Just a reminder that due to the fact I extended our reading time for "Our Lady" there is not additional readings coming in the mail. Have a great holiday and I can't wait to see your finished work.
As an author you should be able to simply upload your image on your post site. If you have problems let me know and you can send the image to me and I will upload.
Jason, it sounds like you made a leap out of your comfort zone to make your artwork about something much more deeply personal, and that very courageous. I think you should keep that voice because you are never alone when it comes to being the target of stereotypes, labels, and naive assumptions. Great work!
Thank you so much Corina! I was difficult at first to put who you are 100 percent out there for everyone to see and interpret. However it is quite rewarding to take that chance! I definitely feel like I have grown as an artist and as an individual by putting myself out there for everyone to see. I really enjoyed reading everyones papers and their artwork. Very powerful group! The emotions that flow through everyone's work is outstanding! The journey through darkness and finding light through a child, the woman in organized religions, and the ways of Buddha with it's meanings, and ideas. Then the idea of ones own Canopic Jar that is brought together by your own identity and history.
Here is my blog. I think you should be able to go to it and view my story as well as all of my artwork. Enjoy! I look forward to seeing you all next semester! Have a wonderful Christmas and Happy New Year!!!
Andrea, what a moving series you did. Your images are so powerful and packed with emotion. I can certainly see how the last one you did, titled Motherhood was the light at the end of the tunnel. Thank you for being so open, I felt like I was reading your diary, I wish I had the courage to express some of the emotions i feel toward the pettiness of some of my family members, but I am just too afraid of the backlash. But maybe I'll find the courage to do it. Expressing emotional and psychological abuse is very challenging. Physical abuse is worn on the outside, but how does an artist depict the pain that occurs on the inside, the kind of pain that is easily ignored, pushed aside, invalidated, and invisible. Well, you have achieved it in your work. Great work, I can't wait to see more, you are so talented.
Andrea, thank you for being so open and vulnerable in your response and artwork. It is hard to open up those painful areas for others to see in, but I'm grateful that you did. There's an authentic atmosphere created when we allow others to see what we are going through in our lives. I loved seeing the progression of your paintings.
Hopefully I'll see you again in an upcoming class. :)
My project for Pedagogy is based on our two main texts, Sensipensante and Our Lady of Controversy. The incorporation of the themes of both texts was essential to my project. Pedagogically, it was important to create a project, which integrated information and could be repeatable in a classroom with students of all ages and levels, and on any budget.
From our first text, Sensipensante, the Mexican box project, which the students made, captured my imagination. From this box project, I became interested in containers, which would hold imagery of both group and individual qualities. I asked myself a series of questions in order to define my personal project. What would a container look like for me? What would hold both my ethnic background and my personality traits? What would traits would I like to cultivate to carry with me through my life. What characteristics define me? I was aware that using imagery from an ethnic group unrelated to one to which I belong might create some dissonance. From our second text, I recalled that many of the critics of “The Virgen” in Our Lady of Controversy, argued that Lopez had “high jacked” imagery which did not belong to her. She was an “outsider”. What would be “insider” imagery for me? Next, from Our Lady of Controversy, the theme of reinterpreting an item used in religious ritual was another important element for my project.
My background is comprised of Mediterranean, Sicilian, and Texan. How could I merge those two cosmologies to make a container, which symbolized me?
I began to consider material. Through out the ancient Mediterranean, there were pottery containers used to trade goods. There were wine containers, grain containers, drinking dishes. What would be used in a religious ritual? Egypt, with a coast on the Mediterranean, developed many creepy and interesting religious rites and containers. Since I am usually found in a museum, I wanted to make something, which is usually found in museums. Used in religious rites, particularly funerary rites, I researched Canopic jars. Canopic jars, contained the vital organs from mummification. These jars were to be reunited with the dead person in an afterlife incarnation. There was a directional quality to each jar. Each jar was associated with one of the sons of Horus, who was the god of war, sun and protection, and guarded by a Goddess. I liked the idea of strong women guarding me and family watching over the parts I need to survive into the afterlife.
My jar was to be the jar of the south. It was the jar of Imseti, the human-headed god representing the south, whose jar contained the liver and was protected by the goddess Isis, who is the goddess of artisans. My jar took the shape of a prickly pear. There is both a Texan and Sicilian variety of this cactus. It has medicinal properties and can even be intoxication. It embodies qualities of survival and beauty in harsh environments. It’s temperate to those who are gentle and healing to those who are wise. It is those qualities of survival, beauty and healing which I would like to carry forward into any incarnation.
