tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29130077317283596982024-02-07T11:56:52.013-07:00Sanchez Art Werk BlogSanchez Art Werk is a creative project - centered around the artwork of Jonathan and Regula Sànchez. It spans a range of creative endeavors from music, web design, photo manipulations, and contemporary art. In the blog you'll find current topics and discussions relevant to art and art education.Regula Sanchezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01890018592615457227noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2913007731728359698.post-82671616956818625852015-02-21T23:24:00.000-07:002015-02-21T23:30:21.261-07:00Human Devices (Globalization and Me)<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The topic I researched was museum websites around the world. The idea that someone an artist, student, scholar can now view works from museum collections via the internet may seem like old news. Yet virtual presence of museums has recently dramatically changed. Museums are no longer merely one place in one geographic location they have gone global.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Looking into changing museums in particular the web personas of museum I discovered a few great books on the subject. The most important of these sources was from Bautista, she takes on the subject of museums and technology headon. Most of the other sources address the idea of what a museum means, how that meaning has changed over time and what the future holds for museums. Bautista addresses all of these ideas as well but really looks deeper in the culture that has inspired museums and the technology that has changed them.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As someone that has been in out of the museum field for many years, I witnessed the clash between traditional museum culture and the introduction of technology into that world. When I began in museums it was still common to find film cameras, accession files were usually a kind of library card catalogue system, signage might involve silk screening or a print shop. While in the field all of these things were relegated to some museum somewhere. Now data entry is the most common job listing on most museum websites, close behind it museum educators. The clerical work, that is in museum culture, the important stuff is all done on a computer, but the museum educator is a new symptom of a more user friendly museum culture. Likewise, most museums offer educators packets, additional info, and virtual tours of the collection. In short the two go hand in hand museums consider the outreach potential of the web presence and persona while documenting recording their collections.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Globalization put pressure on museums to think in terms of a global network,” (Bautista, 2005, pg 17). A very important notion one of global cultural heritage versus regional or national has shaped and driven museums in this century. Along these lines the most important question Bautista raised in her introduction was, “How can technology help all museums to better understand and engage their communities?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To create my work and finish my research I set up a loose perimeter for virtual fieldwork. Beginning in Phoenix I would museum hop eastward eventually circling the globe and finish in San Francisco. I would test the museums websites, observe them, and make notes. Further I would consider them aesthetically and look for some thread that might be carried into my final artwork. The challenge was to be inspired by the websites as an artist to create a work inspired by the process. In turn the websites would be part of the work with links available for viewing.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.phxart.org/?gclid=CjwKEAiAsJanBRCgnpfa0orvyz4SJAAbxEq-gRTkZFXZVLm5kk37NCIjCzNYq1NZEqWnGnb4MgJ1zxoCbc_w_wcB" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.phxart.org/?gclid=CjwKEAiAsJanBRCgnpfa0orvyz4SJAAbxEq-gRTkZFXZVLm5kk37NCIjCzNYq1NZEqWnGnb4MgJ1zxoCbc_w_wcB</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Tate Modern site is austere even frugal as if they could spare the pixels needed for color or perhaps it is an attempt at a clean elegance that would make Mies Van Der Rohe proud.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I was struck by the ancient looking but timeless work of Henry Moore, in particular, the stone work, “Decumbent Figure” (1938). The simple abstracted reclining figure would be echoed through my hop through several other cultures.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="London.jpg" height="193px;" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/izfv7ywr_giTEpLXHg-J_t7vFCNeZ0PQbHyk6wcpzE6LrlHiKcUGhq9w19w2nT2JMQPKa5ucQhAy3cYnjPnGLF59qgaS9_cxiDbgMxhug7XX5-chOceOh0k-iE_0NAh53w" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="245px;" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="henry_moore.jpg" height="154px;" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_hAPHEvxpEPTJ1duaw0iGp_yXCQmdh58q6ENFhtKjOLbthVkoxkQf5NZ6v023Fa0DcIFZrj_Dsgha80FucRC0mRKA2-0a4FZk179snh83CXhpaqiwM5X04HZRlzx-odi0A" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="226px;" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">sketch of the Henry Moore work </span></div>
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<a href="http://www.louvre.fr/en/visites-en-ligne" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.louvre.fr/en/visites-en-ligne</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Louvre is such an impressive building with so much of French history tied up in it, it is fitting that they have the most extensive virtual tour I ran across. You really seem to glide through the museums it is impressive. As you stop at various works you can engage with them and learn more about them. I discovered my reclining figure a few more times on this page.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Berlin Museums site was very bright and friendly and I was struck by the mix of works present. A work by the artist Rainer Fetting Gelbe Mauer, (Yellow Wall 1977) really struck me and I thought I might use it for inspiration for my final work. </span></div>
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<a href="http://www.mmoma.ru/en/exhibitions/gogolevsky/alexander_pogorzhelsky_power_point/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.mmoma.ru/en/exhibitions/gogolevsky/alexander_pogorzhelsky_power_point/</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I begin to feel as if the same web designer is working on all of the museum sites. Most of the pages seem to follow a common aesthetic of mostly white with thumbnails as if imitating the long standing convention of white walls in museum. The first thing I see on the site however is my reclining figure again this time in green as depicted by Alexander Pogorhelsky.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.nationalmuseumindia.gov.in/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.nationalmuseumindia.gov.in</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Finally a museum marches to its own drum and hangs thumbnails on a black background. Strangely enough the first image I see is another reclining figure this time frame the BC. That was the point where the research and project became a little spooky I had gone through time and around the globe and found not differences but the same thing over again.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Back to the normal images on white convention for a very useful and impressive site overall. A tiny jade axe caught my eye while wandering the site it seemed similar to an abstract figure from Henry Moore though it was listed as being from 3000 BCE. I began sense a theme of technology from stone tools, to the devices of the Renaissance from Leonardo to bridges of the final work. Coupled with the images of figures it began to take on this universal idea of all of mankind throughout time.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.emuseum.jp/detail/100574/000/000?mode=detail&d_lang=en&s_lang=en&class=10&title=&c_e=&region=&era=&century=&cptype=&owner=&pos=1&num=7" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.emuseum.jp/detail/100574/000/000?mode=detail&d_lang=en&s_lang=en&class=10&title=&c_e=&region=&era=&century=&cptype=&owner=&pos=1&num=7</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<a href="http://www.sfmoma.org/explore" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.sfmoma.org/explore</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Back in the USA the San Francisco museum site comes off as the most modern polished and stylish that I encountered on my travels. In truth I set out to do the research and looking at the landing page of the SF museum I discovered an image of thousands of little images. I then thought would it be great to make a piece like this and then paint it. So the step of painting it would add an expressive quality not present in the photos. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In closing</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What I have found is that it is possible and even easy to work in this way that is to draw inspiration from museum sites and their digital collections. The potential for global work is therefore great. How will young artists with access to these global treasure troves be inspired is an incredible question to ponder? Museum websites and their openness allows for the furthering of and an artistic celebration of a global cultural heritage.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My final work entitled, “Human Devices,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">” is both a play on the idea that the images are inpart of devices created by humans and artistic representations of the human form through several cultures over a vast amount of time. Spanning (no pun intended) suspension bridges back to stone tools the work revels in ingenuity.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Human Devices,” 2015 41x23 mixed media (acrylic, graphite, monoprint, pen on eight canvases</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bautista, S. S. (2014). </span><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Museums in the digital age: Changing meanings of place, </span><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> community, and culture</span><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press</span><span style="color: #999999; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span><br />
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</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02050834103834499881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2913007731728359698.post-5366515900735282392015-01-24T02:38:00.000-07:002015-01-24T02:43:22.654-07:00My Migration<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpoqB0wF0fU&feature=youtu.be">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpoqB0wF0fU&feature=youtu.be</a><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc;">Link to the short film on the subject of my ancestry and origins.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">My family history is something I have been over and over again. As if looking for clues in the fractured dysfunctional thing labeled a family. I have done everything from genealogy and DNA testing, to travels and interviews with family members. What I have found is that it is an American right to make up your identity. I have within my family seven nationalities, on four continents, speaking six languages, so to identify with only one aspect would be a shame. Historically, my ancient ancestors were reportedly Jewish from the south of Spain and Canary Islands. Perhaps a little thing called the Inquisition had something to do with my folks wanting to get to the other side of the world, where over time they would become Christian. My name according to a museum colleague of mine a bit of scholar on the middle east and Judaica, has told me that my name is what is known as a converso name often spelled Sanchus or Sanches but by Jews it is spelled Sanchez. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">My relatives landed in the caribbean becoming known as Spanish Colonist, and later as Americans after the Isle of Puerto Rico was seized by the U.S through the Spanish American War. My relatives reportedly became part Native American (though the above DNA test did not show evidence of this). It did show Ethiopian, North African, Roma, and Sephardic Jewish traits.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">As a territory Puerto Rico is part of the U.S. but without the full privileges or rights of say a state. The residents of the island still live in a political limbo without the right to vote in U.S matters but the right to die in U.S. wars. In the 50’s New York was overwhelmed with an influx of immigrants from the Isle of Enchantment, resulting in widespread, exclusion, racism, and discrimination. A Puerto Rican neighborhood was synonymous with the worst part of town. My parents lived through this hatred and invented identities for themselves. My father and grandfather show their ancient African features which had some consequences when visiting the south in the 60’s. My grandfather for example was denied access to a white hospital and my father while in school in Texas often feared using white restrooms. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">I stress all of this to say that my father chose to not see himself as black though the world sometimes did. Growing up to present, there is a weird bond a naturalness with African Americans that lets me know that a sort of cultural memory has survived in me. I have if nothing else a strong reverence for African American culture and its struggle to survive in a country that at times has tried to be unicultural. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Had my parents grown up now how would they have identified I do not know. My mother was always guarded and secretive. When pushed to answer questions her and her mother would, but with caution. Yes we are indian, yes we were jews and yes we are gypsy they would admit to me after years of hiding all three. It took a DNA test to confirm some of this but if you are from people that have been persecuted, relocated, and exterminated you keep secrets. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">I embrace all of it as much of it as I can. I tried in big and little ways to figure what it all means. Learning about and experiencing Roma, Jewish culture through practicing friends, museum visits, and travels. Through blues history I celebrate that part of my life and teach it to school groups and adults on a regular basis.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">My family my most important family comes to me through my wife. Marrying a Swiss national I see what all immigrants go through the ignorance and silliness that is handed out to foreigners is both amusing and troubling. My brother married a Colombian woman he has it much worse than me, my biggest hassle is continually explaining that Switzerland and Sweden are two different countries.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">I have continually visited Switzerland for more than tens years and lived there for more than five years. In that time I became a serious student of the history and many cultures that make up the country. Learning German allowed me to learn of the larger Germanic world. It is as if it is our own little secret language in this country when we go out and want privacy. There is a coziness to be able speak my wife’s mother tongue and copy the cooking of her homeland. Now after so many years I feel as if part of me is Swiss and may live there again one day who knows.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">The way my in laws live and have lived, their stubbornness and frugality, and that they have been married for fifty years is an incredible inspiration to me. In truth I look to my in laws as a model more than my own parents. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02050834103834499881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2913007731728359698.post-45567871534326408742015-01-15T16:24:00.001-07:002015-01-15T16:24:18.611-07:00Our Hybridized Identities and Cultural Practices<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #999999;">Though not an official companion to or on the list of suggested reading I found the writing from Wanda B. Knight entitled Never Again to be useful and insightful augmentation to the Frostig writing on the holocaust. All three papers address issues of place, personal and familial history and the possibilities artists and art educators have to start very meaningful discussions on these big ideas. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #999999;">The holocaust works of of Frostig, and Knight discuss the ideas of authoritarian regimes pushing an agenda based on hatred. The Delacruz writing deals with a cultural and historic void felt by Chinese girls raised in a new culture. Frosting as an American trying to reconnect to Vienna and adopted Chinese children raised in America both find themselves searching for a sense of history, and place. As well the feelings of dislocation that the many adopted Chinese girls raised in the States tend to feel is similar to what Frostig describes. Giving the example of attempts at multi-cultural assignments in their contradictory effects, the sense of being out of place is addressed. Though the paper addresses all recent immigrants, for adopted children or recent immigrants or second generation children whose families are not intact, "for the minority student whose family lineages ..are in flux..these assignments may be confusing, invasive, humiliating..or nearly impossible to complete." (Delacruz, 2012 pg. 235). </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another theme that surfaces in all three writings is stereotypes versus the real. Creating stereotypes according to Knights writing can exasperate the creation of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the other</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Knight, 2009, pg. 72). Further leading to the creation of less than human caricatures, allowing for the mistreatment of those falsely portrayed. In the case of the holocaust writings this formulation had dire consequences, in the case of the Delacruz writing these stereotypes result in, that (the children in question) never really felt accepted here by their ethnic group of origin...or by white mainstream Americans. Leading to the sense that Frostig echoes of not really belonging anywhere being between worlds due to a historically severed connection. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #999999;">The final theme present in all three works relates to art education. They all seem to issue warnings or at least caution that the way art is taught can often have the opposite effect intended. That simply adhering blindly to standardized testing is still re-enforcing a sort of dogma (therefore a dominant white view). Finally, that a real and meaningful connection needs to be established to end racism one student at a time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Specific terms </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">culture keeping</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> reminds of the Chien-hua Kuo article which describes the scholarly efforts to create a suscint Taiwanese identity through children's books, and other teaching aids. In a sense recent immigrant or adopted international children are also trying to create their own national identity and hopefully find their place in the larger US mainstream. Similarly Frostig writes of reclaiming here German Jewish heritage, will immigrant populations also follow this process? Frostig describes </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">constructivist </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">educational approach as, one that is an inquiry-based pedagogy, which promotes deep understanding (not imitative behavior). This thinking can be applied to all the of the writings addressed in this essay, racism is imitative status quo, stereotyping is similar, and ethnic food fair type educational efforts only re-enforce (by trivializing), the dominant culture. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #999999;">Most of my cultural practices stem from marrying a European person. It has necessitated spending large amounts of time in Europe, using German and creating a household that follows many rules of Swiss culture.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #999999;">If my wife and I are at my parents house they know before eating to state, En Guete (pronounced, In gweta) the most basic of Swiss expressions meaning enjoy your meal or good appetite etc.. So though we did not grow up saying that it is now commonly used in my household and that of my parents when visiting. When entering a Swiss household you will always deposit your shoes at the front door. As a result at my home there is always a pile of shoes at the door one pair mine the other six belonging to my wife. Though unnecessary I think on some level it feels more like a Swiss home when there are so many shoes at the door. Its little cultural things that make our home in the States or in Europe feel a little more Swiss than American. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #999999;">At Halloween while living in Switzerland I had to carve a pumpkin it was fascinating and strange to see but everyone in the neighborhood had to steal a peek at this glowing head in the window. I had big Thanksgiving dinners which the French, German, Italian, Swiss and Austrian guests that experienced that meal with me found very enjoyable and beautiful. In some ways these meals broke down the poor stereotype of burger eating Americans they had to rethink American food and Americans. In many ways living abroad made me feel more American and living in the States makes me feel more European. I notice the many European mostly Swiss things that I do. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #999999;">As far as a global identity I am constantly aware of what is going on in Europe through friends and family there and feel I am in part there through my family. At least once year I return for a family visit and reconnect with the language and culture and definitely have the feeling the world is connected and what goes on in the States is no mystery to Europeans. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #999999;">Viewing the States from abroad one has the feeling we live in a glass house but have no concept of that. It seems even the worst of our culture is copied, or outright exported to the point of it feeling oppressive or invasive. I was so saddened when my little niece at four when given the choice between eating a special meal at grandma's for her birthday or going to McDonald's picked McDonald's I saw the problem with globalization right there, it can replace your own culture with a far inferior imported one. The sense that we are connected shapes my beliefs and thoughts on what it is to be American and what America as an entity should and should do globally. As well I feel the need to walk more often, consume less and be more European in short less wasteful or gluttonous so my worldview is shaped by my connections to Europe and the frugality I learned living there.</span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-fab315a6-efdb-e596-d06f-689ab6783903"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #999999;"> </span><span style="color: #666666;">References</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> practices: Implications for an intercultural and social justice oriented approach to teaching Art. In Chung, S. K. (Ed.). </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Teaching Asian art</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (pp. 234-240). Reston, VA: National Art </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Arnold, M. Parsons, and A. Kuo, (Eds.), </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Globalization, art, and education </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(pp. 7-13)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reston, </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #999999;"> VA: National Art Education Association.</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02050834103834499881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2913007731728359698.post-9443403981724540582014-10-14T11:26:00.004-07:002014-10-14T11:27:29.499-07:00Educators as the Vanguard<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="globe.jpg" height="117px;" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/9WqQwcnsaaqWrnKsqqBv_nJ-EQj-SP7469lj036TACX_iAERyJquDxAT1T2F-dZGwwnFBkdqDp0PPRtlbfv9qOb-manTLBercL5yNrBgRA7NPtVgcliDm-2YIQ1RJSVd" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="127px;" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What can educators take away from the recent World Conference on Indigenous </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Vanguard</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I began with the notion of global indigenous people, pulling in closer from the entire earth, to our continent, to my state and my community. The closest nation to me is the Gila River Nation. I visited them spoke with a few folks out there but due to tribal politics and frankly a lack of trust in outsiders (warranted of course) I was unable to film, interview, or focus on the tribe without going through a lengthy process of submission and permission through tribal elders. I instead decided to focus on the state and global aspects. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As if I conjured it up, the first Conference on Indigenous Peoples was held at the UN in September.This afforded me a specific event and topic to focus on. While researching I noticed that the UNESCO had some great maps on endangered languages and thought that was also a good visual map oriented focal point. I still followed the approach of starting globally and then thinking locally. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My Mission</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As it seemed the project mandated something both researched and community minded and yet somewhere in there artistic, I felt it had to have a mission and be large in scope. The crisis Indigenous folks face around the world and in our own country is dire and everyone along the line seemed to state, “yes we need more education better awareness.” So starting with the educators I know through this class I thought ok I can do a little something I can increase awareness. I also wanted to encourage the same educators to visit the UN sites think globally and use this one topic as a starting point. It is far from the only topic worth exploring on the site, but like the Spotted Owl is an indicator of a healthy forest a capstone creature, the fate of indigenous people is also a reading of the results of overpopulation, resource depletion, urban problems, environmental devastation, and globalization run amuck. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="human.jpg" height="244px;" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/BdzVzYJVZBlttBYsx04qeQaZrZByxMaxaAgZXcbcVS6PNI3JgeOtr0cBQS3x4LGR4ilGJvtPivHzwZLIXf3bQld-qidHpzaKi3IcMfDNnuf3QuEDNKLsN3m6_-dC84PE" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="179px;" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A simple childlike image, a figure basking in ancient knowledge and traditions a sort of </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> cultural insulation.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I created a film with three small animations. The bulk of the film features edits and zooms which also act as animation or movement. It is map oriented and features somewhere in the area of 20 different maps from the Middle Ages to present. Contrasting the Middle Ages maps from ancient books and even a tapestry we get a sense for the vast ignorance of the world, and limited technology which explorers possessed. With a narrow world view often fanatical in fact, conquistadors treasure hunters and conquers stormed every continent. The ancient maps I think contrasted with the modern therefore shows the state of scientific knowledge at the time of contact. The resulting Galleon trade becomes a joining of the continents. As the wonderful books 1493 (Mann) and the Treasure Ships of the Pacific (Fish) so beautifully illustrate this was the first globalization with dire consequences for indigenous peoples worldwide.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="contact.jpg" height="218px;" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/KSZLPoFMU2rk6lfXDGTVugwDC5-M6swi5La8Fz7h5xY-MBTcm5tSitB2ZB2hgSp1dN93-H_9sgBcdJklo70WL-KmzeZJrk4BJEGHO6bnAmL2gtz4DdJLo5gSmg5Nvanr" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="326px;" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Again childlike to fit the just so story of Columbus and the </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Pilgrims, the gold rush and Manifest Destiny.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In choosing themes and images I wanted a contrast between the modern world or an industrial technological image contrasted with something organic filled with intense color. This was to state that ancient ways and ideas add color and vibrancy to the modern world. In picking the images as well there had to be a break with the stereotypic images of native people and since it was global which native people would I use? As a result I drew from Keith Herring and his every person form. Set against a field of color and surrounded by the machinery of globalization the modern world and its technology I attempted to contrast the human form.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="globalization.jpg" height="241px;" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/hMJJ1SO9QeShoPdTsXaZyoixhY_VEFp-taFnMAb0CWfwvyzSCrJI6KWqY10CduDkmmBdX5eLUYFnogERdz46PpOTs2G6yKmwQq66PLhLsdapcpeFe951zLmYrfKnbwCk" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="344px;" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Culture and tradition can add color to a drab world.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A simple image of a slave in chains was used to both imply that slavery happened but that indigenous peoples are incarcerated far more often than other people, one of the themes mentioned in the conference.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="slave-1.jpg" height="181px;" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/PnCjGIHmr1oMaaRroFQYluZnav0GcKe7LAu2bp5sUP5X7Rw_EvE3qKEL937k_6orEawZgJe3Lm3IoEzWbKuJZAs6izdFTaS9tGMUcxcI6IiPRlR0vprey6gLwNlYCnzq" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="171px;" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Indigenous people do not enjoy the same rights as others and often have no voice politically </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> so my figure is chained and gagged.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The conference transcripts are below in full and worth reading, the UNESCO site and UN site have a wealth of educational materials on them and I wanted to draw the classes attention to them as tools to be employed by educators. There are many maps, graphics, photos, and short educational films on these sites. The UNESCO world heritage portion presents the opportunity to inspire young minds with the absolute wonders they seek to protect and interpret. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mann, C (2011) 1493 Vintage Press.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Opening</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">21 September 2014 – The week of high-level events that marks the opening of the United Nations General Assembly's annual general debate kicks off today with the first World Conference on Indigenous Peoples (WCIP). </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Convened as a high-level plenary meeting of the Assembly, the two-day </span><a href="http://wcip2014.org/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">World Conference</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is expected to draw over a thousand indigenous and non-indigenous delegates who will have the opportunity to share perspectives and best practices on the realization of their rights, including pursuing the objectives of the </span><a href="http://undesadspd.org/indigenouspeoples/declarationontherightsofindigenouspeoples.aspx" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, adopted by the General Assembly in 2007. </span></div>
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<a href="http://undesadspd.org/indigenouspeoples.aspx" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Indigenous peoples</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> represent remarkable diversity – more than 5,000 distinct groups in some 90 countries, making up more than 5 per cent of the world's population, some 370 million people. These peoples continue to self-identify as distinct peoples with strong links to traditional territories with their own social, economic and political systems as well as unique languages, cultures and beliefs. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The World Conference is expected to result in a concise, action-oriented outcome document on the implementation the rights of indigenous peoples and the promotion of the achievement of internationally agreed development goals, prepared by the President of the General Assembly on the basis of inclusive and open consultations with Member States and indigenous peoples. </span></div>
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<a href="http://wcip2014.org/wcip-2014/programme" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Opening remarks</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> at the Conference are expected to be delivered by General Assembly President Sam Kutesa, </span><a href="http://www.un.org/sg/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Secretary-General</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Ban Ki-moon and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, among others. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The opening plenary will also include an opening ceremony involving indigenous peoples and the adoption of the World Conference outcome document. </span></div>
