HUM 202-Week 5_Slides

Instructor: Dr. Lorenzo L. Kellam III, . BEST CONTACT METHOD: Canvas Messaging YouTube Channell: https://www.youtube.com/@SageonNation Office: MNB 251E Office Hours: By Appointment via Zoom email:Lkellam@BCCC.edu Voice:(410)209-3167

Learning Objectives

• Discuss last weeks student responses to the disussion
• Introduce Next Week (Week 6) discussion assignment

African American Art II: Migration, Memory, and Modern Influence

Humanities 202 — Week 6

• Latin American Creativity: Murals, Music, and Architecture
• Public art, magical realism, and place-based identity

Why This Topic Matters

• In many Latin American traditions, art is not separate from public life.
• Murals, architecture, music, and literature appear in streets, buildings, plazas, and neighborhoods.
• Public creativity helps preserve history, identity, and political memory.
• Mexican muralism developed after the Mexican Revolution as art meant for the people.

Key Term: Public Art

• Public art is created for shared spaces rather than private galleries.
• Examples include murals, monuments, street installations, and architectural design.
• Visibility changes meaning when art becomes part of everyday life.

Key Term: Collective Voice

• A collective voice expresses the shared experience of a community.
• Latin American murals often depict workers, Indigenous histories, revolution, and social struggle.
• Public scale makes these stories visible to everyone.

Key Term: Place-Based Identity

• Place-based identity refers to how geography, environment, and history shape cultural expression.
• Latin American art often reflects colonization, revolution, migration, and inequality.
• Cities, neighborhoods, and landscapes become part of the message.

Key Term: Magical Realism

• Magical realism blends ordinary reality with extraordinary elements.
• It reflects how cultures interpret history, myth, and everyday life together.
• This literary tradition is strongly associated with Latin America.

Architecture and Public Identity

• Architecture can communicate cultural values, political power, and national identity.
• Public buildings, plazas, and city design often reflect historical transformation.
• Architecture can act as a form of public storytelling.

Discussion Assignment

• Respond to the question: What happens when art belongs to the street, the people, and the city itself?
• Address three sections:
• A) Public Art as Collective Voice
• B) Place-Based Identity
• C) Humanities Comparison

This Week’s Discussion Assignment: Respond to the question: What happens when art belongs to the street, the people, and the city itself? Address three sections: A) Public Art as Collective Voice B) Place-Based Identity C) Humanities Comparison

Think Like a Humanities Scholar

Avoid simple summary. Instead ask: • What story is the artist telling? • What historical moment is being documented? • Why is this story important? • How does art preserve memory differently than written history?

🧠 How to Think Like a Humanities Scholar Do NOT summarize. Instead: Analyze. Ask: • Why was this created? • Who was it created for? • What message does it send?

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