2b Art Answers

(1) Trisha asked "What is the most important achivement of the Museum?(Clip1)"
The most important achievement of the Museum is there is a permanent collection that represents artists from all over the continent.

(2) Maria Chavez asked "Where is the MOLAA located?"
The museum is in Long Beach California

(3) Nenette asked "What kind of art do they display (video clip #1 & #3)."
They display contemporary Latin American artwork

(4) Skyler asked "When was the museum founded"
The museum was founded in November 1996

(5) Skyler asked "How much is the parking?"
Parking does not cost anyting at the Museum.

2b Art

1. MoLAA stands for Museum of Latin American Art.

2. The 1st video described what MoLAA was and further explained its purpose and aspirations. The 2nd video was basically a video colage of different artwork present in the museum. The last video is an interview with the director of MoLAA.

3. 3 facts I learned from the 1st video clip are: (1) The museum replaces 10-15% of the permanent collection every month; (2) The museum offers visual and performing art, dance, music, storytelling, hands on art workshops, lectures, Latin American films and a restraunt; and (3) The library in which they will create will be only library of contemporary Latin art in the country.

3 facts i learned from the 2nd video clip are: (1) A lot of the paintings were loaned to the museum andnot actually owned by MoLAA; (2) That many Latin American artists depict their women in statues the way some of them are, not just as the ideal women should look, but in more of a volumptious manner; and (3) Many Latin artists did untraditional artwork on items such as a suitcase.

3 facts I learned from the 3rd video clip are: (1) Gregorio Luke, who is the director of MoLAA, is a cultural promoter and has been the director for 10 years; (2) MoLAA's mission is to collect and exhibit Latin American art from 1945-present; and (3) Most artwork is painting and sculpturing which represents all Latin American countries with most the artists still being alive and often times they come and visit the Museum to talk about their artwork

4. What is the most important achievement of the Museum? (1st video clip)
Who made the sculpture The Big Hand? (2nd video clip)
Where was Gregorio Luke born? (3rd video clip)

5. Three things I learned: (1)On October 18-19, 2008 MoLAA will auction off more than 200 extraordinary works of art. (2)The Museum of Latin American Art (molaa) in Long Beach, California was founded by Dr. Robert Gumbiner in November 1996. (3)The location of the current MoLAA was a former silent film studio.

2a Latin America Intro

A. One website defines interdisciplinarity as: "interdisciplinary studies may be defined as a process of answering a question, solving a problem, or addressing a topic that is too broad or complex to be dealt with adequately by a single discipline or profession."
http://www2.truman.edu/~mseipel/Interdisciplinarity.pdf

Another website defines interdisciplinarity as: "Interdisciplinary refers to research or study that integrates concepts from different disciplines resulting in a synthesised or co-ordinated coherent whole."
http://www.qualityresearchinternational.com/glossary/interdisciplinary.htm

B. A website defines Latin America as: "the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. "
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry?id=27284

Another website defines Latin America as: "Latin America can designate all of those countries and territories in the Americas where a Romance language (i.e. languages derived from Latin, and hence the name of the region) is spoken: Spanish, Portuguese, French, and creole languages based upon these.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_America#Definition

C. A websites lists the countries: "The 20 republics are Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela. The term Latin America is also used to include Puerto Rico, the French West Indies, and other islands of the West Indies where a Romance tongue is spoken. Occasionally the term is used to include Belize, Guyana, French Guiana, and Suriname."
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry?id=27284

D. A website lists the countries of the Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago.
http://geography.about.com/library/maps/blrcaribbean.html

E. In a speech by Ricardo Lagos, former preseident of Chile, who was a visiting professor at UC Berekely Center for Latin American Studies(2006) he explains that during the last year all Latin American countries had a reasonable growth rate, if you take the average. All Latin Americac countries with the exception of 2-3 countries are now middle-economy countries and no longer qualify for foreign aid.

F. My opinion as to why my sources are reputable relies upon the reasoning that there is little cntroversy over the information being described. Most of the information received was very consistent between the two different websites which leads to the information being considered more reliable.

G. Trevor and I both are taking this class to finish our humanities requirements. Jessica and I both know Lacey who is the SRJC ladies basketball coach. I have played with Lacey in basketball classes as well as intermurals at the junior college.

Assignment 1C

What I learned this week:

Martha Chavez is a helath care professional and has a dog. I learned that Friere was born in 1921 and lived during the great depression. I also learned that he taught in secondary schools teaching Portuguese.

Stephanie is taking this class from Peru. Peru is about 4900 miles away from Santa Rosa Junior College. I learned that Friere is most famous for his philosophy as it applies to education and its transformation in accordance with praxis, the process through which reflection becomes action.
I also learned that he believed education was a form of liberation, in which a person can actually identfiy with the world not just throught abstract imagination.

Assignment 1B

One very important thing to know about Paulo Freire is that the first chance he had to apply some of his theories, he was able to teach 300 sugarcane workers to read and write. This lead the Brazilian government to create more of these cultural circles around their country. This is very important because literacy was a qualification to be able to vote in presidential elections.

Another important thing to know about Paulo Freire is that two years after his successful application of literacy Freire was imprisioned for 70 days by a military coup for being a traitor. This is very important because this imprisonment forced him into exile from his own country and apply his theories is neighboring countries. He soon began to receive national recognition. Without persecution he was able to write a couple of books which led him to be allowed as a visiting professor at Harvard University.

Paulo Freire moved to Geneva, Switzerland where he began as a special educational adviser to the World Congress of Churches. This even furthered his worldwide recognition and later led him to be able to return to Brazil in 1979 and positively affect his country of origin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Freire
http://www.education.miami.edu/ep/contemporaryed/Paulo_Freire/paulo_freire.html

Assignment 1A

1. My first name is Matthew!
2. I am taking this class because I am interested in my latin heritage and would like to travel to the Carribean in the near future.
3. I live 57.4 miles away from the Santa Rosa Junior College campus in San Francisco.
4. I hope to learn something new about the Latin American culture as well as familiarity with the Carribean's history.
5. This is my first time creating a blog.