So here I am...its really late on Monday night a I'm trying like hell to finish assignment 2 b. so that I can get to 2 c. ( you know, because its due at 12 midnight!) As I login in to turn in my work, which by the way has a spelling error that I am going to have to go back and fix!!! Any moment now McAllister, my three month old, is going to wake up for her scheduled feeding...
Why is David the only one with his assignment turned in???
I look a the deadline... Shoot, I'm going to bed. Sweet dreams sucker!
Monday, September 8, 2008
assignment 2 b.
MoLAA is Museum of Latin American Art.
I was able to watch the first two of the three video clips listed. The first one was Gregorio Luke, the museums (ex!) director and a few others give an excited and inspired description of the MoLAA. Luke went over the programs that are offered to the public, describing the exhibits and asking for donations for the future goals of the MoLAA. The MoLAA is located in Long Beach and is the only contemporary Latin American museum in the United States. They were excited to redesign the building, (which they have). The second video was a tour made from a collection of photographs set to beautiful music. The author did a great job cataloging the information; first- the introduction of the artist and title of piece followed by the article its self. I loved the folk art in the entry way. I really loved Walter Goldfarbs, “The Fall of the King II.” I was surprised and happy to learn that the MoLAA has several collage pieces, I enjoy that medium. I noticed that there were quite a few female artists being featured, which pleased me as well. As for the third video on the list, I was unable to access it, so I did a Google search for MoLAA news. I picked around at a few different articles and discovered that MoLAA is the only contemporary art museum dedicated to Latin American culture in the United States. They have an artist workshop program that ranges from children, novice and professional abilities. The MoLAA has a strong commitment to the performing arts as well, music and dance performances happen regularly.
Three questions for my classmates:
1.) Describe Johnny Palacios Hidalgo’s “untitled” piece.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=kUa2HgJEITQ&
2.) What district in Long Beach is MoLAA located?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Lcj6ld0gKck
3.) What day is MoLAA free?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Hu5geLH1Q9A
There was a few interesting facts that I picked up from the MoLAA website. The first bit of information was in an article describing the permanent collection the discussion was about how spiritual and religious practices affects art, “Cuban artist, Jose Bedia focuses on the Amerindian and Afro-Cuban cultures that practice the religions of Palo Monte and Santería or a ritual form of communication with the spirit world in search of man’s relationship to nature and animals.” I had heard of Santeria before, but never Palo Monte… so I look a little trip to http://www.wikipeadia.org/ and found out that Palo is a practice that originated in the Congo and came to Cuba and the Dominican Republic buy way of the save trade. The Palo focuses on the power of their ancestors and the power of the earth.
The second interesting bit was that the Robert Gumbiner Foundation donates over one million dollars a year to the museum.
Who is this Robert Gumbiner?
I googled him: Dr. Gumbiner conceived and founded the MoLAA in 1996. He was a successful physician and championed for fair and affordable health care for many years. He is a writer, a teacher and loves the arts.
Lastly the third fact that I found on the MoLAA website was that the building was originally home to a silent movie studio. So much art for one place…
I was able to watch the first two of the three video clips listed. The first one was Gregorio Luke, the museums (ex!) director and a few others give an excited and inspired description of the MoLAA. Luke went over the programs that are offered to the public, describing the exhibits and asking for donations for the future goals of the MoLAA. The MoLAA is located in Long Beach and is the only contemporary Latin American museum in the United States. They were excited to redesign the building, (which they have). The second video was a tour made from a collection of photographs set to beautiful music. The author did a great job cataloging the information; first- the introduction of the artist and title of piece followed by the article its self. I loved the folk art in the entry way. I really loved Walter Goldfarbs, “The Fall of the King II.” I was surprised and happy to learn that the MoLAA has several collage pieces, I enjoy that medium. I noticed that there were quite a few female artists being featured, which pleased me as well. As for the third video on the list, I was unable to access it, so I did a Google search for MoLAA news. I picked around at a few different articles and discovered that MoLAA is the only contemporary art museum dedicated to Latin American culture in the United States. They have an artist workshop program that ranges from children, novice and professional abilities. The MoLAA has a strong commitment to the performing arts as well, music and dance performances happen regularly.
