Group Poster

Overview
For your final project, you will work in small groups (of 2-4 members) to design one digital poster that highlights your artistic endeavors this semester and design another digital poster that provides a historical and critical background to your understanding of ruin in the long nineteenth century. In addition, each student will write an individual manifesto on the topic of ruin, and each group will print and present their posters at a campus symposium.

Objectives

  • Understand how one thinks, reasons, and makes value judgments
  • Understand diverse viewpoints, including different philosophical and cultural perspectives
  • Demonstrate how the arts and humanities of the past relate to the present and future
  • Choose appropriate communication medium and technology, specifically visual rhetoric

Basic Requirements

Group Poster 1: Original Artwork

  1. The first poster will be creative and contemporary, exhibiting the original work of group members (such as your picturesque photos and creative artworks).
  2. The content will consist of your best work this semester, revised if necessary.
  3. The format will be a creative and expressive design that best highlights your artistic visions.

Group Poster 2: Historical Context

  1. The second poster will be analytical and historical, highlighting literature, art, and philosophy that has inspired you this semester.
  2. The content should reflect the art presented in the first poster. You might include sections on any of the following: theme/thesis, specific theorists/theories, historical contexts, specific literary texts or artworks, artist statements, contemporary media, research, and more.
  3. The format should be designed as a companion to the creative piece, but the information should be presented in a traditional 3-column format.

Group Poster Presentation

Posters will be printed and presented on display in a campus event held on Friday, December 7, from 10-11 in the Bundy Reading Room, Avery Hall.

Individual Essay: A Manifesto

  1. Each member of the group will write an individual manifesto that sets forth a theory on ruin in response to your group posters.
  2. The essay must incorporate at least 3 additional texts that we studied this semester (that were not included on your posters) to provide context for your manifesto.
  3. Separate grades will be issued for this portion of the assignment. (750 words)

Outcomes

The result of this final series of activities will be your accumulated and synthesized knowledge of the study of ruin in the arts and humanities of the nineteenth century. You will have communicated this knowledge visually, orally, and linguistically.

 

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Step-By-Step Guides

On-Campus Poster Printing

  • Biomedical Communications Unit (BCU)
  • Poster Dimensions: 20 inches x 30 inches (landscape or portrait)
  • Printer Quality: Matte (least expensive quality, @$18 for a 20×30 poster)
  • Mounting Substrate: Foam Core (you may find cheaper cardboard or poster board options)

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