Learning is Sweet on Valentine's Day....

At the Chocolate Festival at NMAI Sunday 12 February: Heritage Chocolate & Mitsitam Cafe 
The Politics of Chocolate -- Fair Trade Chocolate -- Virginia's Mars' Chocolate supplies

Tuesday, 14 February – What counts as art? What counts as feminism? For whom? 
OUR ADVENTURES IN THINKING, IN MUSEUM-ING, IN WRITING, IN DISCUSSION AND SHARING! 

• DUE ASS. #1: Museums & More: logbook 1 + hardcopy AT THE END OF CLASS! You want to keep your paper with you during class, in case you are asked to read something from it! (Next week you'll learn how to leave electronic copies in TA dropbox in discussion section).

• You should have read Freeland, Chs 4,5,7 by today and be prepared to discuss!

• Check out Freeland’s website: http://www.uh.edu/~cfreelan/ What sort of passionate thinker is she? Notice about the book we are reading: "But is it Art?, Oxford University Press, 2001. Translated into Chinese (2002), Korean (2002), Spanish (2003), German (2003), Dutch (2003); Greek (2005); Polish (2005); Swedish (2006), Tamil (2006), Japanese (2008), Vietnamese (2009); Turkish (2009), Latvian (2009), simple Chinese (2009); under contract for translation into Hebrew, Portugese, and Persian. Republished as Art Theory: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, 2002." 

• Sections start meeting next week! Make sure you know where to go and when! (look to the right hand side of this post to see which sections are where and when; you may need to scroll up or down a little bit, or it may be right here!)

 

Reports, thoughts, analysis of our first class experiences, the museum visits. What assumptions altered as you got involved here? What was surprising? What insights about feminisms emerged? What was new? What was exciting and fun? Where will this beginning take us this semester? What sort of journey have you begun? How will Freeland guide us? 




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On coming into class today, everyone should write down on a piece of paper to hand in, which 

• art work in which 

• exhibition in which 

• museum 

you wrote about as your three page choice for your paper today. We are going to try and gather this data for the whole class and put it up on the boards to shape and facilitate our discussion today. Consider how much adventure, fantasy, friends, and learning are involved here!

We will be discussing what people chose and why, how many people in the class made similar choices. As well as the questions for today about how you considered what was and was not feminist from what viewpoints, what you found surprising, and how we might excavate assumptions about feminism, art, culture, and forms of power, social justice and intersectionalities. Prepare yourself mentally to participate! If you are ordinarily a silent, perhaps shy person, challenge yourself to speak up and to think on your feet here! Anyone can be called on! If you are called on you can read bits from your paper to respond to questions and the discussion! Or, you can write something down and read it, sometimes that makes speaking up easier.  

And be sure to click the pictures in this post (all class posts actually) and consider what the links taken together mean! What are the connections you see? How might they be part of what we are doing today? All class days? See if you can write down how you understand them all? How do they explain how "learning is sweet"?

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What is the difference between "what COUNTS AS art?" and "what is art?"
What is the difference between "what COUNTS AS feminism?" and "what is feminism?"

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IF FOR ANY REASON WHATSOEVER YOU ARE NOT TURNING IN ASS #1 TODAY, WHETHER YOU HAVE DISCUSSED IT WITH KATIE OR NOT, YOU MUST TURN IN A LOGBOOK WITH EXPLANATIONS AND PLANS FOR ALTERNATIVES! If at all possible, you should turn this in at the end of class today, in class. If that is not possible you should submit it as an attachment with the subject header <yrlastname> 250 logbook1 TODAY to katiekin@gmail.com (NOTE kin not king!). If for any reason you do not have this in hand in class now, turn in a piece of paper with your explanations and that you will email in asap. (Record keeping in a large class is complex!)

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