Who are you? (Are we getting closer yet?)

How do you know what to call things? How do you learn what things are?
How do you figure out who you are? Why do you like what you like?
As one of these guys below said, "Know thyself."

You started leaning about yourself by asking yourself some questions we posed on the blog. Some of you went deep and some of you stayed pretty surface. Deep is where the creative stuff lives. But is is important to think about how you are influenced by your culture. And what is culture?




The symbols of expression that individuals, groups and societies use to make sense of everyday life and to articulate values. 

SO I guess the question is - what do you value?
How do you express what you value?

What artistic medium do you value most right now?
Music? Poetry? Visual? Sculpture? Multimedia? Movies? TV?

You are a complicated cultural person. Let's see it.

Dig a little deeper into things that have moved you.  

For your first Artist's Date:

Make a list of one hundred things that make you happy and make some art about it. It will be both a visual and aural. It will be two minutes.

An iMovie, a poem along with a collage, a dance along with a slide show and original music or a mash up.  


Be prepared to show it and talk about it for Monday, September 15. 

This assignment will be graded in class, out loud by myself and Renee just like American Idol. 

You have to prove that your work deserves the grade you want, the grade you expect.