Art and Women Fall 2018: Mickalene Thomas

Monday, September 3, 2018

Mickalene Thomas

Mickalene Thomas

https://www.mickalenethomas.com/

Mickalene Thomas, Portrait of Mnonja, 2010

Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm3XvKd_KPs

Le Déjeuner Sur L'herbe: Les Trois Femmes Noires 2010
Installation view of On-Site 3: Mickalene Thomas at MoMA PS1

Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIZnKgAqh_k

A Little Taste Outside of Love, 2007

Explore: https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/5044

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Final Exam Tuesday 12/11 11:30am

FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE (linked here)

**Possible essay questions listed on the study guide. Please reference the study guide to prepare for the exam.

GOOD LUCK!

IMPORTANT! Due WEDNESDAY 12/12

POST 4

MANDATORY if you did not go to the Brooklyn Museum

Extra credit +5 if you visited

Can you name 5 women artists?

Concentrating on contemporary artists, choose 5 women artists to illustrate and briefly explain various themes we have discussed throughout the course about gender, race, class and art history. You can organize your post into genres, 'isms, political or societal messages, aesthetics, techniques or personal narratives. You must choose a clear thesis and the 5 artists carefully. Your post MUST include artists working today. Be sure to illustrate your post with various images (and/or videos) and to cite your research.

Please reference Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party and the exhibitions of the Sackler Center and the Brooklyn Museum if you visited.

~800 words, citations and bibliographic info and 5+ images with captions. See checklist from previous posts.

GOOD LUCK WITH END OF SEMESTER MADNESS!!

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*Extension for Brooklyn Museum visit: post by Tuesday 12/4 See below for assignment details

Due Tuesday 11/27 and Thursday 11/29

READINGS: REVIEW Chadwick Ch.14, READ Chadwick Ch. 15

TWO TWEETS tagged #artandwomen

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Due Tuesday 11/20

READINGS: Chadwick Ch.14

*EDIT POST 3 Modernism/Postmodernism until Wednesday 11/21

Group 9 presents

TWO TWEETS tagged #artandwomen

Writing assignment for up to 5pts if you visit the Brooklyn Museum on your own
Due 12/4 at 11pm
If you were unable to attend the Brooklyn Museum with the class on Sunday but can still make the trip you can receive up to 5pts of credit. You must visit Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party at the Brooklyn Museum. Read all of the supporting materials in the exhibition and browse the information on the small interactive tablet outside the installation. Spend some time in The Dinner Party paying close attention to the details of the place settings, note the names and techniques, the imagery and patterns. Choose a few of your favorite place settings. Note how many names might be familiar to you. Write 3+ paragraphs about your experience with The Dinner Party. Include names, details, techniques and your own reactions.

Check out the other exhibitions next to the Dinner Party gallery in the Sackler Center. Visit at least one other gallery/floor in the museum! Include a few details about that as well in your post.
Have fun and explore!

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Class trip to the Brooklyn Museum

Saturday, November 17 at 1pm We will meet in the glass lobby of the museum near the main entrance door at least 10 minutes BEFORE 1pm. Buy your ticket as soon as you arrive. Remember general admission to the museum is a suggested donation. We will assemble here and I will be leading all of us upstairs to see the Dinner Party all together. I will walk you through the installation and explain as much as I can about it and you will all have time to experience the installation for yourselves. you will then be able to visit any part of the museum after we are done. I highly recommend staying and seeing other galleries!

Give yourself extra time for traveling on the weekend. Directions to the Brooklyn Museum can be found here. There is street parking near the museum if you drive there. Careful to read street regulation signs carefully. There is also a parking lot at the museum where you can pay to park. Speak to other students about car pooling together or traveling together. Please feel free to invite a guest. *Please let me know if you plan on coming to the museum and if you plan on bringing a guest by signing a sheet in class on 11/15.

Due Tuesday 11/13 and Thursday 11/15

READINGS: Chadwick, Ch. 13

Post 3 (due 11/15)

Modernism/Postmodernism

What is modernism? How did women artists in Europe influence the techniques and development of modernism and the movements of abstraction, german expressionism, dada and surrealism and other movements in modernism? What important circumstances aided these and how were women integral in applying the techniques of design and craft in these new approaches to art?

Compare and contrast these with postmodernism. What is postmodernism? How have women artists been instrumental in the development of its main themes? Please include examples of each of the movements within modernism and examples of postmodern art. Explain the specifics of these new approaches to art and art-making in the 20C.

~1000 words. Include citations of the class readings in your post (Chadwick and Guerrilla Girls). Please be sure to include at least five images (examples) and two links.

