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Week 10

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G ood afternoon!  Hope you are all in good spirits and feeling fine. Today we meet at the NSU Art Museum at 1:30 p.m. for a field trip.  The address is 1 East Las Olas Blvd. in Ft Lauderdale, 10 minutes from school, and the cost $5.  Parking is available in an adjacent garage.   Bring something with which to record your thoughts and any necessary reference  notes.       T he trip is to be the basis for your last assigned essay, essay 5, described in last week's post and here reproduced.  You may base the report on a different venue, if need be, and supplement with internet source material. Essay 5 :   Due week 11, a field report of 450-600 words on art, including the museum venture and anything else relevant to your focus, including subject material found on the web. Reference the particular venue(s) you visit in person, the exhibit title and run dates, and location features as well as particular works for commentary (titl...
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Week 9

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  Psychedelic Art (Op Art) G ood afternoon!  Hope you are all well, and that you have managed to get your reports written:).  They are due today (though if you need extra time next week is also fine). I include this focus on art in the topic of health and wellbeing because culture plays such a large role in our lives and I believe self-expression, what is a basic desire for dialogue with the world, and the many varied and exquisite designs that come from that desire supercharge the world we inhabit.  I love discovering art that makes everything in me thrill, and I include the visual, the literary, and the auditory experiences.  Nature is my first love, and then art. Without them I don't know that I would survive with any semblance of health and good spirits. And I would agree with Alain de Botton that art enlarges us in a multitude of ways by challenging us to see, hear, experience perspectives we might never entertain or too often overlook, reminding us of ...
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Week 8

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G ood afternoon.  Hope you are happy and well! Sugar Baby, by Kara Walker       Today we'll review a bit and leave most of class time to drafting the short essay report.  I will check whatever draft homework you've completed and give credit for it.  Last night and this morning I spent some time putting together a short essay with the required 3-5 primary and secondary sources, use of direct quotation, and in-text references and citations.  I am not requiring a Works Cited list as the MLA format usually does.  You must have multiple source examples to support and flesh out your observations, experiences, and opinions.  Expert testimonials, case examples, documentary evidence–all these may come into play.  Ideally, you can write the skeleton and then put more meat on it through sustained consideration and accumulated sources that speak to your point.  Below is the draft of my work, not quite 1200 words, which is at the lo...
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