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<a href="http://wcip2014.org/wcip-2014/programme" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Opening remarks</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> at the Conference are expected to be delivered by General Assembly President Sam Kutesa, </span><a href="http://www.un.org/sg/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Secretary-General</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Ban Ki-moon and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, among others. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The opening plenary will also include an opening ceremony involving indigenous peoples and the adoption of the World Conference outcome document. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The meetings will be co-chaired by indigenous representatives from all regions: Pacific, African and Asian, as well as Western and Eastern European, and Latin American and the Caribbean.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">indigenous rights</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">States and corporations need to do more to prevent the violation of indigenous peoples’ rights as a result of business-related activities, a UN independent expert body said in a report to the General Assembly’s Third Committee.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Indigenous peoples are among the groups most severely affected by the extractive, agro-industrial and energy sectors,” said Pavel Sulyandziga, Chair of the UN Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Negative effects range from indigenous peoples’ right to maintain their chosen traditional way of life, with their distinct cultural identity, to discrimination in employment and in accessing goods and services.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Other challenges involved land use and ownership, as well as displacement through forced or economic resettlement Mr. Sulyandziga said on 29 October in his presentation of the Working Group’s report to the General Assembly’s social, humanitarian and cultural committee (Third Committee) on the adverse effects of business activities on indigenous peoples’ rights.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Such disruption often leads to serious abuses of civil and political rights, with human rights defenders in particular put at risk,” Mr. Sulyandziga said. “Indigenous peoples are also often excluded from agreements and decision-making processes that irrevocably affect their lives.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The report highlights how the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights can clarify the roles and responsibilities of States, business enterprises and indigenous peoples in addressing these problems.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“We call on States and business enterprises to increase their efforts to implement the Guiding Principles. This includes the State’s duty to protect indigenous peoples against business-related human rights abuses and corporate responsibility to respect human rights, and where abuses have occurred, to ensure people can have effective remedy,” said Mr. Sulyandziga, while urging interested parties to register for the second annual Forum on Business and Human Rights to be held in Geneva in December.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Following are Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s closing remarks, as delivered, at the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, in New York, today:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I bring you warm greetings from United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who has been closely following this historic World Conference on Indigenous Peoples.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The United Nations is proud to work closely with all of you and with indigenous peoples and other partners around the world to secure their rights and to address their concerns.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Let us remember the first three words of the UN Charter “We the Peoples”. Indeed, the United Nations is an intergovernmental organization. But we must never forget who we are here to serve and cooperate with, the peoples of the world.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This Conference builds on work and results since the adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples seven years ago. That Declaration is our foundation and guiding star. The Conference Outcome Document is our inspiration and path ahead. Working together, indigenous peoples and Member States have identified important priorities and necessary actions on land, resources, justice systems, education, health and development.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Human rights are at the core of our efforts. I am especially pleased that the Outcome Document focuses on indigenous women, youth and persons with disabilities. I commend all of you for your tireless work and for finalizing this visionary text.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I once worked for late Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme who said that a country should be judged by how well it treats its most vulnerable and exposed peoples. We must always keep this in mind.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Today we celebrate the achievements of this unprecedented Conference. But we also remember that globally, indigenous peoples continue to lag behind on education, health, employment and, sadly, even life expectancy.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Secretary-General and I intend to deal with these problems by building on the momentum you have generated already, which we can all sense in this room. We want to engage indigenous peoples more actively across the United Nations system.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The United Nations is now in the middle of identifying our global development priorities beyond 2015. It is essential that the issues of indigenous peoples’ are part of the new agenda. It should support their broader aspirations for sustainable development, in line with their rights and priorities.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The future we want values and preserves diversity. The future we want requires more equitable and sustainable use of the world’s resources. We need to make peace with nature. The future we want is one where all indigenous peoples realize their human rights.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The World Conference on Indigenous Peoples shows what we can do when we unite as Member States of the United Nations, but also as “We the Peoples” in the words of the Charter.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now it is our collective responsibility — Member States, indigenous peoples, UN agencies, funds and programmes, civil society and others — to transform the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples into reality. This requires determination, tenacity, political will, appropriate legal framework, and human and institutional capacities.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Outcome Document Asks Secretary-General to Develop System-Wide Action Plan</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Committing to further advance the rights of indigenous peoples, global leaders today called for actions that would bridge the gap between promises and results at the first-ever international conference on that disadvantaged group.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unanimously adopting a landmark Outcome Document at the General Assembly gathering, known as the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, Heads of State and Government, ministers and other representatives highlighted the importance of obtaining “free, prior and informed consent” from indigenous peoples on matters that affected them, including legislative measures and development projects.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The text also underscored the United Nations’ role in promoting and protecting indigenous peoples’ rights, including in the development and implementation of national action plans, strategies or other measures that affect them, in order to achieve the objectives of the 2007 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Today’s Document also urged intensified efforts to prevent and eliminate all forms of violence and discrimination against the most vulnerable among that population, especially people with disabilities, youth, children, women and older persons.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Further to the text, the Secretary-General was requested to begin the development of a system-wide action plan within existing resources to ensure a coherent approach to achieving the Declaration’s goals and to report to the General Assembly on the matter at its seventieth session. He was also invited, by the end of that session, to appoint a United Nations senior official, with access to the highest levels of decision-making within the system, to coordinate the action plan and raise awareness of indigenous peoples’ rights.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Secretary-General was also asked, by that session, to report on the Outcome Document’s implementation and to make recommendations on how to use, modify and improve existing United Nations mechanisms to achieve the Declaration’s objectives, as well as ways to enhance a coherent, system-wide approach. The text also asked for specific proposals to enable the participation of indigenous peoples’ representatives and institutions on issues that affected them.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Addressing the meeting prior to adoption of the text, the Secretary-General said that while meeting recently with Maori leaders in New Zealand, he was impressed by their multimillion dollar horticulture, waste management and energy production companies and how every bit of waste was fed to worms, which, in turn, created very rich organic fertilizer. That was “sustainability in action”, which could be replicated elsewhere. The Outcome Document contained commitments to actions that would bridge the gap between promises and results, he said, welcoming the direct requests made to him.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Also in opening remarks, Sam Kutesa, General Assembly President, said indigenous peoples’ issues had been a preoccupation of the United Nations for more than 30 years. The Assembly’s 2007 adoption of the Declaration represented a “global consensus” on those peoples’ rights, including that of self-determination. But with a deep chasm still separating reality from commitments, policies, and legislative actions, the Outcome Document comprised many action-oriented commitments directed towards addressing the implementation gaps.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Enrique Peña Nieto, President of Mexico, speaking on behalf of the Latin American and Caribbean Group, described the final document as “a road map to reposition indigenous peoples” in the United Nations agenda.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Evo Morales Ayma, President of Bolivia, noting that the fundamental principles of indigenous peoples were life, Mother Earth and peace, said that those were threatened by the capitalist system. In Bolivia, the indigenous movement was now able, not only to vote, but also govern. Climate change had become one of the most serious problems facing the planet, and the best way to fight it was to base action on the experiences of indigenous peoples, as they knew how to live in harmony with Mother Earth.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Zeid Ra’ad Al-Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, spotlighted some statistics that suggested that indigenous peoples were more vulnerable to human rights violations. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Developed countries had a disproportionately high percentage of indigenous people in prison, he said, noting that, in one country, indigenous children were 25 times more likely to be in detention than children elsewhere.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Conference held two round-table discussions this afternoon on, respectively, “United Nations system action for the implementation of the rights of indigenous peoples” and “implementing the rights of indigenous peoples at the national and local level”.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Also delivering statements in the opening session were Sauli Niinistö, President of Finland (on behalf of the Western European and Other Group); Toomas Hendrik Ilves, President of Estonia (on behalf of the Group of Eastern European States); Henri Djombo, Minister of Forest Economy and Sustainable Development of the Congo (on behalf of the Group of African States); Oren Lyons, Jr., Chief of the Onondaga Nation Council of Chiefs; Aili Keskitalo, President of the Saami Parliament of Norway; Luis Evelis, Member of the Senate of Colombia; Dalee Sambo Dorough, Chairperson of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues; and Rigoberta Menchú, indigenous leader and Nobel Laureate.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Speaking after adoption of the Outcome Document were an observer for the Holy See and the representative of Canada.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chief Sidd Hill of the Haudenosaunee opened the meeting with a traditional prayer.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Conference will meet again tomorrow at 3 p.m. for its conclusion.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Opening Remarks</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SAM KUTESA, General Assembly President, said indigenous peoples’ issues had been a preoccupation of the United Nations for more than 30 years. The General Assembly’s 2007 adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples represented a “global consensus” on those peoples’ rights, including that of self-determination. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nevertheless, he said, a deep chasm still separated reality from commitments, policies, and legislative actions aiming to improve the lives of indigenous peoples. Today’s World Conference should serve as “a turning point” for translating the Declaration into concrete action. The carefully crafted Outcome Document, which includes a system-wide action plan to ensure coherence in efforts towards realizing the Declaration’s provisions, comprises many action-oriented commitments directed towards addressing the implementation gaps, he said, adding that Member States must make greater efforts to translate it into reality.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BAN KI-MOON, Secretary-General of the United Nations,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> said that today’s conference connected so much of the Organization’s critical work this week. Indigenous peoples were concerned about issues that topped the global agenda and were deeply connected to Mother Earth, whose future was at the heart of the Climate Summit opening tomorrow. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Indigenous peoples were also central to human rights and global development discourse. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> In talks with indigenous leaders in Costa Rica, he had found that they were worried about land, resources and rights. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He pledged to address the exclusion and marginalization facing indigenous peoples worldwide.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Also, while meeting with Maori leaders in New Zealand earlier in the month, he had been impressed by their multi-million dollar horticulture, waste-management and energy-production companies and how every bit of waste was fed to worms, which, in turn, created very rich organic fertilizer. That was “sustainability in action”, he said, adding that it showed what could be learned from indigenous peoples. The General Assembly had adopted the Declaration during his first year in office. That text had set minimum standards for the survival, well-being and dignity of indigenous peoples; it had also led more countries to reflect those principles in their laws and constitutions and increasingly encouraged United Nations agencies to develop specific policies. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Outcome Document before the Assembly today contained commitments to actions that would bridge the gap between promises and results, he said, welcoming its direct requests to him, including the development of concrete proposals to enable indigenous peoples and their institutions to participate more directly in United Nations activities. He said he would also give serious consideration to a request to appoint a high-level official on indigenous peoples. Quoting a long-time indigenous activist, he said that indigenous peoples, despite many different languages spoken among their communities, were speaking one language, and their relationship to Mother Earth was identical.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">EVO MORALES AYMA, President of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bolivia</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, said that the fundamental principles of indigenous peoples were life, Mother Earth, and peace. Those tenets, however, were being threatened by the capitalist system, he said, adding that he was here today at the first official summit of the United Nations on indigenous peoples to share some experiences from his tenure in Bolivia. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In Bolivia, he said, the indigenous movement was now able not only to vote but also govern. Natural resources from Mother Earth should benefit everyone, he said, adding that in Bolivia, revenue from oil sales had doubled after the industry was nationalized. With nationalization, Bolivia had freed itself from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, which had determined the country’s economic policies. Climate change had become one of the most serious problems facing the planet, he said, asserting that the best way to fight it was to base action on the experiences of indigenous peoples, who knew how to live in harmony with Mother Earth. They had learned to live in harmony and balance with the earth and believed today’s Conference should be a starting point in the process of transformation and change based on indigenous knowledge.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SAULI NIINISTÖ, President of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Finland</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, speaking on behalf of the Western European and Other Group, said the conference marked an important step in fulfilling a key recommendation made in Alta a year ago. Indigenous peoples should have the right to participate in the United Nations in matters that concerned them. In that regard, the international community must express concern over reported attempts to prevent the representatives of indigenous people from the Russian Federation to join today’s conference. Also vital was indigenous peoples’ participation in decision-making at the national level. In Finland, authorities were obliged by law to negotiate with the Saami Parliament, the legislative body representing the indigenous Saami. Recently, the Finnish Government had worked together with the Saami Parliament to expand the scope of the obligation to consult, with the proposed reform spelling out the concept of free, prior and informed consent.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He said it was also critical that indigenous youth had the rights, means and support to participate in their societies. To that end, access to education, information and means of communication were essential. In his country, Saami youth had taken significant steps to increase their participation in cultural and political activities through the establishment of a youth council. Measures to revive indigenous languages were an efficient way to strengthen the youth’s identity.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">HENRI DJOMBO, Minister of Forest Economy and Sustainable Development of the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Congo</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, speaking on behalf of the Group of African States, stressed the importance of inclusive processes on matters affecting indigenous peoples. “They are the participants and the subject,” he said, noting that they had participated actively in the preparatory processes leading up to today’s conference and made invaluable contributions to the Outcome Document. The history of indigenous peoples in Africa varied from one country to another, and the marginalized among them required special protection. African States had also participated in the preparatory processes and offered many ideas.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He said that the Declaration, upon its adoption in 2007, had received strong support from African States, and marked a victory after more than two decades of battle for indigenous peoples. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">More African States now recognized indigenous peoples as “first citizens”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. In February 2011, his Government had also enacted a law that set standards to promote and protect the rights of indigenous peoples. The impact had been ground-breaking and tangible. That had been followed by a new action plan in 2013, which aimed to improve the lives of indigenous peoples and ensure that they enjoyed the dividends of development. The plan also ensured free, prior and informed consent on matters that affected them. “The path to equality is a long one,” he said, expressing commitment to work with the United Nations to address issues affecting marginalized indigenous peoples.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Toomas Hendrik Ilves, President of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Estonia</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, speaking on behalf of the Group of Eastern European States, said that Estonians had stood on both sides, as both an oppressed indigenous people and as members of the United Nations. It was bizarre and shameful that some States had attempted to hinder indigenous peoples from participating in the Organization’s conferences. The rights of indigenous peoples must be respected, he said, noting that the majority of States did so, but in many countries, material gains were prioritized over indigenous rights. In other words, profit was pursued at the expense of culture.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He spoke of the situation of indigenous peoples in his region, and thanked various nations for their concern, as they always sought to include indigenous peoples in their delegations. He associated himself with the statement by the President of Finland regarding the inability of the Kola Saami to participate in the meeting. The international community was obliged to do everything it could to support indigenous peoples, he said, adding, “Wherever they live, they must all be acknowledged. We must learn to listen to the voices which have been silenced too long.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Enrique Peña Nieto, President of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mexico</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, speaking on behalf of the Latin American and Caribbean States, pledged a permanent commitment to support indigenous peoples worldwide, applauding the 2010 General Assembly resolution that mandated the convening of today’s meeting. With a population of 45 million indigenous peoples, the Latin American and Caribbean region was linguistically diverse. His Government had actively contributed to the preparatory process and negotiations on the Outcome Document for today’s conference, and the result was a product of open, inclusive and constructive dialogue that had included the participation of indigenous peoples. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Participants had made sure that the Outcome was in line with the Declaration, he said, describing the final document as “a road map to reposition indigenous peoples” in the United Nations agenda. The post-2015 development agenda must also promote indigenous peoples’ rights.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There were 5,000 distinct indigenous communities in the world, he said, urging each country to strengthen efforts to promote and protect their rights. Mexico, with a population of 15 million indigenous peoples, recognized their right to self-determination and ensured non-discrimination against them. A national policy was in place for the creation of better opportunities for them, ensuring access to education, health services, and justice. Their products and handcrafts were also promoted, and his Government had established direct dialogue with indigenous communities to define public policy.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">OREN LYONS, JR., Chief of the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Onondaga Nation</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Council of Chiefs, greeted participants with a question about how to instruct 7 billion people on indigenous people’s relationship with the Earth. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The question was fundamental to humanity’s existence, and today’s generation would make the decision as to whether the species would survive. Indigenous peoples were keepers of tradition. One from Greenland had come with a message: “The ice is melting”; thousands of feet had been lost at a pace that was accelerating.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There must be reconciliation between all groups, he said, between nations and between corporations and nature. Indigenous peoples believed in the order of the universe and the laws of creation, and that all life was bound by those tenets. I</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ndigenous peoples had suffered for generations, but were here today to include their voices in a plea for sanity. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There could be no peace as long as war was waged against the Earth, he said, urging that this crisis be addressed now, while there was still time. “And as we speak, the ice continues to melt in the north.” In conclusion, he told delegates that his speech today was the same one he had given 14 years ago, yet with the passage of time little had been done.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Aili Keskitalo, President of the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Saami Parliament of Norway</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, said that indigenous peoples had historically been marginalized, discriminated against and ignored, but they had not lost heart. The Declaration’s adoption had been historic. Despite that milestone, the gap remained to be closed between theory and practice. The small city of Alta in the traditional Saami territory in Norway had hosted the Global Indigenous Preparatory Meeting, which had been the culmination of a process begun at the local level.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She welcomed the Outcome Document that resulted from today’s World Conference and its recognition of the need to ensure indigenous peoples’ participation at United Nations meetings on issues that affected them. Paraphrasing a Saami proverb, she said that all bad things eventually would come to an end. Adoption of the Outcome text was a “small, yet important step” towards “the dawn of the day” for indigenous peoples. The international community must persevere towards a realization of the common aspiration for human rights, justice, dignity, integrity and cultural identity.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LUIS EVELIS, Member of the Senate of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Colombia</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, representing the Latin American and the Caribbean region on behalf of the Global Indigenous Coordinating Group, acknowledged the Alta Outcome Document in the process leading up to today’s Outcome Document, particularly the fundamental principles and aspirations of indigenous peoples. He was pleased to see many of its important provisions in the Outcome text. Those tenets conformed to the Declaration and ensured the exercise of the fundamental collective rights of indigenous peoples, especially to land, territories and resources, which underpinned their well-being, and the right to freely determine their political status and pursue economic, social and cultural development. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He stressed the need to work with Member States to establish mechanisms to ensure the implementation of the right and principle of free, prior and informed consent, particularly in the context of extractive industries and other major development projects affecting indigenous lands and territories. He requested that Member States develop national processes to harmonize policies, laws and regulations with global instruments and commitments, in the framework of the Outcome Document, and with the full and effective participation of indigenous peoples.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ZEID RA’AD AL-HUSSEIN, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, said that in developed countries, the percentage of indigenous people in prison was highly disproportionate to their numbers. In one country, indigenous children were 25 times more likely to be in detention than children elsewhere. In Latin America and the Caribbean, indigenous children were three times more likely to not have access to education, safe drinking water or housing.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> In Africa and Asia, indigenous young adults were more likely to be deprived of their right to education, especially if they were female. In the Arctic, the Pacific and South-East Asia, indigenous women were at greater risk of death during pregnancy or childbirth than women from other communities, and their newborn and young children were also more likely to die. Such stark statistics translated into thousands of human tragedies and thousands of human rights violations.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He said that the World Conference and its Outcome Document were the stepping stones that would bring the work of the international community on indigenous peoples’ rights to a new level. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> He called for a pledge from the world community to ensure that the human rights and dignity of all indigenous peoples were acknowledged and fully protected, in line with the Declaration. The concerns and recommendations of indigenous peoples were essential to the Climate Summit and to the upcoming World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in 2015. Natural disasters and the effects of climate change were often borne disproportionately by indigenous peoples, whose traditional knowledge could help mitigate the consequences.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">DALEE SAMBO DOROUGH, Chairperson of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, said it was highly important to underscore not only the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter, but also the need for all parties to be mindful of the pertinent international legal obligations of Member States in relation to all peoples, including indigenous peoples. She specifically emphasized the peremptory norms of international law and, in particular, the principle and right to self-determination, as affirmed by the Charter, and, among others, the international covenants and the Indigenous Peoples Declaration. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She said that consensus lost its validity if it was used to undermine the principles of justice, democracy, respect for human rights, equality, non-discrimination and good faith. Good governance became a casualty if a few States or even one State was allowed to undermine such essential rights and principles at the global level. In that regard, it was critical to recognize that indigenous peoples were among the most vulnerable and disadvantaged in the world. Their human rights must not be politicized or otherwise undermined by local, regional and national State interests and agendas. Rather, they must be respected and recognized. The high-level meeting should be remembered for its contribution through a principled Outcome Document, and she called upon Member States to provide support for its effective implementation and mutually agreed upon terms of cooperation within the framework of the United Nations Declaration.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rigoberta Menchú, indigenous leader and Nobel Laureate, said that 23 years ago, she had participated in the inaugural meeting of the working group on indigenous peoples. Thanks to that group, progress had been made in discussions on the rights of indigenous peoples. Since then, the United Nations had seen thousands of delegates come and go on the lead-up to the creation of the Permanent Forum. Progress was being made in the area of indigenous peoples’ rights, she said, expressing her full support for the adoption of today’s Outcome Document. The text would strengthen the action plans as well relationships among nations and nation-States. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She said that many young people and children were suffering daily from the effects of violence in their communities, in attempts to protect their land and seas. For indigenous people, peace was listening to various opinions, because “we are all part of one diversity.” Over the course of the 34 years she had been linked to the United Nations, she said she had seen progress, but also frustration. Indigenous people still lack basic services and rights, and if they were to achieve their freedom and self-determination, then all international standards must lead to dignified policies at the national level. She paid tribute to other speakers and to all the young people participating in today’s meeting.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Action</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Following the opening statements, the Assembly adopted without a vote the draft resolution titled, “Outcome document of the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly known as the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples”.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Speaking in explanation of position, the representative of the Permanent Observer Mission of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Holy See</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">expressed his delegation’s reservation on language regarding reproductive rights in operative paragraph 13.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The representative of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Canada</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> said her delegation would table a short statement to explain its position and record some concerns.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Round Table Discussion I</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ghazali Ohorella, Representative of the Pacific Indigenous Region and Edita Hrda, Permanent Representative of the Czech Republic co-chaired the panel discussion, titled “United Nations system action for the implementation of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples”. Panellists were Kanayo Nwanze, President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development; Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; and Atencio Lopez, Representative of the Central and South America and the Caribbean Indigenous Region.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ms. HRDA commended efforts by Member States and representatives of indigenous peoples for having reached agreement on an outcome document. The text represented a further step in the United Nations system in implementing its Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, he said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mr. OHORELLA emphasized the important contribution to that text made by the preparatory meeting held in July 2013 in Alta, Norway. The conference had found a realistic approach to be implemented at the national level. Indigenous people had come a long way to see the Outcome text, which they had once thought impossible. But there existed the gap between commitments and results.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dr. NWANZE said his agency, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), took indigenous peoples seriously. They made up 5 per cent, or 370 million, of the world’s population. They had struggled to preserve their identities, cultures and lands and had been neglected in the development process. Their social and economic empowerment was vital to sustainable development and the creation of thriving communities. Any global development agenda that ignored indigenous peoples was a “hollow exercise”.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Policy did not mean anything unless it was matched with financial resources, he said, adding, “Let’s put money where the mouth is”. His agency was providing $1.8 billion in loans to benefit indigenous peoples, and had set up the Indigenous Peoples Assistance Facility and created an indigenous peoples’ forum within the agency, which kept IFAD accountable, relevant and effective. IFAD also had an internal fund to enable indigenous peoples to participate in this Conference. Moreover, it supported the mainstreaming of indigenous peoples in sustainable development goals. They had much to teach about ways to not jeopardize future generations.