Classroom Dynamics

Busy busy busy busy!

In my tribal art class, we’ve been studying anthropological diagrams of genealogy.

Every week or so we have a “focus week,” where we study an aspect of art that would generally be considered related to a tribe but not one certain tribe. So far we’ve done basketry and next week is textiles. We’ll be making looms and attempting to produce a few rows of weaving.

The text for the class is almost unbearably dry, and it’s a challenge for me to wrap my brain around it, but I’ll try to hang tight with it.

Dynamically speaking of that which is social, there’s been an interesting divide in English class. All the folks who participate in the discussions that are classy (and by that I mean classroom) have migrated to one side of the room, and the squatters have remained on the other side of the space. I feel bad for the teacher, but I’m so sure it isn’t the first time she’s contended with this. She’s a guide, taking us through the wild jungles of composition. If she gets upset she’ll end up having to bust out with the machete of English justice.

There’s an art show at school. I might enter something if the paint dries in time. It’s a pretty big deal. Lots of folks have been traveling to IU East to drop off their opus.

In the history of art, we’re knee-deep exploring the political and religious whoziewhatsits of the High Renaissance.