What are your thoughts & opinion about environmentalism?
Growing up in California, being conscientious about how I interacted with the environment was something I learned at a young age. At my house we always made sure to recycle and compost materials that could be disposed of as such and during the summer we usually had a garden. As kids we also were encouraged to spend lots of time outside and my family enjoyed going on camping trips and hikes around our neighborhood. Also because California has been in a drought for the majority of the past 20 years we were also taught about the importance of conserving water and recently my family redid the front yard to have more plants that need less water and that are native to California. I have made an effort to keep up some of these habits. I'm an active recycler despite the challenge of finding a place to recycle here in Utah. I am trying to be better about buying things locally and to buy produce in season. I know I'm not always the best at keeping these habits up, but they are very important to me and I do consider myself to be at least environmentally conscious and I'm striving to be better about this. B I G P R O J E C T : Create a performance piece in which you spend at least 10 hours elevating one facet of yourself. This can be either a physical facet or internal facet. Use this project as a means to get to know yourself better, your goal is to have a cathartic experience. You will need to turn in video documentation of your final project that is at least 3 minutes long. My prototype is best viewed without sound. For the final project for my curriculum about collage, students were asked to create a collage were they imagine what art piece would be created if one of the artist we have been studying in this unit (collage and otherwise) meet their favorite writers (author, poet, songwriter, screenplay writer, tweeter, fortune cookie writer, etc.) and the two created a collaged piece of artwork together. Students were also asked to make careful consideration about style and color choices as well as including some form of text with the piece.
While I didn't originally think about requirements as far as size, I would probably encourage my students to each create either a series of collages or to take a single collage and then paint it on a larger scale. For the Mandala to destroy I decided to make a collage where I didn't glue anything down and then I wanted to burn it. However the paper I was using wasn't very flammable so it didn't burn as well as I wanted it to. During our third reading I was intrigued by this quote,
"The idea of enabling constraints opposes the Romantic notion that the creative process must be wholly free from all restrictions. On the contrary, more recent research shows that, absent constraining rules, there is no context for creative discourse or means of expression." (Graham; Tibetan Mandalas, Curriculum Sketches, and the Spiritual Dimensions of Art Education) How do you stay in touch with the spiritual side of things? For me, Spirituality is about awareness of yourself and other. So trying to take time to be present rather then worrying about the future or being distracted. This can be as simple as unplugging my self from a device to just think for a moment or setting aside time to do something fun and focusing on that thing. Another thing that helps me connect with the spiritual, is prayer. Just taking some time to reflect about my circumstances and talk to someone who, I believe, has experienced everything I have and knows what will make me happy helps me stay present and recognize that even though things might feel rough it will all work out in the end. We went to the BYU MoA to talk about this piece of art, Jacob and Leah by Bruce Hixon Smith.
First we looked at the piece without context of the title. Then we considered the title and how that changed the piece. Then we considered how a piece that displays a dysfunctional relationship can still contain spirituality and promote enlightenment. For my 'textbook' I had Lynda Barry's Syllabus. In order to better understand what I liked and didn't like about her method of expanding syllabi and course work assignments I created a pros and cons list including picture examples from her text.
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