Project 2 Experience

     In my project I talked about politics and Arts. I specifically talked about the National Endowment for the Arts, an organization created by the U.S. Congress in 1965 to stimulate the culture of the country. In this project I learned that the U.S. government has played an important role in how people value public art. I also learned that art can be used as propaganda, especially when it is funded by the private sector.
    I also learned about other interesting topics, such as value of arts, art appreciation, sculpture and beauty in arts. I think that this project helped me to increase my knowledge and look at artworks differently.
    What I most liked was the artwork that compared the life in Africa and here. I think that he was showing the history of his life. It is difficult having two different worlds and make this big transition from one to the other.
   It was interesting to share my experiences with my classmates and all participate as a group.
  

Essay body(revision)

    I went to an interview with Rebbecca Stephenson. She is the executive director of Space Taker. I asked her about the causes of the NEA's creation and she answered that although she has not so much information about the history of the NEA, she consider that is was created to stimulate the culture of the U.S. society and to compete with other countries such as Russia and European countries.
    She talked about the Texas Commission for the Arts, wich is funded by the NEA, Houston Arts Alliance and by the private sector. She consider that the use of private sector money has issues bacause they want to use art and artist as propaganda.
   One of the issues associated with the National Endowment for the Arts was that sometimes people complained because of the kind of art that was created. People critiziced the NEA because it helped controversial artist as Robert Clark Young, Barbara Degenevieve, Andres Serrano, Robert Mapplethorpe.
    She also sended me an article to get more information about the NEA.
   This interviee helped me to understand more about the topic and also to know some of the issues associated with the NEA.

Conclusion

    The references I read had almost the same information about my topic and question. The main difference that I found was that while our text book talks about the role of the National Endowment for the Arts, the others talked of the conflicts and problems of this organization. My suggested answer is that the creation of the NEA was part of the political policies. I think that this organization was created to stimulate some kind of political interests. The artwork I analyzed let me look the positive things of this organization. Even when I think that the NEA was creates for political interests, I appreciate that it has increased the cultural level of this society. In my piece I want to reflect a comparison of how people appreciate public art before and after the creation of the NEA. I will try to reflect it in a piece of paper. I have not started my artwork, but after my interview with Jenni Rebbecca I will decide what I want to do.