This Thursday Baruch will be holding an all day “Art-A-Thon,” offering a wide range of experiences in music, visual art, literature, theater, and more. I have attached the schedule of events. In order to receive credit, you must attend one or more of the events on the schedule and post a report about your experience to our course blog (min. 250 words). Please include a photograph in your post which can serve as documentation of your presence at the session. This is the second year that this event is being held. Students and faculty who participated last year had a terrific time! Enjoy!
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Art History with Karen Shelby:
I learned a plethora of revealing, disturbing, and eye-opening information at this meeting. The essential topic of the meeting was about activist art. Individuals like Nan Goldin, Adrian Piper, Kara Walker, Dread Scott, Gonzalez-Day, Weiwei, and more were instruments of this kind of activist work.
Fred Wilson is one of the activist artist. His art reflected how black men were invisible once they were in a suit. People saw a black man in his work uniform and he became just that, a black man in a uniform. Wilson noticed that these men were stripped of identity and personality. To test a group of people at his exhibition, he introduced himself to them and told them to meet him on an upper level of the exhibit to talk about his art (which displayed black men in all kinds suits as guards, security, etc., but with no heads just black necks and bodies). The people met him upstairs and waited for 15 minutes. It was when they started to complain about waiting that he revealed himself. He had been in the suit with them the entire time, but not a single person realized or noticed it was him. People are blind to the black man in the suit.
Dread Scott is another activist artist. The N.A.A.C.P during heavily and overt racist times hung a sign on a busy, city-like block for millions of people to read. The sign said “A Black Man was Lynched Yesterday.” In 2015, Scott hung his own similar sign over a busy business-like block where thousands or millions of people could see it. His sign read “A Black Man was Lynched By Police Yesterday.” This was obviously a powerful message concerning police brutality at the time.
I also learned where the hate words that start with f and n originated from. As well as that Aunt Jemima (pancake mix and syrup mix) was a way for White people to feel like they had a black woman working for them. In other words, another form of racism that has lived through centuries into our modern times and prevails into our future. I always thought Aunt Jemima was the woman who came up with the recipe for pancake mix and syrup. I was entirely wrong.
Weiwei is another activist artist, who used thousands of backpacks to display the deaths of 3,500 children who were killed in China from a fatal earthquake. The Chinese government wasn’t cooperative and didn’t do anything to protect the children. The place where the children were, was earthquake prone. Weiwei wanted to expose the Chinese government for their negligence and censoring. The display was created in Germany to tell the story of thousands of children who died that day. All that was left after the earthquake were thousands of children’s’ backpacks littered all over the place. Devastating, considering these were the children that resulted around the time of China’s one-child policy. Many parents lost their only children that day and the Chinese government refused to acknowledge it, but censored the tragedy instead.
Art Club: Wax-Seal Stamp Making Workshop
Thursday, I went to the Wax seal stamp making workshop at 12:40 t0 2:00 pm. I never made any wax seal. it was my first learning experience, how to make it. at first, I took some wet clay. I have to shape it as plain and flat on both top and bottom, and little thin in the middle. then take necessary tools for your image to draw in the top of the clay. we can write anything on it by digging the wet clay. I never made any seal before. so I play it safe hands, I wrote the initial on my first name to be easier for me. I curve my initial as nicely as possible to become visible. After that we put it in the heater for around 30 minutes to become it hard. Then I take a candle, a blue candle the color I like. I light the candle and drop the hot wax in a paper with a shape of my hot clay. we have to place it as sooner as possible to get the wet wax hot and place the hard mud in the hot wax to get a perfect seal. After few minutes I pull out my baked seal and comes out a nice initial of my name. it was not hard to make a seal and for the first of making a wax seal I think I did pretty good job. As I mentioned that It was my first learning experience, it helped me to learn good and creative work