Youth and the Social Impacts of Coronavirus

“On the plus side, platforms like “Squad” help youth connect in a positive way, and resourceful teens are using Instagram to “fake cast” each other in Broadways shows.”

https://www.crresearch.com/youthbeat/blog/youth-and-social-impacts-coronavirus

16 Year Old Girl Lectures the World

Greta Thunberg, Nobel  prize winner, is angry for a good reason.https://youtu.be/11FCyUB81rI

“We’re Under Attack From the President.” By Admiral William H. McRaven (ret.)(commander U.S. Navy Special Operation Command

“For everyone who ever served in uniform, in the intelligence community, for diplomats who voice the nation’s principles, first responders, tellers of truth and the millions of American citizens who were raised believing in American values — of all political persuasions, have seen the assaults on our institutions: on the intelligence and law enforcement community, the State Department and the press. They have seen our leaders stand beside despots and strongmen, preferring their government narrative to our own. They have seen us abandon our allies and have heard the shouts of betrayal from the battlefield.”
“We are the most powerful nation in the world because we try to be the good guys...because our ideals of universal freedom and equality have been backed up by our belief that we were champions of justice, the protectors of the less fortunate.” Admiral William H. McRaven (ret.)(commander U.S. Navy Special Operation Command). NYTs, Opinion Section, October, 18, 2019. “We’re Under Attack From the President.”

“A Widening of the Lens” by Antwaun Sargent

“Her gaze is confident, a symbol of black motherhood, beauty and pride.”
“To convey black beauty is an act of justice,” says Tyler Mitchell.
“Tyler Mitchell is a part of a burgeoning new vanguard of young black photographers, including Daniel Obasi, Adrienne Raquel, Micaiah Carter, Nadine Ijewere, Renell Medrano and Dana Scruggs, working to widen the representation of black lives around the world [and] expand the view of blackness in all its diversity...
...they are challenging a culture that still relies on insidious stereotypes in its depictions of black life”...”exclusion of black works from mainstream fashion and galleries, artists are curating their own exhibitions, conceptualizing their own internet sites, and using their social media platforms, [receiving] comments on how their photographs powerfully mirror their own lives.”— black art as universal.” Antwaun Sargent

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/05/arts/design/black-vanguard-photography-antwaun-sargent.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Lee Kasner: “A Solo Limelight” by Jason Farago

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/19/arts/lee-krasner-barbican-schirn-kunsthalle.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

“Lee Krasner was suspicious of paintings where telltale marks were like alternative autographs.” “She was proud not to have a single style. You had to figure out each painting on its own, she said, or you end up with something “rigid rather than being alive.”

Fine Arts Final Exam to Research 3 Artists Advanced Art Students John Anderson

VISUAL ARTS CLASSES Students Name______________________________   

                                                    Period_______

JOHN ANDERSON 

ROOM E264

• Research three artists from the articles and magazines on the tables. This project will be worth 4 points and will require reading three articles and responding in writing to the questions below. This will take the entire extended period. No one can leave for any reason except to go to the bathroom. 

• Your paper should compare and contrast issues relating your own art/life/jewelry experience with each of the artists.  Ask yourself the following questions and answer them:

1. List each Artist’s name, Article Title, Magazine Title__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.

2. What materials have you used in your art and how does that differ with what the three artists

used?__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. Did the artists talk about an idea, theme or concept that their art was about?________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.

4. What life experiences were included by the artist, or did they talk about design instead?________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.

5. Are you interested in trying some of their ideas in a future art project of your own?__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.

6. What do you like most and least about each artist’s ideas?__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.

7. How would you do their art differently? Different media/materials, techniques, ideas?__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.

8. Can an article about architecture, sculpture, painting, photography, ceramics, drawing or printmaking give you any ideas about jewelry and metalsmithing?____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

9. What does art mean to you and to your researched artists?___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

10. How is the work of your artists different and similar from the work done in Architecture, Science, Marketing, Dentistry, or Journalism, etc. ?_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

11. How has reading these three articles changed your opinion, view, or understanding of art?________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

“More Extreme Climate Events”: “Humans’ Effects On Climate”

“Chronicles of the Rings: What Trees Can Tell Us” by Jim Robbins, The New York Times, April 30, 2019.
“The fact that [The North Atlantic Jet Stream] has become more variable only in recent decades suggests that the shift is the result of humans’ effects on climate, Dr. Trouet said.”

https://ltrr.arizona.edu/?smid=nytcore-ios-share
“The lab has helped establish other labs around the world, which in turn has rapidly increased the number of studied trees. There are now roughly a dozen large labs globally and data from 4,000 sites on all continents except Antarctica. The information is stored in the International Tree Ring Data Bank, a library open to all researchers. As more tree data becomes available, a much richer picture forms of the nexus of past climate, ecosystems and human civilization.”

“...climate of the last half-century is far outside the historical norms going back thousands of years.
Living bristlecone pine trees are several thousand years old and their information is added to by those that died thousands of years ago, but remained intact in their cold, dry high-altitude environment.”

“Dr. Meko said. “It’s a little worrisome to see the most extreme years right near the present.”

“Other sources — lake sediments; ice core samples; coral; the otolith, or ear bone, of fish; and even the shells from living and long dead geoducks, a large bivalve with a snakelike appendage — add to the broader picture.”

“...the stars give up some of their secrets to trees. The sun and other stars emit radiation called Galactic Cosmic Rays, or G.C.R.s, that react in the atmosphere with nitrogen and change the levels of carbon 14, which is taken up by every living thing and becomes a tracer for cosmic ray levels.”
“Past spikes in G.C.R.s from solar flares...have attracted keen interest from researchers, because if they occur now they could wipe out communication satellites and other technology. An event in 774-775, first found in Japanese cedar trees and since found globally, is the strongest cosmic ray event in the tree ring record, a magnitude larger than the Carrington event, a solar storm in 1859, and apparently noted by people alive at the time.”
“This year also appeared in the heavens a red crucifix, after sunset,” was how the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles reported the event in the mid-eighth century.”
“It was most likely a huge solar flare. “It is unprecedented, there’s nothing else like it,” said Charlotte Pearson, a professor at the tree ring lab. “We’re trying to work out what it is and what caused it but we’re still not sure.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/30/science/tree-rings-climate.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share