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Hello! I'd like to introduce a group project that we're working on called Exploring Place through Art with our instructor, Ms. Helen H. Park. Basically, we take pictures with different themes each week; strange, beautiful, funny, familiar and American. This special project also gives us opportunity to talk with American people and interview them. This helps us to improve communication skills and be friends with local people.
Here is an overview of the project below and please check this one out.
Exploring Place through Art
Helen Park, Media Artist and Educator
How can we understand our environment through art? How do images and aesthetic experience deepen our insight into culture, place, and identity, whether of our own or that of another? In this two-hour session for the American Cultural Series, students will learn how artists have explored place through their work. Issues related to contemporary art practices and place-based work, such as site-specificity, identity, and community, will also be explored. I will share examples from my past projects that use place as a central theme, as well as works by produced in America by International artists.
PART I: Taking Photographs and Portraits of American Strangers
1. Take and select at least 3 pictures that illustrate the word of the day for you.
2. In groups, find a stranger and ask them what that word means to them. For example, What does the word strange mean to you? Write down their response. Be sure to also get their name.
3. Take a picture of him/her. If this person does not want their face on camera, ask if you can take a photo of an object they are carrying or wearing.
Hello! I'd like to introduce a group project that we're working on called Exploring Place through Art with our instructor, Ms. Helen H. Park. Basically, we take pictures with different themes each week; strange, beautiful, funny, familiar and American. This special project also gives us opportunity to talk with American people and interview them. This helps us to improve communication skills and be friends with local people.
Here is an overview of the project below and please check this one out.
Exploring Place through Art
Helen Park, Media Artist and Educator
How can we understand our environment through art? How do images and aesthetic experience deepen our insight into culture, place, and identity, whether of our own or that of another? In this two-hour session for the American Cultural Series, students will learn how artists have explored place through their work. Issues related to contemporary art practices and place-based work, such as site-specificity, identity, and community, will also be explored. I will share examples from my past projects that use place as a central theme, as well as works by produced in America by International artists.
PART I: Taking Photographs and Portraits of American Strangers
1. Take and select at least 3 pictures that illustrate the word of the day for you.
2. In groups, find a stranger and ask them what that word means to them. For example, What does the word strange mean to you? Write down their response. Be sure to also get their name.
3. Take a picture of him/her. If this person does not want their face on camera, ask if you can take a photo of an object they are carrying or wearing.
WORDS
Monday: Strange
Tuesday: Beautiful
Wednesday: Funny
Thursday: Familiar
Friday: American
Look at us! We were not afraid of talking to the stranger in Starbucks and interviewed him a project question, "What does Beautiful mean to you? "Even this young man taught us a game probably called Thumb Game.
Monday: Strange
Tuesday: Beautiful
Wednesday: Funny
Thursday: Familiar
Friday: American
Look at us! We were not afraid of talking to the stranger in Starbucks and interviewed him a project question, "What does Beautiful mean to you? "Even this young man taught us a game probably called Thumb Game.
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