25 Jul Cultural Experience Project
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, using at least 3 sources of research with documentation. Feel free to browse the Online Museums in the links provided in this module or do your own search for museums and research to use in your essay.
The museum objects you choose 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.
If you want to attend an actual museum for this assignment, consider the suggestions below:
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.