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ms. TAULI-CORPUZ said that indigenous concerns had become a cross-cutting issue in the United Nations system, acknowledging the role of the Permanent Forum. Indigenous peoples’ interests were multifaceted, ranging from peace and security to human rights and the environment. Indigenous peoples suffered equally from global problems, he said, urging the United Nations to take a more coherent approach to addressing the issues that affected them, including human rights violations so as to avoid marginalization in the development agenda. Millennium Development Goals did not include indigenous peoples. Unless United Nations actions were better coordinated, indigenous issues would always fall in the cracks.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She was happy to see paragraphs in the Outcome Document that requested the Secretary-General to take specific actions, including the development of a system-wide action plan to ensure a coherent approach to achieving the goals of the Declaration. Also welcome had been the call to appoint a senior official for coordinating the action plan and raising awareness of the rights of indigenous peoples. The Secretary-General also had been asked to submit recommendations on how to use, modify and improve existing United Nations mechanisms to achieve the Declaration’s objectives, as well as ways to enhance a coherent, system-wide approach. Regarding the monitoring implementation, she proposed that the United Nations hire more staff dedicated to implementing policy, and performance indicators should measure the number of those staff. The senior official to be appointed should consult with indigenous peoples, she said, calling for an increase in dedicated resources to support the implementation of indigenous policy.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mr. LOPEZ commended the Outcome Document as something that indigenous peoples had dreamed about for a long time. But he regretted that it had taken too long; many of his predecessors had already passed away without seeing the outcome. After the Second World War, the Universal Declaration on Human Rights was adopted by the General Assembly, but the rights of indigenous peoples had not been respected. They had to remain vocal about their problems because they were not the ones that implemented policies. A great deal remained to be done. Indigenous issues, now cross-cutting, required the engagement of many United Nations agencies.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Outcome Document, he said, reaffirmed the solemn commitment to respect, promote and advance indigenous peoples’ rights and uphold the principles of the Declaration. But regrettably, the text had received a “frosty” reception in some parts of Latin America. United Nations agencies should assume responsibility to implement the outcome by setting up funds to enable the participation of indigenous peoples in processes that affected them. The United Nations should be a facilitator with full participation of indigenous representatives. He recommended the inclusion of indigenous peoples in the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Within the United Nations system, he liked to see an “Indigenous Ambassador”.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When the floor opened for discussion, LUIS ALMAGRO, Minister for Foreign Affairs of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Uruguay</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, said his country was homogenous but respected all ethnic minorities. To that end, a census had been conducted to recognize minorities and reaffirm their rights.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The representative of the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">European Union</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Delegation hailed the Outcome Document as being inclusive and thus having broad ownership. Coherent United Nations actions were vital and the Union, for its part, was reviewing its policies accordingly.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ISABEL SAINT MALO DE ALVARADO, Vice-President and Minister for Foreign Affairs of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Panama</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, said the country had five preservation areas for indigenous peoples, which encompassed 28 per cent of national territory. Her Government had not ratified International Labour Organization Convention No. 169, but it recognized indigenous peoples in that context.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The representative of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">National Indigenous Women’s Federation of Nepal</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> urged each United Nations agency to develop or revise its indigenous peoples policy and develop implementation guidelines and performance indicators to make those fully compatible with the Declaration.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The representative of the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Inter-Agency Support Group on Indigenous Peoples Issues</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> said that in addition to its work at the international level, country-specific dialogue between United Nations country teams, Governments and indigenous peoples was essential. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The United Nations Development Group Guidelines on Indigenous Peoples’ Issues was a tool to mainstream and integrate their issues in operational activities and programmes at the country level.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Also delivering statements were speakers representing Pakistan, Spain, Hungary, France, United States, Viet Nam and Argentina.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The representatives of the following United Nations entities and observers also spoke: the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Also taking the floor were speakers representing the Arctic Caucus, Indigenous Persons with Disabilities Global Network, Cherokee Nation, Chief of the Chakma Circle, National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples, Mejlis of Crimean Tatar People, the Chickasaw Nation, Pacific Caucus, National Native Title Council, United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, the Navajo Nation, Chippewas of the Thames First Nation in Canada (COTTFN), International Indian Treaty Council, Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Pacific Disability Forum (Nepal Indigenous Disabled Association), Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous People, National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center, Assyrian Universal Alliance, Americas Chapter, and Kalipunan ng Mga Katutubong Mamamayan ng Pilipinas.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">David Choquehuanca, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Bolivia and Joseph Ole Simmel, representative of the African Indigenous Region, co-chaired the panel on “Implementation of the rights of indigenous peoples at the national and local level”. Panellists were James Anaya, former Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and Soyata Maiga, Commissioner, African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mr. ANAYA said the most formidable obstacle to fully implementing the indigenous peoples’ rights was ignorance — ignorance among the broader societies and political elites in the countries in which indigenous people lived. That ignorance was manifested and perpetuated by mainstream media and popular stereotypes, which depicted indigenous peoples as relics of the past amid images of savagery or subjects of curiosity and romanticism. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> As an example, he pointed to the pejorative use of the name “Redskins”, which is a United States-based professional football team. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Perhaps the greatest contributor to the widespread ignorance were mainstream educational systems, wherein the study of history regarded colonial and settler patterns as triumphant precursors to modern States, with little attention to the devastating consequences of those patterns for indigenous peoples in both the past and the present.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Instead, indigenous peoples had been cast into the roles of the savage or backward foe, of an obstacle to be overcome, or, alternatively, as the unwitting noble savage destined to succumb to modernity.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While the Outcome Document adopted by consensus in the morning renewed Member States’ affirmation of the rights enshrined in the United Nations Declaration, he stressed that the commitment to implementing those rights must be accompanied by programmes in education and awareness-raising geared towards all of society. Indigenous issues and realities must be mainstreamed into primary and secondary educational systems, he stressed. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Additionally, the media should be encouraged, and should itself adopt specific programmes, to become educated about indigenous peoples in relation to contemporary events. Government authorities should be made aware of how their functions impacted and should impact on indigenous peoples. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Finally, indigenous peoples should be invited to contribute to such educational and awareness-raising efforts in the spirit of reconciliation, partnership and commitment to the human rights of all, as represented in the Declaration.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ms. MAIGA said that stereotypes of indigenous peoples’ behaviour had unfortunately contributed to discrimination against them. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Their resources were taken from them, they suffered from inadequate access to social services, among many other injustices. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The international community and the United Nations had alerted the world to that situation. Regionally, the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights had been working tirelessly to undertake missions to enable Governments to interact with indigenous communities. Their mandate was to receive complaints of human rights violations, and these efforts had begun to yield fruit.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There were now policies and good practices in several countries, she said, adding that the Commission had cultural initiatives covering indigenous peoples throughout Africa. Niger, for example, had recognized the rights of pastoral communities. The Commission also referred to past injustices, she said, noting the importance of the Conference. The assembled delegates, she said, were now the ones called upon to make the Outcome Document a living document, to show how the United Nations could be used to identify the requisite resources, to enable indigenous peoples to enjoy the fruits of their own labour.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the discussion that followed, the representative of the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Indigenous Caucus of the Arctic</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> highlighted a prophecy in her country, which said that a spider’s web would eventually cover the Earth. “Think of the Internet today,” she explained. Using the situation of her own group, she said that Inuit rights were being recognized in Canada, but that aboriginal treaty signatories were often left with no choice but to turn to the courts. Indigenous peoples in Canada tried to get the Government to implement a modern treaty, which met their goals. Self-determination, she said, was a process of incremental change.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The representative of the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Caucus of Latin America and the Caribbean</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, noting that States still had reservations with respect to interpretation of laws and reforms, said legislation should apply uniformly to all inhabitants of a country and not favour one sector only. Further, she proposed that legal systems of indigenous people be recognized by Member States.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">New Zealand</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">’s representative said his country had developed its own unique approaches to support Maori to achieve their full potential. Central to its approach and relationship with Maori was respect for indigenous peoples’ rights, underpinned by the principle of partnership. The Waitangi Tribunal was a mechanism for inquiry into historical grievances, as well as contemporary issues relating to the Crown’s treaty relationship with iwi and Maori communities. Significant progress had been made and completion of treaty settlements was more than halfway through, which typically included a Crown apology for historical wrongs and restitution of traditionally held lands and resources, thereby strengthening the partnerships between iwi and the Government.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The representative of the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cordillera Peoples Alliance</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> said that in his nation, collective rights to ancestral lands, territories and resources continued to be violated as State military forces were deployed in their communities to protect “destructive projects and corporate plunder”. He called for a resumption of peace talks between the Philippine Government and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines to “address the root causes of the armed conflict towards a just and lasting peace”.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Guyana ’</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">s representative said that her country was firmly committed to the advancement of indigenous peoples. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Guyana was among the few countries to have enacted legislation to safeguard the rights of indigenous peoples, including land rights.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Indigenous leaders held leadership positions at national and local levels of Government in her country, she said, adding that those achievements could only have been accomplished through a strong partnership with indigenous peoples.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02050834103834499881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2913007731728359698.post-32045280459557399272014-09-06T22:49:00.002-07:002014-09-06T22:50:42.237-07:00Mapping Three Walks In my current class for the UF master in art education program we exploring maps, their symbolism, there historic significance, and there possibility to become a catalyst for conceptual artwork.<br />
The assignment study our neighborhood and talk several walks to observe our environments first hand. Write about, think it all over end up with symbolic maps based on our findings. The first of which is this first illustration, focused on texture, how far can you go with the map idea?<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Mapping Three Walks (by Senses)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">First, though author John R. Stilgoe states that “Outside Lies Magic,’ I can tell you at this time of year in Arizona outside lies suffering. The winter months in the state are temperate, freezing weather is rare, snow even rarer. But now I am at the end of the blistering brutal months of 100 degree plus temperature even as high as 120. So to relate my experience with walking, you have to first imagine yourself in a bake oven, that dry intense heat of a furnace or kiln. Despite this I do make three small walks regularly and when the weather is better or reasonable at least, a few short bike rides. In fact my wife and I often ride our bikes to work and to a local crepe and coffee shop. We decided on this area of Phoenix to not need to commute and for all of its many biking trails.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Ahwatukee</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">It is strangely ironic even tragic that a white person would name a town on stolen Gila indian land with a Crow word. It seems merely part of the sad nature of contact on this continent that settlers of European descent would slaughter starve or relocate millions of folks and then name a street, create a caricature mascot, or in my case name an “urban village” after them. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">For those that might not know, anything Crow in this part of the world would be wildly out of place. None the less we are called Tukee’s as is the local corner bar and newspaper. The word is omnipresent in the village on every shopping center or business. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Following Ira Glass’s example I have decided to focus on my senses and map the three walks based on their dominant sense. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="textures.jpg" height="537px;" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/nq2dMvzMeThXG7TsZALa6pHNcq63Upwhons93d7hrwL-xo5chmpQNDbsjfRXQY4sbbtlWSj9ZMHxsVmhNlTZ8QPoRrkl0ZlC4oxbN230nScUdIMlhvtIfRJtwgluoI0w" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="624px;" /></span><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Map of textures 2</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Walk One, Getting the Mail. (Sight)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">One of the short walks I make every other day or so is to the small mail box enclosure. For some unknown reason my mailbox is on the other side of the complex, though there is a mailbox temple right next to my unit. The apartment complex I live in has a classical theme so there are columns, colonnades, tiny faux temples, all doric in nature. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="temple.jpg" height="406px;" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/JfR2OgaiQ0SP0tOzLIEeX3SU0SJNHXOmQP9yp72_noEXj0GZed9VR2MlBfiXDYZeEymuwt6pWT5RyADp7_r9OhSyuxgUxcLPRZynlNJN0RfYx9a5j1ihLfioUVKSoTIA" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="272px;" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="mail_building.jpg" height="405px;" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/YWf_USneUMknELmYdVbzeSsrt4neYPVL7Y4McvVHxSEBMmmaRBxaf2bn-6nwc_-LgtC0fx-XYjaJ74pDn3VQTqG8aRgWEX3hsMnsuUi1HyofZkPavLmrKVHhqByGcr7v" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="271px;" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="overview.jpg" height="332px;" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/cuWea_CBKOemqvxDeQtvdvxnW7hAzJGFYZluBv9Ts_F7xMm0Fbg7wDv7VWrvq8Fc7Agf0oE_HQ8ZXzRT5nTr8jS5GYKE06c1gOO1UUCCpY5I94-vXri2KYjX649jrLD9" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="495px;" /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">One of these tiny temples is used to house a coke machine, another a shade area near the pool, and several house mailboxes. What the ancient Greeks would make of all this who knows.</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">The path to the mailbox temple is lined in over hanging trees palo verde, weeping willow, cottonwood, palm, and even a few pines. Many beautiful patterns are formed by the shadows of these trees. The sound of wind in their branches is often one of the highlights of my day. Tiny paths meander through the buildings, past parking spaces, tiny charcoal grills, fragrant flowering plants, and the pool area. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="flowering_plants.jpg" height="271px;" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/hL2pSP0Z2bRYIEUNEuG3T3tTz7S5CCR6sq9SfWrk3qdnCIj0OgHUpXIG-QddRJRPK2_TEY8ODWl5s5JewZl5IrDIp5TsHuZMY5XnPu9NT7dT-vCs-n8q9P3cjviXEcFp" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="405px;" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="copytrees.jpg" height="318px;" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/6t-Ph3x-xuNw6IdKFLC03SlFg9uw4xL7LB32r_z4LuI2nBZpGzPNxQXdROnpwwKuIubTgzONISL5NWBjHLypUr1fngwRVXY4L4GIiSfVb6AJyAWY-pwP9PJVucolSEFt" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="474px;" /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Near the mailbox doric temple is a tiny circular park of sorts with two doric themed benches and some large granitic rocks. A sort of southwestern zen garden of rocks, stones, and cacti it is one of my favorite places in my complex. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="zen_garden.jpg" height="199px;" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/zIbJQmXSupXTV08NC-EzIyJZJZFf2pmSfvQeTGiupyomaOx8_8bHcnIvtfRXKayDO_lD7zQcoP89jS5OlEsK7cKIwy-CvMdnaoIkbYbRp0NhFORRmRY2zZZbLKH7M7WW" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="296px;" /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Needing to find my way, enjoying the shade and shadows, light through the trees, and eventually unlock my mailbox are all visually important, meaning sight is the primary sense used.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="gym_door.jpg" height="201px;" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/jmWcKFh6MRD_z29FzjcTbM3M96J7os4qMjEEYXASpFRuBgmhIR45acUcTy-1Nzfia-wdOmMBcLwYqjq5AclI5Rwk8aBrQCc7c1r2ApMfjXIRSo-assdFLVwHPQUs1nX5" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="302px;" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="gym_machines.jpg" height="202px;" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/wnphq092C2U1UpMlFR5-AJInvaoCjDTjoFBhdlvWOnQGF3BK2CeSXoj7NDlTkN3syXKp52-8A9HivTqsbF0zbXot0LGBw4mlG95Pzg_CwNoV9lXeGRv8xVUyaHcrwg4L" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="299px;" /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">As it swings open the thick cool of air conditioning and ceiling fans envelopes me. Sitting at a weight bench I grab a metal bar and pull on it numerous times until my muscles ache and strain. I repeat this process throughout the room my course towel covering each chair or bench. If I am by myself then I turn off the TVs in the room and have only the A/C and coke machine drone to listen to. If not I might be confronted with any manner of music from country to rap or the blare and drone of television. Finally I rest on the floor doing stomach exercises and notice the grit, tiny stones and sometimes cactus thorns scattered about. Occasionally I get pinched adjusting a machine or lifting dumbbells. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Walk Three, Arriba’s Smell, Taste, (Sound) </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Arriba’s is across the street from my apartment complex and though I wanted to include it for the sense of taste as a restaurant, I found it was also a good smell and sound walk. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">To complete all of these walks I wanted to wait for the weather to cool off. 104 was as cool as I was going to get before midnight. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">No sooner had I finished my last walk and I had to run for cover a massive dust storm moved. Some of the trees I had just photographed were getting rock even snapping, as the weather warning went up and all were advised to stay for hours until it passed.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="gate.jpg" height="261px;" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/6Kewo8WiyTjNYYaCCn99tqvb-cvWxtnNhjJO212Wje2bY_8XH15f01uj99Lz_Ymh_BrNfGzgztLNy6GCNS4kavuMrGvqdsjiHcb5IMf5VGZQsw0e6NAio1xcULK3Zc4R" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="389px;" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="gate_lock.jpg" height="232px;" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-iMFWkA5jZdVWVLoNKclR5vCAxjepeClQO3_48DAg9FJSU3qMsGyWKKld-QR5YQps1ejSMN5fGCv2qR0h7z_GPmi3R_ZxjClMgJy7di827DyFsNjHYzTCsEhyoNOVm5y" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="345px;" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">behind an iron gate locks and automatic doors.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Walking to the gate of my complex I hear wind in the trees and palm fronds that hang about. Opening the gate there is slight whine of rusted metal hinges, it closes with a clicking sound. If one sits, outside for any length of time around the complex the sound of distant traffic is easily heard, a major highway I 10 is mere blocks from the complex to the east. On the other sides are 48th (W) and Chandler blvd (N). Behind to the south is a barren waste and the Gila River Nation or Huhugam Tribal lands. </span></span></div>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Arriving at Arriba’s a Mexican and New Mexican eatery the smell of oil, fire roasted chillies, and meat strikes your nose. Then the sound of two rocky fountains hits your ears and the chiming out of traditional mariachi music. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">The sounds of a restaurant filter through as you approach the door, along with the sweet sugary cinnamon of churros. Flatware and glassware tinkle, plates and trays of food make their ceramic sounds and much needed glasses of water slosh as they are filled. Tacos and chips crunch, fajitas sizzle, and giant plastic menus close with a slap. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">The shade and cool of the restaurant coupled with the fine mist emanating from the aforementioned rocky fountains, lends the feeling of being rescued from the brutal heat, the sense of an oasis perhaps. The hypnotic sound of the water, the healing feeling of cool water ingested and spraying on your skin, transport you in the way that warm fire does against the cold.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">In the end I am not sure which sense is best represented as the taste of the food is secondary to the feeling and sensory confusion of the outdoor patio restaurant. The New Mexico and Navajo fare the place serves is salty, zesty and fire hot. As your nose waters and hair curls one is reminded that chillies were ancient pueblo medicine good for circulation and helping to lube your sinuses so abused in the dry weather. Meats come smokey with the taste of the same sacred mesquite you must continually walk over to get anywhere. Being the hatch green chili season the scent of them being fire roasted alongside full corn cobs, still covered in their husks and every manner of creature that ended up on the grill, fills the air drifting all the way to the rez.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">This abstract form I discovered walking seems a kind of map. It seems to perfectly symbolize the three primary elements I live around. The organic winding landscaping, the concrete of paths, parking spaces, and houses and fields of stone and rocks scattered about.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Summing up</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">My methodology was to simply pay attention while doing these routines, see what appeared important to me. Being that to go to all three of these places I use the same path I felt I needed to combine them. Textures, organic versus stucco and concrete, and classical imaginings struck me at first. I captured some of this and then after listening to the, “This American Life,” segment I tried to break the walks into sensory files of sort.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Returning (and sidestepping a dust storm by mere minutes) to these paths I thought of them in terms of sensory experience. The big surprise was the restaurant which was so perfectly attuned to the climate and has create such an atmosphere that it was much a sound, textural, and certainly scent based experience. Like the segment suggested, smelling is more than classifying it is associating odors with memories and experiences. As I walked past the charcoal grills in my complex I could smell them and thought immediately of cookouts pool parties etc. Likewise the smell of cut grass and pool chemicals evoked childhood and suburban summer by the pool, in Florida. So these associations can transport us and jar us from our current reality. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">In this mode of thinking I create several maps.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="map of free association.jpg" height="334px;" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/f2WGGxMrgb9VZDTBD3KxqHWwJjjlFdPZdwDNPOus75AD-Ilnxw2UD9LNfLMjN3Y7KE0eiQ1GRodVmuBDlTnIYCLAEjpLDu2HJQOjQ0cEbuIBy8E78i9kKqQaBQduTu5z" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="325px;" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">It is very literal though symbols for the associations are visible. Sacred grove a sort feminine or fertility shape and the pool something watery. </span></span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02050834103834499881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2913007731728359698.post-22913627656059796412014-08-31T18:34:00.000-07:002014-08-31T18:36:10.601-07:00Mapping Assignment<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: #f0f0f0; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f0f0f0; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The work is very similar to some of the Cornell type pieces Bochner has done, which seem (coincidentally) to be striving for the exact same goals. Through some of the reading it becomes apparent that the biggest struggle maps face is accounting for three dimensions, essentially putting squares on a round planet. As well maps that present statistics like statistics, can be misleading or simply leading. The works of Bochner and my piece here presented play upon our western sense of order, and spatial syntax. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f0f0f0; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The nice round number of three inches was discovered when measuring the width of my hand and the zone could be easily estimated in topographical or aerial sense. As the thing exists in three dimension contour lines could be easily be assigned based on the three inch scale. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02050834103834499881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2913007731728359698.post-7975535952872956902014-05-09T20:38:00.002-07:002014-05-09T20:44:00.880-07:00A Wonderful Little Project<span style="color: #999999;">I had a wonderful time at the <a href="http://mim.org/"><span style="color: #999999;">Musical Instrument Museum Phoenix</span> </a></span><br />
<span style="color: #999999;">presenting four educational programs over the last two days (May 8th and 9th)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;"><i>MIM theater shortly before the students arrived</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">It was my second year as an <a href="http://mim.org/education/artist-residency/"><span style="color: #999999;">Artist and Residence or AIR performer</span></a> at the MIM after several years of presenting Museum Encounters. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">This year in addition to the theater presentation I also took part in a project with the <span style="color: #999999;"><a href="http://www.tesseractschool.org/">Tesseract school</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">I sat with several classrooms of students talked about my art, music, and life. The students then listened to my cds studied my art and made art of their own.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">The MIM education classroom is ornate with shadow puppets gongs and other figures the student exhibit added to the over all experience. <i>A small collection of my works and one from Regula were also displayed to show part of the inspiration for the students works.</i></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Y4QY9D47qlCUNutlquYedCjtZeuxYHSoSLfr41Uh-HJJfeqhZXbVSGia37JDozvllMnLFrk12i-zcY-phkkWSM3F1LsBrFo7pZib7Ssi2Y92gWA0USoYBxkvaz7K4redz2IpiUfey4E/s1600/Some+of+my+stuff.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Y4QY9D47qlCUNutlquYedCjtZeuxYHSoSLfr41Uh-HJJfeqhZXbVSGia37JDozvllMnLFrk12i-zcY-phkkWSM3F1LsBrFo7pZib7Ssi2Y92gWA0USoYBxkvaz7K4redz2IpiUfey4E/s1600/Some+of+my+stuff.jpg" height="320" width="286" /></a><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #999999;">It is always nice to have your works in a museum no matter what the occasion or situation many thanks to Shelly White, Barbara Perez and the wonderful students at the Tesseract school. It is a great feeling to anyone pay attention to your work be it music or visual art, but to know that my inspired the works of others is certainly a thrill.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; text-align: center;">A few works that I really enjoyed the piece below from Abigail Wilkes.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pueblo Grande Museum </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and archaeological center is a modern museum and preservation facility in the heart of Phoenix. Including, hands-on indoor activities, well produced exhibits, and a walking tour of a ball court and a large ruin, the center offers a varied and enjoyable learning environment. Presentations are current of a multimedia and hands on nature, looking at and discussing the ancient Hohokam civilization the earliest Phoenix valley residents. </span></span><img height="422px;" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/YSbtbTZ01UU_WdzJ4_w-AykdG4sx7OTKhwNkwIlIbqh2Ft8z439-vdY3sjhK5k_JlW3LTntSStIrUClnJXkThkHclsUDI4nYxxUy2ZS4UoXMENUN1u0VAu3dNk5sUVtJ" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="474px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Heard Museum</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> features the art of historic and contemporary Native populations. Cutting edge relevant art is compared and contrasted to traditional and historic works. Some archaeological information is presented but the transition from archaic and extinct, to living cultures is at the forefront of the museum. </span></span><img height="465px;" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/mEHvq9HEcHVCud7D3WWTub1JvOx41_ynDO6Y0EAvBBWmGS0OiktsH_ZV2dhnMFmZd8LXK4jyRsZiuEW2pSCXmLp0hfD1kVgxmWQdioMGdgFdLqzntTjPZeGUNk0TSf5N" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="468px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mesa Arts Center</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is the largest comprehensive visual and performing arts campus in Arizona. With it’s numerous classrooms, studios, and other venues, it is ideal for a variety of presentations and programs. My plan is to increase awareness of archaeological studies and work, living and active Native communities and their links to the past, and encourage the creation of art based on the viewers personal memories. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #999999;">We live in a society that is leaving an empty archive. Archaeologist will need to retrieve information from hard drives in the future to learn how people communicated, viewed themselves and wrote. Letters once meditative, thoughtful acts, sealed with kiss and whiff of perfume, have been replaced by brief texts and tweets. Likewise keepsakes and souvenirs fill our dumps created without craft in third world sweatshops like most of our current material culture. