I was slightly baffled to realize that there are people other than myself looking at this blog; so it occurred to me that anyone looking at these pages might have no idea what they are about. Consequently, here is a quick explanation.
I am preparing for a college class that i will be teaching in the spring of '14. This class is designed to help junior-level art students find coherence in their art, their thinking, their process, and their aesthetics.
This blog will become part of that course, a way of publishing lectures, readings, and assignments and a way of promoting discussion.
At the moment, i am mostly experimenting with blogging process; just testing different ways of linking videos etc. At the same time, I am beginning to load materials that I think might be part of the class.
You may be wondering why I devoted a page to MLK's letter from a Birmingham jail (since it has nothing to do with aesthetics)- I teach in the American Deep South, and one of my units/lectures is going to be about the importance of starting with yourself and starting with where you come from. When the 50th anniversary of the letter came up (and the subsequent news stories), it occurred to me that King's letter was a document which could help remind my students of who they are and where they come from.
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