art

Take a walk or drive around the neighborhood where you live
(or the neighborhood where you are from if you’re home for the Thanksgiving holiday)
and look for the following:

1. Public art in the form of plaques, monuments,
   statues, memorials, or similar objects in parks, on streets and sidewalks, or
   on buildings
2. Graffitti or street art
3. Exceptionally creative store window displays
   (since there will probably be many holiday-themed and other displays, choose
   only those you deem the most artistic)

Keep a running list as you go, and bring a camera or smartphone camera with you.

Then post a blog entry including the following to the course WikiSpace:

• A count of how many you found of each type of
  art in your neighborhood (for example, you might find 2 statues, 3 plaques,
  four graffiti tags, one mural, and one exceptionally creative store-window
  display);

• Three photographs of those you judge the best or
  most artistic (in any of the three categories);
• A short (Twitter-length) blog entry describing
  the art in each photo. Include the setting in your description and your
  personal response as a student of contemporary art.

This is a WikiSpace blog, not a Discussion Board, so don’t respond directly to each other; the dialogue is
between you and the art, and you are sharing it with the class in order that you might see through each other’s eyes. Don’t forget to insert a line between your entry and the previous student’s entry, and put your name at the top of your entry.