Three questions for my classmates:
1.) Describe Johnny Palacios Hidalgo’s “untitled” piece.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=kUa2HgJEITQ&
2.) What district in Long Beach is MoLAA located?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Lcj6ld0gKck
3.) What day is MoLAA free?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Hu5geLH1Q9A
There was a few interesting facts that I picked up from the MoLAA website. The first bit of information was in an article describing the permanent collection the discussion was about how spiritual and religious practices affects art, “Cuban artist, Jose Bedia focuses on the Amerindian and Afro-Cuban cultures that practice the religions of Palo Monte and Santería or a ritual form of communication with the spirit world in search of man’s relationship to nature and animals.” I had heard of Santeria before, but never Palo Monte… so I look a little trip to http://www.wikipeadia.org/ and found out that Palo is a practice that originated in the Congo and came to Cuba and the Dominican Republic buy way of the save trade. The Palo focuses on the power of their ancestors and the power of the earth.
The second interesting bit was that the Robert Gumbiner Foundation donates over one million dollars a year to the museum.
Who is this Robert Gumbiner?
I googled him: Dr. Gumbiner conceived and founded the MoLAA in 1996. He was a successful physician and championed for fair and affordable health care for many years. He is a writer, a teacher and loves the arts.
Lastly the third fact that I found on the MoLAA website was that the building was originally home to a silent movie studio. So much art for one place…
Friday, September 5, 2008
assignment 2 a.
a.) Interdisciplinary studies is an academic program or process seeking to synthesize broad perspectives, knowledge, skills, interconnections, and epistemology in an educational setting.
b.)Latin America refers only to those territories in the Americas where the Spanish or Portuguese languages prevail: Mexico most of Central and South America, plus Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rican the Caribbean. A different website offered this as a definition: the part of the American continents south of the United States in which Spanish, Portuguese, or French is officially spoken.
When I started to look for lists of the countries that are considered “Latin American” and “the Caribbean” I found that every website varied. Some would include counties that were continental as a part of the Caribbean others would only include them if they were islands. Some websites did not include the French islands, and so on. So I think that I came up with a list that will make everyone happy by focusing on the task as a geographical one.
c.)CARIBBEAN COUNTRIES:
Anguilla, Aruba, Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turk and Caicos. (Include US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico)
d.)LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES:
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Ecuador, Falkland Islands, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Ecuador, Guatemala, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago, El Salvador, Panama, Jamaica, Honduras, Paraguay, Bahamas, Nicaragua, Haiti, Barbados, Surname, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Lucia, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominica.
e.)*An interesting fact that I didn’t know about Barbados: the word Barbados means bearded in Portuguese. It refers to the bearded fig trees indigenous to the island
f.) Sources used above:
http://youtube.com/
http://about.com/
http://wikipedia.com/
http://bajanproverbs.com/
I can’t say that youtube in a reputable site. For all I know I could have been watching a video of Turks and Caicos while thinking that Suriname looks great! It is however amazing. About seemed like a solid site. It was well organized and there didn’t seem to be any funny business going on. Wikipedia is great because the amount of people that use the site makes it difficult to have any wrong information posted. Wikipedia is generally my go to site. Bajanproverbs was really entertaining; take a look if you get a chance, as for me knowing if it’s the truth…I don’t know.
g.) Well I’ve noticed by looking at other classmate’s profiles that I am not the only one in my thirties. There are a handful of us in the group. Linda and I both live less than five miles from the JC. Katy and I have newborn babies…
b.)Latin America refers only to those territories in the Americas where the Spanish or Portuguese languages prevail: Mexico most of Central and South America, plus Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rican the Caribbean. A different website offered this as a definition: the part of the American continents south of the United States in which Spanish, Portuguese, or French is officially spoken.
