Pattern and Representation: Critical Cataloging for a New Perspective on Campus History
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This document summarizes an art history course titled "Pattern & Representation: Critical Cataloging for a New Perspective on Campus History" taught at Oklahoma State University. The course examines major developments in American art across different media from European contact through the mid-20th century. As part of the course, students are divided into groups to create digital exhibitions cataloging artworks from university newspaper archives between certain years. Students must include contextual information and link their entries to related articles. Their entries and a reflective essay are graded individually based on their work plan. The course introduces the concept of "critical cataloging" to bring social justice perspectives to archival and metadata work.
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- 1. Pattern & Representation: Critical Cataloging for a New Perspective on Campus History Megan Macken, Assistant Professor, Oklahoma State University Libraries Louise Siddons, Professor, Art History, Oklahoma State University VRA, March 29, 2022
- 2. History of American Art, Fall 2020
- 3. This course will examine major developments and themes in American art across media, from the moment of European contact through the middle of the twentieth century. In addition to examining the production of the many cultures of North America (predominantly in the United States), we will situate American art within its global context and in relation to current events. This course is being taught online. Most course components will be available asynchronously, but you will be assigned to a discussion section that will meet via videoconference on either Tuesday or Thursday during our scheduled class time. History of American Art, Fall 2020 Transferable skills • Research with primary sources • Digital dissemination of research Direct experience • Writing for academic and public audiences • Developing a digital humanities project Knowledge • An understanding of how artists and art historians have supported or critiqued structures of inequality in American culture
- 5. Digital History Project • Groups of 5 students assigned sets of 5 years • Groups decide how they will distribute work & create work plan • Individually graded, evaluated based on work plan • 1-hour training on platform • 3 weeks to create an exhibition list with links to articles and basic artist info • Observe context of surrounding articles in the newspapers • Feedback and Revisions on exhibition cataloging • Description of one exhibition: info from O’Colly and 1 other scholarly or archival source • Reflective Essay • Common themes, shared goals, organizers, audience reactions • Connection to current events/experiences • Gaps in exhibition history • Propose an artist or exhibition theme that addresses an aspect of what’s missing in the history. How would your proposed exhibition respond meaningfully to a current event that was also covered in the O’Colly in your time period?
- 6. Critical Cataloging ‘CritCat is short for “critical cataloging,” a movement of cultural heritage workers who work to bring social justice, radical empathy, and outreach work into their everyday practice.’ Brian M Watson, critcat.org Caswell, Michelle, and Marika Cifor. "From Human Rights to Feminist Ethics: Radical Empathy in the Archives." Archivaria 81 (2016): 23-43. muse.jhu.edu/article/687705.
- 7. Selected online discussion questions Week 2: "What is the relationship between your local identity and your sense of what it means to be an ‘American’? How does landscape and geography play into that?" Week 16: “Link to one of the exhibitions you are writing about in your Reflective Essay and explain why you chose it.” "What common themes or interests are evident in the answers to Question 1?"
- 8. Layers of Metadata 1. newspaper issue metadata Click to add text
- 9. Layers of Metadata 1. newspaper issue metadata 2. automated transcription (not edited) Click to add text
- 10. Layers of Metadata 1. newspaper issue metadata 2. automated transcription (not edited) 3. students' article-level metadata for exhibitions ◦ cataloging the exhibition title with artists names and article(s) as reference
- 11. Layers of Metadata 1. newspaper issue metadata 2. automated transcription (not edited) 3. students' article-level metadata for exhibitions ◦ cataloging the exhibition title with artists names and article(s) as reference 4. ongoing faculty metadata cleanup and reconciling data with other sources, authorities, and collections
- 26. Thank you Megan Macken, Assistant Professor, OSU Libraries [email protected] Louise Siddons, Professor, Art History [email protected] And thank you to all project contributors!