Instructions: Use the example paper and presentation provide to complete this assignment.
1. Choose an individual from the list provided. Each student must select a different individual for this assignment.
2. Conduct research and write a 1500-word (minimum) essay on the individual. Your paper should include the following components. Include subheadings in the paper to show that you are responding to each of these prompts:
a. Provide a biography of the individual: birthdate, location of birth, training, significant professional experiences, awards, and any other pertinent information that gives a background and context to the individual and the time period in which she/he/they worked.
b. Provide information on a specific example of his/her/their work: time period of the work's creation, materials used, specifications, intended meaning/message/purpose, commissioned by or for whom if applicable, etc.
c. Answer: What choices were made in the design and creation of your selected examples of the individual's work? What was the reasoning behind the decisions that were made by the artist? (1 slide in the presentation)
d. Answer: How does the individual's work function as a consequence of its design and construction? (1 slide in the presentation)
e. Answer: How do the decisions that were made and the functionality of the artifact reflect the individual's design philosophy, particularly in relation to feminist issues? Note: If at any point in the essay you refer to other individuals, artists, design or art movements, you must explain these and their context to your reader. Do not assume that your audience has a working knowledge of other figures, movements, etc. (1 slide in the presentation)
f. Your paper should include a minimum of 4 sources. Do not reconstruct a single source or follow the argument of a source verbatim in the organization of the paper. Your paper is intended to be a synthesis of a variety of research sources and your intellectual work.
g. All of your sources should be cited in MLA style. Include in-text references and a list of Works Cited at the end of your essay.
h. Your text should be free of errors in grammar or punctuation and should be written in complete sentences.
3. After you have completed the essay, begin work on a Power Point presentation based on your paper.
a. Include 7 images of the individual and his/her/their work: no more and no less. Use only one image per page unless you are doing a compare and contrast. Images must be of high digital quality.
b. Include the text of your essay in the “Notes” section of each slide, showing which part of the essay you will present along with that slide’s image.
c. Each slide should be titled to guide the reader and help them to stay focused on each topic you cover in the presentation.
d. The complete citation for each image should be included on the slide and also in the notes section. The complete citation for any sources included in the notes should also be included. The presentation should end with a list of Works Cited and a list of Images Cited.
Janine Antoni
Ruth Agawa
Lucy Lippard
Faith Wilding
Judith Baca
Howardena Pindell
Martha Wilson
Judith Brodsky
Bettye Saar
Yvonne Rainer
Cornelia (Connie) Butler
Maura Reilly
Judy Chicago
B. Ruby Rich
Mary Beth Edelson
Faith Ringgold
Howard Fox
Rachel Rosenthal
Susan Grode
Martha Rosler
Guerrilla Girls
Moira Roth
Harmony Hammond
Elizabeth Sackler
Alanna Heiss
Miriam Schapiro
Lynn Hershman
Carolee Schneeman
Miranda July
Lowery Sims
Mike Kelly
Sylvia Sleigh
Joyce Kozloff
Nancy Spero
Robert Kushner
Marcia Tucker
Suzanne Lacy
Camille Utterback
Sheila Levrant de Bretteville
Cecilia Vicuña