When I started to look for lists of the countries that are considered “Latin American” and “the Caribbean” I found that every website varied. Some would include counties that were continental as a part of the Caribbean others would only include them if they were islands. Some websites did not include the French islands, and so on. So I think that I came up with a list that will make everyone happy by focusing on the task as a geographical one.
c.)CARIBBEAN COUNTRIES:
Anguilla, Aruba, Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turk and Caicos. (Include US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico)
d.)LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES:
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Ecuador, Falkland Islands, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Ecuador, Guatemala, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago, El Salvador, Panama, Jamaica, Honduras, Paraguay, Bahamas, Nicaragua, Haiti, Barbados, Surname, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Lucia, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominica.
e.)*An interesting fact that I didn’t know about Barbados: the word Barbados means bearded in Portuguese. It refers to the bearded fig trees indigenous to the island
f.) Sources used above:
http://youtube.com/
http://about.com/
http://wikipedia.com/
http://bajanproverbs.com/
I can’t say that youtube in a reputable site. For all I know I could have been watching a video of Turks and Caicos while thinking that Suriname looks great! It is however amazing. About seemed like a solid site. It was well organized and there didn’t seem to be any funny business going on. Wikipedia is great because the amount of people that use the site makes it difficult to have any wrong information posted. Wikipedia is generally my go to site. Bajanproverbs was really entertaining; take a look if you get a chance, as for me knowing if it’s the truth…I don’t know.
g.) Well I’ve noticed by looking at other classmate’s profiles that I am not the only one in my thirties. There are a handful of us in the group. Linda and I both live less than five miles from the JC. Katy and I have newborn babies…
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
assignment 1 c.
I have a confession: I have word hang ups. It is beyond my control. Sometimes they are perfectly fine words, like merge or loaf. Other times its word play that gets me. There are words that actually evoke a physical reaction: pedagogy is one of those words. I can’t tell you why this happens, but it does. It’s Funny really.
I took a look at Matt and Dave’s blogs for more information on Paulo Freire. Matt is a Taurus and doesn’t tell us much more about himself. Dave has a fantastic music collection and I can’t wait to listen to more… (check it out). Both gentlemen included great quotes in their reports. Matt writes about Freire’s belief in critical pedagogy, where students are encouraged to question the material presented to them by using critical analysis. Matt included this quote in his report,
“Nobody liberates anybody else, and nobody liberates themselves all alone. People liberate themselves in fellowship with others.”
Dave is a teacher and seems to be coming from a more mature perspective in his carrer. He included this quote in his report,
“Humility helps us to understand this obvious truth: No one knows it all; no one is ignorant of everything. We all know something; we are all ignorant of something. Without humility, one can hardly listen with respect to those one judges to be too far below one's own level of competence. But the humility that enables one to listen even to those considered less competent should not be an act of condescension or resemble the behavior of those fulfilling a vow...” (p. 39 of Teachers as Cultural Workers - Letters to Those Who Dare Teach)
I took a look at Matt and Dave’s blogs for more information on Paulo Freire. Matt is a Taurus and doesn’t tell us much more about himself. Dave has a fantastic music collection and I can’t wait to listen to more… (check it out). Both gentlemen included great quotes in their reports. Matt writes about Freire’s belief in critical pedagogy, where students are encouraged to question the material presented to them by using critical analysis. Matt included this quote in his report,
“Nobody liberates anybody else, and nobody liberates themselves all alone. People liberate themselves in fellowship with others.”
Dave is a teacher and seems to be coming from a more mature perspective in his carrer. He included this quote in his report,
“Humility helps us to understand this obvious truth: No one knows it all; no one is ignorant of everything. We all know something; we are all ignorant of something. Without humility, one can hardly listen with respect to those one judges to be too far below one's own level of competence. But the humility that enables one to listen even to those considered less competent should not be an act of condescension or resemble the behavior of those fulfilling a vow...” (p. 39 of Teachers as Cultural Workers - Letters to Those Who Dare Teach)
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