Hey Folks! So I’ve decided to change some things up and renew my commitment to working on this site. If you’ve been here before, you’ve probably noticed a few things have changed. Why the name (change)? I think it just made more sense to what I was trying to accomplish. The name Radical Styles [...]
Visual Media Women without Men Screening Due for the Week Chipotle – Back to the Start - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMfSGt6rHos Jeff Skoll – Make Movies that Make Change(http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/jeff_skoll_makes_movies_that_make_change.html) Video Clips – 2 Day Film School Weekly Journal
Drawings and Paintings Discussion of Shirin Neshat Show video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhVzWXvC5Iw) Community dynamics: art as activsm Due for the Week A concise history of black-white relations in the US - http://www.leftycartoons.com/a-concise-history-of-black-white-relations-in-the-united-states/ Shirin Neshat – Art in Exile http://www.ted.com/talks/shirin_neshat_art_in_exile.html Weekly Journal
Community Projects Introduction to CRAFT Model (Contact, Research, Action, Feedback Teaching) Sharing of stories What did you like about the projects? What didn’t you like? Due for the Week Select a chapter from Beginner’s Guide to Community-Based Arts Weekly Journal or Handout about your chapter
So I haven’t written anything about this, but I’ve been working on a concept for a cartoon show relating towards social justice. Here’s a sneak peak at some of the characters I’ve been working on. If anybody has any interested working on this with me, let me know!
Poetry/Spoken Word/Literature What moves us? Who is our favorite author/poet? Why? Due for the Week Reading - 10 Tips for writing short storieshttp://jerz.setonhill.edu/writing/creative1/shortstory/ Reading - Elements of a good storyhttp://www.aaronshep.com/youngauthor/elements.html Reading - Poetry writing tips http://www.poewar.com/poetry-writing-tips/ Howard Zinn – People’s History of the US Amiri Baraka – A Literary Statement http://www.jstor.org/stable/302322 Gemineye – What are you fighting for? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7eZOXmORA0&feature=related Daniel [...]
Hey Folks! I just created this image for a conference I’m helping to plan that’s happening this weekend. At Oberlin, we try to create a culture where we continually respect people’s preferred gender pronouns and I was hoping to create an accessible graphic that would help explain preferred gender pronouns to the folks that are [...]
Dance/Theater/Performance Reading discussion Dance and Theater as ritual The healing properties of ritual Theater of the Oppressed Due for the Week 1700% Project - http://vimeo.com/11380785 Ana Maria Alvarez ‘99, Contratiempo http://vimeo.com/23651807 Urban Bush Women http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADLBjYbQ7wc Urban Bush Woman: 25 Years of African American Dance Theater, Community Engagement, and Working It Out. Chapter 6 “The Community: in [...]
Music Reading discussion A Song for Ourselves Documentary and Discussion Guest presentation on Gospel music Due for the Week Reading - Should music be political? http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/18/until-the-next-revolution/ Video Course – Music Theory – Pick a lesson that you would like to know more abouthttp://www.howtoplaypiano.ca/?page_id=108 Music Video – Lupe Fiasco “Words I Never Said” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22l1sf5JZD0&ob=av3e Video Interview – Lupe [...]
Lesson Plan What makes a good picture? Mechanics of Photography What is composition? What appeals to us? Due for the week Reading – Top 10 Composition Rules http://www.photographymad.com/pages/view/10-top-photography-composition-rules Reading – 5 Elements of Composition http://www.digital-photography-school.com/5-elements-of-composition-in-photography Reading – Photography of basics http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/basics.htm Photography Project – 28 millimetres project http://www.28millimetres.com/index_en.html Video – James Nachtwey Ted Talk http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/james_nachtwey_s_searing_pictures_of_war.html Weekly [...]
