You have been selected to co-curate an exhibit/installation of GOOD TROUBLE: PROTESTING RACISM.
YOU will choose where you would like this installation to happen: a Metro or Subway station, public art in a park or other outdoor venue, Howard University Founders’ Library, Library of Congress, any history museum, any art gallery. . . Obviously there are many more possible venues to consider. Do give thought to WHO you wish to view this exhibit as you select the city or town or rural locale to install this exhibit.
To accomplish your part of this exhibit’s curating, please select ONE image, icon, or meme from the class jamboard – I am especially interested in which image/icon/meme you might find in the board’s earliest pages. I find these signs and signatures of protest enlightening, provocative, and compelling.
Research the image/icon/meme you’ve chosen. Find out if an artist or other creator is given credit for the visual. Find out more of its meaning, its story, any references it makes to history in the past or present or even looking ahead to the future. Take note of information you will need for citing and documenting (WC pages) in your journal.
Link of image to use:
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-kerry-james-marshall-portrait-of-the-artist-20190215-story.html
You are asked to create an “entry” that will be posted beside this image in the exhibit and also appear in a catalog written to document and accompany the exhibit for anyone who is unable to visit the exhibit in person. You are only writing a SINGLE entry for a SINGLE image. Your entry should include details that you discover in your research (see #2 above). Your entry should also reflect on WHY you found this particular image significant as PROTEST against RACISM. How does the image you’ve selected enlighten and move us about some important aspect of racism. How does your image RESIST and INSIST? Therefore, your journal will need to clarify your understanding of some essential traits of PROTEST and some essential traits of RACISM. Consider our class readings and conversations to clarify these terms so that your journal enlightens your viewer about the effectiveness of your image as protesting racism.
Your purpose is to enlighten and perhaps to ignite or otherwise inspire your audience. Your purpose might include liberating the emotions in your viewer. It might also include prompting your audience to action. Be sure that your journal shows proof of whatever your purpose is through language, sentence syntax, possibly sentence cadence or rhythm. You might consider re-enacting the story or message of your image with a short (3-4 line) poem. Build your curator commentary from this poem.
Clarify who your imagined audience is – do you have a certain age group in mind? What about the audience’s socio-political experience or authority? Do you imagine your audience as coming to learn? Coming to be affirmed? Is this a “destination” exhibit – people planning a trip to view it – including perhaps needing to secure timed tickets? Is this a surprise exhibit as in its presence in a public venue that gets a fair amount of foot traffic?
Length is one page, 12 point, double spaced. Remember your heading, to cite within your journal, and to include a WC page at the end. See Workshop One Guide to remember how to cite. This guide also reminds you of the page numbers in Easy Writer.
Please use standard English college level words.