Examine Somervilles practice and the imagery that inspires his work, like the piece, Freedom Mugs, on view at the Tarble Arts Center.
Identify some of the associations and personalities that are linked with the following brands: Oscar Mayer, Dell, and Sketchers. What are they? How do they differ?
August 4, 2017Benefits of a Diverse Workforce
August 4, 2017Examine Somervilles practice and the imagery that inspires his work, like the piece, Freedom Mugs, on view at the Tarble Arts Center.
Work, social justice (race), history (civil rights), consumerism (materialism)
- Synthesis Essay including ideas from three sources essay and LECTURE Tarble essay, Booth essay for all the world to see and lecture notes from the exhibit of Travis Somerville
Pay attention to the comments/questions on the earlier drafts. Higher credit will be given if you interweave the discussion of the three sources instead of discussing them sequentially. Must be a MINIMUM of 3 full pages, excluding heading and visual elements. Dont just say the same thing over in different words in order to get to the required length! Make your title the same font size as the rest of the essay (no more than 11 point). Essays shorter than 3 pages will receive a maximum of 15/30
- Tarble essay is attached with pictures from the exhibit.
- For all the world to see is also attached with its pictures from the exhibit.
- Lecture: Tackling Racism with Art: A Conversation with Travis Somerville
This talk will examine Somervilles practice and the imagery that inspires his work, like the piece, Freedom Mugs, on view at the Tarble Arts Center. It will also look at how art can address American racism. Somervilles work serves as a remixing of anti-nostalgia and critical memory. His work intermingles visual and verbal references to the semiotics of the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the civil rights movement, and the age of Obama. Somerville states that his work complicates the sense of a collective memory about how race has shaped the political, historical, cultural and social contours of America: As I attempt to navigate the terrain between autobiography, history and art, all sorts of collisions take place. It is these interesting moments and the inconsistencies that inform them that I try to capture in my work. Re-envisioning old advertisements, newspapers, vintage moneybags and cotton sacks, while poignantly juxtaposing his drawings and paintings against found imagery, Somerville entices viewers to ponder the biased and violent aesthetic influences found within Americas history and current happenings.
