This week our readings from Julie Lymburner and Patti Pente empathize lived experiences that inform arts-based research through personal reflection and art-making. There is an ideological shift that Pente describes, where values are passed through the art-teach to students. This phenomena is well established academically and has been documented by scholars such as Noddings, Palmer, [...]
Entries from March 2009
March 23, 2009
Personal Reflection 4
Judy Chicago and an image from her Birth Project 1982
This week I have been working hard on my Judy Chicago presentation. Quite honestly I did not know much about Chicago until I started to research her life and art. She is a phenomenal inspiration and I feel so excited at the prospect of seeing [...]
March 23, 2009
Art Project 1
Artist Statement
My goal with the piece was to merge the classical aesthetic idea of wet drapery into every day feminine activities which are often overlooked in our contemporary visual culture.
The act of a woman shaving is a private activity that is typically hidden from view. Women are presented at the final part of the [...]
March 16, 2009
Personal Reflection Week 3
Thoughts on gender this week:
Laura Bush and Katie Holmes are considered modern day Stepford wives.
Professionally women have different expectations from men when faced with the same job or career choice. Why are there so few women business leaders, tenured Professors, and Heads of State? Are women leaders perceived as being weak in comparison to men? [...]
March 9, 2009
Images that Inspire Creativity and Art-Making
The Winged Victory of Samothrace. 220-190 BC
Classical Roman statues romanticize and mythologize femininity. Women are ethereal and unapproachable, except to the male gaze. This woman is powerful in her posture yet trapped in stone. The problem with this image is the contradictions it presents, the powerful woma nwith wingswho can not move. Strong yet ensnared [...]
March 9, 2009
Personal Reflection Week 3
Thoughts on gender this week. There is always a division between feminine and masculine, public and private, professional and personal self. Yet, who imposes such boundaries? Sometimes if you wish to create a work of art the two worlds overlap with social consequence. Sylvia Wilson demonstrates in her article (2006) Fragments: Life Writing in Image [...]
March 2, 2009
More photographs of the Lin Family Mansion and Garden for Verve magazine
Here are some more photographs of the Lin Family Mansion and Garden for Verve magazine- Eva Air’s in-flight periodical.
March 1, 2009
Personal Reflection: Week One
This is the first personal reflection for my NTNU Art Education PhD course, Art and Gender Studies, with Professor Jo Chen.
Personal reflections are always a difficult pursuit for me to get into. Namely because I do not enjoy writing about myself. There is something about the process that can seem self-indulgent or narcissistic. Moreover, anyone [...]
