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About Discussion Boards
Discussion boards are a place for you to engage in dialogue about course topics with course colleagues. Consider ways to address questions posed by both peers and the instructor related to course readings, your personal experiences, and other specific, related examples. This is the opportunity in this online course environment to work together to further understand the topics of art and gender we address in our academic and personal lives.
Please review the “Discussion Rubric” attached to this discussion board as well as the discussion board information in the course syllabus for expectations about and suggestions for discussion board participation. Participation in any discussion for this course is expected throughout a week of discussion, not just on the last day or two of the week. Waiting until the end of the discussion period does not activate dialogue about key topics, readings, questions, or examples of interest. It is expected that you will participate on at least three (3) days of a discussion week to earn up to an “A” for that assignment.
Remember to cite assigned articles for each week in your responses. You can also include citation based on the lecture notes but MUST include citations from articles assigned each week. A key part of the course is to apply theories and concepts explored in these assigned articles. Unless you include such citations in your posts, we do not know that you have are grappling with and applying these ideas. Citations are not necessary in each discussion post but should be evidenced throughout your work.
You should show depth of thought and engagement with ideas. Go beyond “great statement” or “I like what you had to say” to tell us WHY you liked what someone else said. Provide examples from the readings, your own life, something you saw on YouTube or Instagram, research for another class, or when you visited the campus museum or your local coffee shop. All topics in this course are relevant to our daily lived experience as well as our theoretical, intellectual lives. Please bring this to the forefront of your work in the course.
Week 2: Gender Reflection and Symbol
Share your reflections on gender and your individually (and originally) created gender symbol that identify and explicate your individual gender.
Please note that this assignment has 4 parts outlined below. (Total 10 weekly points)
Personal Written Reflection
1. To begin this creative activity, I ask that you first please complete this two part written reflection:
• Write down two things that are new to you or have surprised you about gender and art since the beginning of the term?
• Write down at least two things you would like to explore or understand better this term about art and gender
2. Now, please complete this hands-on, personalized, individually created creative response:
Gender Symbol Challenge
This activity asks you to be an artist of your own gender. If you are the artist of your own gender (Green), what symbol would you create?
Consider the ideas and images we’ve discussed, particularly of artists using their own identities in their work as well as your responses in the reflection above.
Now: create a symbol that represents your individual gender within society.
Using paper, scissors, glue, magazines, string, office supplies, computer programs, photography, and anything else on hand, sketch, tear, sculpt, build a mock-up
Create an original image. Go beyond an image of yourself or traditional male/female cultural symbols to something very personal and engaged in reflection on your own experience in society and how that is reflected visually, performatively, or through other artistic means.
3. Finally, write a statement about what your symbol means about you and your personal gender. Make connections to how we should interpret it based on our assigned articles this week as well as lecture materials that have been covered. Be specific. Cite ideas and concepts from articles assigned to be read this week. Cite how they support your thinking, creative work, approach to gender, etc.
For example, consider “text” and the “subtext” of your work as discussed in this week’s lecture note. Also, discuss how you have embedded yourself (your creativity, gender, sexuality, etc.) into the work.
This, in part, prepares you for thinking and creating for the final project in the course.
4. Post your work in the discussion board for week two: Discussion Index
Some examples of former students gender symbols that may inspire your own thinking or creative approach: