Ch 3: “If you want your students to remember the lesson and to integrate it into their lives, they need to puzzle through it, process it, and make it their own.”
I think that this is a very good way for teachers to get their point across and really get the students to absorb and understand this information.
“Jesus was famous for his miracles, but he was not the only one of his times to be well-versed in the arts of spectacle. Faith-healing and magic tricks were stock-in-trade for the many wandering's holy men and prophets (The Amazing Jacob! Disappearing Jebediah!) who used public demonstrations of their supernatural power as a means to fame and fortune.”
This is interesting to me because I didn't know that there were other people that lived around Jesus' time that were performing miracles like he was.
Ch 4:
“If you are a legal activist, then law is the material with which you work; if you are a
sculptor, your medium might be stone, wood, metal, or plastic.”
I think this quote means that there are different types of activism and that they can work in different ways to provide the same results.
Stuart Hall, a founder of the academic field of cultural studies, usefully distinguishes between these two primary definitions by referring to culture as art with a big C and culture as life with a small c. Culture and culture are interrelated.”
I think it's important to have clear distinctions between different cultures, and I like this way of doing it.
Widewalls | Yoko Ono - A Groundbreaking Artist, Activist and Fighter:
"Botero fascinates with his exaggerated forms. His unique style blends social criticism, humor, and sensuality in a body of work that is instantly recognizable."
I like the blend you get when you mix humor, sensuality, and social criticism because it allows the artist to break through those social barriers and open up the conversation.
"Discover why you should buy art: aesthetic pleasure, a sound investment, support for artists, and diversification of your assets."
I like the idea that people buy art for different reasons, like it can be a really expensive piece that is an investment, or it can be something fairly cheap that you think is interesting.
Hispanic Executive | Interview with Shaun Leonardo —Performance, Pedagogy, and Philosophy
"I do equate that stubbornness and conviction with the same work ethic that my parents filled me with, but to this day, I don’t understand how I never felt that the historical art canon could not be achieved simply because of my ethnicity or color."
The artist thinks back and sees that his parents instilled in him the conviction to work hard and not take no for an answer and says that the thought of him not being able to achieve what he wanted to because of his skin color never occurred to him.
“Artists have to offer a different type of slowness to work against the speed of today."
I like the idea that artists slow down the world for us and let us see it through their lens for a moment.
I wasn't there for the last class, so I'm not sure if our performance art must be part of our last project, but if it is, I was thinking I could have two big pieces of paper. One to signify Israel and one to signify Palestine. I would have a green marker for Israel to signify all the money that is being made from the war going on and a red marker for Palestine to represent all the death. I can make tallies for how many people die in each country every 10 minutes or so to display how many people are really dying.
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