Cultural Reflection
Cultural Reflection Essay Instructions
Humanities 1301 | Costner
Cultural Reflection Essay
What is the Essay?
You must visit online and write a no more than two page paper about both:
Visual Art Exhibit: Pictorial art (painting, mosaic, stained glass, etc.), sculpture (stationary or mobile), architecture
Performing Art Show: Music (vocal, instrumental, or both), musical stage, dance, and theater. Note: music event must cover LIVE music performance events only: no recorded music or EDM critiques will be accepted. (High School, College, or higher accepted)
Essay Guidelines:
You are required to write one paragraph of each event. Please include your personal critique on each in-person experience. The assignment must include a Works Cited page in MLA format. Please refer to the appropriate chapters in the textbook and supplemental materials for appropriate terminology. The assignment is not due on blackboard. Remember it must be one paper for both visual and performing Arts!!
The visual or performing art must be cited in MLA format on the Works Cited page.
Proof of Experience
Due to Coronavirus you can use the online links provided or any online outlet. These are just resources to help you. Online Exhibits
Girl Museum: Online Exhibits
Virtual Migration Museum: Interactive Online Experience / App
JFK Library: “Moonshot” App and Online Interactive
Virtual Museum of Canada: Virtual Exhibits and Cultural Content
Museum of Ontario Archaeology: “History of Ste. Marie II” Online Exhibit
Monterey Bay Aquarium: Animal Live Cams
Canadian Museum of History: Online Exhibitions
Remembering Lincoln, Ford’s Theatre: Interactive online exhibit
M Woods, Beijing, China: Experimental Online Exhibition
Koshland Science Museum: Interactive Virtual Exhibits
Second Canvas Apps: 30 Museum Apps (Google Sheet)
Reina Sofía Museum Radio: Audiovisual resources; an acoustic museum experience
History Colorado: Online Exhibits
Smithsonian Latino Virtual Museum
National Museum of the U.S. Navy
National Women’s History Museum
Experiences Continued
Google Arts & Culture: +2000 partners from +80 countries
Heritage on the Edge: A project of Google Arts & Culture
Europeana: 50,000,000 European works of art, books, music, and more
Smithsonian Open Access: Search 2.8 million images and 3D Models
ArtUK: Art collections from 3,200 UK organizations
Mexican Ministry of Culture: Short films, books, radio, paintings, from all cultural orgs
Memorica: Open access Mexican culture content portal
China’s National Cultural Heritage Administration: Virtual portal of 100 institutions
OpenGLAM: Aggregates 88 unique open collections
Museum Crush: Select objects from a variety of museums
NASA Image & Video Library: All NASA content is in the public domain
DPLA: Digital Public Library of America
MIMO: Musical Instrument Museums Online (64,000+ instruments)
BioExplora: Natural science open collections portal (3D images, bio diversity)
Science Museum Group: Collections from five UK science museums (325,000+ objects)
Experiences Continued Two
York Museums Trust: Collections from various museums in Yorkshire, UK
Archaeological Analytics: Archaeological Open Access Collections
Digital Agnes: Canadian portal for curatorial research and online exhibitions
English Heritage: Variety of mediums of British content (Podcasts, videos, etc.)
Creative Commons: Aggregates all CC-licensed content and collections globally
Wikimedia Commons: Over 20,000,000 open images
Wikidata: “The Sum of all Paintings” metadata initiative via Wikimedia
GLAM Portals Google Search: Courtesy of Mia Ridge (context on her blog)
Open Culture Coloring Pages: 113 museum coloring books
Global Museum: Portal for museum news, jobs, and resources
V21ArtSpace: Over 100 exhibit virtual tours
Arte.tv: Cultural documentaries, films, and more.
SHOW ME: Games, collections, videos, stories, homework help and family days out from museums and galleries
Experiences Continued Three
York Museums Trust: Collections from various museums in Yorkshire, UK
Archaeological Analytics: Archaeological Open Access Collections
Digital Agnes: Canadian portal for curatorial research and online exhibitions
English Heritage: Variety of mediums of British content (Podcasts, videos, etc.)
Creative Commons: Aggregates all CC-licensed content and collections globally
Wikimedia Commons: Over 20,000,000 open images
Wikidata: “The Sum of all Paintings” metadata initiative via Wikimedia
GLAM Portals Google Search: Courtesy of Mia Ridge (context on her blog)
Open Culture Coloring Pages: 113 museum coloring books
Global Museum: Portal for museum news, jobs, and resources
V21ArtSpace: Over 100 exhibit virtual tours
Arte.tv: Cultural documentaries, films, and more.
SHOW ME: Games, collections, videos, stories, homework help and family days out from museums and galleries
Grading
Important: You can attend these events virtually.