Dear Everyone,
Please take a moment to introduce yourselves to the class. Sharing one’s writing is a vulnerable act, so the more community we create in this class, the more worthwhile and constructive you’ll find the peer review sessions. I’ve included some questions I would like you to answer, but of course feel free to add whatever you think will help us get a sense of “you.”
Please answer the questions in a separate post, and file under the parent category "Introductions." You can add other tags in the separate tag box. Also, feel free to post a thumbnail picture of yourself or your artwork, etc.
1. Which was your favorite class so far? And why?
2. How many pages was the longest paper you have written? Did it include endnotes and bibliography?
3. What was your favorite paper? Please tell us about the topic in a couple of sentences.
4. Which books did you read of late - art, fiction, non-fiction, graphic novel? Comments are welcome.
5. Which artist or writer or musician or director really impresses you? And why?
6. What is your main interest besides writing, art, music, (i.e., the humanities)?
7. Please describe briefly an article in a newspaper or a magazine that got you thinking lately.
8. Please share an event that you found out about through the media, including an on line news or blog that made you more aware of the culture you live in.
9. Which cultural event has really impressed you lately? This can be a museum, a concert, or anything like that, but also a sports game (if you consider this a cultural event, for which there are good reasons). Or anything I am not even thinking of … Again, tell us why.
10. Please share with us a thought or an idea that really widened your intellectual horizon. If possible, give a source for this idea so that those among the others who are interested know where to go to.
(Questions courtesy of Kira Van Lil via Nancy Hightower, both colleagues extraordinaires)
1. Which was your favorite class so far? And why?
ReplyDeleteThe Internship class I took with Sally Elliott and Mia. It was so enlightening to my future and opportunities out there. I got the wonderful chance to intern with Angie and some other extraordinary artists at Angie Star Jewelry and I am still there working even after the classes have finished.
2. How many pages was the longest paper you have written? Did it include endnotes and bibliography? It was 15 pages and yes it did. It was one of the hardest things I have ever had to do.
3. What was your favorite paper? Please tell us about the topic in a couple of sentences. My favorite paper was in third grade about this dog Riley I found in my street and had to give back to his owner, it was melancholy.
4. Which books did you read of late - art, fiction, non-fiction, graphic novel? Comments are welcome. Dali about Salvador Dali, which was amazing, and I just ordered in the mail Seven Days in the Art World, I heard it was an amazing read.
5. Which artist or writer or musician or director really impresses you? And why? Darren S. Aronofsky the director of Black Swan and Requiem for a Dream he is amazing and I love the way he films. He attended Harvard University.
6. What is your main interest besides writing, art, music, (i.e., the humanities)? Metalsmithing I am very into making jewelry from precious metals and stones, which I have learned from Angie Star. I would say it’s my passion and what I would like to do with my life.
7. Please describe briefly an article in a newspaper or a magazine that got you thinking lately. The article on the possum in Germany with cross eyes hahaha… but another one was about those two women who had a life sentence for robbery of 11 dollars and now are being able to get out because one sister has to give the other her kidney because it was so expensive keeping them locked up.
8. Please share an event that you found out about through the media, including an on line news or blog that made you more aware of the culture you live in. The previous question where two black women can get life from an 11-dollar robbery and the white people involved have been released years before… is just shocking.
9. Which cultural event has really impressed you lately? This can be a museum, a concert, or anything like that, but also a sports game (if you consider this a cultural event, for which there are good reasons). Or anything I am not even thinking of … Again, tell us why. The BFA show last semester was pretty fun. I was really impressed seeing all the work created like people just like me at this age and to see how professional and great the show looked was very exciting.
10. Please share with us a thought or an idea that really widened your intellectual horizon. If possible, give a source for this idea so that those among the others who are interested know where to go. Melanie Yazzie told me to get this book for printmaking called the Bible of printmaking and it’s amazing it has really givin me a lot of insight and a lot of new techniques to try out this semester.
Thanks - interesting and aware and lively
ReplyDelete1) My favorite class so far is probably my freshman year advanced writing class. It was the first real chance of college I had to show off my writing and my professor was incredible.
ReplyDelete2) My longest paper was 12 pages and for Foreign Film Trilogies. Let's just say that it wasn't a cake-walk.
3) My best paper was for my freshman writing class. It was before any sort of healthcare changes had been made and it discussed what the proposed options were. In doing so, I also gave my opinion on what I felt would be most effective and beneficial for the country.
4) I recently read Dennis Lehane's "Shutter Island". I read it before seeing the the film, so it was interesting to see the similarities and differences of making a great novel into a film.
5) Being a film major, I watch a lot of movies, so I would have to say Martin Scorsese is my favorite director. He has the gangster/crime drama down to a T.
6) I took a class about Roman history which I found incredibly interesting. Since then, that has been a huge interest of mine and I hope to travel to Rome at some point in the near future.
7) The news has been saturated by articles about China's input about the state of the dollar which has been interesting. It will be very interesting to see what happens in the future considering China and the U.S. are the two major economies in the world.
8) Any article about the drug violence in Mexico gets me interested. It has gotten so bad recently and consequentially been spilling over into America and it just goes to how Americans tend to have a false sense of security in life.
9) My friends dragged me to a String Cheese Incident concert this summer, which is very strange considering I listen to rock. Being able to see the "hippie" culture in full swing was a very unique experience.
10) My Foreign Film Trilogies class last year really opened me up to a knew way of thinking. Before this, I simply disregarded the great majority of foreign films, so being forced into watching and talking about them has allowed me to look differently at other cultures. In a good way, of course!