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #999999;">What is it that fascinates us with the tangible nature of keepsakes a souvenir? Are we losing our connection to touch to cyberculture? Will touch become more important to digital natives? If digital natives would prefer to post a picture, will they also collect a souvenir? </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #999999;">We are losing a generation that survived a world war, the Great Depression, the Cold War, civil rights and the Vietnam era. What remnants does this generation harbor, what keepsakes or items do they have to remind them of days gone by? I would like to know personally, but more than that shouldn’t we be asking seniors to pass on their information and experiences? </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #999999;">The Upper Strata Theory</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #999999;">We exist in the current strata, we are surrounded by the uppermost strata the one we are creating. Memory necessarily exists in the lower strata substrata. Archaeologist are concerned with mapping, defining, and recording levels of earth that form unique groupings or strata. Being able to view forest beyond us or the trees that make up our daily life takes a component of solace. All art is conveying the chaos of emotion from a point of calm. Recognizing our personal strat break, the moment when we move into a new strata can prove difficult. We move through history from day to day few of us will shape it. Like a bit of shell, a grain of sand we are part of a shore and vast history the ocean. Nonetheless what would we know of the Santa Fe Trail, of pioneer folks, the American Civil War were it not for journals, letters, newspaper articles and of course the creation of art. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #999999;">Imaginary Souvenirs</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #999999;">The final step would be to replace the actual items with found, created items that represent moments or markers in the participants life, strata. Or as is discussed features in the strata, that might define the strata.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #999999;">If not for remembering wouldn’t we forget?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #999999;">So the program I am proposing reaches out and connects three very different cultural centers, involves the gathering of oral histories from seniors, a web based portion, several short films, the creation and exhibition of simple works of art. In the end the work will be a document of several seniors, their lives and memories. By putting the works on display, getting the local media involved, and the web based portion the program has the potential to be a wide reaching learning tool and catalyst for a larger dialogue, about our aging populations, the importance of preservation and cultural survival.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #999999;">The project involves the use of archaeological theories, terms, and practices. A trip to the Pueblo Grande Archaeological Center and use of their online educational materials in order to explain and make the participants aware of the larger ideas in the project. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #999999;">Discussion of strata, features, and other terms can be easily addressed at the museum as they have numerous very well made displays explaining the basics of archaeology. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #999999;">Onto the Heard Museum its mission and educational materials are geared toward living cultures though they have some archaeological materials. Discuss this transition and the balancing act the Heard has to perform. Look for language that may be offensive defining some cultures as extinct or historic. How do the works and images of Native Americans vary from popular images, in particular the images the seniors grew up with? How is culture defined versus subculture? Seniors are a subculture, what prejudice, misunderstanding, and difficulties do both Native populations and seniors face in the larger American mainstream? What about Native seniors? Are they treated as libraries of knowledge, elders, or thrown away?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #999999;">Participants should draw a simple profile the present at top, the major moments of their lives, as strata breaks and features. If a moment is to be a feature what sort of artifact would represent that feature in a drawing? A wedding ring, a pacifier etc..does it have to be that literal.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #999999;">A closing discussion of how archaeological strata forms, how it is defined in the field and the dangers of misreading such information. For next time students are asked to bring a few tiny items that relate to their strata four to five. No photos allowed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #999999;">Begin thinking symbolically a wedding ring or photo of a child are too easy what else could be used to represent these ideas and events in their lives?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #999999;">For next time students are encouraged to visit a hardware store, thrift shop, rummage in their garage for found objects that can represent moments in their lives. Only four to five objects with one object representing the participant.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;"><a href="http://phoenix.gov/parks/culture/museum/pueblo/education/resources/index.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://phoenix.gov/parks/culture/museum/pueblo/education/resources/index.html</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.heard.org/education/curriculummaterials.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #999999;">http://www.heard.org/education/curriculummaterials.html</span></span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #999999;">The wording of the educational material the use of culturally sensitive language, that hints at larger holistic culturally inclusive approach. The program I purpose will be working with seniors for which culturally sensitive language might be new. Further, and understanding of the way we talk about native populations has changed over time with our attitudes toward these populations. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #999999;">Adams, J. Room 13 and the Contemporary Practice of Artist-Learners Studies in Art Education, Vol. 47, No. 1 (Fall, 2005), pp. 23-33 </span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/john_hardy_my_green_school_dream#t-9682" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #999999;">http://www.ted.com/talks/john_hardy_my_green_school_dream#t-9682</span></span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #999999;">Wholeism idea getting students to see how things are interconnected and related. A complete reinventing of the classroom and an argument for such a reinvention. My thinking in this program is to fuse history, cultural, archaeological, and art studies into one presentation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All important ideas to consider as a basis</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Further, the ideas of my proposed program are focused on helping to document members of the local community, and encouraging the community value their seniors. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="http://foundationcenter.org/getstarted/tutorials/shortcourse/index.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://foundationcenter.org/getstarted/tutorials/shortcourse/index.html</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cordell</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, L (2000) The Prehistoric Pueblo World. University of Arizona Press.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mann, C. (2012) 1493: The uncovering the World Columbus Created. Vintage books</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #999999;">Adams, J. Room 13 and the Contemporary Practice of Artist-Learners Studies in Art Education, Vol. 47, No. 1 (Fall, 2005), pp. 23-33 </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #999999;">“With the wider public, contemporary art has acquired significantly improved status and popularity; whilst the standing of these practices and their display and dissemination continues to grow, there has not been a similar bestowing of status or even legitimacy upon the production of art in schools. This article examines ways of analyzing classroom art practice as the collaborative art production of artist-teachers with artist-learners, a collaboration that is defined as a learning community of art practitioners, using cultural, community, and pedagogical theorists (Adams, 23).</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">• Close 13 community centers, eliminating classes, programs and special events attended by about 500,000 residents: 84.5 positions (part-time workers); $6.22 million savings.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">• Close three senior centers, which provide meals and recreation and social services to elderly and disabled residents: 11 positions; $697,000 savings.</span></span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02050834103834499881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2913007731728359698.post-15039979411573193332014-04-06T23:31:00.000-07:002014-04-06T23:32:15.687-07:00An Overview of the Mesa Arts Center (Mesa, Arizona)<div style="font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">
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<b><span style="font-size: 12px;">An Overview of the Mesa Arts Center (Mesa, Arizona)</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12px;">The second part of my project on the Mesa Arts Center for ARE 6933 Art in Alternative Spaces (the UF art education program)</span></div>
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<b>Mesa History</b></div>
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The first prehistoric people to live in Mesa were the Hohokams who flourished in the valley for over 1,500 years. They were farmers and canal builders who lived in large communities of up to 500 people. They are best remembered for their construction of a large network of irrigation canals. The prehistoric Hohokam canals were incredible works of labor and engineering. The hand dug system, irrigated over 110,000 acres and was the largest in the prehistoric world. Several archaeological sites can be viewed in the region today.</div>
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The Hohokam irrigation system transformed the soils of the Salt River Valley, allowing them to grow abundant crops for their use and for trade. The Hohokam traded cotton cloth for seashells from the Gulf of California and for exotic birds from the Yucatan. Eventually, the Hohokam began to move from the area as they experienced a period of overpopulation, nutritional stress, and warfare. They disappeared from the area by around 1450 and there has been no explanation as to where they went. The oral histories of several current tribes hint at ingestion or their incorporation into other tribes. </div>
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Between the time of the decline of the Hohokam culture in the 15th century and the mid 1800's, no long-term settlement existed in the Mesa area. Intermittent conflicts between the Pima and Maricopa along the Gila River and the Yavapai and the Apaches in the Salt River Valley, ensured that the region would not be settled during that time. It was not until the establishment of Fort McDowell by the United States Army on 1865 that permanent settlement was created in the area. It was believe that Canyon De Chelly on the site of the current Navajo nation was full of gold. Efforts were made to secure Arizona for mining interest, this included containing, subduing, and removing whole groups of people. The effectiveness of the Fort helped to pave the way for Anglo settlements in Phoenix, Tempe, and Mesa. </div>
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In 1877, the first European pioneers settled the Mesa Area. Sent from Utah by Brigham Young, the "Utah Company" was originally sent to establish "stations on the road" supporting the Church's expansion into Mexico. They built their first homes and businesses in what is known as Lehi, now in Northern Mesa. The rich soil near the Salt River was perfect for growing crops. The Pima and Maricopa living in the area helped the pioneers carve out a life in the desert. Additionally, Tempe founder Charles Hayden loaned money to the company and other resources to help the colony create a community. </div>
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The second group of Mormon settlers to arrive in the area was known as the Mesa Company. Arriving on 1878, this group distinguished themselves by settling on the mesa top and by clearing ancient Native American canals so that water could be diverted to the higher ground. By the early 1880's, nearly 300 people had settled in the Mesa area, most living within one square mile of downtown. </div>
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Cultural, diversity has been a part of Mesa's history from the earliest days of the settlement. The people who made up the companies of the Mormon pioneers, white Europeans in terms of ethnic background, and the Native American people already living in the area were soon joined by other immigrants including African Americans, Chinese, Mexican, Japanese, and Arabs, came to farm, to open businesses, and to work construction. <b> </b>The town saw a major boom as construction of nearby Roosevelt Dam brought ample opportunity for work and leisure in town.</div>
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Agriculture was the foundation of the Mesa economy until after World War II. Dairy farming and stock-raising were an ever-increasing sector of the agricultural economy. Much of the Mesa workforce was employed in agricultural-related industries. Surprisingly, agriculture was an important factor in attracting tourists to Mesa by the early 20th century. The Roosevelt Dam became a main attraction along with prehistoric ruins including the Hohokam ceremonial site Mesa Grande.</div>
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In the years following WWII, the economy underwent a major transformation. Many factors were at work, including the mechanization of farming, the availability of affordable air conditioning units that made living year-round in the desert comfortable, the advent of the cold war, and the rising popularity of the Old West. The economy began to change from agriculture to one based on the high tech, tourism, and service industries.</div>
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<b>Over the years, the little town that began as a "station on the road," continued to thrive.</b> The population doubled every decade except during the 1920's, and the city soon far outgrew its original one-square-mile boundary. The road has not always been easy for the citizens of Mesa. The city has endured epidemics, two major depressions, and has sent its sons and daughters off to two World Wars. Extreme heat, floods, and drought have also tested the spirit of its people. </div>
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Unfortunately prejudice and racism have also impacted nearly all of Mesa's diverse communities to varying degrees over the years. African American residents felt the impact of this more than any other group<b>. </b>Limited as to where they could buy homes and where they could send their children to school, black Americans had to work hard for even their basic rights. Until desegregation took place in the 1950's, many minority citizens found themselves segregated in parks, swimming pools, movie theaters, dance halls, restaurants, and just about anywhere else local residents might congregate for business, play, and social activities. Arizona was also the site of relocation camps for many Japanese Americans during World War II. However, since the end of that war and the desegregation that followed, ethnic minorities have made great strides. Their stories-good, bad, and in-between-are as much a part of Mesa as any that might be told.</div>
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In May 1979, the city was named an All American City by the National Municipal League. Mesa was honored for its efforts to address community problems through cooperation among citizens, schools, civic groups, and local governments, including the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community.</div>
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Today the city of Mesa is a thriving desert community bounded on all sides by smaller neighboring towns. The only other city in Central Arizona that is larger than Mesa is Phoenix. It is the 38th largest city in America and boasts a population of nearly 500,000.</div>
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Mesa has attracted industry giants like Boeing, General Motors, and Tally Industries while developing the old Williams Air Force Base into a full-scale regional and commercial airport. In addition to boasting the largest community college in the nation, Mesa has attracted multiple educational institutions from around the nation have established college facilities in Mesa. The city is also a leader in producing a thriving cultural economy with multiple museums and the Mesa Arts Center.</div>
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Without a doubt, Mesa will continue to grow and create an identity of its own in the Salt River Valley for years to come.</div>
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<b>About the Mesa Arts Center</b></div>
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The movement to construct the Mesa Arts Center was championed by Wayne Brown, who served as the Mayor of Mesa from 1996 to 2000.Under Brown, the city passed a quality-of-life bond issue in 1998 to help pay for the center.Though he left office in 2000, Brown and his wife, Kathy, continued a private fundraising campaign for the arts center.The couple ultimately raised more than $4.5 million from the private sector beginning in 2000.The Mesa Arts Center's sculpture courtyard is named for Wayne Brown.</div>
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The Mesa Arts Center, owned and operated by the City of Mesa, is a unique, architecturally stunning, international award winning facility located in the heart of downtown Mesa. Arizona's largest arts center is home to four theaters, five art galleries, and 14 art studios. Guests, patrons, and students come to Mesa Arts Center to enjoy the finest live entertainment and performances, world-class visual art exhibitions, and outstanding arts education classes. The facility is an architectural showpiece and a destination for visitors to the Phoenix area. The Mesa Arts Center mission is to inspire people through engaging arts experiences that are diverse, accessible, and relevant.</div>
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The <b>Mesa Arts Center</b> is a performing and visual arts complex in downtown Mesa, Arizona. At more than 210,000 square feet, the $95 million facility, completed in 2005, is the largest comprehensive arts campus in the state.</div>
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The Mesa Arts Center encompasses four performance venues, from the intimate 99-seat Farnsworth Studio Theater to the 1,600-seat Ikeda Theater. The center is also home to the Mesa Contemporary Arts, which houses five art galleries with 5,500 sq ft of exhibition space. The facility also features 14 unique visual and performing art classroom studios. Multi-use areas throughout the campus provide both indoor and outdoor gathering and presentation spaces.</div>
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Located on a prominent site in the central core of Mesa, Arizona, the Mesa Arts Center is the signature project for this growing city, the 40th largest city in the United States and the largest suburban city in the country.The complex was designed by Boora Architects of Portland, Oregon in associations with DWL Architects + Planners, Inc., of Phoenix, </div>
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<b>References</b></div>
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<b>Mesa History Museum</b></div>
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<b>Boora architects </b></div>
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<b>Mesa Arts Center Website</b></div>
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<b>City of Mesa Website</b></div>
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Numerous interviews with staff, instructors, and volunteers.</div>
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Extensive discussions with education director Billy Jones.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02050834103834499881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2913007731728359698.post-16567573055714566272014-03-30T20:13:00.000-07:002014-03-30T20:13:30.975-07:00ARE 6933 UF Grad Art Education program<br />
Art in Alternative Spaces<br />
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The theme of the my current course is art education in spaces outside of the classroom setting. We have been encourage to get to know our communities and find what grassroots, public, or established organizations exist as outlets for the arts.<br />
I began my research in the art district of the Roosevelt and wanted to contrast it with what the Phoenix Art Museum and city of Phoenix had to offer, essentially grassroots, community grown art education versus, the art establishment. I got nowhere with either of the projects I attempted at the PAM and abandoned them.<br />
I wandered up to the <a href="http://www.mesaartscenter.com/">Mesa Arts Center</a> and immediately had welcomed contact with education director Billy Jones. We arranged to meet and he was both willing and eager to help me along. Many thanks to Billy for being so receptive, friendly and informative.<br />
The first strike at the project I visited the site and found they were hosting numerous projects and festivals at the same time including AZscitech fest, Spark Festival for creativity, and the <a href="http://urbanstew.org/projects/the-amyloid-project/">Amyloid project,</a> all of which are captured in the short film.<br />
The next film will show my further research and visits to the classroom facilities.<br />
So without further fanfare I present<br />
Mesa Project part 1<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4OAOIHVszo">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4OAOIHVszo</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02050834103834499881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2913007731728359698.post-66917670443396601972014-02-26T12:37:00.000-07:002014-02-26T12:42:34.688-07:00Curios to Culture (The Heard Museum Phoenix and what it can tell us about the ever changing state of Native American art)<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(The following is a research paper created for the UF Art Education program it was my final indie project for ARE 6048)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The process of contact that is to say Europeans, Asians and Africans learning of the multitude of languages, traditions, and art of the Americas is still on going. Manifest Destiny and its mania to create a country from sea to shining sea still reverberates with the folks in between those two coasts. Like all subcultures there is a push and pull from a dominant culture some ground is lost, some gained. The languages and traditions that are lost become fuel for the speculations of archaeologist, those that study dead cultures. But like so many sherds of pottery you can not know what was once cooked in the scattered pot, who sat around it, what was said or sung around the pot. Prevention is better than cure and preservation always preferred to recreation which brings us to the importance of the Heard Museum Phoenix.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Using the Heard Museum in Phoenix Arizona as a point of discussion I will present the evolution of Native arts and changing views of American Indian art while focusing specifically on the approach and methodology the Heard employs with regard to art education. The Heard provides an important repository of historic and contemporary items but also presents a unique art education perspective. Through the Heard’s continued efforts we can observe a model of multicultural and pluralistic art education in action.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The main achievements and contributions of the Heard to art education, are community outreach, preservation, creating a new standard and climate of multicultural education. They have reached these new levels and contributed to an overall discussion through direct tribal, peer, academic and community input. Hosting conferences, workshops, and displays intended to advance global understanding of the issues facing Native Americans as expressed through their art. The Heard took a historic stance but has not remained fixed it continues to contribute and shape advise and of course educate.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A Brief History</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"The mission of the Heard Museum is to educate people about the arts, heritage and life ways of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, with an emphasis on American Indian tribes of the Southwest" (Heard Museum website). </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It was a small effort that grew like the Phoenix area itself. Now a major densely populated city, so too the museum has grown in size, mission, and prestige. It was once a novel idea to gather a few Indian curios here and there with little thought to the ancient and rich cultures that spawned the works, the Heard was to treat these items differently. Dwight and Maie Bartlett Heard founded a small museum in 1929 in a little known area somewhere out west. The collections and facilities have grown over the many years that followed, shifting from a home for dusty things on a shelf to living breathing community center.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Maie Heard continued the museum after her husband’s death in late 1929, acting as custodian, lecturer, director, curator and a guide for more than 20 years. The Heard Museum underwent significant growth upon Maie Heard's death in 1951.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 1956, the Heard Museum Auxiliary was established to assist with educational programs. Today, the Heard Museum Guild numbers nearly 700.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 1958, volunteers launched two aggressive fundraising projects, adding a museum shop and a fair which today draws nearly 20,000 people from all over the world.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Dorrance Education Center includes three classrooms used for school tour orientations, specialized tours or workshops. Nearly 400 schools in 20 states use the Heard as a source of curriculum material about American Indian heritage, and 10,000 Arizona school children visit annually. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the most significant additions to the museum was the small Berlin gallery. It represents the final step in a process from Curios to Culture. Native contemporary art is presented not as trinkets or tourist items but as the intellectual, spiritual, and cultural work of relevant modern artists. Like many that enjoy the benefits of this experiment in self rule we call America, Native Americans exist within and without American culture. Arizona is fortunate to be home to 22 tribal nations, each with its own distinct language and cultural traditions. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is in many ways impossible to remove any art from its culture and have it retain its meaning. The Heard does an amazing balancing act, rhetorically, and physically to maintain the concepts behind the art and the deeper cultural ties, and still present their collections as works of art. Often there is a distinction made. Items are referred to as works of art but also as, "cultural items". When I spoke with a few of the docent about the distinction it was noted that some items were tourist trap pieces that though now old never held ceremonial or religious medicine. The works are presented for their aesthetic and historic merits. There is often a fine line between such distinctions but all comments and inferences about the works must begin from a perspective of respect and cultural sensitivity. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Excerpt from the Heard website.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The education department has been a part of the museum from the beginning with tours and lectures and in the 1950's expanding to wider programing. Today they have three kid friendly facilities, two jam packed with hands on activities for wide range of ages. Kids and families can interact with video, a variety of games and are encouraged to draw and create throughout the education areas. There are items for download through the website, there are others to take home to continue the process outside of the museum, and plenty to do an interact with while at the museum. There is a real mix of aesthetic activity and acknowledgment of the culture and stories behind the visual concepts. Clearly the Heard is a modern museum shaped by Native input and state of the art museum thinking, the result of long evolutionary process. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I visited the Phoenix Art Museum and Heard Museum libraries, education departments, and archives. The impetus for the Phoenix Art Museum visit was a photocopy of a program for a workshop that seems to have happened in 1991. It was a joint project between the Heard and the PAM. The PAM portion was centered around an exhibit of Western Art entitled Myths of the West. Cowboys both real and of the Hollywood varietal were contrasted. Romantic paintings of Bierstadt and others were compared to stark documentary photos and all of this accompanied with lectures on all things, "Out West" (1990, Rizzoli). They would also address the marginalized Native presence in genre paintings and the early studio or staged works of Indians that contributed to a mythic image of Native Americans (1991, Gray). </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It has been a long process of allowing that Native Americans might have something to contribute other than posing for staged photos and paintings to satisfy white European fantasies about “Indians.” Natives held in captivity and allowed to draw or paint were at first mere curiosities (Heard Guide). Others in away schools attempting to solve the “indian problem through education” were forced to adapt European techniques of rendering and were largely deemed incapable of deeper intellectual processes (Stankiewicz, 48-49). </span><img alt="away school sign.jpg" height="308px;" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Ci3fyZ1PefVi_HSWVw6m41G2l6getVdBu-jAZyV_wICYFd6H_2Y5AVuxyYttQd_hpU6uN2W2dsuINcbsLFS6NV2pe9aVt9TRYuwSk7Ciwlkz8fsCoxmL7vef" style="border: 0px solid transparent;" width="411px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Away school exhibit the Heard</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Contemporary artists, writers, performers, pushed back during the “Red Power Movement,” and opened some minds to Native perspectives. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The titles of the lectures perked my interest they seem to be exactly the sort stuff I was trying to unearth. Here are some excerpts.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sadly none of the papers made it into the archives of either museum, or anything more than that original photocopy survived the workshop. None the less these are all great questions to consider as art educators and were later transposed into the Museums Resource Guide.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I spoke with the PAM registrar and archivist and found that early Native works were out of the scope of the PAM's collecting. Native items of any kind were passed onto the Heard. I found this curious sure they have the corner on the market, the Heard works in conjunction with numerous tribes and tribal officials and the PAM has curators trained in other things ill-equipped to address Native art of a historic nature. But Scholder and others they were fair game, they were producing relevant contemporary art with Euro, Pop, and American references. They had it seems crossed an invisible line and were considered, "real art" worthy of a "real art collections or museums”. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PAM was ready to accept modern Native artists of a certain notoriety and caliber into their museum collection. I sat pondering this for some time and it still makes my head spin a bit, is this progress? </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Back at the Heard</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Like all museums the Heard is dependent on the generosity of the general public. In the retirement Mecca of Arizona some of that generosity comes in the form of volunteers. A team of docents, guides, and general workers, allow the museum to function. I sat with a few of these docents to glean what I could about their training process, their attitudes toward the objects, and what they felt the museums goals were. All agreed that education was primary to the museum and that it was key to the survival of Native cultural ways. A re-education process was needed to help people re-learn or abandoned the often racist views that the general public hold about Native Americans. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Native images are all over the place in America from carved wooden figures, western movies, and sports mascots, but like other racial stereotypes of the past they tell us nothing of the actual people they characterize. The real challenge of the Heard is to use art and art education to break down these stereotypes and help the museum public, and the larger community walk away with a new understanding and respect. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Walking through the museum people watching and listening to the general public, I found younger people more open minded in this regard and the senior groups visiting, mouthing the old cliches, and even racial epitaphs. Ironically many of the museum workers are Native and must have to daily endure these slurs and cliches. One contrasting view was expressed by a young teenage girl that while viewing items from Pacific northwestern tribes stated, "Now I like these indians, I hate the ones in the Southwest." That is to say the Indians she encounters on a daily basis she claimed to hate versus the ones far away that she had no contact with. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The docents I spoke with seemed guarded and very careful of what they said and how they said it. They undergo an extensive training beginning with cultural sensitivity to combat the years of John Wayne films and sports mascots. Two years later some one is fully certified as a docent and must continue to be quizzed, observed, and tested routinely. They are presented a script of highlights or talking points but are encouraged to make the tours and talks their own over time. Respect, and approaching the art as part of a universal urge to create and make art continued return to the discussion. I left with the sense that the staff felt they were held up in a stronghold of ideas expressed through art. A stronghold besieged by overwhelming misinformation, racism, stereotypes, and “other” making forces. Art a kind of hostage in a larger cultural struggle can often be lost beneath the politics.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the Heard looking for the origins of modern native art, a change in attitude or rhetoric, some clue as to when the shift from Curios to Culture actually occurred, I ran into some interesting historic documents. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">AAM ICOM NAGPRA and the Politics of Culture</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The 1970's saw sweeping legislation with far reaching and snowballing effects for the museum world. By laws were revised, codes modified, new ones written and museums from the top down are still reverberating from the shift. President Carter in 1978 signed into action Senate Joint Resolution 102 (Law No. 95-341, Heard Archives). The American Indian Religious Freedom Act was intended to reaffirm the rights tribes should have had under the US Constitution (Amendment 1). As these rights are guaranteed to all citizens in some cases it was defining Native people as such (versus enemy combatants, prisoners of war and the other quasi statuses some tribes held). For example, many southwestern American Indians returned from the second world war and found they had no right to vote (Navajo Code Talkers display, Heard Museum). American Indians were given back land during this time, and museums found themselves in conflict being mandated to return portions of their collections. