Spring Schedule

1	M	J13	First Day	Welcome Back Holiday Debrief Distribute Avante Garde Pamphlet Project
	W	15	World War I	Lecture Read Goldman, Hemingway, and Eliot
	F	17	Powers that Be	Documentary Everyone should come to class with a response to the following question: What is the responsibility of the artist to engage the contemporary world?
2	M	20	MLK	No Class
	W	22	DaDaDaDaDaDaDaDa DaDaDaDaDaDaDaDa DaDaDaDaDaDaDaDa	Lecture Inform yourself about Dada using three different sources of information. That is an open invitation. We will spend part of class discussing how one locates 'good' information.
	F	24	Centennial Archive	Build a news archive Bring your proposed document and research notes to Alex during class.
3	M	27	Revolution	Lecture. Distribute readings for seminar.
	W	29	Modern Music	Reschedule class for Friday evening UW Modern Music ensemble, 7:30, Meany Studio, $10
	F	31	Library Session Avante Garde Seminar 1	Meet in the library for our session from 1:30 to 3:00. We'll take a short break. Then gather to discuss Evan's selection of Jean Arp and Erida's selection of Tristan Tzara.
4	M	F3	Avante Garde Seminar	Research Day
	W	5	Avante Garde Seminar 2	Back on Schedule. For class, please familiarize yourself with the following texts: Please read: Sophie Treadwell Isadora Duncan Theatre of Cruelty Bertolt Brecht
	F	7	No Class	In Service Work on your preface
5	M	10	Avante Garde 3	Treadwell (above) Woolf, A Room of One's Own Cage, Silence Kepes, Language of Vision
	W	12	Avante Garde	Co-Editing Come to class with a draft of your pamphlet, including the preface and design for publication.
	F	14	Film	Cage, Silence (above) Deren, Anagram Noir
6	M	17	No Class	President’s Day
	W	19	Catch Up	Discuss Cage and Deren (see above)
	F	21	Creativity, Authority, and Artistic Production	Peer Edits Read: Orwell, "Why I Write"
7	M	24	Jazz and the Harlem Renaissance	Lecture Read: Read: McKay “If We Must Die" and Harlem Shadows"; Langston Hughes, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "Weary Blues," "A Dream Deferred” And listen to tracks 1-4 on the CD.   Hand in Pamphlets: Pamphlet copies Peer Edits Original text in some form (if it has changed from your initial submission) One credible source that informs your thinking on the subject. Distribute Wiki Assignment
	W	26	Their Eyes 1	Read Hurston, Chapter 1-5
	F	28	Work Session	Planning Oral History Interview Dissect a Wiki Entry Wikipedia Research
8	M	M3	Jazz Cont'd	Lecture - Modern Exclusions - Where we explore the question, is American Jazz a form of modernism?
	W	5	Lure of Foreign Things	Arts and Orientalism
	F	7	Miro	Trip to SAM
9	M	10	No Class	Spring Break!

10	M	17	Global Moderns	Japan, Sweden and Mexico
	W	19	Their Eyes	Discuss Jazz, the American Modern Discuss Chapters 6-13 Submit Draft of your Wikipedia Changes
	F	21	Creativity	Maybe Basquiat Reading TBA
11	M	24	Their Eyes	Discuss Chapter 14-End
	W	26	Modern Critics	Lecture and Select Interviewees (Alex Brings a List)
	F	28	Wikipedia Upload	Library
12	M	31	Post Modernity	Circulate Final Assignment
	W	A2	Architecture	Meet at Seattle Center
	F	4	Watch	Urbanized
13	M	7	Interviews	Coordinate logistics and develop questions  Discuss Curator’s statement
	W	9	Interviews	Interviews
	F	11	Interviews	Interviews
14	M	14	Presentations	Project Proposals (see the example on the homepage) I guess we'll work on these in class.
	W	16	Po.Mo.	Discuss Roland Barthes' Death of the Author and Questions.
	F	18	Work Day +	This day is reserved for three things. 1. Meet for 30 minutes to ask questions about your project proposals. 2. Meet with the Provost for tea. 3. Independently work on your retrospective projects.
15	M	21	Po.Mo.	2
	W	23	Po.Mo.	3
	F	25	TBD	Location TBA Hand in your Curator's Statement
16			Finals	Retrospective Presentation