Cultural Experience Project
For
this assignment you will visit an art museum online and select 1-3
cultural artifacts to analyze their cultural and historical context.
The
museum you choose must be an art museum, not a science museum or a
children’s museum. It must have access to non-Western art. The work reviewed MUST BE non-Western in origin; It can be ancient to modern but
must relate to a culture that we have studied in this course.
If you have questions on the venue or acceptable nature of the art studied, please ask me.
One
suggested location in the St. Petersburg, Florida, area is the Museum
of Fine Arts, 255 Beach Dr NE St Petersburg, FL 33701 (http://fine-arts.org/). The MFA has small sections for Native American, Latin American, African, Indian, and Eastern arts.
There
are also exhibitions of Asian art on occasions in the Leepa Rattner
Museum on the Tarpon Springs Campus LRMA Leppa Ratner Museum on the
Tarpon Springs Campus LRMA https://www.leeparattner.org/ Be sure to focus on Non-Western exhibits for this class.
Also check for Non-Western art exhibits at the Tampa Museum of Modern Art http://tampamuseum.org/on_view/. Be sure to focus on Non-Western exhibits for this class.
Respond
to the essay questions (prompts) on this worksheet to construct your
body paragraphs. Use full sentences and paragraphs for each essay
prompt. Then cut and paste your responses to a word document for your
essay.
Utilize
APA or MLA format. Writing must be in essay format and contain a
minimum of three works cited, and in-text citations [Please remember to
include the textbook as one of those resources]. The completed essay
should be 500 600 words total.
(You may wish to use the following worksheet as a guide, but only the research essay is required for the online visit.)
Make an original title that reflects your thesis or main idea
Add an introduction providing background information to lead into your thesis statement.
Provide research in your body paragraphs with parenthetical citations.
End with a summary/concluding paragraph.
Be sure to provide Works Cited and References at the bottom of your essay.
Submit your completed essay as a word document (doc or rtf file) in a separate attachment from your worksheet.
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