{"id":198,"date":"2011-11-30T06:21:04","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T13:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/?p=198"},"modified":"2011-11-30T06:21:04","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T13:21:04","slug":"strange-beauty-and-the-end-of-a-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/2011\/11\/30\/strange-beauty-and-the-end-of-a-block\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange Beauty and the End(?) of a Block"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During fourth week, we finished writing our catalogue essays for the <em>Strange Beauty<\/em> exhibition\u2014a project that we were working on for essentially the full block.\u00a0 Writing the catalogue essay was a kind of cathartic exercise for me, the chance to articulate all the ideas, insights, and research of the last few weeks into a final paper.\u00a0 In addition to creating the catalogue for the exhibition, our class got the opportunity to write the label text for the contemporary pieces.\u00a0 The process was more challenging than I expected, as by the time you are writing a label for a piece you really just want to share all the interesting insights and layers that you\u2019ve discovered, but you can\u2019t create a label that is too lengthy and didactic.\u00a0 I think as a class we were successful in this endeavor, writing labels that are informative, thought provoking, and short enough to retain a visitor\u2019s interest.\u00a0 Our final project was preparing for the <em>Strange Beauty<\/em> opening Cabaret, a multi-media program in which we interact with visitors to stimulate conversation about the works.\u00a0 I think it is going to be an exciting event, and a great chance to share what we\u2019ve been working on this block with CC students, staff, faculty, and the general public.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Since <em>Strange Beauty<\/em> doesn\u2019t open until December 6<sup>th<\/sup>, well into fourth block, our class isn\u2019t actually over as third block comes to a close. Yet as blocks seem to continuously build upon and play off one another, I feel like a class at CC isn\u2019t ever really over. Learning doesn\u2019t begin on Monday of first week and end on Wednesday of fourth week; it is truly a life-long process.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During fourth week, we finished writing our catalogue essays for the Strange Beauty exhibition\u2014a project that we were working on for essentially the full block.\u00a0 Writing the catalogue essay was a kind of cathartic exercise for me, the chance to articulate all the ideas, insights, and research of the last few weeks into a final &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/2011\/11\/30\/strange-beauty-and-the-end-of-a-block\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Strange Beauty and the End(?) of a Block&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ah231","category-block3","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1RtXj-3c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/blockfeatures\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}