Art Section 2 2027

What way that people oreinted themselves without maps does the acadeca packet NOT specify? (48)

Windpatterns

Who was NOT apart of the “Native Skywatchers” program? (48)

Cree

What was the “Native Skywatchers” program? (48)

a joint effort by native tribes and a collection of linguists, scientists, and elders that produced visualizations of Native star knowledge

In which state(s) was the “Native Skywatchers” program active? (48)

Minnesota

What is the name of the Australian aboriginal practice of using chants and songs for orientation in the Australian Outback (Interior of Australia)? (48)

“the Dreaming”

Which of these answers is an accurate way to describe how pacific islanders saw their art? (49)

They saw their art as useful tools for ceremonial functions and imbued objects of daily use with utility and beauty.

Which of these statements is true of the wakahuia? (49)

Used to hold treasured items of personal adornment, wakahuia are also believed to hold spiritual power.

Where are you most likely to find a wakahuia? (49)

New Zealand

Where are you most likely to find an aje? (49)

Marshall Islands

How is the Rebbelib Navigation Chart different from the Western notions of “navigation” or geography?

Because its navigational message cannot be effectively “communicated” to anyone outside the family of navigators

What is the main function of the aje (drum)? (49)

to be played by women to accompany men’s dances

Which of these items does the packet NOT mention as a domesticated plant and animal species brought by prehistoric settlers from southeast Asia to the Marshall islands? (49)

Pigs

What is the order in which the Marshall Islands changed hands? (50)

German Empire - Japanese sphere of influence - United States - Independence

Where were the Marshallese populations transported for use as enforced labor into the late nineteenth century? (50)

Hawaii

Early histories of contact in the Pacific world included collection by european travelers, traders, and ethnographers. Which community does the packet NOT mention being collected from by these Europeans

Micronesian communities

What type of boat did the Micronesian people use to travel between their 5 major islands and 29 atolls? (50)

Canoe

What are the names of the two major clusters of islands that make up the Marshall Islands? (50)

Ralik and Ratak chains

What are the navigation charts made out of specifically? (50)

cowrie shells and the dried midribs of coconut fronds bound together with natural fibers

Which of these descriptions most match mattang? (50)

a diagram used to teach navigators how swell patterns radiate out from islands

Which of these descriptions most match meddo? (50)

diagram representing Small, particular clusters of islands and their swell patterns used for local navigation

Which of these descriptions most match denung? (50)

word used to describe swell patterns

Which of these descriptions most match rebbelib? (51)

a diagram used to teach navigators how to understand how swells intersect and how winds and currents guide travelers across long distances often encompassing the entire Marshall archipelago

Which statement is NOT true about how Micronesian travelers used their navigation charts? (51)

They took their navigation charts out to sea to understand swell patterns and navigate

Who was the British naval captain that collected the rebbelib displayed in the packet?

Edward Henry Meggs Davis

On which ship did the sailor who collected the specific rebbelib chart shown in the packet sail? (51)

HMS Royalist

Who was Anthony Burns? (52)

an escaped slave who was arrested in 1854 and whose trial attracted support from abolitionists

who made the painting A Ride for Liberty? (52)

Eastman Johnson

What was the Big Dipper (also called Ursa Major) known as colloquially to African Americans escaping slavery? (52)

“drinking gourd”

Which river formed much of the border between the slave and free states and was seen as the final major obstacle to cross? (52)

Ohio river

What did bodies of water represent in Robert S. Duncanson’s paintings metaphorically? (52)

the safe traversal of a dangerous landscape

From what series is this piece of art from? (53)

Night Coming Tenderly, Black

After crossing into Ohio, where did fugitives have to go to escape slavery? (53)

Cleveland

What was the first major photographic project that Dawoud Bey completed? (53)

Harlem, USA

Where did Dawoud Bey graduate with an MFA from?

Yale

What is the name of the “genius grant”? (53)

MacArthur Fellowship

Which of these street photographers were based out of Harlem? (53)

Roy DeCarava

Which poet was Dawoud Bey inspired by most? (53)

Langston Hughes

which poem did Dawoud Bey get the title “Night Coming Tenderly, Black” from?

Dream Variations

What was Dawoud Bey’s first series that focused more on Black history then contemporary life? (53)

The Birmingham Project

What is Dawoud Bey’s series The Birmingham Project (2012)? (53)

Portraits that reflected on the six young lives lost in the bombing of a Baptist church

Who commissioned Dawoud Bey to investigate local histories of the underground railroad? (53)

the Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art

Where did Dawoud Bey create his portrait series The Birmingham Project? (53)

Birmingham, Alabama

What does the gelatin silver print allow photographers to do regarding tonal range in the photo? (54)

allows the photographer a full tonal range from dark true black to crisp white

What does Untitled #13 by Dawoud Bey and other photographs in series stress about the nature of the sites where formerly enslaved people sought safety during their journeys? (54)

The sites have an “unmonumental” nature

Which act of religious devotion involving walking does the packet NOT mention? (54)

Via Francigena

What is the piece of art of A Line Made by Walking according to Richard Long? (55)

the act of walking back and forth for about twenty minutes and the sculpture that was temporarily produced

What is A Line Made by Walking an important early work of? (55)

land art and conceptual art

What is De Maria’s Las Vegas Piece (55)

A sunken path carved into a desert.

Where is De Maria’s Las Vegas Piece located? (55)

Tule Desert, Nevada

What did De Maria forbid people from doing at Las Vegas Piece? (55)

Taking photographs of the piece from the air

What is Vito Acconci’s Following Piece? (55)

a conceptual artwork in which the artist selected random strangers to follow around New York City

What does the packet say inspired Richard Longs artistic interests in works involving walking? (55)

Long accompanied his parents on walking holidays

What is the first art school Richard Long studied at? (55)

West of England College of Art in Bristol

What was the second and more prestigious art school Richard Long studied at? (56)

St. Martin’s School of Art in London

What kind of art is Anthony Caro known for? (56)

Large-scale works exploring equilibrium and balance, executed using industrial materials and bright colors

Whose art was St. Martin’s School of Art in London dominated by? (56)

Anthony Caro

How did Anthony Caro’s art differ from his disciples at the St. Martin’s School of Art in London? (56)

Their works were often transient, self-deprecating, and intimate where Caro’s were permanent, grandoise, and monumental

who is the prestigious Turner Prize awarded? (56)

awarded annually to the best exhibition or installation in a British museum or gallery