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A Phoenix Gazette article in 1986 quotes then Heard director, Peter Walsh as saying, "It's been years since the Heard had any bones," that is to say human remains in its collection. The assumption is these items were long ago returned, handed over to tribal authorities or religious leaders. The inference is of course that they once had these things. Further, the question as to how many museums in 1987 when the article was published still had these items. Of the three southwestern museums that I have worked for as late as 1999 I can tell you that human remains were still in all three collections. At one museum I was blessed (smudged) by a Lakota medicine woman smoked the peace pipe, and given special instructions on how to treat and relocate the small collection of folks they were in possession of. A ceremony of cleansing, council advisement, tribal input and compliance from the staff, all to keep a few touchy items in the museums collection, what were other museums going through I wondered? We were willing to do these things out of respect though the few large funerary urns were once merely pretty pots. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The International Council on Museums convened to update and modify their stance with regards to the ethical treatment of cultural items. Similarly the American Association of Museums (AAM) decided to also review its 1922 charter and set of codes beginning in the 1970's. One of the key conferences was in fact held at the Heard in 1980 in conjunction with the National of American Indian Museums Association.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">AAM Ethics Mandate was issued in 1987 stating, "Museums in the broadest sense, are institutions which hold their possessions in trust for all mankind and for the future of the human race." The resulting mandates and entire 30 page directive for the handling and possible return of sacred items. Here again is the rub a pleasing pot in a display case that is treated as a work of art might need to come out of the display case, might need to be treated differently or might need to be returned to a tribe altogether. Worldwide indigenous people watched these events annual meetings ensued and tribal people of all kinds began to assert their rights to their material culture in some cases their art. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Finally the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) was enacted in 1990, adding further and greater legal power to tribal organizations and officials. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Heard has comprised one of its most valuable and available items the Resource Guide. Through the museums education section on its website, anyone anywhere can obtain a concise history of Native American art to present. Outlining the major movements and artists from the 1800’s and early interest in Native art to contemporary giants like Fritz Scholder and Rose Bean Simpson.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Through the hatred, relocation, broken treaties, rape, murder, theft, disease, starvation and outright genocide that has been the Columbian exchange, Native artists have still found the strength to create and add their unique voices to art history. To blame the shift from Curios to Culture purely on legislation is to deny that Native artist themselves used their art to protest, shape and change </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">minds and perhaps influence legislation.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span><img alt="scholder.jpg" height="320px;" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/6MCJmZ-3KhkBhfgD6gH0ae7yWXUlsuecbaD-PSj4XmMSQMCAwh0nPySAyRlZwOaMUqge7TWZUTRwtJhts00WATARjADjIXLQz65q2_g_g_v9VMBwuKw4dZkb" style="border: 0px solid transparent;" width="376px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fritz Scholder </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are too many fantastic contemporary Native artists to mention but the example of Fritz Scholder is worth mentioning. His works grace the walls of numerous fine art museums he has been recognized and has ascended to a lofty place in the art world. His work as an art educator in Santa Fe helped shape a generation of young artists and his social and political critiques rocked the foundations of the art world. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Central to his art was the notion of being Native in the modern world, questioning assumptions of what is Indian, what it means to be Indian? He drew from this unique perspective to challenge existing notions about Native Americans and bring about and acceptance on different terms. The bravery of Scholder and countless others drove the shift from Curios to Culture it was their activism and criticism that broke down the barriers of the art world. The Heard celebrates this spirit and lives out these themes. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA, Pub. L. 101-601, 25 U.S.C. 3001 et seq., 104 Stat. 3048) is a </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_law" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">United States federal law</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> enacted on 16 November 1990. The Act requires </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_federal_agencies" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">federal agencies</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and institutions that receive federal funding</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(such as national parks) to return </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Native American</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> "cultural items" to lineal descendants and culturally affiliated Indian tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations. Cultural items according to the NAGPRA website are defined as, “human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony.” A program of federal grants assists in the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repatriation" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">repatriation</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> process and the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_the_Interior" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Secretary of the Interior</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> may assess civil penalties on institutions that fail to comply.</span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02050834103834499881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2913007731728359698.post-58609398881664046612014-01-30T14:36:00.000-07:002014-01-30T14:45:06.596-07:00Fourteen Years That Changed the World (The Bauhaus Experiment)<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Bauhaus represents a fascinating intersection between an intense search for a new pure design and form of art education and often free experiential learning. Johannes Itten and Paul Klee two Swiss artists and art theoreticians both wrote and approached art as a lifelong spiritual journey. Though Itten imposed his own brand of geometry to present an underlying order in art and color theory, Paul Klee sought to tap into a kind of Jungian intuitive or childlike approach. Somewhere between the two was Wassily Kandinsky both free and expressive and at times rigid an orderly in his works, he seems to embody the paradox that was the early Bauhaus.</span></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-085cfe70-e509-8b01-c4ec-1a5b98b27486" style="font-weight: normal;">(This writing was created for a grad art education program through University of Florida the writing is part research paper part answers to discussion questions poised by the instructor)<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. What is the significance of your chosen person or movement to the field of art education (i.e., What’s worth remembering about this person or trend)?</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Many university art programs mirror the approach of the school. An emphasis on handwork mixed with intellectual efforts was key to the 14 year long Bauhaus experiment and is often present in modern art schools today. The early program relied on a mix of Eastern Mysticism, experiential learning, and nothing short of a re-thinking of Western Culture from the bottom up. Like the other movements of the time (De Stijl and the International School) Gropius and his followers were reacting to the vast devastation and demoralizing loss of world war one. Seeking to find new symbols, forms of expression, and to reconnect civilization and industry to art, in an effort to save both. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Johannes Itten and the other instructors at the short lived schools would conceive of color charts and wheels, which have stayed with art training into the digital age and still grace Adobe and other programs. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The free association and spiritual searching through abstraction that Klee and Kandinsky pioneered is another important tool that artists can use stemming from the school. Klee in particular placed an emphasis on the art of children suggesting that children know art and traditional schooling and society stamp art out of them. Kandinsky as well collected the art of children and sought to reconnect with natural and spontaneous creations of children. </span></div>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><img height="429px;" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/RYi5ZkprF1AIXEPsKhB7NCSNZOKHUt692WjHIZ5B41jljmV9m21Yw_C3JBFDr3wO7W4GWGs6-GtseD597Qd4HC3s4ObzPW9hzPfiUHr5efoazb2mviI7r17j" style="border: 0px solid transparent;" width="323px;" /><img height="285px;" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/jxdxstFF5CTTqh263YwaqEy35ZPjIz_ssZDQP93FVuTzUySgB07nE2dt75O1zITuXQAp_eJX542KhnCMiwVaBcPDyZzEmVJXEQt5MliUPzhJqPzvQYk4aZe8" style="border: 0px solid transparent;" width="283px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are several notables associated with the Bauhaus experiment. Walter Gropius architect, writer, artist, and founder of the movement seems to have been a charismatic and ambitious leader. He later taught in the US at Yale. Two of the most important painters that have ever painted were instructors Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky. A lesser known painter and color theorist was also an instructor, Johannes Itten is worth mentioning. The last director (that tried to keep the school together under National Socialist occupation) would later become one of the biggest names in architecture Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and taught in the US as well. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Art of Color from Johannes Itten, is perhaps the most celebrated written work of any Bauhaus artist or instructor. It has been printed and reprinted for several generations and is the seminal work on color theory.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The work of the Bauhaus instructors is written large into art history, so they are present in many ways. Most students have copied or created a color wheel nearly identical to that of Itten’s. The ideas of mixing techniques, drawing from diverse sources, collaboration as a kind of workshop or team are all present in many classrooms today and can be traced to Bauhaus experiments in teaching. That there is an interconnectedness to all types of art be it textiles, dance, or architecture, is a contribution of the Bauhaus that still exists on some campuses. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Early in the school’s founding the remnants of the Gilded Age an emphasis on a bogus neo-classical mindset were still around. As the Jazz Age gave way to the Great Depression, art transformed in America from lively and hopeful to socialist and message driven. In the thirties and forties deco and streamline looks (based on Bauhaus designs) took hold worldwide. New technologies of faster ships and planes and the radio demanded a new aesthetic.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Denman Waldo Ross an art educator in America, echoed the calls of the Bauhaus to think of art holistically. That is to think of design, dance, and drawing as seeking the same goal (Stankiewicz, 94). Formalist theories the likes of which Itten championed, would come into vogue in the 40’s and 50’s in America. Arthur M. Dow in his writings seems to have expressed some of the Bauhaus ideas, of seeking to create art without regional vernacular, and creativity being an essential human trait not bound to anyone culture or race of people (Stankiewicz,90). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">Jordy, W (2005) "Symbolic Essence" and Other Writings on Modern Architecture and American, Yale University Press.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">Wick, W. Grawe, G. Rainer K. Wick, (2000) Teaching at the Bauhaus, Distributed Art Pub Incorporated.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;">Stankiewicz, M. (2001) Roots of Art Education Practice, Davis Publication.</span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02050834103834499881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2913007731728359698.post-88527393702971256422014-01-19T14:52:00.003-07:002014-01-19T14:56:13.940-07:00My Life in Art<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-343ed735-ac75-3a73-20b5-5aea8f21c9a1" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Looking back now, I would say the pivotal moment for me was receiving a sketch pad at about the age of seven. I still have it every page was filled over a summer living with my grandparents. Residing in a little retirement community near Ocala Florida (not the end of the world but you can see it from there) I heard daily about the Great Depression and the Second World War as if they happened a few weeks ago. The pace of life in a retirement community (at about the speed of smell) left a young boy chomping at the bit. My folks going through a divorce and my brother and I dumped on my grandparents doorstep, I discovered through this simple sketch pad I could make the world go away or make entirely new ones. If I would not have had that combustible mixture of mind numbing boredom and confusing gut churning pain, I would have become someone else for certain, but more than that I would never have had found solace and a deep profound connection to art. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The power of art to transform, heal, and transport can only be understood by those that have felt those effects, and of course can’t be overstated. In my own life art has been a constant source of entertainment yes, but dare I say a spiritual or at least meditative and therapeutic quelle.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Earliest Art Exposure</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My earliest memories of art in school were marred by needing glasses which my father refused to purchase. A border line dyslexia, acute inability to see straight lines, constituted a learning disability that went un-diagnosed until college. Falling further behind in classes and truly being unable to see well or oft mixing 51 with 15 crippled me in school and again I sought solace in art. Frustration and as one elementary teacher described me, “you have absolutely no sense of color,” led me to believe I would never be able to master art of any kind. Perhaps it was this criticism that fired me, but more it was I think that in my sketch pad, on my time there were no wrong answers or bad art, if it was in my pad it belong there. Thinking back to the humiliation and negative comments I received as a child it is amazing I did not grow up to hate art or want nothing to do with it. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In junior high things began to change my best friend and I would spend a Friday night drawing, copying comic books, things from Star Wars books, geeky sci-fi stuff of any kind, we both challenged each other critique each other and grew as artists. Soon I might be inspired by comic book but I began to create my own stories and characters, my best friend never did and is a commercial artist today.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">An aunt I hardly knew gave me a paint by numbers kit of a horse and barn. Something I have never forgotten and think is maybe the second most important moment in my art journey. I could not see remember, the tiny little numbers and shapes seemed to vibrate right off the cardboard canvas making me uneasy. I flipped the thing over and painted a castle, a field billowing clouds, my own fantasy creation. I look back at this as a tiny but irreversible act of rebellion.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Surprisingly my stepmother also loved to draw and paint and supported my efforts. One Christmas I received a tackle box for paints and brushes (which I still use), a cliche little wooden palette and easel. Moving on to painting I again felt that strange sense of being lost in art of forgetting everything being entranced by a painting. The new relationship provided many positive things but also a Southern extreme Fundamentalist Baptist oppression. I learned about censorship and intolerance during those teenage years. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Music was paired with painting but carefully my brother and I hid our records and knew we could not bring certain records home for fear of being caught with them. I had a tiny walkman style radio (which I also had to keep secret for fear of confiscation or worse being made to listen to religious music) it became my sanctuary in a crowded little house in central Florida. Through the re-marriage I was suddenly one of six kids. My poor grades and slow reading ability led to increased depression over school. The divorce left me shattered as a little boy something I learned of only as an adult. The whole while I won prizes for art at the Florida State Fair, sold pieces to friends, and landed works in school literature magazines. So began this duality that so many of us know of being a failure in one world and a rock star in another.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Things got worse at home and I spent some time as a runaway. During that time I could spend hours drawing if I wanted to painting when I could afford it. People wanted my artwork to hang it up, and display it, it seemed too easy in a way though I was putting in enormous amounts of time.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Formal Training and Studies</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reconciling things at home I somehow made it to a community art college in Tampa Florida. I took general classes not sure I would keep it up or could afford it. Nearly quitting to take some dead end job get an apartment who knows what, I took a drawing course as an elective. After the first critique I was pulled aside by Steve Holms my professor at the time. He sat with me I figured I had done something wrong was in trouble for something. He asked to see the other drawings in my pad from the class. Looking them over he asked, “Do you want to study art?” “Do you have enough money for school?” I was taken aback I wanted to study music (tried actually but again I can’t read quickly and memorized music pieces by ear this worked for while until my first theory test) and no I didn’t have any money. It didn’t occur to me at the time to spend loan money on a degree that might actually lead to a job, I hadn’t really expected to make it through more than a few semesters. I was given a full ride at the school money for any and all art classes that I wanted to take and a little for supplies (too little it turned out). </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I took every class that I could and even a few that were created for me. The final project was a series of bronze pours with another mentor and hero of mine Jerry Meatyard (yes brother of Ralph Eugene). Jerry and Steve possessed an energy and reverence for art and art history that has stayed with me decades later. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Vagabond Days</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After a brief attempt at the University of South Florida, I traveled a bit in England, Italy, Spain, Morocco, Portugal, Puerto Rico, and France and moved to Colorado. I was pulled into the working world and grew to love all things culinary, learning to be a cook of serious skill and knowledge. At every turn I was called, “Professor Jonathan and Doctor so and so,” my time in college worlds away from the ex-con, wife beater, alcoholic and drug abusive, world of hotels and restaurants. Everyone from the general manager on down seemed to say, “you don’t belong here.” Everyone seemed to think I should be teaching, that I was a natural professor.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A Couple of Degrees</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I continued to paint exhibit art anywhere I could, and after a show at a winery in Colorado returned to college. The University of Colorado had a leper colony of ramshackle buildings beyond the farthest reaches of the university, on the other side of a coyote filled butte, dedicated to studio art. The late Jerry Riggs ran the campus gallery and the late Louis Ciccotello ran the fine art program. There were amazing minds in the art history department and dedicated Chicago University of Art studio instructors. I thrived in the penniless environment earning a BS in Fine Art Studies. Exhibiting in Denver and eventually Santa Fe I continued to sell and show works. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While completing my last two semesters I found a work study job at the Colorado Springs city museum beginning my museum resume. During this time I visited Thailand, Korea and Cambodia and my worldview shifted radically. Hired on after finishing the degree I found myself a museum worker general. Working with for the first time Native American ethnographic and archaeological collections I decided to take an archaeological field school near Mesa Verde. At the Colorado Springs museum I had my first educational experience presenting a program for kids on archaeology I had created based on my experiences in the field and focused on Four Corners region archaeology. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hired on by the museum of New Mexico I began working as an archaeologist in Santa Fe. Returning to Colorado I completed a second BS in Physical Anthropology, and continued to take contract archaeology and museum jobs. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Through the museum experience I learned of conservation and restoration and thought I might study it. Moving to Florence Italy for a year I took part in a gruelling program of art history, museum studies, and practical art restoration. Learning to stabilize and restore canvas paintings, frescoes, gilded works, and works of wood, mixed with numerous cathedral and museum visits, it was an outrageous jewel in my over all art education. How many painful moments of faded worn slides had I endured through the years versus, “today class we will talk about Michelangelo lets go see the David.” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I married my Swiss girlfriend of several years in Switzerland and returned to the states with her.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the Western Museum of Mining and Industry I joined the museum’s education department. Creating, presenting and researching museum programs was exciting and fulfilling. I found my ability as an artist being used for the first time in a professional setting. I finally decided I could be an educator.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Five Years as an Artist</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My wife found life in America frustrating and suffered from some homesickness. We moved to eastern Switzerland where I began to exhibit art and work for two art museums in the region. The experience of handling Rodin, Giacometti, and Arp was earth shattering, and I couldn’t help but feel the culmination of a long and winding road of art experience. I created educational materials for both museums some of which are still in use a decade later. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My art resume grew by leaps in bounds while in Switzerland. My wife and I founded a production company which we named Sanchez Art Werk. With business, cards, a website, brochures, calendars and posters, we went into the business of art. Eventual showing art in four different countries, through something like fifty exhibits I produced and sold more art in five years then I had in the total thirty that proceeded. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I added numerous countries to my list of places visited made extensive trips into Italy, Germany, France, and Austria. But also further afield into the Czech Republic, Belgium, Serbia, Croatia, Colombia, Macedonia, England, Greece, and Slovenia. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The MIM Years</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Again returning to the states I began work again as a field archaeologist. I took what was to be a six to nine month contract for intense museum work at the forming Musical Instrument Museum, Phoenix. The retired Target founder was moving into a new role as philanthropist and throwing together a museum, museum collection, and museum staff as a new museum building was being built. I entered this mad cauldron and joined the rush to open a museum. While working with the collection primarily in the early days the education department was still forming. I presented the idea of creating a museum program on the blues and was thrown into the mix immediately. Museum Encounters are in house live presentations part lecture, part hands on and part performance in nature. My program was a hit with the founder of the museum himself, and I was promoted to the three hundred seat house theater where I continue to present my program.</span><img height="259px;" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/mqzEPuBi8YGEhp_yDky9e4lXLPcpwE9u3AMDGJw3o80t_R-oys9qVjxaugs5FbVGDODVRYCtrzLvtMiMExHI8GNUcU-_sXxvcHdBvRRJ8Ls81Xk9jdzj_Xe3" style="border: 0px solid transparent;" width="174px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Museum Ecounte</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">r</span><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/5tItbfD6b2wlVnhMHGSA_fMF8kJ-yLKCnzTAnjQVh7PLDTTOyz-SkJGXZX1imz7dmyD2dHyTicFSbLLNAYsKh3iHfuAJbXTi-O_50_SHihSs3vgdGo-0ejZb" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="137px;" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/5tItbfD6b2wlVnhMHGSA_fMF8kJ-yLKCnzTAnjQVh7PLDTTOyz-SkJGXZX1imz7dmyD2dHyTicFSbLLNAYsKh3iHfuAJbXTi-O_50_SHihSs3vgdGo-0ejZb" style="border: 0px solid transparent;" width="205px;" /></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Slides and mojo</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Recent Events</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Briefly my wife and I had a gallery in Scottsdale, I did a show in Tampa (at my old college in honor of some of the mentors mentioned above) and another in Denver, have created numerous short films and two CDs but the pace of art production has come to slow stroll. Having worked for several education departments I decided to pursue a degree in education, and have spent about a year in a mostly online program through the University of Florida. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My most recent art endeavor is the Artificial Curiosities show at the Vault Gallery on the downtown ASU campus in Phoenix. After years of international and Swiss shows the exhibit is the first to feature my wife and I together.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We continue to run our production company, study, show, and produce art and music, here in Phoenix our home of three years.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>PS</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Created for an art education course it is as always way way over the Tweet size word limit (my most frustrating challenge in any of the grad courses) so it is presented here in its entirety and will be mangled and drastically shortened for the demands of the course. I have had a ridiculous life in art to limit that to 800 words is equally ridiculous.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02050834103834499881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2913007731728359698.post-10950853023512138492014-01-18T18:46:00.002-07:002014-01-18T18:53:45.066-07:00Wellspring of Nature<div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wellspring of Nature </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(thoughts on working from nature, copying famous works, and the pluses and minuses for art students. Created for the UF Art Education program)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17.25px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Knife Edge Two Piece 1962-65 a colossal bronze work by the great artist Henry Moore, according to the artist was based on a tiny bird bone he discovered. Similarly it is said that he liked to walk along a beach discover fragments of shells and eroded stones, collect them and use them as the basis of his sometimes two story massive works. That nature was an inspiration for Moore’s fantastic works though well documented can sometimes be lost in the final work or at least obscured. The final process of arranging the work for public viewing, which plays upon the negative space created and the thoughtful use of patina, are both part of larger process of or evolution from tiny seashell to monumental work.</span></div>
<b id="docs-internal-guid-2a2160c8-a82c-6938-9737-ae98598eb090" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><img height="314px;" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/MlYej_GyQM7UT6upWMTm6OY1-xqZDY2jCFN27Rg05i_iE84eo8twyrxrAw9QcZp6Wi2y7jGgIiQhi_UBTFEEwBc28QkazkJ3ealkkaQJO1mlno7_zuDdTO86" style="border: 0px solid transparent;" width="460px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.15; text-indent: 36pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">I present this example as part of a larger discussion on the benefits and pitfalls of working from nature, and copying established works. Clearly nature can be a point of departure a starting point that leads the artist or art student down numerous and various paths, the final result being something radically or unrecognizable different from the original inspiration. That wandering through a natural environment can inspire or change the state of an artist aside, the forms of nature offer endless amounts of inspiration.</span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Light and shadow, atmospheric perspective, volume, density and texture are how we perceive our world visually. The tactile clues that textures give us, used in art add a dimension that invite and fire the imagination and senses. Depth through hot and cold colors, clear and sharp forms allows for us to read 2-d space as 3-d. Shadows and shading give weight to objects dramatic lighting. Working from reality introduces the student to the visual rules of light, color, and form and lends the ability to use these rules to visually communicate. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Established Works</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The benefits of copying and working from established works are two fold, allowing students to learn technique through discovery versus pedantic lessons, and introducing a part of art history through a work. Allowing students to research and seek out an artist they connect to on some level insures their personal investment and interest. As a student learns more of a particular artist and then tries to copy their work a new respect for the life story and techniques of an artist can be found. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A pitfall to this approach can be that it might be difficult for someone too accustomed to copying works to find their own voice or style. Working from famous or established works even the obscure works of other artist should therefore be limited and a personal touch should be suggested or encouraged. How can a student for example work in the style of Dubuffet but add their personal time period, experiences or contemporary voice to the work? Using the experimental textual techniques of Max Ernst for example are a nod to the artist without direct copying students can both learn of the artist and use the techniques on their own.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As an exhibiting artist I have been at too many group shows with artist that, “paint just like so and so,” and still call the work their own. Prolonged copying can produce plagurist artists that never find their own style or voice.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Changing Gears</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">An argument against working from nature would be that someone might have the potential to thrive in abstraction but through the confines of still life, landscape, or other forms of representation, never find themselves able to break out or change gears. Abstraction is a creative leap that many artist will never make, is this a result of too strictly working from reality? Exercises that focus on texture, color, and composition void of representation do not put subject in the way of visual communication or expression or hinder the exploration of abstraction.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are many benefits from working from reality and some from copying established, classic, or famous works. Nature in general as a source of inspiration is limitless, subject to interpretation, and can still result in works of complex imagination and vision. Focusing on the abstract elements of texture composition, pure form, and line without a subject emphasis can still lead to an understanding of the rules of light and shadow, form and volume, depth and perspective, without the baggage of representation. In the end perhaps the best approach is a balance that does not emphasize any one approach but stresses that all can used for self expression. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02050834103834499881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2913007731728359698.post-76424144753599121692013-10-31T15:39:00.003-07:002013-10-31T15:42:01.143-07:00Discussion of the Shelton With Sunspots by Georgia O'Keefe.<div style="font-size: 12px; margin-left: 71.7px;">
