSDAY 9/28

READINGS: Chadwick, Ch. 4 + 5 Guerrilla Girls pg.39-45

POST 1 : Male Gaze

Please answer the following questions based on the readings and class discussion. Use your own experiences and realizations to help illustrate your understanding of the material. You must cite from the readings in order to explain and analyze the arguments made in the readings. What is the male gaze (as described by John Berger) and why is it pervasive in art and in popular culture? Give illustrative examples. What is patriarchy (as described by bell hooks)? Give examples. How have you come to understand these structures and in what ways has this understanding changed your views about various art and media examples and of your own identity and role in these structures? ~800 words. Include citations of the readings in your post. Please be sure to include at least two images and two links. Watch the videos (from class) to help your analysis.

Group 2 presents

TWO TWEETS tagged #artandwomen

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INVITATION (not mandatory but encouraged): you are all invited to join me at the Brooklyn Museum on Sunday, September 17th at 1pm to see the exhibition We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85 Please check out the website for directions to get there and meet me in the lobby by 1pm. Email me to let me know that you plan to come and so that I can expect to find you :) Bring friends!

Due Tuesday 9/19

READINGS

On Blackboard:

two readings can be found as pdfs on the class Blackboard site under "Course Documents" in a folder called "Readings: Ways of Seeing"

1. John Berger, Ways of Seeing, Chapters 2+3

2. bell hooks, Understanding Patriarchy

Online (review):

3. Linda Nochlin, Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?http://deyoung.famsf.org/files/whynogreatwomenartists_4.pdf

From class texts:

4. Guerrilla Girls, pg.7-17

Due THURSDAY 9/21

Chadwick, Women, Art, and Society Chapters 1 and 2!

TWO TWEETS tagged #artandwomen

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Due Tuesday 9/12

GET THE CLASS TEXTS!!

Whitney Chadwick's Women Art and Society 4th or 5th edition
and
The Guerrilla Girls' Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art

ONLINE READINGS DUE

Linda Nochlin. Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?http://deyoung.famsf.org/files/whynogreatwomenartists_4.pdf

Report Card: Guerilla Girls and Pussy Galore

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/20/sexism-art-_n_6721318.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/women-artists-what-this-term-means_us_5626a52be4b0bce34702b7dd

MINI POST due - Critical Artist Expression

(a SHORT POST on the blog)

Find and research a female identified artist whose work (you believe) critically addresses a cultural, social or political issue. Share this on the blog with a short description and one or more images of their work. If you have trouble posting to the blog, bring in the information about your artist to class as a print out and be sure to hand it in to me.

TWO TWEETS tagged #artandwomen

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Link to the Syllabus

Link to the Class Video Screenings

It is helpful that everyone in the course reviews several key terms crucial to the course material. Please review this important list of terms on gender and sexuality.

Readings on the syllabus, unless otherwise specified, refer to chapters in your texts:

Whitney Chadwick's Women Art and Society

and

The Guerrilla Girls' Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art

**Additional readings can be found on the class Blackboard site and will be specified here for each class. Please check the blog each week for all readings.