"Critical Messages: Contemporary Northwest Artists on the Environment"
Willamette University's Hallie Ford Museum of Art (August 28-November 7, 2010)
" Critical Messages" includes about 50 works by 26 artists from Oregon, Washington, Idaho, California, and British Columbia, Canada.

Directions

1. Look at the approximately 50 works of art in Critical Messages. Think about what values the artists have and what messages they wish to convey.
2. Choose one work from the exhibition that you find especially interesting. Do not choose the same work as your friends and classmates.

a. The name of the work is: _________________________________________________.

b. The artist is ________________________________________________.

c. This work is a/an ________________________________________________________ (for example, ink drawing, watercolor painting, sculpture, terrarium, acrylic, print, carving, etching, woodcut, linocut, inkjet print, etc.)

d. (Think hard! Guess!) The message of the artist is perhaps ...

e. (Think hard! Guess!) The value behind the message might be ...

f. Sketch the work of art:

Example