WELCOME CLASS OF 2021!
FRIDAY, 24 SEPT 2021
REFLECTIVE NOTES: 3.5 hours total
PART I- WITH THE BODY-A Preparatory Movement Practice for Artists with Kate Hilliard
My September 2021 studio work involved making several watercolor studies during the Transart orientation Orientation- WITH THE BODY-A PREPARATORY MOVEMENT PRACTICE FOR ARTISTS WITH KATE HILLIARD, including the above posted sketch.
And my studio research revolved around my PhD ChromaTheory topic, as well as preparing and posting to my Bb course site two online slide lectures for my Relativity of Color course.
Sketches are from "Using-Materials-of-Your-Choosing-Make-and-Repeat-for-2-minutes-A-Single-Gesture" exercise, and include four different pages of "Red Lines", one "Blue Serpentine Line", one "Window with Trees", and one "Page of Red Daubs", all watercolor on paper, 8.5 x 11", 2021
PART II- Critiquing the Critique with Jean Marie Casbarian
As I watched the video "The Room of Silence" in preparation for the session, I thought of most of my students...I teach a majority Hispanic student population. And I thought of my own CUNY ethnic status, which is a listed “protected” class. I am a 2nd generation Italian American. Two of my maternal great-grandparents and one maternal grandfather were late 19th C.- early 20th C. Italian immigrants, and two of my paternal great-grandparents were early 20th C. Sicilian immigrants.
So watching, listening to, and hearing The Room of Silence students of color and mixed ethnicities speak on their classroom and life experiences not only gave me empathy for my own students, and it caused me to re-visit my own ethnic heritage, and some of what has been brewing in me at some level, for all of my life, and of late on a more conscious level, surfaced while listening to one specific student’s comment re: people referring to her as “exotic”. Her own recounting of it set off in my mind an echo-y memory "bell". Like "The Room of Silence" student, I also did not experienced this comment as a complement… but nor have I exactly heard is as an intended slight. It simply puzzles me.
