Discussion: Expanding the Definition of Being Human with Significant Objects and Artistic Expressions

Pick a significant object. Your object could be a painting, a song, a dance, a photograph, or a piece of art or craft made by a human. In academia, these significant objects are also referred to as artifacts - items we can investigate, describe, and analyze. Artifacts can be any objects humans conceived of as art and deliberately crafted for practical or aesthetic purposes or both.

To prepare for this discussion:

• Review the Lascaux resource. Scroll down the web page to read about how the paintings were 'found.' Scroll back to the top and take the guided tour of the cave paintings. At any point, you can click on the lower left corner of the tour for more information about each of the walls and the images on them. Within each information panel, there is additional information for the images.
• Pick an image that interests you. The Shaft or the Left Wall Unicorn panel has some intriguing images.
• Read the information panel for your chosen image.
• Select your significant object and find a way to share it digitally. This can be a URL/web address to a site where you can view it, listen to it if it is a song, or you can take a picture of it and upload it to the discussion.

Ministre de la Culture. (n.d.) Lascaux.https://archeologie.culture.fr/lascaux/en

• Describe your chosen significant object, including the artist or maker (if they are known to you), where the object can be found, and when it was made. If it is a painting or a photograph, describe the use of color, line, shadow, and style of the image. If it is a song, describe the melody, musical genre, performance.
• Include an image or link to the object or medium.
• Explain how this object represents a part of your academic journey or connects to your professional goals for the future and what message it would convey about you as a Walden student to future viewers.
• Find at least one source that relates to your chosen significant object and explain how it is connected. You can find sources on the Walden Library, or by using a search engine like Google.
• Ex. If the object is a quilt made by a family member, look up quilts or family gifts. Consider the bigger categories that your significant object falls within as areas to research.