Author: Joseph

1. Read “Julio Anta on the Importance of Bilingual Representation in Children’s Literature,” watch “How to Read Comics the Marvel Way,” and listen to the podcast “Latinx Borders: Graphic Novels with Julio Anta and Jacoby Salcedo.”
2. After having read/watched/listened to these texts, prepare a question to ask Julio Anta next week.
3. Post Blog Post #2 by 11:59pm on Sunday, July 5th, responding to the following prompt:
   Share a photograph that you or your group took during our workshop at the Alice Austen House and discuss how it relates to the photos that Alice Austen took. What are these photos’ connections to (Alice’s, yours, or other people’s) community? If the photo you took doesn’t seem to capture community to you, consider what it means to you, as a visitor to a historic house museum, vs. what the photos taken by Alice in the same locations might have meant to her, being taken in her home/yard.

1. Visit the Met (the Metropolitan Museum of Art), free for Macaulay students with ID (and ‘name your price’ for anyone else with an NY ID or a student ID from NY, NJ, or CT). Spend a couple of hours there. Explore. Take photos of all of the pieces that impact you. Be sure to also photograph the informational cards showing you the work’s title, artist, and other info.
2. After your museum visit, submit Blog Post 1 by 11:59pm on Sunday, 28 June:
   Pick two pieces that you found particularly impactful, which you hadn’t seen before this visit. How did they relate to your preexisting ideas about art? Did they support these ideas or challenge them? How do they relate to New York City? Include photos.
3. Read “Alice Austen’s Larky Life,” on our Texts page, ahead of next week’s class.

Remember: Next week, on 1 July, we’re meeting at the Alice Austen House on Staten Island, not in our regular classroom.