https://padlet.com/slusdcoach/2rdxl9bntcs0 Please choose a video clip of one or more artists from https://art21.org/watch/ and post what you feel this video shows you about the role of art in the world. en-us 2017-06-03 22:55:25 UTC 2017-06-12 06:11:34 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Pictureland.png slusdcoach https://padlet.com/slusdcoach/2rdxl9bntcs0/wish/175084789 Post the video title or link
Describe what their work tell you about the role of art in the world. (optional: add why you chose them, what was compelling about the work)]]> 2017-06-03 22:55:43 UTC https://padlet.com/slusdcoach/2rdxl9bntcs0/wish/175084789 cathayer https://padlet.com/slusdcoach/2rdxl9bntcs0/wish/175664285 2017-06-08 04:00:02 UTC https://padlet.com/slusdcoach/2rdxl9bntcs0/wish/175664285 https://padlet.com/slusdcoach/2rdxl9bntcs0/wish/175667462 Michelle
An artist that is fascinated with class, identity, culture, excess wealth, and his physical disability. He uses textiles as part of the historical content of his art to challenge notions of identity. Some of his work explores the juxtaposition of nature and culture (as in the impact of oil drilling in Nigeria has decimated the flora in that area). ]]> 2017-06-08 04:50:07 UTC https://padlet.com/slusdcoach/2rdxl9bntcs0/wish/175667462 https://padlet.com/slusdcoach/2rdxl9bntcs0/wish/175668691 This artist was invited to do the artwork in a new NYC subway station. Her art is a representation of movement. Her 2 dimensional work is modeled after transportation and movement. ]]> 2017-06-08 05:13:51 UTC https://padlet.com/slusdcoach/2rdxl9bntcs0/wish/175668691 https://padlet.com/slusdcoach/2rdxl9bntcs0/wish/175670329 https://art21.org/watch/new-york-close-up/daniel-gordon-looks-back/
Aileen
Artist makes objects from paper, creates a still life or portrait, then photographs it. His wife is a sculptor. Role of art - teaches perseverance, things don't always come easy. He talks about asking himself questions, constantly pushing himself to try new things, be inventive, experiment, and failure is okay. These are attributes/attitudes that helps one succeed in anything not just art.]]> 2017-06-08 05:46:55 UTC https://padlet.com/slusdcoach/2rdxl9bntcs0/wish/175670329 https://padlet.com/slusdcoach/2rdxl9bntcs0/wish/175673233
Jen
Watch this one, folks. He's amazing. He is an American sculptor and photographer, and not sure what to call his other art. But as a very young man, he became interested in new artists incorporating old processes into their work. So he was already a talented photographer (you HAVE to see his photos with feet) who followed this path:
He became interested in19th century photographic processing materials, started using them, became interested in materials in general, started working in wax and pouring and manipulating wax, then sought ownership of new materials that other artists hadn't used before. He describes himself as high-strung and sought a material to work with that would feel cleansing. He remembered the shea butter his mom brought from Africa and rubbed on him as a kid ("We were rubbing Africa on ourselves").  He now takes things that feel familiar (plants, books, mirrors) and seeks to help his viewer occupy the objects and look at them through different filters.

He feels that his "blackness" (as he describes it) has had a strong effect on his work, but is clear that it is not the sum of what his work is.

What does his experience and artwork show us about the role of art in the world?  The transformative nature of creating art leads to new investigations, leads to innovation, and ownership. It's like the mind mapping/connection making we have been doing all week. Art is the perfect vehicle for thought. ]]> 2017-06-08 06:28:38 UTC https://padlet.com/slusdcoach/2rdxl9bntcs0/wish/175673233 https://padlet.com/slusdcoach/2rdxl9bntcs0/wish/175966163 Buffy
This artist worked in photography, and materials that are meaningful to him.  I am not sure what shea butter is but I know it is in a lot of the lotions I've seen. It looked like he made sculptures out of it.  How did it not melt?  He also used wax, specifically black wax.  I thought his combinations of materials looked very interesting and almost conflicted.  I think it would be very soothing to work with wax like material, I love to play with it like a fidget.  His perspective on his subject matter is very different from mine and I find it enlightening to see his work. It feels like a gift when someone shares their feelings and connections to meaningful objects and experiences in their life through their art.]]> 2017-06-10 20:25:50 UTC https://padlet.com/slusdcoach/2rdxl9bntcs0/wish/175966163 https://padlet.com/slusdcoach/2rdxl9bntcs0/wish/175968425 Theaster Gates: This artist believes that collections give us insights as to how people or institutions see the world. He takes everday collections - books, hardware items, records, and  then catalogs these objects in a permanence even as the phenomena of  everyday is constantly changing. He also talks about it being another way to look at black space/forgotten things/a void. I love his last line, "It's the thing and the thing that makes the thing."  Kelly]]> 2017-06-10 21:43:12 UTC https://padlet.com/slusdcoach/2rdxl9bntcs0/wish/175968425 https://padlet.com/slusdcoach/2rdxl9bntcs0/wish/176036562 Kammy
https://art21.org/watch/extended-play/nick-cave-thick-skin-short/
Art making is a healing and creative tool and salve salve to express and emotionally process our extraordinarily complex and diverse life experiences. From trauma to ecstasy - art making makes experience, shared, communicated, witnessed, heard, processed, made anew, transformed.... Art making is therapeutic for the maker, the viewer, the community...]]> 2017-06-12 03:36:42 UTC https://padlet.com/slusdcoach/2rdxl9bntcs0/wish/176036562 https://padlet.com/slusdcoach/2rdxl9bntcs0/wish/176039617 Virginia

These are collections gathered from Chicago's south side.  The artist notices that the content of objects from every day life is changing.  His collections are a way of tracking black space, about forgotten people, and "the void".  He takes an old hardware store, perhaps usurped by a big box store, and studies its contents.  He catagorizes things like glass lantern slides and makes them into artwork. He is preserving black life from the 1990s with his bound editions of Jet magazine made into a large artwork, silently inviting future generations to read these collections of past lives. ]]> 2017-06-12 04:32:10 UTC https://padlet.com/slusdcoach/2rdxl9bntcs0/wish/176039617 https://padlet.com/slusdcoach/2rdxl9bntcs0/wish/176044377 Virginia
I chose this film clip because I have spent some time in NYC when my daughter was studying Art History at Columbia University.  We would go to galleries and museums, but what about public art?  This installation was made of tiles and was technically difficult to install. The artist wanted the feeling of diving down through a surface almost like when you dive into water.  The walls have density juxtaposed with emptiness.  In the mezzanine she shows how things move through space using the gesture of a piece of paper. It is as if the paper is floating through air.]]> 2017-06-12 06:03:07 UTC https://padlet.com/slusdcoach/2rdxl9bntcs0/wish/176044377