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This course "introduces feminism as a way of thinking about visual art practice in terms of social hierarchy, aesthetic form, and ideology. Explores how feminist artists working in diverse locations and cultural traditions challenge, at the local and global level, artistic conventions and representations of gender, sexuality, race, class, and nationality."
For our Wikipedia project, students will be identifying Wikipedia gaps and providing documentation to help fill them. Students will think critically about how Wikipedia in its current formation structurally limits knowledge about feminism and art, and then to contribute to changing this situation.
Each student will identify a gap in Wikipedia coverage for a course-related topic — such an artist, topic, concept, or movement. The student will then post an entry to the course project page to describe the gap, propose text to fill the gap, and list sources that could be used to fill it.
Jessica "Jessy" Park Autistic Artist
There is a brief reference to Park on the Autistic Artist Wiki page, but the page in general is greatly lacking representation from the field of autistic artists.
Jessica Park, born in Williamstown MA on July 20, 1958, a primarily self-taught artist. Autism Spectrum Disorder is often diagnosed by the individual’s level of social impairment and their verbal interactions (1) both of which Park exhibited in her early life. Her mother, Clara Claiborne Park, described Park’s early years as a state of Nirvana because Park would lapses into states of timelessness and become singularly enrapt by nothingness (6). Clara Park became a social advocate for Park, published two books The Siege: A Family’s Journey Into the World of an Autistic Child (1982) and Exiting Nirvana: A Daughter’s Life with Autism (2002)(5).At the age of five Park began learning verbal speech by being shown series of shapes and then learning drawing them, which soon enabled her to identify colors and led her to drawing in perspective before age eight (2)(6). Through out her career she has developed a focus on buildings and the colors she associates with geometric colors, reflecting on her fascination with shapes and perhaps her disassociation with people.
Autism in Western culture is often seen as a life limiting diagnosis, placing constraints on what an individual can accomplish and desire from life. Society is predominately neuro-typical and is constructed to fit the majority rather than embrace the continuity of human existence. Clara Park (The siege) rejected this philosophy while raising Park and encouraged her visual for of self-expression. Park’s artwork has been exhibited throughout New York City in different autism awareness exhibitions from 1993-Present, the United Nations in 2008, through out Boston from 1993-Present, and she is often exhibited at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (7).
References [1](1) [2](2) [3](3) [4](4) [5].(5) [6](6) [7](7)
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Students: Please do not edit this page. If you're reading this, you're probably looking for your course page. If you have not yet enrolled in the class on Wikipedia, please search the list of courses and locate the name of your class. Once you've found it, just click "Enroll" at the top of the page. If you have already enrolled, you can find your course page by clicking the Courses link in the top-right corner of every page on Wikipedia (you must be logged in). If you are having technical difficulties, please contact your instructor. Instructors: Changes you make to the assignment here will be reflected on your course page automatically, but you will need to visit the course page for class administration purposes or to make changes beyond the displayed text. |
This course "introduces feminism as a way of thinking about visual art practice in terms of social hierarchy, aesthetic form, and ideology. Explores how feminist artists working in diverse locations and cultural traditions challenge, at the local and global level, artistic conventions and representations of gender, sexuality, race, class, and nationality."
For our Wikipedia project, students will be identifying Wikipedia gaps and providing documentation to help fill them. Students will think critically about how Wikipedia in its current formation structurally limits knowledge about feminism and art, and then to contribute to changing this situation.
Each student will identify a gap in Wikipedia coverage for a course-related topic — such an artist, topic, concept, or movement. The student will then post an entry to the course project page to describe the gap, propose text to fill the gap, and list sources that could be used to fill it.
Jessica "Jessy" Park Autistic Artist
There is a brief reference to Park on the Autistic Artist Wiki page, but the page in general is greatly lacking representation from the field of autistic artists.
Jessica Park, born in Williamstown MA on July 20, 1958, a primarily self-taught artist. Autism Spectrum Disorder is often diagnosed by the individual’s level of social impairment and their verbal interactions (1) both of which Park exhibited in her early life. Her mother, Clara Claiborne Park, described Park’s early years as a state of Nirvana because Park would lapses into states of timelessness and become singularly enrapt by nothingness (6). Clara Park became a social advocate for Park, published two books The Siege: A Family’s Journey Into the World of an Autistic Child (1982) and Exiting Nirvana: A Daughter’s Life with Autism (2002)(5).At the age of five Park began learning verbal speech by being shown series of shapes and then learning drawing them, which soon enabled her to identify colors and led her to drawing in perspective before age eight (2)(6). Through out her career she has developed a focus on buildings and the colors she associates with geometric colors, reflecting on her fascination with shapes and perhaps her disassociation with people.
Autism in Western culture is often seen as a life limiting diagnosis, placing constraints on what an individual can accomplish and desire from life. Society is predominately neuro-typical and is constructed to fit the majority rather than embrace the continuity of human existence. Clara Park (The siege) rejected this philosophy while raising Park and encouraged her visual for of self-expression. Park’s artwork has been exhibited throughout New York City in different autism awareness exhibitions from 1993-Present, the United Nations in 2008, through out Boston from 1993-Present, and she is often exhibited at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (7).
References [1](1) [2](2) [3](3) [4](4) [5].(5) [6](6) [7](7)