1. Studio Investigation: Graphic Editorial Inspiration Artist: Collier Schorr Amber Ward, PhD ART 133 California State University, Sacramento

2. Vulnerability KEY CONCEPTS: vulnerability... is empathetic, feeling, inclusive can have agency can be about a material/social/political/cultural position (S. Klein, personal communication, May 12, 2015) is about empowerment can relate to justice involves subjectivity, emotion, self-disclosure (O. Ivashkevich, personal communication, January 5, 2015) can relate to connections and relationships is not safe, predictable ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS: What is invulnerability? What is vulnerability? What is vulnerability as a feminist construct? At what times does (in)vulnerability seem like an advantage?

4. About Schorr “Collier Schorr was born in New York City in 1963 and attended the School of the Visual Arts, New York. Best known for her portraits of adolescent men and women, Schorr’s pictures often BLEND PHOTOGRAPHIC REALISM with ELEMENTS OF FICTION and YOUTHFUL FANTASY.” Retrieved from http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/collier-schorrhttp://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/collier-schorr

5. About Schorr Schorr in “Loss and Desire” (3:32-8:20): http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/collier- schorr?expand=1 http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/collier- schorr?expand=1

7. With what view do you most closely align, and why: (a)cultural critic, (b)respectability politics, or (c)something else? Have your/how have your views changed since the recent discussion?

8. How might your studio investigation encompass your perspective, as well as... appropriation, juxtaposition, recontextualization, layering, interaction of text and image, gazing, representin’ (Gude, 2004), story, meaning (Pink, 2006), aesthetics, self-actualization, and/or self- transcendence (Eldridge, 2012) ? What imagery will you use to achieve this?

9. Studio Investigation: 1.Go to Google, and type the desired text in the search field. 2.Then click “Images” at the top of the webpage. 3.Now, click “Search tools” > “Size” > “Large.” This process will ensure that your image size is large enough (not pixilated or grainy) to display. 4.Find a suitable image, and click on it. 5.Save it to your desktop by dragging. 6.Repeat this step several more times so you have a variety of visual text to work with.

11. Studio Investigation cont’d. 7.Begin a new Microsoft PowerPoint (PPT) presentation. 8.Revisit the saved images. 9.Copy one image and paste it into the new PPT. Enlarge to fit the whole space (Height: 7.5” x Width: 10”) using the “Format Picture”—just double-click the image. 10.Use the Crop function, if necessary. 11.Begin to play with the “Transparency” function also located in “Format Picture.” 12.You may change the background color of the slide by clicking the “Format” tab at the top of your screen. Then, click “Slide Background” > “Color” > select a color, and then click “Apply.” See following examples.

13. Studio Investigation cont’d. 13.Now, copy and paste the second image onto the first one; adapt the size(s) of one or both images. 14.Copy and paste text, if desired. 15.Consider working with some of the other functions in “Format Picture.” 16.The ultimate goal is to experiment with meaning and a message of vulnerability.

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