Lynn, I enjoy reading through your research, your thought process. The idea of containment and containers is intriguing. I once played around with visually representing "baggage" or the method of containing destructive emotions through compartmentalizing.
Hello All, I just wanted to tell everyone that I enjoyed this class, the discourse of the blogs, and can't wait to see everyone's work. Here is the link to my blogsite: http://corinacarmonaart.blogspot.com/ Have a great Holiday!
Future, you are one amazing teacher, thank you for everything you have helped me with, I can't imagine where I would be without your guidance.
Here is my link for my final artwork submittal, artistic intent, basic teaching principles, and my semester analysis summary (at the beginning of my blog).
Thank You All for your lengthy, insightful contributions in this Pedagogy class. I learned a great deal from all of you. http://rickkincheloe.blogspot.com/
All, I am technologically challenged with others viewing my blogsite. Another option to view my blog is from the blog authors location in Google. That site is: http://rickkincheloe91@gmail.com and click on tab "View blog".
Technical difficulties once again..but I think I resolved the challenge. I made my blog public (rather than private), so it should be accessible by all: http://rickkincheloe.blogspot.com/ I look forward to your insight and comments.
Future, I owe you a summary of the text Creating with Reverence Art, Diversity, Culture and Soul by Claire Campbell Park. I didn't want to place it on my blog site, and there wasn't a place for the Art 4365 (7000) class, so I chose to place it here. I apologize for the inconvenience regarding this assignment. The summary is as follows:
Creating with Reverence Art, Diversity, Culture and Soul By Claire Campbell Park
The text Creating with Reverence Art, Diversity, Culture and Soul by Claire Park, is a beautiful text of creating within and finding substance from the heart. I thoroughly enjoyed this delightful book from beginning to end. I agree with and believe in many of the ideals presented in this text and the insightful, treasured conclusions derived there from in each chapter. I too am a craftsman, and I love to work and create with my hands. I find no better resolve in my soul than when I am able to create objects of art with passion, integrity, and craftsmanship utilizing ideals of honesty and respect for materials. Perhaps this is a significant ideal that I was able to investigate, explore and hone my crafted abilities when in architecture school years ago. Taking pride in constructing and exercising great care and concern for details envelops me to create objects of lasting beauty and crafted integrity. When working with different materials, be it wood, clay, metals, lime plaster, crafting an architectural model, drawing or painting, my respect for materials is equal. Reverence must be given and time must be taken to identify materials and to weave ideas together to create a beautiful tapestry of character, a story of dignity and respect. Attention to detail and joinery of materials are hallmarks to obtain value and integrity. This world is full of triviality, and Americans (particularly North Americans), are blessed with material excesses that diminish their worth and value because craftsmanship was, is ignored. The impermanence of objects makes me wonder why they were ever created initially. I completely agree with Claire Park’s statement regarding lack of craftsmanship with her comment “When I see a disregard of craftsmanship, I also see ideas expressed, I often see ignorance. I see a disrespect for resources and an impatience that fosters ill-considered ideas that do more harm than good” (Claire Park, Creating with Reverence 2010 p.37). Claire Park conveys her ideals simply and with utmost reverence. Ideals of: • Integrity • Reverence • Respect • Harmony • Continuity • Reflection • Humility • Craftsmanship and attention to details All of these tenets should be consistent and present when creating art (contemporary or otherwise). “The origin of the fascination of craft is indeed equal to the law that rules the “essence” underlying all things” as stated by Claire Park. My present philosophy is to create with substance and integrity expressing honesty of materials. This ideal is not conducive to mass production constructs, and never will be. Perhaps the renowned architect Mies Van Der Rohe said it best years ago with his comment “Less is more”. That comment couldn’t be truer when developing objects of beauty and character with substance and integrity.
How do you want us to post our artwork? and what all do we need to include please? Thanks!!! Hope you had a WONDERFUL break!!!
ReplyDeleteAs an author you should be able to simply upload your image on your post site. If you have problems let me know and you can send the image to me and I will upload.
ReplyDeleteHere is the link for my final! Hope you all enjoy! I really enjoyed this class!
