Understanding Goals Final- Melanie Shackelford

1. By making art that has something to do with issues and problems in the world.

4. Contemporary artists have the mentality that if they call it art then it is art.

1. Conceptual art is if an artist says its art then it is art, installation art is more creating something that has to deal with an issue, and site specific is where art has a direct correlation that has something to do with whats going on in an area.

2. By making art you make an opinion of what you think of the world.

3. You take it in parts and eventually plan what you are going to do and follow through with it.

4. In any way you choose you just use your imagination and creativity.

5. To have a shelter means you have somewhere to live, to not have a shelter means you don’t have anywhere to live.

6. Most people live in poor conditions not suitable for most people.

7. All my experiences have everything to do with what i make or create it shows feelings of what i believe and how i feel about something.

Shelter Reflection #2-Melanie S.

The take away message that i got from the shelter presentations was to be resourceful and  that more things are considered art than you would expect. They made me look at more simple condensed things that are considered art.

My understandings about artits that engage in global comersations on important topics is that they are aware of world crisis situations and that they make simple things into art. The artists are expressing thier views on the shelter issues around the world. They made shelters that were condensed and simple but it was also seen as a work of art.

The artist from the presentations connect to our shelter projects because we are doing the same thing that the artists did by buliding shelters and looking at them as a work of art. We are all aware of the fact that many people all around the world live in shelters.

Reflection #1 Context- Melanie

1. The context of the two rooms have many differences. An art room consists of art supplies (tables, scissors, paper, art work, paint, pictures, books, computers etc.) In a bedroom there is a bed, a dresser possibly, a closet, clothes, a t.v or radio. A bedroom is more customized to you and your needs or wants. A bedroom is a personal place you go to rather than an art room is where you go to show or work on your work.

There was nothing i really noticed different about the two rooms, i mostly noticed the detail the two rooms had.

3. Our rooms compared to the kids in Fremont and the kids in East Oakland are more similar than the rooms of kids in Bangalore. We have more technology such as t.vs and radios, electricity (in our rooms..plug in outlets) We all have rooms, a place where we can usually go relex and we all have some type of a classroom where we can express ourselves with our artwork.

4. For me to work best the context of a room has to be organized, clean, and quiet. Otherwise i cant work. I often take my work home because thats where i work best.