Guide for Mask Assignment

Exploring Multiculturalism through the Arts

Professor Eric J Abbott

Your mask should be constructed or created by you. You may not use a store bought mask that is decorated. It should have dimension. It should be inspired or influenced by a non-western culture. You will also submit a 1 page paper about the above

1. Develop your own position – This refers to your own view of the world. You mask should reflect yourself and be of some importance to you.

2. Integrate other perspectives- This class is all about multiculturalism. You should incorporate what you have learned in this class into this project through materials, construction or even design ideas. Please limit the influence to one non-western culture.

3. Identify Conclusions and implications- You will give an oral presentation of up to 90 seconds in length minutes covering the above aspects as well what this means.

Aesthetic judgments are judgments of beauty that include sensory, emotional and intellectual responses. Contemporary views of aesthetic judgments are culturally linked to a specific context (e.g. economic, political, moral or historic considerations).

4. Communicate effectively- This will be done through both the physical mask and the oral presentation.

Each of these four areas is worth 25% of the final mask grade.

Mask making project

Develop own position 25 points in the mask and paper how it relates to them

Integrate other perspectives 25 points in the mask influence from the class other cultures

Identify conclusions 25 points in the paper, culmination of the above

Communicate effectively 25 points -oral presentation/1-2 page paper

= 100 points