Hello all -
Week 7 is going to be full of interesting and important learning! To start take a look at this web site to get a more clear idea of Touch Drawing, which we will experience on Tuesday morning:
We’d like you to watch the demo and look at a few applications under stories and uses in the left hand pull down bar. Some possibilities are:
1. Touch Drawing as a Spiritual Practice – Faces of the Universe, Touch Drawing brought to Auschwitz
2. Touch Drawing in Nature: Spirit of the Grey Whales
3. Touch Drawing With Children and Youth: Traumatized children in Gaza, Touch Drawing with Youth
And anything else to get a sense of diverse applications
Also, under Deborah, Articles and Interviews there is a short article – “Eyes of the Soul: Exploring Inspiration in Art” that describes how touch drawing developed.
Tuesday, May 11 Wednesdya, May 12 Thursday, May 13
10-1
Touch Drawing- supplies will be providedGuest Speaker: Zahid Shariff
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Final segment of Joseph Campbell seriesExpressive Arts Lab
Cancelled
Peer Study Groiup Work on your performative responses for next week Seminar
Mortenson
Due:
1. List 2 specific concepts discussed by Dr. Shariff on Wednesday that you can bring to seminar for further discussion. How does this relate to a specific idea in Mortenson's writing?
2. Three cups of Tea can be read as a developmental autobiography as well as a cultural text. Go back through your touch drawings once again. Pick 2 of your images that relate to different stages of Mortenson's life journey. How does this relate to choices or developmental transformations you have experienced or are experiencing?
Create titles for each of your touch drawings - one or two words. Create a poem by having the title of the first image followed by the title of the last image, the title of the second image followed by the title of the next to last image until you have incorporated all titles into a poem to read to the seminar.
3. What 2 questions would you like to ask Mortenson?
Seminar Mortenson AND poetry packet pages 80-90
DUE: i) your response to the reading (such as what surprised you, what you think we should discuss in seminar, what you had difficulty accepting), ii) Connections between Mortenson and program themes, lectures, or other readings iii) connections between any of the poems and themes in the book (use citations iv) three REAL questions for seminar discussion which are tied to the reading(s). Be sure to cite authors and page numbers be specific about which parts of the text are motivating your questions.***THURSDAY EVENING
Mortenson Talk at St. Martin's College
Meet as a group at 6:15 in front of Hal and Inge Marcus Pavilion. We have a block of tickets and will enter together.
Cynthia’s video pick of the week: Endangered Species Condoms