We will be giving public presentations on artists whose work intersects with food and ethics or sustainability at the WVWC Library on Tue, Apr 8 at 1pm (IMPACT DAY). Read here about How is This Art?

ARTIST SIGN UP:
Zach – Laura Ginn
Casey – Michael Rakowitz
Colby – Ai Wei Wei
Mariah – Oron Catts
Marissa – Marina Abromovic
Natasha – Wim Delvoye
Elaine – Shannon Young
Foster – Carolee Schneeman
Rebecca – Janine Antoline
Tilly – Felix Gonzalez Torres
Steph – Matthew Moore

You may select any artist we have or will touch on in class or have seen/read about in our readings. Suggestions:

Michael Rakowitz – “Enemy Kitchen”
Laura Ginn, “Tomorrow We Will Feast Again on What We Catch” (2012)
Liz Hickok,  Jello mold model of San Francisco
Oron Catts & Ionat Zurr – victimless meat
Mary Mattingly – Waterpod Project
Agnes Denes – “Wheatfield – A Confrontation”
Dan Devine – “Sheep Farm”
Shannon Young – “How Does Your Garden Grow?”
Newton and Helen Harrison – Survival Series (1970-1973)
Angela and Luke Ebner – “Soil Olympics”
Susan Leibovitz Steinman – “Straw Bale Farm”
Mara Adamitz Scrupe – “Scat Project”
Mei Ling Hom – Mushroom Cap – A Mycorestoration Module
 J.J. McCracken – “Vermiculture Boxes” or “Hunger, Philadelphia”
Futurefarmers – Victory Gardens (2007) or virtually any of their projects
any work by fieldfaring (Susanne Cockrell and Ted Purves)
Anya Gallaccio – Motherlode
N55 – XYZ Spaceframe Vehicle or other projects
Avital Geva – The Eco-Greenhouse in Israel
Lonnie Graham – “African/American Garden Project.”
Matthew Moore – “Life Cycles” or almost any of his other projects
Åsa Sonjasdotter – “Potato Perspective”
Tattfoo Tan – S.O.S. Urban Farmers or Black Gold
Didier Hess – “Food Pyramid”
National Bitter Melon Council – “Promiscuous Production: Breeding is Bittersweet”
Karen Atkinson, John Burtle, Ari Kletzky, Owen Driggs – “Islands of LA presents Roots of Compromise”
Lauren Bon and Metabolic Studio – “Bldg 209: Garden Folly / Indexical Strawberry Flag”
Bonnie Ora Sherk – Community Crossroads (The Farm) (1974-1980), or Public Park IV
Lisa Gross – The Boston Tree Party (2011)
Leah Gauthier – Sharecropper (2009), or The Marshall (2012)
Nils Norman – Edible Park
Beatriz da Costa – Flavonoid Time!, or The Life Garden
Jenna Spevack – Eight Extraordinary Greens
Britta Riley and Rebbecca Bray – Window Farms

NOTE: most of these artists were selected from the following exhibitions:
– Green Acres
– EATLACMA

Presentations must cover some biographical information, analyze at least 1 of the artist’s most relevant performances (relevant to the theme of our class) in terms of subject, form, content and context, and relate the artist and the performance to the larger context of art history (what artists or artworks influenced your artist). You must have a conclusion/summary.

The entire presentation should be accompanied by images that illustrate your talk. A PowerPoint presentation or Prezi will work well. You should also show a brief video (no more than 1 minute) to help illustrate your presentation, and the overall presentation will be no longer than 7-8 minutes long.

Students must also turn in a printed “Works Cited” page that contains the citations of at least 5 sources. 1 may be found online, however 4 of the sources must be books or articles from the WVWC library, databases, or interlibrary loan. Remember, most of the artists listed are alive and have websites where you can find their contact information – do not hesitate to contact them with questions if you cannot find the answers through traditional research. However, interviewing the artist does not excuse the required Works Cited above; it is simply a highly effective addition to the research. The printed Works Cited is due on the day of the presentations.

GRADING:
Biographical information – 2pts
Discuss subject of the performance – 2pts
Discuss form of the performance – 2pts
Discuss content of the performance – 2pts
Discuss context of the performance – 2pts
Quality of illustrations/video – 2pts
Strong conclusion/summary – 1 pt
Presentation skills (loud clear voice, looking at audience, etc) – 3pts
Evidence of practice and preparation – 4pts
Turn in printed Works Cited list – 4pts

To help us prepare for this research project, we will be trained at the library by Beth Rodgers on Wed, Mar 19, at 3pm.

The WVWC Library offers information resources for students at all levels and all disciplines.  Library resources are a key component of academic success.  Google and Wikipedia as research tools will not lead to acceptable research assignments, papers, or presentations.  The library’s reference and instructional staff is available in person, by phone, by email, by text, and via reference chat on the library homepage to assist students with research inquiries. If you are not familiar with using the library, please ask for assistance from the library’s personnel or visit the library homepage for assistance (http://amplibrary.wvwc.edu/libraryhome).

Art @ Your Library – See Beth Rogers for additional assistance, librarian@wvwc.edu

ArtSTOR – The ARTstor Digital Library is a nonprofit resource that provides over 1.5 million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research

Oxford Art Online – Oxford Art Online offers access to the most authoritative, inclusive, and easily searchable online art resources available today. Through a single, elegant gateway users can access – and simultaneously cross-search – an expanding range of Oxford’s acclaimed art reference works: Grove Art Online, the Benezit Dictionary of ARtis, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, as well as many specially commissioned articles and bibliographies available exclusively online.

Biography in Context – Biography in Context delivers outstanding research support with 600,000+ biographical entries – on more than 528,000 individuals – spanning history and geography.

JSTOR – Electronic archiving of key journals in a multitude of academic disciplines, including over 500 art and art history journals

Discovery – a federated search tool that allows searching across multiple publisher platforms.