Friday, December 14, 2012

Insanity- Tanya and Katie's Lesson

I thought that the way that Tanya and Katie presented the idea of insanity in this lesson was done very well. I could tell that they were trying very hard to be politically correct and sensitive to the idea of insanity. I found the most memorable artist they talked about to be Judith Scott, who was born profoundly deaf, mute and with down syndrome and institutionalized for most of her life. But I do not remember the artist because of this, I remember the discussion because of her work and her process to make works of art like this:
The fact that this is what I remember, how her process of repetition played around with the idea of insanity, not that the artist herself experienced hardship in her life due to disability. This was presented really well.

I also really enjoyed the activity and the idea of having all those mystery boxes. It made the process of making art into a game and games always go over well with students. The only problem would definitely be the preparation foe all those boxes in the limited time between classes. Fantastic idea if it could be executed for every class and I'm sure it's possible, just would take some planning. 

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