See checklist below for other issues to consider and include in your post. Refer to this checklist for guidance on the post structure and expectations:

-Please include in-body citations of the readings (author, pg)

-Include a brief "works cited" at the bottom of the post with the two (or more) readings you are citing from. You can use APA, MLA or Chicago formats for citation

-Images should have captions. What is the image? Why is it included? Is it referenced in your text?

-Edit: grammar, spelling, sentence and paragraph structure.

-Links must link -please make sure your links LINK. Why is the link included? Think about how the hyperlink is used online. Integrate your links into your writing. They should augment the information provided.

-Images must be sized correctly and should fit in the body of the blog.

-Check your formats in general. Spacing issues, indentations, font sizes, image sizes (sized correctly once published).

TWO TWEETS tagged #artandwomen

Group 8 presents

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Due Tuesday 11/6

Election Day!

GO VOTE

NO new readings due

NO post due * post 3 is due 11/15

Group 7 presents

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Due Thursday 11/8

READINGS: Chadwick, Ch.12, Guerrilla Girls pg.89-91

2 quotes from each chapter/reading

TWO TWEETS tagged #artandwomen

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Due Tuesday 10/23

READINGS: Chadwick, Ch. 9 + 10, Guerrilla Girls pg.59-79

Group 5 presents

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MIDTERM EXAM Thursday 10/18

Midterm Study Guide Here

Due Tuesday 10/16

We will have an exam review in class. Please be sure to prepare any questions you may have about the study guide and the exam.

Group 4 presents

Post 2 Due

Gender Roles, Subject and Power

What were the expected roles of women in Europe in the Middle Ages? How did roles for women change throughout the Renaissance and into the 19C? Please explain how these roles influenced the lives of women artists and the subjects of their work. Citing references to the readings, please use examples through the 19C to illustrate the challenges women artists faced. How did they overcome these or reference them in their work?

~800 words. Include citations of the class readings in your post (Chadwick and Guerrilla Girls). Please be sure to include at least three images and two links. See checklist below for other issues to consider and include in your post.

Refer to this checklist for guidance on the post structure and expectations:

-You should reference Guerrilla Girls and the Whitney Chadick textbook.

-Please include in-body citations of the readings (author, pg)

-Include a brief "works cited" at the bottom of the post with the two (or more) readings you are citing from. You can use APA, MLA or Chicago formats for citation

-Images should have captions. What is the image? Why is it included? Is it referenced in your text?

-Edit: grammar, spelling, sentence and paragraph structure.

-Images must be sized correctly and should fit in the body of the blog.

-Check your formats in general. Spacing issues, indentations, font sizes, are your images appearing correctly?

TWO TWEETS tagged #artandwomen

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Due Tuesday 10/9

Review: Chadwick Chapters 6+7

Group 3 presents

Due Thursday 10/11

READINGS: Chadwick, Ch.8

2 quotes from the chapter

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Post 2 Due Tuesday 10/16

Gender Roles, Subject and Power

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Due Tuesday 10/2 and Thursday 10/4

READINGS:

Chadwick, Ch. 6 + 7, and Guerrilla Girls pg.47-57

2 quotes from each chapter

Group 2 presents Tuesday 10/2

TWO TWEETS tagged #artandwomen

EXTRA CREDIT (1pt) due 10/9

Write 2-3 paragraphs in response to Maren Hassinger's presentation of her work to our class on 9/27. Please include your reactions and/or questions the presentation may have brought forward for you. How did her presentation fit into the discussions we have been having in class? What other themes in her work stuck out to you?

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**CLASS ON 9/27 will be in BRADLEY HALL 313**

We will be attending a lecture by artist Maren Hassinger at 11:30am.

Maren Hassinger was born in Los Angeles in 1947. After studying dance and sculpture at Bennington College, she completed her MFA in Fiber Structure at UCLA. While in Los Angeles, she began making sculptures with bent, twisted and frayed wire rope and creating and participating in numerous performances in Los Angeles.

Now based in New York City, Hassinger uses every day disposable and recycled materials—plastic bags, paper, and cardboard—to consider our relationship to nature and each other. We live in a time of inequality and vanishing resources, so Hassinger considers the precarious fate of people and nature. These issues inspire her work, which includes video, performance, installation, and objects.

Hassinger has exhibited widely in the United States and abroad. She is the recipient of many awards and honors including grants from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Gottlieb Foundation, Anonymous was a Woman, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women’s Caucus for the Arts. Since 1997, she has been Director of Rinehart School of Graduate Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore.