ReplyDeletehttp://jaysonluce.blogspot.com/2013/12/pedagogy-final.html
Jason, it sounds like you made a leap out of your comfort zone to make your artwork about something much more deeply personal, and that very courageous. I think you should keep that voice because you are never alone when it comes to being the target of stereotypes, labels, and naive assumptions. Great work!
DeleteThank you so much Corina! I was difficult at first to put who you are 100 percent out there for everyone to see and interpret. However it is quite rewarding to take that chance! I definitely feel like I have grown as an artist and as an individual by putting myself out there for everyone to see. I really enjoyed reading everyones papers and their artwork. Very powerful group! The emotions that flow through everyone's work is outstanding! The journey through darkness and finding light through a child, the woman in organized religions, and the ways of Buddha with it's meanings, and ideas. Then the idea of ones own Canopic Jar that is brought together by your own identity and history.
DeleteThanks for sharing Jason, May God bless your hopes and dreams.
DeleteJayson, your passion and love will make someone very happy! I love how honest you are! thank you for sharing!
ReplyDeleteHere is my blog. I think you should be able to go to it and view my story as well as all of my artwork. Enjoy! I look forward to seeing you all next semester! Have a wonderful Christmas and Happy New Year!!!
ReplyDeletehttp://andreasartisticpalette.blogspot.com/
Andrea, what a moving series you did. Your images are so powerful and packed with emotion. I can certainly see how the last one you did, titled Motherhood was the light at the end of the tunnel. Thank you for being so open, I felt like I was reading your diary, I wish I had the courage to express some of the emotions i feel toward the pettiness of some of my family members, but I am just too afraid of the backlash. But maybe I'll find the courage to do it. Expressing emotional and psychological abuse is very challenging. Physical abuse is worn on the outside, but how does an artist depict the pain that occurs on the inside, the kind of pain that is easily ignored, pushed aside, invalidated, and invisible. Well, you have achieved it in your work. Great work, I can't wait to see more, you are so talented.
DeleteAndrea, thank you for being so open and vulnerable in your response and artwork. It is hard to open up those painful areas for others to see in, but I'm grateful that you did. There's an authentic atmosphere created when we allow others to see what we are going through in our lives. I loved seeing the progression of your paintings.
DeleteHopefully I'll see you again in an upcoming class. :)
My project for Pedagogy is based on our two main texts, Sensipensante and Our Lady of Controversy. The incorporation of the themes of both texts was essential to my project. Pedagogically, it was important to create a project, which integrated information and could be repeatable in a classroom with students of all ages and levels, and on any budget.
ReplyDeleteFrom our first text, Sensipensante, the Mexican box project, which the students made, captured my imagination.
From this box project, I became interested in containers, which would hold imagery of both group and individual qualities.
I asked myself a series of questions in order to define my personal project. What would a container look like for me? What would hold both my ethnic background and my personality traits? What would traits would I like to cultivate to carry with me through my life. What characteristics define me?
I was aware that using imagery from an ethnic group unrelated to one to which I belong might create some dissonance. From our second text, I recalled that many of the critics of “The Virgen” in Our Lady of Controversy, argued that Lopez had “high jacked” imagery which did not belong to her. She was an “outsider”. What would be “insider” imagery for me?
Next, from Our Lady of Controversy, the theme of reinterpreting an item used in religious ritual was another important element for my project.
My background is comprised of Mediterranean, Sicilian, and Texan. How could I merge those two cosmologies to make a container, which symbolized me?
I began to consider material. Through out the ancient Mediterranean, there were pottery containers used to trade goods. There were wine containers, grain containers, drinking dishes. What would be used in a religious ritual? Egypt, with a coast on the Mediterranean, developed many creepy and interesting religious rites and containers. Since I am usually found in a museum, I wanted to make something, which is usually found in museums.
Used in religious rites, particularly funerary rites, I researched Canopic jars. Canopic jars, contained the vital organs from mummification. These jars were to be reunited with the dead person in an afterlife incarnation. There was a directional quality to each jar. Each jar was associated with one of the sons of Horus, who was the god of war, sun and protection, and guarded by a Goddess. I liked the idea of strong women guarding me and family watching over the parts I need to survive into the afterlife.
My jar was to be the jar of the south.
It was the jar of Imseti, the human-headed god representing the south, whose jar contained the liver and was protected by the goddess Isis, who is the goddess of artisans.