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><b>The Shelton with Sunspots Georgia O'Keefe 1926</b> (Plate 39 Page 85 from Twentieth-Century American Art)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The viewer upon seeing the Georgia O'Keefe work The Shelton with Sunspots, is immediately aware of its urban imagery. A large gray and black rectangle fills the center of the portrait format painting. The portrait format accentuates the towering form rendered with childlike simplicity and easily recognized as a symbol signifying a skyscraper. Blocky light gray forms placed in rows are present to signify windows, other partial rectangles cut into the foreground and background to connote surrounding buildings. As we read larger objects as closer and diffused smaller objects as further away, a sense of atmospheric perspective is achieved with a handful of darker and lighter shapes. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Surrounding the largest central rectangle is a large glowing white negative space. The use of this negative space adds the feeling of vast towering scale to an image with very few details. The sense of the deco movement of the love of streamline forms is present in the piece and with a little imagination perhaps something of the jazz age. The work is bold and seems to express a love and admiration for urban life and modernity curious for an artist that famously walked away from both never to return. There is no sense of the grime or dirty under belly of the city from the work instead we are presented an almost angelic quality of work that reaches the heavens piercing cottony clouds and wisps of smoke that fill the white negative space area. Again these cloud forms are nearly graphic or childlike and seem symbols for smoke or clouds. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>A playful touch is the namesake of the painting, the sunspots. Near the top of the central skyscraper there is a diffused atmospheric area. The viewer is left to decide for themselves is this reflection of the sun bouncing off the enormous structure or the sun creeping from behind the edifice? A circular area the lightest and brightest of the nearly monochromatic composition is the disk of the sun either reflected or in plain view. One might be lead to read into the work an idea of man achieving the heavens or nature trumping man, the sun seems to somehow conquer the black and gray central tower and scatter its light around it. The geometric fixed even stark forms seem to be toyed with by light glowing circles scattered throughout the image and adding a yin to the overall yen of the work. Dancing light atmospheric clouds form a dichotomy a juxtaposition or paradox of light and heavy, masculine and feminine, natural and cultural. It would be easy now knowing what we know of O'Keefe to read into the work a love of the natural world. the central skyscraper pierced by sunlight seems nearly a man in business suit the white disk of the sun a single eye. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Contrasting this is the only truly abstract element that seems to have no reference in reality and may be present for the sake of whimsy or fancy. In the upper left third slightly exiting the format as some of the buildings do, is what a appears a lock of black hair. the locks position in the format is in contrast to the rest of the angular elements, the disks representative of sunlight, and the rows of wisp of smoke or passing morning fog. Resting atop the format and the entire composition it is as if the lock of hair crowns the negative space the white portion of light and soft clouds surrounding the stark fixed central skyscraper. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">References: Doss, E. (2002) Twentieth-Century American Art Oxford Press.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">I began with the title and name of the work looking for clues and interpretation within it. Being very familiar with Georgia O'Keefe I was surprised once seeing this painting at her museum in Santa Fe. It does not fit with what we think we know of the artist, in choice of palette and subject matter yet there is something feminine that creeps into her work and seems to hint at her later works.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">The history of Georgia O'Keefe was alluded to but not elaborated upon it is assumed that art scholars know her story well. The relation to Stieglitz would have been important to mention in that it looks like one of his many urban photos but would have been off task. She was married to him at the time of the work they lived in the building that is the subject of the work, and perhaps she was over shadowed or at best influenced by him. These details seem obvious to anyone that knows their work and history but speculation with regard to this work. I left out comparisons to her later work or any other work and merely described the work at hand as that was what was asked for. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">I attempted to describe the image to stimulate the intellect and the imagination with the result of the feeling and appearance of the work being known.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02050834103834499881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2913007731728359698.post-48024473310553718672013-10-31T15:36:00.001-07:002013-11-01T13:51:39.082-07:00Was There An Armory Show?<div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px;">
<span style="color: #cccccc;">The following was posted for my current grad art education class</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">The discussion was based on the Armory Show an event that took place in New York in 1913. It featured some 1300 works mostly from Europe. The Eight a group of American artists several of which had worked for newspapers was highly publicized as <u>the</u> art event. Both rebellious against the art establishment and forming a new art establishment of wealthy patrons (The Whitney Collections namesake was a supporter) the Armory Show lives on. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">For more visit this blow by blow account of the show the uproar and the hype that still resonates.</span></div>
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<a href="http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MUSEUM/Armory/armoryshow.html"><span style="color: #cccccc;">http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MUSEUM/Armory/armoryshow.html</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">The Question was "What if there had been no Armory Show?" the following is my reply.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">I was fortunate enough to have spent a year in Florence studying conservation and restoration, museums studies, and art history. It was not surprising that the art history was centered around the many incredible achievements of Italian artists. What was surprising was to learn that the Renaissance as we are taught it was a fabrication of art historians looking back and not something that really occurred. A tiny experiment my professors would say a failed experiment in realistic depiction, perspective and nearly scientific works. What we consider to be Renaissance Italian art historians break into numerous other specific categories that are seldom taught or mentioned in art history classes. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Likewise the impressionist had no banner or common style or dogma that they adhered to but are now lumped together. Manet and Degas have nothing to do with each other any more than Botticelli or Leonardo did. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">My point is looking back art historians tend to create turning points or moments that may have been in important or perhaps not. The fabled Armory Show I would allege is one of those mythic moments conjured up by art historians. Evidence the reviews of the time which labeled areas the, "hall of horrors" or "Rude Descending a Staircase." The Armory Show did not hinder or halt the golden age agenda or end the classism or elitism of the day, anymore than the Renaissance experiment ended religious art or the Vatican.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">What was unique about the Armory show was the press it received the PR machine it created and the aligning of forces and ideas that changed the commodification of art. Publicity for a show as an art event is still how galleries and art dealers push their artists.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">The annual art summit that is Art Basel brings together the big name traders and curators of the world. While sipping an espresso in the cafe I heard two dealers haggling over two Francis Bacon works. "I will give you them both for $10 million right now but, right now, don't ask me about them tomorrow." One of the curators or dealers sheepishly nodded in agreement and the deal was sealed. A tiny hint of a grin passed over the buyers face as if ten million dollars for two Francis Bacon works was a steal. I tried to imagine how many starving artists could live from ten million dollars. I tallied all the paintings I have ever sold and found it reached about maybe ten thousand dollars. My point is that the PR and art trading machinery was really what was put in place at the Armory show. The idea of the big highly publicized art event as generator of sales is ultimately the legacy of the Armory Show. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">New York is an always will be an island unto itself with its own culture, mores, and rules. The idealized gallery is based upon notions of what Stieglitz and the Eight represented, the eternal push and pull between the art establishment and art as commodity, and the independent art for art sake under current of American bohemia. That the Armory show figures into the myth making of an imagined New York art scene, does not mean it had any effect on American history or in truth the life of the average citizen. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">First and fore most art means little to the vast percentage of Americans. Museums for a variety of reasons struggle to keep their doors open while sporting events, movies, and other forms of entertainment continue to break records. Most of my educator friends meanwhile teach from a cupboard or cart and are forced to convince everyone down that the line that art can be integrated into the teaching of other, "important" subjects. Ask anyone on the street if the Armory show changed their perception of art or was an important event in art history I would be surprised if anyone had heard of the event at all. Further to say important and art history in the same sentence for most people is already dubious. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">According to the accounts of the Armory website Picasso was largely ignored at the event though it does not seem to have hurt his rise to fame or notoriety. If he had been praised and made an instant star everyone would sort of yawn and say, "yes of course he was at the famous Armory show." Being that the opposite is true can it really be argued that it was a game changer, when the shock and horror over Matisse hasn't stopped every poster and chain art supplier from selling his works in mass. Duchamp is hardly a house hold name the damage to western civilization that one critic predicted must have been inflated. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Would it have been exciting to see the reactions, to walk the galleries of the Armory show certainly. Will it live on as a mythic moment and be the model of all large art events for the rest of time, maybe. Art has changed it is old fashioned to paint at all, the happenings of the Cabaret Voltaire and later beat and hippy shows have added performance art to the regular gallery experience. Video and electronic found object displays push the boundaries of what is considered art in much the way Duchamp's readymades once did. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">Yet I routinely as an exhibiting contemporary artist showing paintings from Basel to Macedonia, still have to defend my abstract works. They are still referred to as, "that modern art stuff," in much the way people reacted to Duchamp and others a hundred years ago. Imagine riding up in a hundred year old car and and introducing it as my modern auto. So did the Armory create an acceptance or understanding of modern art for the most part for most people absolutely not. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;">So is the world different due to the Armory Show? Would the the world be different had it never happened? For art historians certainly and students of art history yes. For the larger history of the world no. I do not believe it changed anything at the moment of its existence or in its aftermath. The next time you are staring down a Thomas Kinkade so called fine art print ask yourself did the armory really change anything?</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02050834103834499881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2913007731728359698.post-39053983836170445902013-10-15T15:04:00.001-07:002013-10-15T15:25:34.061-07:00Artificial Curiosities Curriculum Project ARE 6148<br />
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<b>Artificial Curiosities the ASU Show</b><br />
I am in the process of creating a show for the downtown campus of ASU. The works featured range from large format abstract works, found object abstract works, mixed media objects featuring photo elements, a few works I refer to as specimen trays, and finally a few Cornell type works.<br />
I will update this page as the show goes up, opens, and as classes use the curriculum I have created for the show. I have contact with one school that is interested in working with me as an artist/musician and they will attend the show along with the other educational activities we have planned. As these things materialize I will post info here about them. In a few days I should have another short clip showing me working on the projects, the works for the ASU show, and further explanation of the student activities. For now here is an outline of the project with some images to illustrate the project.<br />
There is also a narrated slide presentation which features some of the works in progress to be featured in the show below<br />
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<b>Artificial Curiosities Curriculum Project ARE 6148 </b></div>
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My idea is to bring in the history of museums and how museums have changed through history. Discuss found object artists Joseph Cornell, Louise Nevelson, Fred Wilson and Jean Tinguely <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4iXF-LIYi0"><span style="color: #0064cd;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4iXF-LIYi0</span></a><span style="color: #0064cd; text-decoration: underline;"> </span></div>
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Activity and discussion of roadside attractions as forgotten museums of the 50's. Historic and archaeological preservation in a disposable society. Students will discuss and create their own curiosity cabinet.</div>
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Who writes history and why? How does knowledge and our perception of it change? Why do museums work or bore us?</div>
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Do museums ever tell the truth or an imagined truth? Where did museums come from?</div>
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History is on going. What history have the students lived through their families their grand parents?</div>
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All objects tell a story have a history.</div>
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Find a small object to be used as specimen tray or box. Gather three to six small items from your home, the ground, goodwill, or that you have kept. Arrange the items in the tray.</div>
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Play with the arrangement until it is pleasing to look at. How can you arrange them to tell a story? Let the others in the class try to figure out your arrangement and the items in the tray.</div>
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Explain the items what they mean where they came from, if they are important to you why. Select one object to be the tall tale object. In your explanation have one object be of exaggerated or purely fictional origins. See if the class can decide </div>
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which one it is. Repeat the process throughout the class. How is it that we create histories for objects? </div>
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Did some of the stories get elaborate? Were they all true? How important is context and provenance to viewing objects how does knowing the story of an item change the way we view an item?</div>
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Imagine a museum where you have to simply guess what you are looking at?</div>
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Talk about the way science works, gathering specimens information data putting forth theories. Is specimen gathering cruel, zoos, killing jars, and dissection? Talk about the way museums work researching documenting curating items. </div>
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How have museums changed from shrunken heads and stuffed animals to hands activities and children's programing. Reference the book, Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads, A, Stephen (2001)</div>
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Is science cruel? Why do we collect things? Berger in his writings talks about the need to possess the subject of a painting and the need to show status and wealth through oil painting (Ways of Seeing, Berger, J. 1973, Penguin Books). Do museums still need to collect?</div>
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Brief discussion of the book The Museum in Transition Hein, H. 2000. </div>
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Pick your favorite item from the example above and research it find out what you can about how it was made where it was made and of what it was made. Talk about the mining the museum exhibit.</div>
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<a href="http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/kitschiest-roadside-attractions-in-america"><img alt="201107-w-roadside-attractions-corn-palace.jpg" src="webkit-fake-url://02B39AB2-5267-4758-B241-59F7F74C0FAD/201107-w-roadside-attractions-corn-palace.jpg" /></a><a href="http://www.getintravel.com/top-10-strange-roadside-attractions-america/"><img alt="america-roadside-attraction-1.jpg" src="webkit-fake-url://02B39AB2-5267-4758-B241-59F7F74C0FAD/america-roadside-attraction-1.jpg" /></a><a href="http://www.sillyamerica.com/blog/2009/03/silly-america-pit-stop-march-16-2009/"><img alt="5_roadside.png" src="webkit-fake-url://02B39AB2-5267-4758-B241-59F7F74C0FAD/5_roadside.png" /></a></div>
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Louise Nevelson in her found objects glorified and Jean Tinguely and his made contraptions. </div>
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Both deal with pop culture to a degree one uses the junk of our culture to create beautiful forms the other leaves the object as junk unrefined but turns them into new machines. </div>
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In the 1950's an extension of Curiosity Cabinets, medicine shows, and circus sideshows sprung up the roadside museum. Like many of the elements of our past most of these once grand attractions have closed or fallen into ruin.</div>
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Look for an "undisciplined local collection," a roadside or homespun museum in your area. Reference the book Offbeat Museums, Rubin, S. 1997. </div>
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Is there an old part of town in your town? Is there a highway that has been replaced? Are there old attractions, museums, or tourist traps in you town? How do the students feel about these old areas and why?</div>
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Gather images of abandoned or ruined buildings in your local area. Gather images of ruins around the world from the internet magazines etc..</div>
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Talk about what the Coloseum in Rome or Mesa Verde in Colorado must have been like before they were ruins. Visit the UNESCO world heritage site, what are they up to?</div>
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Why do we save things and places that are connected to famous people or events? Are some types of history valued more than others?</div>
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Are some peoples history valued more than others? </div>
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<a href="http://whitney.org/Collection/LouiseNevelson"><img alt="70.68a-m_nevelson_imageprimacy_compressed_740.jpg" src="webkit-fake-url://02B39AB2-5267-4758-B241-59F7F74C0FAD/70.68a-m_nevelson_imageprimacy_compressed_740.jpg" /></a><a href="http://www.nga.gov.au/international/catalogue/Detail.cfm?IRN=60874"><img alt="60874.jpg" src="webkit-fake-url://02B39AB2-5267-4758-B241-59F7F74C0FAD/60874.jpg" /></a></div>
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Find scrap wood (home depot usually has a free or cheap pile) junk from a junkyard, look around your neighborhood for rusted old items, bits of wood, or visit goodwill (free is better of course). </div>
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Using the junk create a small sculpture draw from Tinguely and Nevelson if you like but think in terms of a ruin or an abandoned building or object. Imply or leave, age and decay or hide the decay as Nevelson does. Crackling effects, painted on rust, sandpaper can be used to imply age and erosion. </div>
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There is often a lot of beauty in forgotten abandoned things. Why are we so quick to throw things away? One persons junk is someone else's treasure. Once historic things fall into ruin you have to imagine them back, is this how history </div>
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and archaeology are written? Isn't it easier to save things then recreate them? All objects have history even if they are personal items. Talk about the idea that junk transformed into art might be displayed in a museum is it still junk? why or why </div>
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not? Museums are part entertainment and the roadside museums of the 1950's were mostly entertainment. How much car culture are we left with from the 1950's (drive-ins and drive thru, highways and road trips)</div>
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Are there abandoned neighborhoods towns or buildings near by in your hometown or city? How did they fall into ruin and why? Did the car culture of the 1950's lead to these ruins? </div>
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<a href="http://teenangster.net/2010/02/cabinets-of-curiosity/"><img alt="maissatoulet-cabinetdesorcellerie-lecomptoirgeneral.jpg" src="webkit-fake-url://02B39AB2-5267-4758-B241-59F7F74C0FAD/maissatoulet-cabinetdesorcellerie-lecomptoirgeneral.jpg" /></a><a href="http://resobscura.blogspot.com/2011/01/cabinets-of-curiosities-in-seventeenth.html"><img alt="Cabinet_of_Curiosities_1690s_Domenico_Remps.jpg" src="webkit-fake-url://02B39AB2-5267-4758-B241-59F7F74C0FAD/Cabinet_of_Curiosities_1690s_Domenico_Remps.jpg" /></a></div>
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Imagine living in a world and time where you would pay a nickel to look at a display of relics from history or the far side of the world? Hard to imagine in the internet age of limitless information. </div>
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Present curio cabinets as a concept. How did these cabinets lead to museums? "The birth of the mercantile and first middle class gave rise to a collecting mania by about 1650", leading to curio or cabinets of artificial and natural history curiosities from Museums Objects and Collections, Pierce, S. (1992) Smithsonian Press.</div>
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Discuss Charles Wilson Peale, did he create the first American museum? The origin of the word museum, where did it come from? </div>
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Present information about the history of museums, from curios to the Smithsonians. Visit the Smithsonian website reference The Official Guide to the Smithsonians (or other Smithsonian literature as available) American Alliance of Museums http://www.aam-us.org/about-museums/museum-facts for further discussion on what a museum is.</div>
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How have museums changed? Wifi video screens wireless headsets all add to the modern museum experience as do museum websites and hands on activities. How does this contrast with the old school museums (things in boxes, stuffed animals and pickled heads)? Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads (The Culture and Evolution of Natural History Museums) Asma, S. (2001) Oxford Press.</div>
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Find a small to medium size box, decide if you want to paint the box sand it down weather it to make it look old etc..</div>
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Gather objects from the ground, goodwill, a junk drawer, the garage or objects you have saved for yourself as important. </div>
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The final portion is tying it all together. </div>
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Talk about the artist Joseph Cornell. </div>
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Using the methods of Cornell create a small personal cabinet.</div>
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Decide what story about yourself or an imagined narrative you want to tell using the objects you have gathered if the objects are worthless how does that change your approach? if they are precious keep sakes how do you treat them? </div>
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decide if it is to be display to yourself a personal curio cabinet or an imagined self? If personal does it tell the story of your life? some event in your life? Your family? Your community or town?</div>
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Present the cabinets without explanation let the class imagine their meaning or create them. What does your cabinet say about its creator real or imagined? Have people throughout time created their own history?</div>
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Give the example of the Egyptian pharaohs of how once they came to power they created their own fantastic history. Shaman of the Yanamamo upon encountering bananas revised their creation story to include them. </div>
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What is the difference between a good tale, tall tale, history or myth? By the way things are presented (or not presented) do museums tell their version of history? How important is context? A mining lamp, a lunch pail and shovel do not really put </div>
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you into a mine, how much imagination is needed to fill in museum displays? If we are using our imagination is it really history or our version of it, imagined version of it? deeper discussion talk about the book or paper, Mining the Museum: An </div>
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Installation by Fred Wilson, Corrin, L. (1994) The New Press.</div>
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Offbeat Museums, Rubin, S. (1997) Santa Monica Press.</div>
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Mining the Museum: An Installation by Fred Wilson, Corrin, L. (1994) The New Press.</div>
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Making Museums Matter, Weil, S. 2002) Smithsonian Press.</div>
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United States of America: Backyard Chickens, Burlesque Beauties and Handmade Bitters, Reighley, K. (2010) Harper Colins Books.</div>
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Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads (The Culture and Evolution of Natural History Museums) Asma, S. (2001) Oxford Press.</div>
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The Museum in Transition, Hein, H. (2000) Smithsonian Press.</div>
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Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder, Weschler, L. (1995) Pantheon Books.</div>
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Ancient Pueblo Peoples, Cordell, L. (1994) Smithsonian Press.</div>
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Museums Objects and Collections, Pierce, S. (1992) Smithsonian Press.</div>
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Official Guide to the Smithsonian, no author listed, (1996) Smithsonian Institute Press.</div>
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Do Museums Still Need Objects?, Conn, S. (2010) University of Pennsylvania Press.</div>
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Museums and American Intellectual Life, (1998) Conn, S. University of Chicago Press.</div>
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Ways of Seeing, Berger, J. (1973) Penguin Books.</div>
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The Manila-Acapulco Galleons: The Treasure Ships of the Pacific, Fish, S. (2011) Authorhouse Press.</div>
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Out the East (Spices and the Medieval Imagination) Freedman, P. (2008) Yale University Press.</div>
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1493 (Uncovering the New World Columbus Created) Mann, C. (2011) Vintage</div>
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UNESCO World Heritage website (http://whc.unesco.org)</div>
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ICOM International Council on Museums website (http://icom.museum)</div>
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AAM American Association of Museums website (http://www.aam-us.org)</div>
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Smithsonian Institute website (http://www.si.edu)</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02050834103834499881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2913007731728359698.post-81424261141556169462013-10-06T19:50:00.001-07:002013-10-06T19:50:02.332-07:0010 things all art educators should know about art integration<br />
<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;"><b>ARE 6148</b></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;"><b>Review 6</b></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;"><b>Jonathan Sanchez </b></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;"><b>For the University of Florida art education program</b></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;"><b>"10 Things All Art Educators Should Know About Art Integration"</b></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Light'; font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Light'; font-size: 12px;">As Damkohler states in her recent artsblog there are limits to integrating the arts in all disciplines and integration should not allow for the replacing art education or art educators, (anymore than language or PE instructors). Here however are some ideas from our recent readings that make a good argument for integration of art education into other subjects and other subjects into arts. This two way street can enrich both art education with other dimensions such as social or history studies, and also put a human aspect to many other pursuits such as the aesthetic thinking involved in engineering or industrial design. So below is my top ten list of the many ways art can augment and be augmented by integration with other subjects.</div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Light'; font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b>#1 Experiential Learning</b></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Light'; font-size: 12px;">As Maeda puts it, "the study of getting your hands dirty." Art allows learning through doing like nothing else does.</div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Light'; font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b>#2 The Human Quest (for truth and beauty)</b></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Light'; font-size: 12px;">All of the writings this time out suggest in various ways that art is inherently bound to enduring ideas as Maeda states the arts are, "dedicated to finding truth and beauty." Therefore it is believed that art will and can be an important invitation or initiation to the really big ideas.</div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Light'; font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b>#3 Metaphorical thinking</b></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Light'; font-size: 12px;">So much of are experience with regard to visual culture, literature, and the performing arts requires an unlocking of symbolic meaning or metaphorical thinking. Stewart, M. & S. Walker in Rethinking Curriculum in Art (pg 111, 2005) suggest that our first Vorstellung or introduction to symbolic thinking and therefore metaphorical thinking is usually through art. They further state that contemporary art being largely conceptual and less reliant on traditional representation is perhaps the best way to introduce students to metaphorical thinking. </div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Light'; font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b>#4 Aesthetic Dimension of Knowing </b></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Light'; font-size: 12px;">How do we interpret the world around us? How much of are experiences are based on design and other aspects of visual culture learning to interpret therefore our visual experiences is the primary goal of art education. </div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Light'; font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b>#5 Encourages Innovation</b></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Light'; font-size: 12px;">"With global competition rising, America is at a critical juncture in defining its economic future. I believe that art and design are poised to transform and sustain… America's role as innovator of the world." Maeda, J. (October 2, 2012).</div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Light'; font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b>#6 Multi-cultural integration</b></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Light'; font-size: 12px;">Art appreciation and exploration can be used to bring in a variety of cultural traditions and therefore form a ethnographic, sociological, historic, anthropological or social studies dimension.</div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Light'; font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b>#7 Problem Solving</b></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Light'; font-size: 12px;">Like chemistry or any form of lab work mixing materials, or forming a composition involves a basic problem solving ability. The skills of problem solving are not unique to art and therefore can be applied to any discipline. </div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Light'; font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b>#8 Interactive Learning</b></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Light'; font-size: 12px;">Group projects, research applied to creating a work, actually making things in an art classroom are all examples of the unique forms of interactive learning found in an art classroom. These mind opening processes can then be applied to any discipline. </div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Light'; font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b>#9 Topical art and current events</b></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Light'; font-size: 12px;">Topical contemporary art can easily be used to discuss current events in a wide range of subjects.</div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Light'; font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><b>#10 Aids in Creative Thinking</b></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Light'; font-size: 12px;">"Whether today's students go on to be artists, doctors or politicians, we know that the challenges their generation faces will demand creative solutions. We should fully expect that, in the coming decades, many of our best leaders will come from art and design backgrounds." Maeda, J. (October 2, 2012).</div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Light'; font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Light'; font-size: 12px;">Damkohler, L. (July 6, 2011) Arts integration isn’t enough. ARTSblog. Retrieved from <span style="color: #042eee; text-decoration: underline;">http://blog.artsusa.org/2011/07/06/arts-integration-isnt-enough</span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">.</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Light'; font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Light'; font-size: 12px;">Maeda, J. (October 2, 2012). STEM to STEAM: Art in K-12 is key to building a strong economy. Edutopia. Retrieved from <span style="color: #042eee; text-decoration: underline;">http://www.edutopia.org/blog/stem-to-steam-strengthens-economy-john-maeda</span>.</div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Light'; font-size: 12px; min-height: 14px;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Teaching art through a basic formula of analysis will provide a path to understanding the big ideas behind works of art. That all art is first intellectual and a study of the resulting aesthetics can lead to the thought behind a work. Asking some basic questions as to what social and historic environment produced the inspiration for a work can give it a context. Employing the techniques of art critiques and art historians in a classroom setting will place a foundation for understanding and eventual appreciation of works of art. The stress is less on the techniques involved and more on the thought processes invested in the works. The example of a monumental work created to honor victims of the holocaust is given along with the notion, that without an understanding of what the holocaust was, the piece would have no impact.</div>
