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Norman Art Walk: An Intertextual Analysis

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“I think a lot of people think of art as taking place in these discreet places like galleries and museums things like that and just getting it out of that is a way of redirecting your thoughts about the potential of art and what it can actually do and how it can function socially”, Curtis Jones. This semester over twenty foundation level studio art students will work on a community-based art project that will be ongoing and premiere monthly during the semesters 2nd Friday Norman Art Walk. According to the class website, “the central element of this work will be the creation of a temporary community space designed to facilitate, produce, and archive collective narratives” Students will be engaging the Norman community in participation of their accumulation of personal accounts. “Participants in the project will be asked to interpret the act of …show more content…

We are saying this way is just as valid as that way” In terms of methods he says, “We are going to explore other ways as artists to use the mediums we are comfortable with in terms of addressing the idea of narrative” The experience of being challenged is what creates that dialogue according to Daren. “To simply take it out of those contexts and to break the expectation. To challenge people’s perception of art as maybe there is more than that, it’s the experience of being challenged” As for the impact this might have Daren said, “for these stories to find a voice and exist in one place is powerful, for the community to engage in their own story as a way of showing that different narratives can exist and actually enrich our experiences” Stewart said, “I think narratives are a way we define our own relationship to a community and community narratives are the way a community defines

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