this is three different questions:

1. Using both texts and images, identify a socio-political issue or event (e.g. rally) relevant for the Kansas City area during the past few years. Consult at least three media sources (newspapers, radio, TV, etc.) that have addressed this problem or event. Analyze how visual mass media promoted, documented, and interpreted the event, paying close attention to the imagery presented. Discuss the differences in their ways of portraying the same issue or event. Then identify your own preference of the approaches and explain why. (Approximately 400 words.)

2. For this particular project, I’d like for you to walk around your community. Define your community. What is your community? Is it going to be the place where you live? Is it going to be a particular class environment? Is it going to be your team? Is it going to be your extended family community? Is it going to be the entire city? Really you can define community as you see fit for this project. Then physically walk around the space and look around. Think about the space. Think about who goes there, how it functions, what kind of information is already available, how is it communicated, what are the values that are being communicated in that space and then you will think of some visual way you can shift the meaning of that space or bring new meaning to it or call attention to some aspect of it. You could critique the values communicated in the space. You can be very overt or you can be subtle.You can create an element of surprise. So there’s many different ways you can do it, and it doesn’t have to be big and bold. It can be very subtle. he first thing you need to do is think about what is your goal. What are you trying to get across with

this project for the audience in that space? So what strategy are you going to use to communicate your idea. What is your approach?

Physical approach, what is your conceptual approach and so on. Then you’ll need to think about what tools you’ll need to get this project done. In most cases you will probably not be able to do it on your own and that’s true for most artists. Most artists don’t physically actually build or fabricate every piece that they

create. For one thing it’s just technically impossible for most artists to have all the skills for all their various installations, especially in public art. The last thing you’ll need to do is create a visualization of your concept. For this you will just have to be kinda creative about how you communicate your idea visually.

3.write about how the artist uses humor to make a social comment. What is transgressive about the object and what kinds of social conventions or expectations does it subvert? (Approximately 250 words.)