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<b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Museum of Contemporary Native Arts</b> offers a curriculum pdf on its website through the educational portion of that site. The enduring idea is that the existing image of Native Americans needs to be wiped out. Acknowledging that these images are centuries old an continually re-enforced a gradual education program should be in place and that art appreciation can be the door to this new understanding. "That art might be used to present the idea that the Native perspective is one of intelligence and not somehow some state of under development," (Museum of Contemporary Native Arts website pg 4) is consistent with the notions of the chapter. It is stated that key to art understanding is that there is thought and intelligence behind every work of art, and the viewer and therefore the student is challenged to unlock that meaning or form their own. Either way it is an intellectual process that art analysis encourages. The Santa Fe example also focuses on a few works and picks them apart in much the same pattern suggested through out the chapter, so again consistent in content. The list on page 44 featuring a system for talking about art includes interpreting, describing and judging art, and is similar to elements of the Santa Fe lesson plan. <b>A</b></div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I focused on the Coyote Shuffle Off to Buffalo Lesson from the <b>Denver Art Museum. </b>In comparing this lesson to the Santa Fe lesson it is concerned with the same goals in breaking down stereotypes but more activity based. The large goals claim to be invention, self-direction, critical thinking and collaboration. The exercises and discussions are to encourage kids to decide what self means. There is a section where the question of, "why was the art made?" is asked, similar to the art analysis plan on page 44 of the reading though not as in depth. The DAM plan is more consistent with traditional elementary art education (they even pull out the glitter later) and not fully in keeping with the ideas presented in the reading. <b>B</b></div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The final review is of the <b>National Gallery</b>. In an attempt to find common ground the lesson plan related to White Cloud a Hero To His People was studied. It presents Native Americans as museum relics pieces of the distant past and as helpless savages. It was the only example I could find on the museum website that addresses Native issues. The lesson itself encourages the kids to dress up like an indian and ask what a hero is to them? think about the elements of the work, and talk about what they would wear today to impress someone. This seems a shallow and even racist program. Looking at the elements of the work is as close as we come to the themes of the current reading. <b>F</b></div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Some of the examples in the reading are so in depth including field trips not often an option in todays teach from a cart art education environment that they seem a little pie in the sky really. Imaging though that these sort of fantasy elements could be reality I think the approach is fantastic. I was fortunate enough to spend a year studying in Italy. It really hit home after years of old faded slides to have a professor say today we are going to talk about Micheangelo and off we went to see the David (a few blocks away). If we can make connections it is more real for students. In some inner city school in West Phoenix even if there were funding for a field trip the collection at the local museum is so sorry it would be a waste of time. I think then the approach realistically would need be more research based, discovering art through doing, with a power point presentation or less reliance on actual works in the area. That said art can be where you find it there can be a lot learned from say kitsch, advertisements, or architectural elements when present. Examples of western kitsch, katchinas, cowboy fantasies etc.. are readily available and easy to access and may even speak more to the reality of living in the West. "Art obtains meaning through engagement, art is purposeful human endeavors," (pg. 42) to this end art can be interpreted in a very wide way. Further it is stated in numerous examples that perhaps some art is, "outside of the usual and aesthetic theory based in formalism would have little relevance." (pg 60).</div>
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One of my favorite experiences as an art student was a visit to a junkyard. I was searching for metal to do some pieces on and visited several salvage yards, and scrap metal dumps (one with a one eyed three legged mean little dog). At any rate here was a place that felt like an art installation everything arranged for viewing and walk ways. There was definitely intent an order to the place rows and rows of axles or radiators etc.. With my mind in creating mode, thinking in terms of sculpture the place seemed like one giant work. My point is that art appreciation can occur in non-art places with non-traditional media or intent. Old faded signs can be so beautiful, worn old gold rush buildings in Colorado, or natural history museums. I suppose what I am getting at is that in time of severe budget restrictions one should be creative and find ways to view and talk about art where you can.</div>
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A Discussion of Visual Culture Theory. </b> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> All three writers agree that the basic premise of visual culture theory is that there is a need to create a multi-disciplinary approach to education at large and art history in specific. Tavin makes the case that art history can benefit greatly from cultural studies (Tavin, 199) and (eventually by page 209) has listed some thirty disciplines that he argues should be incorporated into the sphere of visual culture. In contrast Julie C. Van Camp in her critical look at the visual culture movement, seems to warn of the rise of a potential new dogma (Van Camp, 34). "Still further, the term "interdisciplinary" can simply suggest ways of expanding our methodologies in a variety of disciplines without staking a claim that only particular notions of interdisciplinary are acceptable" (Van Camp, 34). She seems to warn of throwing out the baby with the bath water, suggests that we should be slow to throw all of our ideas out in favor of the new Zeitgeist. Van Camps endorsement of visual culture theory comes in the form of a question, "Can our understanding of visual culture be used to enhance our understanding of what we traditionally termed or deemed as art?" (Van Camp, 34). <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Tavin seems to burn with the fire of a zealot lighting a torch to the whole art academy and Eisner rests somewhere between Van Camp and Tavin, when he simply states, "Justification improves overall performance," (Eisner, 7). Pluralism pushes in one direction and standardized testing in another a pendulum swing that leaves art educators grasping. </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Perhaps the strongest points that all agree on are the following; art history is no island, visual experiences are profound and far reaching, the everyday in the classroom breaks down the barrier of high art. </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Art history and therefore art education is no island. In short </span>trans-disciplinary<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> approaches inspired by visual culture theory, can only help to bring context and a sociological component into the art classroom. </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="letter-spacing: 0px; white-space: pre;"> </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Visual experiences are profound and far reaching even if they happen in a football stadium. As it was once said the "medium is the message," to see someones name in lights is thrilling weather we know why or not. It is that visual experiences reach us on a primal level like moths drawn to a flame. By saying that some experiences are high art and others not worth mentioning we close off a vast current of inspiration, and limit are realm of intellectual meandering. As </span>Tavin<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> states, "By inculcating students to existing cultural hierarchies, the canon of high art is maintained as unproblematic," (</span>Tavin<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">, 197). </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="letter-spacing: 0px; white-space: pre;"> </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Finally, bringing the current and the everyday into the classroom will not only help students relate it will address issues of whose culture are we making? Are we to simply repeat what has been done as a kind of art mantra or are we as May said active change agents (May, 146). </span></div>
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<b style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Problems with a visual culture approach <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> </b><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">1. </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="letter-spacing: 0px; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Visual culture does not seem to have an overarching or concrete quintessence all of the authors seem to allude to this as a point of confusion. 2. It is perhaps too far reaching it would be as if arguing, why do we need geology and biology why not talk about them as the same thing? They are of course related and interact with each other but is it possible to talk about everything at once? We break things into categories in order to make sense of them. 3. How do we talk about art or visual culture if all terms are deemed antiquated and culturally loaded? "Visual culture seems to have rejected </span>not only formalism but also almost any other way of appreciating and understanding <span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">art objects themselves." (Van Camp, 35) <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <b>Terms </b> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <i>Interdisciplinary</i> is addressed in all three papers though to what extent art teachers should become social studies teachers is up for debate (Eisener, 8). It is a tenet of visual culture and can be defined as a paradigm shift that allows for other studies to be incorporated into art studies. </span></div>
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Rose Bean Simpson is a multi-media artist from Santa Clara Pueblo. I was immediately drawn to her work because of her diverse styles, including comic art, sculpture, music, and spray paint. After watching Artisode 1.3- KNME (Rose Bean Simpson) I knew right away that I wanted to interview her for this project. I felt very encouraged by her voice, and that she was someone I could identify with. I have a great respect for any woman who is creating art that challenges mass media and objectifications. Rather than numbing one’s soul, Rose Bean Simpson is trying to enliven, strengthen, and build the soul. She is not afraid to be who she is, in her natural, beautiful state, and this not only shows through her voice, but through her artwork as well. I am honored that I was able to interview someone who is actively transforming the negative effects of our media, and someone who is honestly connected to the purity of life. Through my own journey as an artist, I have experienced moments of complete frustration, and even oppression, due to the domination of our media society, so not only was discovering Rose a breath of fresh air, but I was truly inspired.</div>
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Rose Bean Simpson: In the sculpture “To Fill That Hole”, I had placed within the bars, multi-colored small faces. Much of my work is about looking inward, and trying to see or expose what is on the “inside”. (Emotionally, psychologically). I put small viewing spaces in my work for a while because they were all about revealing an inner truth.</div>
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Rose Bean Simpson from Santa Clara Pueblo uses found objects, traditional and non-traditional media to create often haunting and introspective works. Her creations exist somewhere between the ancient world of Santa Clara Pueblo (first inhabited around 1300) and the modern world of near by Santa Fe and Albuquerque.</div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>In contrast to Rose Roxanne Swentzell also from Santa Clara uses traditional images and themes. Her works do not at first glance appear to be contemporary pieces but often vary little from museum artifacts of her ancestors. Under closer examination it is revealed that in fact she has used the traditional art forms to express everyday modern ideas.</div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Open a discussion with students about how important a sense of place, your personal history and that of your ancestors, and what are art materials? Using these three themes, three different ideas present in Visual Culture theory are presented. First, your home, your environment personally shapes your experience be it a seven hundred year old Pueblo or a modern suburban home. This theme addresses ideas of what visual experiences surround us daily, mesas, chilis and katsina, or shopping malls, SUVs and Ipads. Second, your personal history and that of your ancestors, Pueblo folks often live with their ancestors in items, in the walls of their sacred spaces and symbolically. How important are our ancestors in mainstream America? Do we have a sense of history? If not how do we relate to our present surrounding friends and family? <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div>
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Both artists are from the same unique culture, trained in western eurocentric schools, but choose to express their identities very differently. Rose leans toward contemporary art but still uses Pueblo themes and Roxanne bends and pushes traditional themes and icons to make them lifelike and fill them with a sense of the everyday and universal. </div>
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Start out with images that originate within the culture and everyday experience of students rather than imposing too quickly academic constraints on what counts as legitimate art. (Tavin 206) <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div>
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Like the artist Cornell, Rose Bean Simpson uses items that she has had contact with a connection to sorts of souvenirs of her daily life. Students would be given the assignment to bring in three tiny items from their daily life symbolizing past, present and the ideal or future. They are then charged with combining them into an original work. <br />
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Tower Gallery Website <a href="http://www.roxanneswentzell.net/r_swentzell">http://www.roxanneswentzell.net/r_swentzell</a> Tower Gallery 78 Cities of Gold Road Santa Fe NM</div>
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Website Contemporary Native American Artists <a href="http://contemporarynativeartists.tumblr.com/post/39391980928/rose-bean-simpson-santa-clara-pueblo">http://contemporarynativeartists.tumblr.com/post/39391980928/rose-bean-simpson-santa-clara-pueblo</a> </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02050834103834499881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2913007731728359698.post-11680550200723426832013-04-20T21:01:00.000-07:002013-04-20T21:03:45.011-07:00Recycled and Expat ArtI have a unique connection to the theme of this weeks discussion of contemporary global artists.<br />
I have been lucky enough to exhibit in London, Kicevo, Macedonia, Basel, St. Gallen, and Geneva, Switzerland, several US states, Siena, Italy and even Bangladesh. I do not say this to boast it is merely that I have felt the odd sensations of rootlessness that some of the artist describe and certainly the authors seem to romanticize through these exhibits. Further having lived in Italy, Switzerland and seven US states I can also recall the expat sense of being a kind of art nomad. A final nail in all this is having married a Swiss national meaning that half my daily experience is European through my wife and her native language of German. Also that half my family and more than tens years of experiences with have been on another continent. I truly feel that the sense that part of me is always there, and this is prolonged through annual visits but also through social media contacts. Likewise part of me is in New York with family there and Florida and Colorado and New Mexico and so on, some of these feelings are jarring others mere memories. <br />
I will not rehash the last blog on family I found the discussion painful and the dysfunction glaring like Vegas flashing sign, but according to the authors we are to use this dysfunction run with it let it power our art. <br />
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The example of nomadic tent like structures from artist Do Ho Suh mentioned in the article Globalization and Contemporary Art from Julia Marshal, are perhaps the best example of the detached ironic state global artist live with. the works are both haunting and beautiful, which suggests a state of sadness and wonder at the same time. I am personally thrilled to have been to so many places to have lived in more than one culture but as well I acknowledge that I have given up many things in return. I get the same sense through Do's work.<br />
while living in Switzerland I became aware of the Dada movement in near by Zurich and had a chance to work with a fantastic collection of Hans/Jean Arp's work. working with the curator of the Museum Liner I poured through Arp's personal items, paintings that hung in his kitchen collages made from flyers for his art events. <br />
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A series of prints it Snows Up was inspired by a tiny collage Arp made of tiny little pieces of black paper. To hold the original work and frame it for a show of Arp's work is still one of the greatest thrills I have experienced as a museum person. <br />
In the article Transnational Visual Culture: Indecipherable Narratives and Pedagogy from Charles R. Garoain and Yvonne M Gaudelius, there is quote from Arp (Garoain and Gaudelius pg 144) in which Arp specifically mentions collage I had to smile to myself reading. Suddenly it occured to me having spent a great deal of time with Arp, Klee and even handling Giacometti works I had reached a depth of understanding of Swiss art that a mere outsider would never reach. First, I was living in Switzerland which allowed me to work for an art museum. Second, I had earned a degree in art which was recognized in Switzerland. Third, having worked for AAM accredited museums it was understood that museum standards in America and Canada are some of the highest. Finally, English as nearly the language of globalization also opened doors for me abroad, as folks were looking to practice English as well it was a somewhat neutral language for the museum one that guests from many nations would be able to get by in. All of the above are examples of how globalization has effected me personally. <br />
Two artists I ran across (one I even met) while at the Swiss art museums Wilhelm Mundt and Wang Du.<br />
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<strong>Wang Du</strong> usually cross cultural references and pop images to blur into something like a global riff. Often political satirical and monumental in scope his works beg to figured out as they seem capable of squashing you. His giant sculpture of a crumpled New York Times seems to combine a fallen satellite or collapsed building with the text of the newspaper. Perched precariously the odd shaped work seems to menace viewers in its park setting creating an uneasy view that feels dangerous or as if we are viewing remnants of some disaster.<br />
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<strong>Wilhelm Mundt</strong><br />
Wilhelm does many different types of work but his largest body is garbage. Literally he has taken trash wrapped it in polyurethane sanded it polished it in large works that at first glance look like giant tumbled rocks. Upon deeper investigation we learn that they are stamped with manufacturing number often in transparent portions reveal their inner waste and debris and then we feel duped as the beautiful mineralogical specimen finally appears to be mere plastic.<br />
Many different types of critique can read into the works from the industrial number they exhibit to the fact that they are glorified trash and what does it all say of our increasingly disposable global culture. <br />
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<strong>My Art</strong><br />
My art has varied over the years and it seems to shift with each major move. I am in the desert southwest so the palette and themes come from roadside attractions, old mining towns, the vast desert landscape and the other symbols of tarnished misguided manifest destiny and its reverberation throughout Pueblo lands. The above work, entitled Roadside Ruin, is comprised of an old ticket booth from a family owned gold mine in Colorado. The shape appealed to me and was going to become fire wood for the often harsh winters at 9000ft in Cripple Creek. I threw it in my truck attached some other pieces to it (that I found on the floor of a home depot) sanded it down painted it, spray painted sanded it down again until had the right mix of worn and intentional. It is comment on the many abandoned mines, towns, old hotels and roadside attraction of the west. The type of places with ten story high dinosaurs or tepees scattered about to lure the kitsch fevered tacky tourist. <br />
I do occasional contract archaeology work in the southwest often based out of Albuquerque, New Mexico. I have spent a great deal of time cruising the old Route 66 photographing the worn neon signs, the beat up motels and it seems that these are fantastic symbols of globalization. <br />
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Our American craze for whatever is new simply because it is new flies in the face of places with centuries old traditions even millennium old, and its this latest and greatest junk that America is known for around the globe. Like a bag of potato chips the salt or spice hits you right away and you tell yourself you can stop anytime and soon the bag is gone and you are left with a kind of junk food hangover. Then the guilt hits health concerns and how long is it going to take on the treadmill to burn that nasty bag of chips off. Sadly this is the kind of culture we export, in its ruined western form it hold a sort of beauty but there is a kind of safety that its crumbling disappearing and that its abandoned and no longer on the march. <br />
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Its like a castle in Europe a truly horrible thing when you think of it a symbol of fear, paranoia, war, torture, isolation all the worst things that mankind be. Yet they are clever and to our eyes often beautiful and of course now ludicrous in the age of nukes. They are no longer threatening with enough time but maybe hold important hints into the minds of their creators and the culture from whence they came, hence us. Roadside ruins are returning to the desert without the sacred burning of the Navajo or Hopi they are taking their spirits with them back into the earth. Whose dream was it to open a dinner in a town called Mexican Hat? Who came up with the idea to create a massive 3-d replica of the Flintstones with dinosaurs, crazy foot powered car, and the whole thing right at the entrance of the Grand Canyon? So you have one of the most impressive places on the earth and a door mat of completely not impressive location on its border.<br />
Myself and the three contemporary artists mentioned above seem to feel the same about the throw away frivolous nature of American culture and its exportation through globalism. I imagine it will continue to fuel are art. <br />
<strong>References</strong><br />
Transnational Visual Culture: Indecipherable Narratives and Pedagogy (Garoain and Gaudelius, 144)<br />
Globalization and Art Education,(Delacruz, E., Arnold, A., Kuo, A., Parsons, M., 2009) <br />
Globalization and Contemporary Art (Marshal, J., 92)<br />
Globalization and Art Education,(Delacruz, E., Arnold, A., Kuo, A., Parsons, M., 2009) Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02050834103834499881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2913007731728359698.post-68830081138882321942013-04-05T22:12:00.000-07:002013-04-05T22:12:13.292-07:00Migration and Adaptation. <br />
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Migration Story/Adapting</div>
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The Sanchez and Aguiar families were
of North African make up living in the Canary Islands. As
undesirables in the eyes of the Spanish they like many others ended
up in the Caribbean. Settling in Puerto Rico family legend says that
my mother's grandmother was Taino. My father's side visibly appears
to be African (A DNA test showed little information from subsaharan
African. In fact the test also showed no Taino though a tiny portion
came back with the results reading deeper testing unknown area). From
Puerto Rico the two families traveled to Brooklyn, New York. My
parents were born in Brooklyn, where they met and married. An
increasingly dangerous drug filled place my parents moved from Brooklyn living in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Queens, California,
and eventually Florida.
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I was born in Pennsylvania near
Philadelphia and raised in Florida. We occasionally returned to the
north to visit relatives. After a divorce and a second marriage I
belonged to a family of eight.
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By the time I was in high school I had
moved at least fifteen times (It was not at all surprising when the
above mentioned DNA test turned up Gypsy heritage in the mix) The big
move from Puerto Rico what kind of mark did that leave on my family?
My grandmother never stopped talking about Puerto Rico and on here
deathbed all she seemed to want was the traditional island dish
pigeon peas with rice. She never really stopped being Puerto Rican.
My parents however, loved the Beatles, Hollywood movies and gave us
all Anglo friendly Biblical names. James, Jeffrey, and Jonathan when
my grandmothers were Conception and Gracia. Grandfather's were
equally Hispanic by name weighing in with Juan and Julio.
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It may seem a silly point but these
choices to leave New York, to try and create a better life away from
drugs and gangs, to name your kids Jon instead of Juan, they start a
process. Overwhelmingly people today lament assimilation as a
negative culturally biased form of oppression. From the stand point
of wealthy, educated, professional people the idea of loosing your
culture is abhorrent but to a struggling immigrant loosing your
culture might mean survival.</div>
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I have lived in three countries and
speak German having married a Swiss national. It is perhaps the
migratory nature of my family that has allowed me to adapt and
survive in two different cultures. English is my mother tongue but
German has a special place in heart as do many aspects of Swiss or
larger European culture. Again what some might view as a negative I
see as natural. I lived in a German speaking country I learned the
language while there. My wife would never quite feel at home unless I
learned her home cooking and language. So the process I have gone
through has made me rethink what my relatives must have gone through
leaving North Africa, leaving Spain, leaving Puerto Rico and finally
leaving New York. </div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02050834103834499881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2913007731728359698.post-81998698542286093262013-03-31T19:09:00.002-07:002013-04-05T22:08:36.160-07:00Fleeting FamilyIn continuing with the genetic theme here is a short film I have spent a great amount of time on (though you would never guess that) It is a slide or photo essay and discussion on the theme of family migration.<br />
The short clip is paired with one of my songs (Desert Wind) which deals with the idea of mobility, rootlessness, and the modern state of being part of a global family.<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMsqb3aB09U&feature=youtu.be"> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMsqb3aB09U&feature=youtu.be </a><br />
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How would a DNA test change your thinking if you grew up thinking you were Irish or Italian and found out you were Turkish or Hungarian? How important are the stories we tell about ourselves versus scientific data and genetic information? How much of what we believe about ourselves is pure wishful thinking?<br />
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I invite your thoughts and hope you enjoy the film.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02050834103834499881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2913007731728359698.post-22017170206338471762013-03-28T11:41:00.000-07:002013-03-28T12:21:27.657-07:00It has come to my attention that some folks are interested in the DNA tests I took years ago. I was part of a National Geographic project tracking human migration out of Africa, the major genetic groups as they exist today, and the effects of contact and current globalization for gene distribution.<br />
I was also originally in a project called the Sanchez Name project but was later dropped when I did not fit conclusively what they were looking for in that project (Taino DNA). That project was taking the name Sanchez as jumping off point as it is one of the most geographically diverse names on the planet. They were interested in Jewish history and Native American history and the connections to Puerto Rico particularly north Eastern Puerto Rico. Being that my mothers side of the family is from the exact area they wanted to study and by family legend my great grandmother was Indian I was asked to take part. I turned up some Jewish traits but not what they were looking for and no one I know in my family is a practicing Jew (might have had to do with that whole Inquisition thing or that whole Hitler thing after that).<br />
The results I am squarely North African and Roma (formerly known as Gypsy) but an unknown section (perhaps the Native American section) required deeper testing of which I was unwilling to pay for at the time. So I was dropped from the project.<br />
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The National Geo project goes on and you too can take part.<br />
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I did my DNA test through My Family Tree DNA (not to be confused with familytree.com)<br />
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<a href="https://my.familytreedna.com/">https://my.familytreedna.com/</a><br />
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<b>A little explanation</b><br />
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<i>Haplogroups</i> are the major branches of the Y-chromosome tree. They are defined by Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs), which have accumulated over many generations as the Y-chromosome is passed from father to son. These SNPs map the paths back to the single common male ancestor from which all men alive today descend.<br />
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The Y-Chromosome Consortium (YCC) has reconstructed the structure of the Y-chromosome tree by testing SNP mutations in different human populations. As scientists have discovered more SNPs (e.g., M254), the structure of the tree has changed. Currently, there are 20 haplogroups (A through T). In turn, each of these major haplogroups has subgroups, or subclades, that are named with alternating letters and numbers (e.g., I1c).<br />
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<b>Below I will post my results keep in mind these are very general.</b><br />
My specific Haplogroup: E-M35.1 or E1b1b1 wandered out of Ethiopia some 50,000 years ago. 20,000 years ago they had settled in many North African coastal areas including the Canary Islands (where my so-called Spanish ancestors came from). Mixing with Phoenician and Berber groups eventually becoming a different genetic group. My family was said to be Roma (or Gypsy) Jewish and of this North African group. Arriving in Puerto Rico they became Native American and West African. Physically we show some of this but the DNA test did not turn up and Indian this comes purely from family legend that my great grandmother on my mother's side was Indian. So what do I do with this info? There is a section on test on my mothers's side that turned up unknown deeper testing required, Indian?<br />
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<span style="color: black;"><b>Haplogroup
Test:</b></span><span style="color: black;"> your matches suggest that you
belong to Haplogroup </span><a href="http://www.familytreedna.com/(0r34czvuyhupon55u2ahol55)/trs_STR_Haplo.aspx?kit=54472&code=W7744#E3b#E3b"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b>E3b</b></u></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;">,
therefore you qualify to order our deep clade test which focuses on
all mutations shown on the next screen after you click on the
"Continue for more information" button. </span><a href="http://www.familytreedna.com/(0r34czvuyhupon55u2ahol55)/trs_str_Haplo_DeepSNP.aspx?hap=E3b&upgrade=0"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u>Order</u></span></span></span></a><span style="color: black;">
your Y-DNA SNP test for Deep Sub-clades.</span>E-M81 is found in NW Africa, not found in sub-Saharan Africa and its frequency sharply decreases eastwards. E-M81 is a "Berber" marker. It is also found in all Iberian populations, signifying Berber admixture, ranging<br />
<pre class="western">from 1.5% in Northern Italians, 2.2% in Central Italians, 1.6% in southern
Spaniards, 3.5% in the French, 4% in the Northern Portuguese, 12.2% in the
southern Portuguese and 41.2% in the genetic isolate of the Pasiegos from
Cantabria. It is found in only 0.7% of Sicilians and in no southern
Italians. It is also not found in the Balkans</pre>
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<br /><b>Y-DNA - Ancestral Origins</b></div>
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The <strong>Y-DNA - Ancestral Origins</strong> page allows you to
view the ancestry information for your matches from one of our
Y-chromosome DNA STR (short tandem repeat) tests, Y-DNA12, Y-DNA25,
Y-DNA37, Y-DNA67, or Y-DNA111.</div>
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<strong>Country</strong> - This is the paternal country of
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<strong>Match Total</strong> - This is the total number
of matches for a specific country. <br />
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results from the country of origin in the Family Tree DNA database.
