1. What are
characteristics of good teaching?
Nature, ideas about nature,
Evolution,
Entropy, Wilderness, Weather
Systems, Systems, Sustainability , Environment, Light, Romanticism,
Intuition , Spirit, Landscaper, Entropy, Urbanity, Utopia, Dystopia,
Youth, Time, Ephemeral, Motivation, Evolution, Civilization, Escape,
Landscape , Natural History, Roots Culture, Homeland, “Green” ,
Acadia , Survival, Wilderness, Landscape vs Urbanity,
Connecting traditions to contemporary
practices, how cultural ideas about nature shape our understanding and how new
understandings are influencing art and culture. I want to see how you we weave
traditional art making practices with contemporary practices.
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What are
some ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS we could ask?
What is progress? Can art change the world?
How does culture construct “nature” and our
relationships to “nature”?
How does art and visual culture influence or
shape ideas about nature?
What is the opposite of nature?
How has our relationship to nature changed?
How are we part of nature and how are we
separate from nature?
How is civilization progress? How is civilization not progress?
How do people connect with places and what are
our relationships to the places where we live? What are sacred places and how
do they become sacred?
What
ideas about nature and our relationship to nature are revealed or hidden in
collections?
