1. Arts 105 - History of Art I – Creative Reflection Project Art Response Piece and Comparative Research Statement Professor: Jessica Walton Each of you throughout this semester will create a work of art in response to a work made during a cultural/historic period discussed in this course. Your response piece can be made in any medium. For example, your work can be a painting, a drawing, a photograph, a ceramic piece, a sculpture, a digital work, a photographically documented installation, performance, etc. Your response piece should respond visually and/or thematically to the work you chose from the past. Throughout the semester, each of you will individually present to the class both the piece that you made and as well as how your piece relates to a work from the past. You will research the piece to which you are responding and intelligently describe to the class how your piece is responding to this work.

2. Artist’s works often respond to art history. This assignment will give you a chance to articulate how your own work conceptually relates to the past.

3. Student Example #1 – Presentation by Corinne Gaines

4. Mudcloth

5. Mudcloth, also called bogolanfini • Originated in central Mali • Made by the Bamana tribe • Discovered by a hunter’s wife

6. Mudcloth uses: • Worn by hunters as camouflage and ritual protection • Ceremonially worn by women Traditionally in black, white and rust

7. The Making of Mudcloth hand-weaving, sewing, soaking, drying, mudding, drying, rinsing, bleaching

8. Many patterns, many meanings iguana’s elbow represents good fortune wealth and luxury the talking drum- calls warriors to battle Bed of bamboo and millet represents wife’s superiority of co-wife love of family and community Back of sickle’s blade

9. The Hunter’s Belt An individual wearing cloth of this design is signifying that they are brave and fearless. Warriors wore this when heading off to battle.

10. This painting is Corinne’s reflection piece.

11. Student Example #2 – Brianna Pleasant

12. Landscape Painting The passion for realistic detail was the artist’s form of self Cultivation: Mastering Outward forms showed an understanding of the principles behind them. The goal was to paint the eternal essence of “mountain-ness”, not reproducing the appearance of a particular mountain.

13. My attempt at making a Chinese landscape. Used Photoshop to create this piece. Added a 2 filters, a white speckling brush(for mist effect), gray scale conversion, multiple photos, and calligraphy. Goal: Capture the essence of space and Chinese traditional ink painting effect.

15. Audio Dream Catcher By Hunter Warch

16. History of dream catchers Dream catcher tradition originated with the Ojibwe tribe (Great Lakes) Attributed as a gift of Grandmother Spider Believed to ensnare bad dreams during the night, so that only good dreams may enter the sleeper’s mind

17. Philosophy of this Work One of my strangest and fondest memories as a child was going with my dad to visit Otis, an old tribesman, who lived alone in the hills of Pennsylvania. Before we left, Otis always shared stories with me. Once he told me a few of the Ojibwe stories about the dream catchers given by Grandmother Spider. Hearing him tell the story is a memory that I appreciate the older that I get. This musical piece is conceptually inspired by the structure and the mystical purpose of the dream catcher.

19. In addition to creating your own reflection piece and presenting it to the class, you will turn in a statement (at least one page) describing the relationship between your work and the historic/prehistoric work to which you are responding. Your statement should include both a researched introduction to the work you are responding to as well as a reflective description of how your work is responding to this piece. This statement should include at least one non-internet source other than the text for the course. Please cite your sources in MLA or APA format. http://library.ccbcmd.edu/screens/web/index.html Example Bibliography: Van, . M. M. (2011). A history of ancient Egypt. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell. Stokstad, M. (2008). Art history. Upper Saddle River, N.J: Pearson Prentice Hall.

20. Your grade for this project will be determined by the creativity and thoughtfulness of your art piece, your preparedness and articulation during the presentation of your work to the class, and the quality and thoughtful reflection in your comparative research statement.