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<strong>Percentage</strong> - This is the percentage from the
country of origin compared to the total number from that country in
the database, i.e., the MATCH TOTAL column divided by the Country
Total column. Please note, a percentage will not be shown if the
Country Total is less than 100. <br />
<strong>Comment</strong> - This
is additional information such as a social, religious, or ethnic
group. Where more than one match from a country has provided the
same comment, the number of matches is shown beside the comment. For
example, someone with matches in Germany might have
Baden-Württemberg (2) and Schleswig-Holstein (7).<br />
<strong>NOTE</strong>: Family Tree DNA uses the International
Organization for Standardization's ISO 3166 for country names.<br />
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<td width="88">3
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<td width="101">676
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<td width="88">49
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<td width="88">2
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<td width="101">34
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<td width="88">12
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<td width="101">3366
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<td width="81">0.4%
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<td width="88">1
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<td width="101">54
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<td width="88">41
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<td width="101">12073
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<td width="81">0.3%
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<td width="88">24
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<td width="101">681
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<td width="81">3.5%
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<td width="88">13
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<td width="101">1181
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<td width="81">1.1%
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<td width="88">1
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<td width="101">179
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<td width="81">0.6%
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<td width="88">9
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<td width="101">14064
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<td width="81">0.1%
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<td width="161">Israel
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<td width="88">1
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<td width="101">138
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<td width="81">0.7%
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<td width="88">26
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<td width="101">3335
</td>
<td width="81">0.8%
</td>
<td width="162">Sicily (2)
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Kosovo
</td>
<td width="88">1
</td>
<td width="101">2
</td>
<td width="81">N/A
</td>
<td width="162"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Lithuania
</td>
<td width="88">3
</td>
<td width="101">1013
</td>
<td width="81">0.3%
</td>
<td width="162">Ashkenazi (3)
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Macedonia
</td>
<td width="88">1
</td>
<td width="101">61
</td>
<td width="81">N/A
</td>
<td width="162"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Montenegro
</td>
<td width="88">1
</td>
<td width="101">20
</td>
<td width="81">N/A
</td>
<td width="162"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Morocco
</td>
<td width="88">1
</td>
<td width="101">82
</td>
<td width="81">N/A
</td>
<td width="162">Sephardic-Levite (1)
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Netherlands
</td>
<td width="88">5
</td>
<td width="101">1709
</td>
<td width="81">0.3%
</td>
<td width="162"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Norway
</td>
<td width="88">4
</td>
<td width="101">1335
</td>
<td width="81">0.3%
</td>
<td width="162"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Poland
</td>
<td width="88">11
</td>
<td width="101">3630
</td>
<td width="81">0.3%
</td>
<td width="162">Ashkenazi (1)<br />
Prussia (3)
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Portugal
</td>
<td width="88">2
</td>
<td width="101">786
</td>
<td width="81">0.3%
</td>
<td width="162">Azores (1)
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Romania
</td>
<td width="88">2
</td>
<td width="101">546
</td>
<td width="81">0.4%
</td>
<td width="162"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Russian Federation
</td>
<td width="88">9
</td>
<td width="101">3070
</td>
<td width="81">0.3%
</td>
<td width="162">Ashkenazi (2)<br />
Ashkenazi-Levite (1)
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Scotland
</td>
<td width="88">12
</td>
<td width="101">11425
</td>
<td width="81">0.1%
</td>
<td width="162"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Serbia
</td>
<td width="88">3
</td>
<td width="101">87
</td>
<td width="81">N/A
</td>
<td width="162"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Slovakia
</td>
<td width="88">1
</td>
<td width="101">498
</td>
<td width="81">0.2%
</td>
<td width="162"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Slovenia
</td>
<td width="88">3
</td>
<td width="101">148
</td>
<td width="81">2%
</td>
<td width="162"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Spain
</td>
<td width="88">6
</td>
<td width="101">3351
</td>
<td width="81">0.2%
</td>
<td width="162">Canary Islands (1)
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Sweden
</td>
<td width="88">6
</td>
<td width="101">1595
</td>
<td width="81">0.4%
</td>
<td width="162"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Switzerland
</td>
<td width="88">7
</td>
<td width="101">1844
</td>
<td width="81">0.4%
</td>
<td width="162"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Turkey
</td>
<td width="88">1
</td>
<td width="101">559
</td>
<td width="81">0.2%
</td>
<td width="162"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Ukraine
</td>
<td width="88">8
</td>
<td width="101">1545
</td>
<td width="81">0.5%
</td>
<td width="162">Ashkenazi (4)
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">United Kingdom
</td>
<td width="88">16
</td>
<td width="101">10657
</td>
<td width="81">0.2%
</td>
<td width="162"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">United States
</td>
<td width="88">5
</td>
<td width="101">2563
</td>
<td width="81">0.2%
</td>
<td width="162"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Wales
</td>
<td width="88">2
</td>
<td width="101">2029
</td>
<td width="81">0.1%
</td>
<td width="162"></td>
</tr>
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<colgroup><col width="161"></col>
<col width="88"></col>
<col width="101"></col>
<col width="81"></col>
<col width="177"></col>
</colgroup><tbody>
<tr>
<th width="161">Country
</th>
<th width="88">Match Total
</th>
<th width="101">Country Total
</th>
<th width="81">Percentage
</th>
<th width="177">Comments
</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Albania
</td>
<td width="88">1
</td>
<td width="101">28
</td>
<td width="81">N/A
</td>
<td width="177"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Austria
</td>
<td width="88">17
</td>
<td width="101">606
</td>
<td width="81">2.8%
</td>
<td width="177">Ashkenazi (4)
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Bahrain
</td>
<td width="88">1
</td>
<td width="101">28
</td>
<td width="81">N/A
</td>
<td width="177"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Belarus
</td>
<td width="88">23
</td>
<td width="101">666
</td>
<td width="81">3.5%
</td>
<td width="177">Ashkenazi (19)
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Belgium
</td>
<td width="88">3
</td>
<td width="101">517
</td>
<td width="81">0.6%
</td>
<td width="177"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Bosnia and Herzegovina
</td>
<td width="88">2
</td>
<td width="101">87
</td>
<td width="81">N/A
</td>
<td width="177"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Bulgaria
</td>
<td width="88">14
</td>
<td width="101">170
</td>
<td width="81">8.2%
</td>
<td width="177"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Canada
</td>
<td width="88">2
</td>
<td width="101">353
</td>
<td width="81">0.6%
</td>
<td width="177"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Cape Verde
</td>
<td width="88">2
</td>
<td width="101">23
</td>
<td width="81">N/A
</td>
<td width="177"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Chad
</td>
<td width="88">2
</td>
<td width="101">2
</td>
<td width="81">N/A
</td>
<td width="177"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Croatia
</td>
<td width="88">7
</td>
<td width="101">213
</td>
<td width="81">3.3%
</td>
<td width="177"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Cyprus
</td>
<td width="88">1
</td>
<td width="101">53
</td>
<td width="81">N/A
</td>
<td width="177"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Czech Republic
</td>
<td width="88">10
</td>
<td width="101">676
</td>
<td width="81">1.5%
</td>
<td width="177">Bohemia (3)<br />
Moravia (1)
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Denmark
</td>
<td width="88">3
</td>
<td width="101">814
</td>
<td width="81">0.4%
</td>
<td width="177"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">England
</td>
<td width="88">111
</td>
<td width="101">23931
</td>
<td width="81">0.5%
</td>
<td width="177"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">France
</td>
<td width="88">20
</td>
<td width="101">3366
</td>
<td width="81">0.6%
</td>
<td width="177"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Georgia
</td>
<td width="88">3
</td>
<td width="101">54
</td>
<td width="81">N/A
</td>
<td width="177"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Germany
</td>
<td width="88">159
</td>
<td width="101">12073
</td>
<td width="81">1.3%
</td>
<td width="177">Ashkenazi (7)<br />
Baden-Württemberg (1)<br />
Schleswig-Holstein
(1)<br />
Silesia (1)
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Greece
</td>
<td width="88">26
</td>
<td width="101">681
</td>
<td width="81">3.8%
</td>
<td width="177">Rhodes (1)
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Hungary
</td>
<td width="88">27
</td>
<td width="101">1181
</td>
<td width="81">2.3%
</td>
<td width="177">Ashkenazi (3)<br />
Bukovina (1)
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Ireland
</td>
<td width="88">19
</td>
<td width="101">14064
</td>
<td width="81">0.1%
</td>
<td width="177"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Israel
</td>
<td width="88">2
</td>
<td width="101">138
</td>
<td width="81">1.4%
</td>
<td width="177">Ashkenazi (1)
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Italy
</td>
<td width="88">85
</td>
<td width="101">3335
</td>
<td width="81">2.5%
</td>
<td width="177">Sephardic (1)<br />
Sicily (9)
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Kuwait
</td>
<td width="88">1
</td>
<td width="101">155
</td>
<td width="81">0.6%
</td>
<td width="177"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Latvia
</td>
<td width="88">2
</td>
<td width="101">260
</td>
<td width="81">0.8%
</td>
<td width="177">Ashkenazi (1)
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Lebanon
</td>
<td width="88">1
</td>
<td width="101">239
</td>
<td width="81">0.4%
</td>
<td width="177"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
</td>
<td width="88">1
</td>
<td width="101">22
</td>
<td width="81">N/A
</td>
<td width="177"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Lithuania
</td>
<td width="88">24
</td>
<td width="101">1013
</td>
<td width="81">2.4%
</td>
<td width="177">Ashkenazi (16)
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Macedonia
</td>
<td width="88">1
</td>
<td width="101">61
</td>
<td width="81">N/A
</td>
<td width="177"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Mexico
</td>
<td width="88">1
</td>
<td width="101">814
</td>
<td width="81">0.1%
</td>
<td width="177"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Moldova
</td>
<td width="88">2
</td>
<td width="101">78
</td>
<td width="81">N/A
</td>
<td width="177">Ashkenazi (1)
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Mongolia
</td>
<td width="88">1
</td>
<td width="101">588
</td>
<td width="81">0.2%
</td>
<td width="177"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Netherlands
</td>
<td width="88">10
</td>
<td width="101">1709
</td>
<td width="81">0.6%
</td>
<td width="177">Ashkenazi (2)
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Norway
</td>
<td width="88">1
</td>
<td width="101">1335
</td>
<td width="81">0.1%
</td>
<td width="177"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Poland
</td>
<td width="88">52
</td>
<td width="101">3630
</td>
<td width="81">1.4%
</td>
<td width="177">Ashkenazi (25)<br />
Ashkenazi (Galicia) (2)<br />
Prussia (1)
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Portugal
</td>
<td width="88">5
</td>
<td width="101">786
</td>
<td width="81">0.6%
</td>
<td width="177">Azores (1)
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Puerto Rico
</td>
<td width="88">1
</td>
<td width="101">242
</td>
<td width="81">0.4%
</td>
<td width="177">MDKO: Puerto Rico (1)
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Qatar
</td>
<td width="88">1
</td>
<td width="101">147
</td>
<td width="81">0.7%
</td>
<td width="177"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Romania
</td>
<td width="88">15
</td>
<td width="101">546
</td>
<td width="81">2.7%
</td>
<td width="177">Ashkenazi (4)
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Russian Federation
</td>
<td width="88">38
</td>
<td width="101">3070
</td>
<td width="81">1.2%
</td>
<td width="177">Ashkenazi (18)
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Saudi Arabia
</td>
<td width="88">6
</td>
<td width="101">1132
</td>
<td width="81">0.5%
</td>
<td width="177"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Scotland
</td>
<td width="88">18
</td>
<td width="101">11425
</td>
<td width="81">0.2%
</td>
<td width="177"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Serbia
</td>
<td width="88">1
</td>
<td width="101">87
</td>
<td width="81">N/A
</td>
<td width="177"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Slovakia
</td>
<td width="88">13
</td>
<td width="101">498
</td>
<td width="81">2.6%
</td>
<td width="177">Ashkenazi (5)
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Spain
</td>
<td width="88">19
</td>
<td width="101">3351
</td>
<td width="81">0.6%
</td>
<td width="177"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Sudan
</td>
<td width="88">1
</td>
<td width="101">149
</td>
<td width="81">0.7%
</td>
<td width="177"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Sweden
</td>
<td width="88">5
</td>
<td width="101">1595
</td>
<td width="81">0.3%
</td>
<td width="177"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Switzerland
</td>
<td width="88">15
</td>
<td width="101">1844
</td>
<td width="81">0.8%
</td>
<td width="177">Bern (2)<br />
Zurich (1)
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Syrian Arab Republic
</td>
<td width="88">2
</td>
<td width="101">205
</td>
<td width="81">1%
</td>
<td width="177">Sephardic (1)
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Turkey
</td>
<td width="88">7
</td>
<td width="101">559
</td>
<td width="81">1.3%
</td>
<td width="177"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Ukraine
</td>
<td width="88">41
</td>
<td width="101">1545
</td>
<td width="81">2.7%
</td>
<td width="177">Ashkenazi (19)<br />
Ashkenazi (Bessarabia) (1)
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">United Arab Emirates
</td>
<td width="88">2
</td>
<td width="101">269
</td>
<td width="81">0.7%
</td>
<td width="177"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">United Kingdom
</td>
<td width="88">49
</td>
<td width="101">10657
</td>
<td width="81">0.5%
</td>
<td width="177"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">United States
</td>
<td width="88">24
</td>
<td width="101">2563
</td>
<td width="81">0.9%
</td>
<td width="177"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="161">Wales
</td>
<td width="88">9
</td>
<td width="101">2029
</td>
<td width="81">0.4%
</td>
<td width="177"></td>
</tr>
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</th>
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</th>
<th width="101">Country Total
</th>
<th width="81">Percentage
</th>
<th width="79">Comments
</th>
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<td width="64">England
</td>
<td width="88">1
</td>
<td width="101">18790
</td>
<td width="81">< 0.1 %
</td>
<td width="79"></td>
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</td>
<td width="88">1
</td>
<td width="101">7082
</td>
<td width="81">< 0.1 %
</td>
<td width="79"></td>
</tr>
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<td width="64">Poland
</td>
<td width="88">1
</td>
<td width="101">2029
</td>
<td width="81">< 0.1 %
</td>
<td width="79">Prussia (1)
</td>
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<th width="127">Country
</th>
<th width="88">Match Total
</th>
<th width="101">Country Total
</th>
<th width="81">Percentage
</th>
<th width="79">Comments
</th>
</tr>
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<td width="127">Albania
</td>
<td width="88">1
</td>
<td width="101">10
</td>
<td width="81">N/A
</td>
<td width="79"></td>
</tr>
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<td width="127">Austria
</td>
<td width="88">1
</td>
<td width="101">293
</td>
<td width="81">0.3%
</td>
<td width="79"></td>
</tr>
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<td width="127">Belarus
</td>
<td width="88">1
</td>
<td width="101">419
</td>
<td width="81">0.2%
</td>
<td width="79"></td>
</tr>
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<td width="127">Croatia
</td>
<td width="88">1
</td>
<td width="101">71
</td>
<td width="81">N/A
</td>
<td width="79"></td>
</tr>
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<td width="127">Czech Republic
</td>
<td width="88">1
</td>
<td width="101">343
</td>
<td width="81">0.3%
</td>
<td width="79"></td>
</tr>
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<td width="127">England
</td>
<td width="88">5
</td>
<td width="101">18790
</td>
<td width="81">< 0.1 %
</td>
<td width="79"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="127">Ethiopia
</td>
<td width="88">1
</td>
<td width="101">8
</td>
<td width="81">N/A
</td>
<td width="79"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="127">Germany
</td>
<td width="88">4
</td>
<td width="101">7082
</td>
<td width="81">0.1%
</td>
<td width="79"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="127">Greece
</td>
<td width="88">2
</td>
<td width="101">221
</td>
<td width="81">0.9%
</td>
<td width="79"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="127">Hungary
</td>
<td width="88">1
</td>
<td width="101">661
</td>
<td width="81">0.2%
</td>
<td width="79"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="127">Italy
</td>
<td width="88">3
</td>
<td width="101">1315
</td>
<td width="81">0.2%
</td>
<td width="79"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="127">Poland
</td>
<td width="88">1
</td>
<td width="101">2029
</td>
<td width="81">< 0.1 %
</td>
<td width="79"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="127">Romania
</td>
<td width="88">1
</td>
<td width="101">235
</td>
<td width="81">0.4%
</td>
<td width="79"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="127">Russian Federation
</td>
<td width="88">1
</td>
<td width="101">1088
</td>
<td width="81">0.1%
</td>
<td width="79"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="127">Slovenia
</td>
<td width="88">1
</td>
<td width="101">68
</td>
<td width="81">N/A
</td>
<td width="79"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="127">Spain
</td>
<td width="88">1
</td>
<td width="101">1569
</td>
<td width="81">0.1%
</td>
<td width="79"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="127">Sweden
</td>
<td width="88">1
</td>
<td width="101">673
</td>
<td width="81">0.1%
</td>
<td width="79"></td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#ebebeb">
<td width="127">Switzerland
</td>
<td width="88">2
</td>
<td width="101">1182
</td>
<td width="81">0.2%
</td>
<td width="79"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="127">United Kingdom
</td>
<td width="88">1
</td>
<td width="101">6893
</td>
<td width="81">< 0.1 %</td>
<td valign="TOP" width="79"></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02050834103834499881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2913007731728359698.post-48315809138329892702013-03-23T20:14:00.000-07:002013-03-23T20:16:24.130-07:00being online<br />
<div style="line-height: 0.45cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, sans-serif;">Talk
about </span><em><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, sans-serif;">Being
Online</span></em><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, sans-serif;">in
this Sakai Discussion Forum. Explore and participate in Art Education
2.0, Scoop.it, Facebook, Flickr, and Twitter. Describe some of the
interesting content, people, or groups you found in any of these
online networks. What makes this/these content, people, or groups
interesting? Tell us specifically about some of the things that
people are sharing in these groups (give a couple concrete examples).
</span>
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.45cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://arted20.ning.com/group/mosaicsandmurals">http://arted20.ning.com/group/mosaicsandmurals</a><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, sans-serif;">
Is a group on art ed 2.0 that adds another element to the their
student projects by posted their finished works online. Students
around the globe can then take part in their projects virtually but
also comment, share their projects on the other side of the globe.
The most fascinating idea is that with any traditional work of art it
is generally fixed to a wall somewhere, the site allows for these
student created and conceived works to travel to other students and
around the globe.</span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.45cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, sans-serif;">Then
discuss the potential of these global online networks to enhance your
creative thinking and professional development. </span>
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.45cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://youtu.be/X0hVEH4se-0">http://youtu.be/X0hVEH4se-0</a><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, sans-serif;">
This animation clip is wonderful in that it explains visually and
in a traditional narrative the history and future of animation. As an
important and diverse element of visual culture animation is now
reaching a point where its visual potential is limitless. The clip
was presented by animation teachers for students and fans of
animation. By presenting the past, and present in traditional and
computer animation students are challenged to push the medium allow
it reach new levels. A simple textbook article or slide show could
never have conveyed what this tiny clip has, so in effect it greatly
benefits from the internet, computer based editing programs, and the
general formating that social media sites have embraced. The
potential to visually and equally simply teach other aspects of
history or techniques is of course exciting and implied by the film.</span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.45cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, sans-serif;">How
might these networks be of value to you and to your current or future
students in your practice as an art educator? </span>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial Narrow, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.imls.gov/">http://www.imls.gov/</a>
Is a site that advertises scholarships grants fellowships and work
oppurtunities. Many other similar sites exist and can first and
foremost allow students to become professionals through a variety of
programs, profiles, and cold cash. The bleak economics of the art
field make it important that students and artists have as much
information as they can about what financial resources are out there
be it job or grant listings. Getting attention such sites might as
well land someone a job or give a nice gem for the resume. The site
also often showcases images of student works adding another incentive
to the students producing the art projects.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.45cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.45cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, sans-serif;">Briefly
describe a possible lesson or project inspired by something you found
in one of the groups in any of your online professional networks this
week. </span>
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.45cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: small;"><b>From
the Rock and the River (imaging ancient pueblo life)</b></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.45cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://www.crowcanyon.org/">http://www.crowcanyon.org/</a><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, sans-serif;">
Using the Crow Canyon website students will explore the history and
culture of the American Southwest in specific the four corners
region. First students can visit the education section of the site
</span><a href="http://www.crowcanyon.org/education/education.asp">http://www.crowcanyon.org/education/education.asp</a><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, sans-serif;">
and answer a few basic questions to determine that they visited the
page and by way of introduction to the site.</span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.45cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial Narrow, sans-serif;">Next
students will click on the student resources link.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.45cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://www.crowcanyon.org/EducationProducts/pueblo_history_kids/introduction.asp">http://www.crowcanyon.org/EducationProducts/pueblo_history_kids/introduction.asp</a><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, sans-serif;">
again answering a few questions from the page. Under the Castle rock
section students should then follow the link that reads lesson plans.</span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.45cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://www.crowcanyon.org/EducationProducts/WCP_ElecFieldTrip_StudyGuides/WCP_EFT_IntroPage.asp">http://www.crowcanyon.org/EducationProducts/WCP_ElecFieldTrip_StudyGuides/WCP_EFT_IntroPage.asp</a><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, sans-serif;">
</span>
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.45cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, sans-serif;">then
imagining that the class is of 4</span><sup><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">th</span></span></sup><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, sans-serif;">
graders click on the 4</span><sup><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">th</span></span></sup><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, sans-serif;">
grade link.</span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.45cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://www.crowcanyon.org/EducationProducts/WCP_ElecFieldTrip_StudyGuides/4thgrade_arch_lessonplan.asp">http://www.crowcanyon.org/EducationProducts/WCP_ElecFieldTrip_StudyGuides/4thgrade_arch_lessonplan.asp</a><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, sans-serif;">
</span>
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.45cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, sans-serif;">Then
click on the wood canyon link </span>
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.45cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://www.crowcanyon.org/EducationProducts/WOODS/welcome_animation/welcome_new.asp">http://www.crowcanyon.org/EducationProducts/WOODS/welcome_animation/welcome_new.asp</a><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, sans-serif;">
</span>
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.45cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial Narrow, sans-serif;">A
brief slide show animation will follow then students will be invited
to click on the link in the ruin window.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.45cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, sans-serif;">This
takes students to the final page. It attempts to imagine life in an
ancient pueblo then contrasts it with current pueblos or post contact
pueblos. The lesson is then two fold the research and questions
gained by surfing the site and then producing a drawing of a pueblo.
Things to consider what would you make the building out of and why?
How would you arrange you living space? How did the ancient pueblo
people arrange their homes (sacred spaces astronomy windows etc..)
</span><a href="http://www.crowcanyon.org/EducationProducts/WOODS/PPwoods.asp">http://www.crowcanyon.org/EducationProducts/WOODS/PPwoods.asp</a><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, sans-serif;">
</span>
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.45cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, sans-serif;">The
big goal would be to emphasize the limits of place and environment
and how we live completely dependent ofn technology. Further to try
and get students to think in terms of sustainabilty and dependence on
your natural environment. I can think of no better example then
desert people squeezing out an existence with tiny amounts of water,
no electricity, metalurgy, or animal husbandry. You could take the
lesson further and get kids to imagine trying to live on the moon
underwater all would emphasize the same idea of living in balance
with you environment. A further example might be to bring Arco Santi
and similar projects to get kids thinking about why we live the way
we do and should we? </span><a href="http://www.arcosanti.org/">http://www.arcosanti.org/</a><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, sans-serif;">
</span>
</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.45cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, sans-serif;">Finally,
what does it mean to you to be online, globally connected, and
basically sharing and collaborating with strangers? What are
the benefits and challenges of being online and globally connected? </span>
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.45cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, sans-serif;">I
think a challenge is to remain connected to the folks in your
neighborhood increasingly I know people that chat with folks around
the world but don't know their next door neighbor. There needs to be
a balance between social media, it shouldn't be that protable devices
are attached at birth and texting is easier for folks then speaking
to one another. The impression that we are in fact conncected is of
course illusory this is problamatic. I was getting to know a young
musician in Algeria just as all hell broke loose over there. The fact
that you can chat with someone in a warzone is interesting but it
isn't that I can hide him if the troops come knocking or in anyway
really help him if he needed. We need to remember that about virtual
relations. </span>
</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Clip
featuring Oussama Becissa on Ud
</span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49YM_OneRBk">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49YM_OneRBk</a>
</span>
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.45cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, sans-serif;">The
fact though that I see his music clips as quickly as he sees mine the
instant gratification that the internet presents is wonderful. Years
ago I would chat with other artists on Deviant Art and talk about a
painting but also show my studio and each chance to the work. Now
with iphones video clips of artists producing works are all over the
place this adds a communal nature to the once solotary work of
producing art. It also always students to learn techniques see them
performed versus having to hear about them or imagine them. </span>
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.45cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.45cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, sans-serif;">Last,
share your official Facebook name, Twitter name, Flickr Name, and
Scoop.it name so we can search for you and friend you in these social
media sites. Be sure to do this so we can all friend and follow each
other in these sites. </span>
</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sanchezartwerk">http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sanchezartwerk</a>
</span>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, sans-serif;"><a href="https://twitter.com/SanchezArtwerk">https://twitter.com/SanchezArtwerk</a>
</span>
</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 0.45cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, sans-serif;"><a href="http://arted20.ning.com/profile/JonathanSanchez">http://arted20.ning.com/profile/JonathanSanchez</a>
</span>
</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: small;">www.youtube.com/</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNwn8XbVgDN4YIeZrHZLHBg?feature=mhee">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNwn8XbVgDN4YIeZrHZLHBg?feature=mhee</a>
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<span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: small;">Sanchez
Art Werk Blog </span></span></h1>
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.sanchezartwerk.com/jonathansanchez/arteducation.html">http://www.sanchezartwerk.com/jonathansanchez/arteducation.html</a>
</span>
</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The
readings this lesson describe how race, ethnicity, culture, and
creative expressions are intertwined with and impacted by
globalization (international commerce, travel, migration, and the
creation of glocal creative and cultural practices). In about 250-300
words, describe how your own creative and cultural identities and
practices have been shaped by globalization. How are your family
traditions and practices interrelated with your multi-layered
identities? In other words, how does who you are shape what you do?
You may use some of the same personal insights you included in the
Personal Reflection section of your Reading Review for this post</span>
</span>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, sans-serif;">I
grew on the gulf coast of Florida and feel I am a southerner. I have
spent most of my life however, in the Southwest. Culturally I play
the music of the Mississippi delta and cook the food of the gulf
often. </span>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, sans-serif;">My
parents were both from Brooklyn of Puerto Rican descent though born
and raised in the states.They loved Hollywood and the Beatles and did
little that was Latin. They spoke English first and gave their kids
Anglo/Biblical names. My father raised us as baptist my mother
remained catholic. My father remarryied a southern woman of Sicilian
descent and the family mix got even more diverse. </span>
</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow, sans-serif;">I
began traveling to Europe and later worked for a French family and
was emersed in European cooking and culture. Later I went and lived
in Italy and eventually married a Swiss woman. German is now the only
other language I am fluent in. It makes my wife feel she is home when
I have made her one of her mothers dishes, speak to her in Swiss
German and know why she does all the little cultural things that she
has to do. I learned her culture as my own and have ingested large
amounts of continental matter in the process. More than ten years on
I feel that Switzerland is also kind of my home. While living there I
carved a pumpkin every year, and always had a huge Thanksgiving feast
and was the local blues missionary. So in a sense I realized I was
American for the first time overseas. I am completely a product of
globalization without some margin of it I would not be able to have a
foreign wife or have lived in her country. I think sharing all of
these perspective simultaneously is globalization in a nutshell. </span>
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