AAD250

Objectives: 

1. Learn about public funding for the Arts.
2. Examine public art’s role in capturing history and place-making.
3. Explore the relationship of cultural values to civic dialogue, beautification and identity.

Artifact #8: 

A collection of photos and drawings that I think depict Art and Science respectably.

Reflection:

This artifact clearly shows my understanding and achievement of this weeks objectives. Through the readings and learning about the murals of the Development of the Arts and Development of the Sciences I have learned about how the government provided public funding for public works of art.

The images in my artistic representation of the murals show how the murals and other public artwork is used to help depict human culture and history. For this is one of the main reasons why I included this image as the artifact for this section of the course. In Doss’ article, she says this about public art, “As an instrument of public conversation, public art can become a catalyst for civic and national revitalization”. This stance on public art as more than just art can been seen in the Runquist Murals as well as my artistic version.

In the future, regarding the topic of public arts and projects I would want to learn more about other projects that the government funded with the FDRs New Deal. I think if we learned more about how the New Deal and government public funding projects benefited other areas of American culture and society we would see the tremendous benefit that it had. Additionally, it would be a beneficial to know about other works of art by the Runquist brothers.