This is the first presentation ever of a new groundbreaking exhibition in which contemporary art speaks in creative and compelling ways to the timely issue of endangered animals. The international array of major artists includes several Americans such as Kiki Smith, Chris Jordan, and Esther Traugot who work in diverse media and variously use poetry, pathos, and sometimes the grotesque to evoke the plight of threatened species. Themes range from poaching and pollution to broader concepts such as our psychological bonds with animals. In this last realm, Kiki Smith’s symbolist tapestries bespeak her growing interest in the physical and spiritual links between humanity and nature. Punning humor combines with pathos in the work of Miami sculptor Billie Grace Lynn, who presents three life-sized ghostly white “elephants in the room.” At a time when science teaches us more than ever about the interconnectedness of the global environment, these artists remind us of our intimate connections with animals as well as our complicity in their suffering. ETHICS EXCESS EXTINCTION was organized by Art Works for Change in Oakland, California.
Support provided by Texas Commission on the Arts
You will research a topic from the exhibit and write a persuasive essay in Spanish using information gathered in the article, graphic, and artwork.
Graphic Organizers:
Persuasion Map
Take a close look a piece of art, noting the details of the media, lines, colors, shadings, shadows, and shapes. Choose one artwork and record the details.
Title
Artist
Date of artwork
Media
Lines
Colors
Shadings
Mood
Perspective (Where is the focal point?)
What is in the background?
What is the subject of the painting?
Where is the message the artist is conveying?
Move close again, and recheck your observations. View once again from a distance. Now stand back and view the painting from a different perspective, view, record what you see with the above steps
*from Read, Write, Think
2015 and Cecil the Lion. Agile Ox. Agile Ox News. 2018. http://www.agileox.org/news/2015-and-cecil-the-lion-the-legacy-of-one-lions-roar/
Animal Usage in US Research Studies by Species, Fiscal Years 2014–2016. (2017). In Gale Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Detroit: Gale. Retrieved from http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/SLCIYZ857513460/OVIC?u=j071909004&sid=OVIC&xid=743a2368
How Climate Change Affects Biodiversity. online.infobase.com/Auth/Index?aid=18495&itemid=WE40&iid=54014. Accessed 15 Apr. 2018.
Inhumane Practices on Factory Farms. Animal Welfare Insttitue. 2018. https://awionline.org/content/inhumane-practices-factory-farms
"Ivory Trade and Elephant Poaching in Africa." Tribune Content Agency Graphics, 2010. Opposing Viewpoints In Context, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/CT3294260344/OVIC?u=j071909004&sid=OVIC&xid=e4b2e6fe. Accessed 15 Apr. 2018.
Paterniti, Michael. "Should We Kill Animals to Save Them?." National Geographic, vol. 232, no. 4, Oct. 2017, p. 70. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=124914059&site=ehost-live.
"Sea World to Stop Breeding Orca (Killer) Whales, 2016." Tribune Content Agency Photos, 2016. Opposing Viewpoints In Context, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/ODUIPP947971945/OVIC?u=j071909004&sid=OVIC&xid=7af4f30a. Accessed 15 Apr. 2018.