Description
This project considers how art engages with social justice causes. Art has been a catalyst for generating dialogue about social issues, with artists affecting change on critical concerns and problems. Your project will focus on issues faced that affect us all regionally, nationally, and globally. Think about how your project could create a greater awareness of social, public, or political problems via art history and visual studies.
CT Assessment: This research project will assess yourinterpretation of artworks based on thematic, visual, and contextual analyses of them. It will evaluate your understanding of the concepts we have studied thus far this semester.
I will use WSSU’s critical thinking rubric to qualify your analytic and interpretative abilities and skills (see attached) for this project.
Learning Outcomes: (1) To analyze how artists engage in diverse social justice causes, (2) to interpret different artists’ perspectives in advocating activist causes, (3) and to present this project in an interactive format that cultivates digital literacy skills.
Guidelines: This project will be formatted as an Adobe Spark web presentation. Here is how to organize your project:
1) Title page in Adobe Spark with your name, title of your project, date, and class (Art 1301). Be creative and professional in developing your title. It sets the tone of your project and captures the reader’s/audience’s attention.
2) Introduction in Adobe Spark (75-100 words for the introduction)
a. Your project’s introduction states your project’s thesis and identifies the works of art you will analyze to demonstrate your critical thinking and reasoning.
b. The introduction is organized to present a thesis or controlling idea that explains your review’s main point(s).
c. The thesis statement should be one to three sentences long to state your ideas in a focused and concise way.
3) Analyses of four works of art (75-100 words for each analysis, about 300-400 words for these analyses intotal)
i. In writing about four artworks, analyze the works’ themes and how visual elements anddesign principles convey their messages visually and conceptually. How and why are these works of art relevant? Important? Meaningful?
ii. Illustrate your Adobe Spark presentation with images that you saved from the artists’ websites or other online resources; you can also include links to artists’ interviews as additional materials or references for your reader. The aim is to write creative, informative, and professional analyses of works of art. Label each image by providing the artist’s name, title, date, medium/materials, and location (i.e., museum, gallery, or site).
iii. Think about your audience, i.e., peers and academic community at WSSU. Imagine if a professor in another department read your project: Would he or she have a clear sense of your point-of-view?
4) Conclusion (75-100 words for the conclusion)
a. Your conclusion should briefly restate the main points you introduced in your first paragraph and develop a central idea that leaves your reader with “food for thought.” That central idea should build on what you have said about the exhibition previously so that you connect all your points in the conclusion.
5) Works cited/reference page
This project requires that you consult at least (1) a scholarly peer-review source and (2) an artist’s, museum’s, or gallery’s website that supports your research.