In 2015, she had a major retrospective at Spelman College Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia with a catalogue featuring 20 works that were recreated for the exhibition. In 2016, she and her daughter Ava Hassinger presented an exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia as “Matriarch”. Hassinger’s work was included in a major exhibition of feminist artwork at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in 2017. In 2018, Hassinger will participate in 3 solo exhibitions at Art & Practice in Los Angeles, the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Susan Inglett Gallery in New York. Maren's yearlong outdoor exhibition with the Studio Museum in Harlem, titled "Monuments" is currently on view in Harlem's Marcus Garvey Park. Maren Hassinger lives and works in New York, New York.

Recent article in Hyperallergic Magazine about her work: https://hyperallergic.com/443168/maren-hassinger-the-spirit-of-things-art-practice/

Due Tuesday 9/25 and 9/27

Renaissance through 18thC

READINGS:

Chadwick, Ch. 4 + 5, Guerrilla Girls pg.39-45

2 quotes from each chapter

*EDIT Post 1 until Saturday 9am

TWO TWEETS tagged #artandwomen

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Due Tuesday 9/18

READINGS:

Chadwick, Chapter 1

and

Guerrilla Girls pgs. 7-37

2 quotes from each chapter/reading

Due Thursday 9/20

READINGS:

Chadwick Chapters 2+3

2 quotes from each chapter

POST 1 : Male Gaze and Patriarchy
Please answer the following questions based on the readings and class discussion. Use your own experiences and realizations to help illustrate your understanding of the material. You must cite from the readings in order to explain and analyze the arguments made in the readings. What is the male gaze (as described by John Berger) and why is it pervasive in art and in popular culture? Give illustrative examples. What is patriarchy (as described by bell hooks)? Give examples. How have you come to understand these structures and in what ways has this understanding changed your views about various art and media examples and of your own identity and role in these structures?

What contemporary arguments can you find that have sprung from these?
Ex: female gaze, oppositional gaze, intersectional feminism. Please expand this analysis into areas of art, art history, cinema and film theory, media criticism, intersectional feminism and sociology.

~800 words. Include citations from both of the readings in your post. Please be sure to include at least two images and two links.

Refer to this checklist for guidance on the post structure and expectations:

-You must reference the bell hooks and John Berger readings
in your post. You can (optional) also reference additional readings: Linda Nochlin, Guerrilla Girls and the Whitney Chadwick textbook - additional sources from your own research.
-Please include in-body citations of the readings (author, pg)
-Include a brief "works cited" at the bottom of the post with the two (or more) readings you are citing from. You can use APA, MLA or Chicago formats for citation

-Images should have captions. What is the image? Why is it included? Is it referenced in your text?
-Edit: grammar, spelling, sentence and paragraph structure.
-Links must link -please make sure your links LINK. Why is the link included? Think about how the hyperlink is used online. Integrate your links into your writing. They should augment the information provided.
-Images must be sized correctly and should fit in the body of the blog.
-Check your formats in general. Spacing issues, indentations, font sizes, are your images appearing correctly?

TWO TWEETS tagged #artandwomen

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Due Tuesday 9/11

GET THE TEXTBOOKS

Whitney Chadwick's Women Art and Society 4th or 5th edition
and
The Guerrilla Girls' Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art

MINI POST due - Critical Artist Expression
(a SHORT POST on the blog)
Find and research a female identified artist whose work (you believe) critically addresses a cultural, social or political issue. Share this on the blog with a short description and one or more images of their work. If you have trouble posting to the blog, bring in the information about your artist to class as a print out and be sure to hand it in to me.

READINGS On Blackboard:

two readings can be found as pdfs on the class Blackboard site under "Course Documents" in a folder called "Readings: Ways of Seeing"

2 quotes from each reading

1. John Berger, Ways of Seeing, Chapters 2+3

2. bell hooks, Understanding Patriarchy

READINGS Online:

2 quotes from each reading

3. Linda Nochlin, Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?http://deyoung.famsf.org/files/whynogreatwomenartists_4.pdf

4. Report Card: Guerrilla Girls and Pussy Galore
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/20/sexism-art-_n_6721318.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/women-artists-what-this-term-means_us_5626a52be4b0bce34702b7dd

TWO TWEETS tagged #artandwomen

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Link to the Syllabus

Link to the Class Video Screenings

It is helpful that everyone in the course reviews several key terms crucial to the course material. Please review this important list of terms on gender and sexuality.

Readings on the syllabus, unless otherwise specified, refer to chapters in your texts:

Whitney Chadwick's Women Art and Society

and

The Guerrilla Girls' Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art

**Additional readings can be found on the class Blackboard site and will be specified here for each class. Please check the blog each week for all readings.