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Use the Module View to choose appropriate objects. o The Caribbean • Early Slave Arts in the US in the 17th & 18th centuries (1600s and 1700s) o African American Arts in 19th century (1800s) o African American Artists in the US and France, early to mid 20th century (1900- 1940s) o Contemporary African American Artists in the mid-20th century o Contemporary African American Art (late 20th c. to the present) 3. Chronological order starting with the oldest object. Don’t rely on the order of the categories above for your chronology. If you had problems with this in the midterm, please see me. 4. Pin the object on the map where it was made/came from . Don’t pin the museum that owns it. Pin the place where it was made. For this period in history, you’ll have to do a little research about the artist to figure out where they were living at the time. 5. An image of the artwork/building/monument 6. A caption o A caption includes: Artist, title, date, materials, dimensions, museum/city/country that owns it; Sample caption: Parmigianino, Madonna of the Long Neck, 1530-1533, oil on panel, 73 x 60 cm, Uffizi, Florence, Italy o NOTE: unlike in the materials from the first half of the class, we know the names of most of the artists from this period, so your captions will look a little different. 7. Write one paragraph (min. 6 / max.10 sentences) about how it relates to the time/ place/culture where it was made. This can include a combination of the following: why it was important when it was made; what it was used for; what it symbolized; what story it tells. This paragraph MUST INCLUDE: • PUT THE NAME OF THE PERIOD (e.g., Caribbean, Early Slave Arts, etc.) IN THE “HEADLINE” o A vocabulary word or key term. This could be about the form of the object (e.g., line), the style (e.g., abstract or realist), political/social topics (e.g., Black Panther Party), a historical event (e.g., Transatlantic Slave Trade, Vietnam War). 8. Two or three sentences about how what you learned about the object challenged what you thought about the period, history, artist, etc. Alternately, you could write about something you learned that surprised you. 9. Cite your sources by including the webpage URLs where you got the info.