Guest speaker two- Dan

Dan is always awesome, and he's so super smart. He was reading to us from these philosophical books, a lot of it I was not understanding, but I was also feeling really inspired because I kept on writing down ideas for art lessons or art concepts in my sketch book. That's kind of funny. We also looked at an art 21 video of this Canadian artist who was amazing. Then we went to the MOA and looked at the potatoes.

Guest speaker one- Jethro

Jethro is so awesome! He shared a powerpoint with us about his masters thesis, which was a small portable art gallery that he had in the high school where he taught. He had students show their AP work at the end of the year inside the gallery. He said that this helped students to take ownership of their art. He showed us a lot of pictures over the years, and how the gallery kind of progressed. At first, he was very involved in helping students plan and hang the art. But he said after awhile, students would come to him with these great ideas, and instead of him doing a big part of the work for them, he would tell the student "awesome! go figure out how to do it!" I love that!
He also showed us his tally mark artwork, which is awesome! I would love to use him as an example in my future lessons on repetition.

"You can't teach anyone to be creative, but you can give them an environment"

Chaco Canyon

Vulnerability

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How can we embrace vulnerability

•How can we teach ourselves or others to believe that we are worthy?

•What can you do about homelessness? What can’t you do?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0le-hqLVJm0

Who are they

Dr Cornell West is a philosopher, activist, author, and much more. He describes himself as a non-Marxist socialist. He believes that the US is a "racist patriarchal nation" where white supremacy is still very alive today. He attributes most of the black community's problems to "existential angst derive[d] from the lived experience of ontological wounds and emotional scars inflicted by white supremacist beliefs and images permeating U.S. society and culture." He is very involved in news and media today. It also seems like he hates Wall street.
bells hooks is a feminist and social activist who focuses on gender, intersectionality of race, and capitalism. I think it's very interesting that she talks a lot about media.. how movies have an impression on us, even the strongest minds are influenced by the images seen in movies, and there's nothing we can do about it. She also talks a lot about race and feminism, and the idea of marginality..  "To be in the margin is to be part of the whole but outside the main body." She also said "Women in lower class and poor groups, particularly those who are non-white, would not have defined women's liberation as women gaining social equality with men since they are continually reminded in their everyday lives that all women do not share a common social status."
She has a lot to say about love, how loves works and when it cannot be present. While reading and writing about her, I am thinking about how I can't think of very many black woman who are activists.. and can advocate this important and unique perspective to the world..
Michael Foucault was a philosopher, social theorist, and literary critic. He thought of himself as criticizing history of modernity. He explores the relationship between power and knowledge. I got this from wikipedia, "Foucault's colleague Pierre Bourdieu summarised the philosopher's thought as "a long exploration of transgression, of going beyond social limits, always inseparably linked to knowledge and power.'" Cool.. that sounds post modern to me!
I would like to have more time to research these people.. Especially bell hooks