My jar took the shape of a prickly pear. There is both a Texan and Sicilian variety of this cactus. It has medicinal properties and can even be intoxication. It embodies qualities of survival and beauty in harsh environments. It’s temperate to those who are gentle and healing to those who are wise. It is those qualities of survival, beauty and healing which I would like to carry forward into any incarnation.
working on posting image
DeleteLynn, I enjoy reading through your research, your thought process. The idea of containment and containers is intriguing. I once played around with visually representing "baggage" or the method of containing destructive emotions through compartmentalizing.
DeleteHello All, I just wanted to tell everyone that I enjoyed this class, the discourse of the blogs, and can't wait to see everyone's work.
ReplyDeleteHere is the link to my blogsite: http://corinacarmonaart.blogspot.com/
Have a great Holiday!
Future, you are one amazing teacher, thank you for everything you have helped me with, I can't imagine where I would be without your guidance.
I posted my response on its own page within the Pedagogy blog. Hopefully y'all can find it and enjoy the read.
ReplyDeleteHere is my link for my final artwork submittal, artistic intent, basic teaching principles, and my semester analysis summary (at the beginning of my blog).
ReplyDeleteThank You All for your lengthy, insightful contributions in this Pedagogy class. I learned a great deal from all of you.
http://rickkincheloe.blogspot.com/
All, I am technologically challenged with others viewing my blogsite. Another option to view my blog is from the blog authors location in Google. That site is:
Deletehttp://rickkincheloe91@gmail.com and click on tab "View blog".
Technical difficulties once again..but I think I resolved the challenge. I made my blog public (rather than private), so it should be accessible by all:
Deletehttp://rickkincheloe.blogspot.com/
I look forward to your insight and comments.
Future,
ReplyDeleteI owe you a summary of the text Creating with Reverence Art, Diversity, Culture and Soul by Claire Campbell Park. I didn't want to place it on my blog site, and there wasn't a place for the Art 4365 (7000) class, so I chose to place it here. I apologize for the inconvenience regarding this assignment. The summary is as follows:
Creating with Reverence Art, Diversity, Culture and Soul
By Claire Campbell Park
The text Creating with Reverence Art, Diversity, Culture and Soul by Claire Park, is a beautiful text of creating within and finding substance from the heart. I thoroughly enjoyed this delightful book from beginning to end. I agree with and believe in many of the ideals presented in this text and the insightful, treasured conclusions derived there from in each chapter.
I too am a craftsman, and I love to work and create with my hands. I find no better resolve in my soul than when I am able to create objects of art with passion, integrity, and craftsmanship utilizing ideals of honesty and respect for materials. Perhaps this is a significant ideal that I was able to investigate, explore and hone my crafted abilities when in architecture school years ago. Taking pride in constructing and exercising great care and concern for details envelops me to create objects of lasting beauty and crafted integrity. When working with different materials, be it wood, clay, metals, lime plaster, crafting an architectural model, drawing or painting, my respect for materials is equal. Reverence must be given and time must be taken to identify materials and to weave ideas together to create a beautiful tapestry of character, a story of dignity and respect. Attention to detail and joinery of materials are hallmarks to obtain value and integrity.
This world is full of triviality, and Americans (particularly North Americans), are blessed with material excesses that diminish their worth and value because craftsmanship was, is ignored. The impermanence of objects makes me wonder why they were ever created initially. I completely agree with Claire Park’s statement regarding lack of craftsmanship with her comment “When I see a disregard of craftsmanship, I also see ideas expressed, I often see ignorance. I see a disrespect for resources and an impatience that fosters ill-considered ideas that do more harm than good” (Claire Park, Creating with Reverence 2010 p.37). Claire Park conveys her ideals simply and with utmost reverence. Ideals of:
• Integrity
• Reverence
• Respect
• Harmony
• Continuity
• Reflection
• Humility
• Craftsmanship and attention to details
All of these tenets should be consistent and present when creating art (contemporary or otherwise). “The origin of the fascination of craft is indeed equal to the law that rules the “essence” underlying all things” as stated by Claire Park.
My present philosophy is to create with substance and integrity expressing honesty of materials. This ideal is not conducive to mass production constructs, and never will be. Perhaps the renowned architect Mies Van Der Rohe said it best years ago with his comment “Less is more”. That comment couldn’t be truer when developing objects of beauty and character with substance and integrity.