Sheldon Museum | The Art of Perception

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Sheldon Museum of Art presents an Art of Perception workshop where students and faculty from diverse academic disciplines use art as a vehicle for critical analysis.

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[00:00:05.740]By training I'm an art historian and a lawyer.
[00:00:08.430]So I took the practical aspects of each
[00:00:10.220]of those disciplines to create the program.
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[00:00:20.480]Because art it turns out is a wonderful vehicle.
[00:00:23.080]Everybody sees something.
[00:00:24.900]So it can be used in a really cross-disciplinary way
[00:00:28.290]to get many different individuals, in many different fields,
[00:00:31.660]to reconsider their observation,
[00:00:34.070]perception and communication.
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[00:00:42.870]A lot of these students here
[00:00:43.810]are national security students, so they're interested
[00:00:45.949]in working in the intelligence community
[00:00:48.790]or they're interested in working for defense.
[00:00:51.510]The goal of the workshop today is to use
[00:00:53.350]the Sheldon Art Museum, which is a gem on this campus,
[00:00:56.600]to help people across disciplines, across majors
[00:00:59.350]and departments and academic disciplines
[00:01:01.400]to rethink their observation, perception
[00:01:03.620]and communication skills using art as the vehicle
[00:01:06.370]to reconsider their sense of critical inquiry.
[00:01:09.070]I love art, so I was very interested
[00:01:10.810]to see the intersection between art and analysis.
[00:01:13.780]I basically divided them into trios.
[00:01:15.800]Each trio got a work of art.
[00:01:17.320]They had to spend five minutes with it
[00:01:19.210]and decide what were their observations
[00:01:20.950]without reading the labels.
[00:01:21.910]Their observations, what did they see
[00:01:23.960]and then as a team of three had to describe
[00:01:26.930]the work of art to their colleagues.
[00:01:28.770]Everyone had to say something and it's just testing
[00:01:31.640]their ability to look at brand new information
[00:01:33.534]and be able to talk about it.
[00:01:35.360]I'm naturally a more practical thinker
[00:01:38.020]and so I'm always looking for opportunities
[00:01:39.980]to sort of learn how to think more creatively.
[00:01:42.590]And I definitely think that's something that can be learned.
[00:01:45.360]And so when she pointed out that you can see the ladder
[00:01:48.620]and the tank and you did it in context.
[00:01:50.550]You said there's the ladder, there's the tank and she
[00:01:52.370]led you to the figure of a firefighter.
[00:01:54.330]The most important thing is that
[00:01:55.880]we're getting folks outside their comfort zone.
[00:01:57.950]And we're getting them to think about things
[00:01:59.750]that they don't have a lot of background in.
[00:02:01.450]So it forces them to sort of, from the very beginning,
[00:02:04.640]be honest with their observations and to think critically.
[00:02:07.590]Well, first of all I hope they'll take away a renewed
[00:02:09.500]appreciation of the Sheldon Museum of Art
[00:02:11.300]because it's such, I mean...
[00:02:12.870]It's a world class collection, number one.
[00:02:14.890]And number two the idea of thinking outside of their box.
[00:02:18.610]Outside of their intelligence box or their art history box
[00:02:21.400]or their criminal justice and thinking about the benefits
[00:02:25.100]of multiple perspectives in their decision making.
[00:02:27.240]Because not only do they have to do that as students,
[00:02:28.973]but when they eventually go into the professional world
[00:02:31.514]they're gonna be faced in our complex world
[00:02:33.910]with really complex decision making and I hope that art
[00:02:36.850]will give them a template to make better decisions.
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