INTERACTIVITY ASSIGNMENT PARTS I & I (worth a total of 5%)
PART I:
The first part of the interactivity assignment will get you familiar with using the chat room. Your assignment is to invoke the chat room (clicking on the "Let's Chat" icon from any tool bar) and provide your instructors and fellow students with the following information:

1) Your Name
2) Your Email Address
3) Your Major (if working toward a degree)
4) Your reason for taking this course.

PART II:
By using the "LET's CHAT" and the email features of the course, find out who the other students in the class are and provide us with the following information:
1)  The other students' names
2)  The other students' email addresses
3)  The museum they referenced in the Museum Assignment
4)  The work of art they will write about in their Term Paper

If you should encounter problems while trying to use the chat room, please contact your INSTRUCTORS .

Feel free to email, fax, mail or hand carry your assignments to either Ned or Sally.  Click on the INSTRUCTORS icon to find our addresses, phone numbers, room numbers etc.

II) INSIGHTS ASSIGNMENT  25%

To be successful in this class, one must read and study the Learning Modules associated with this course (i.e. Guilds, Royal Patronage, Church Patronage etc.)

After reading and analyzing the modules, write a 4-5 page (word processed, double spaced) paper discussing the insights you have gained.  An insight is new learning - something you have discovered for the first time or something you have long forgotten.  Discuss your insights pertaining to each of the web modules and discuss any insights which may span or integrate across multiple modules.

III) ART MUSEUM ASSIGNMENT  20%
An art museum is a permanent collection of art. Some famous art museums are The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; The Louvre, Paris; The Prado, Madrid; The National Gallery, London; The Uffizi, Florence,: The Vatican Museums, Rome; The Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

Find six different art museum websites on the Internet.

• List the art museum names and their URL's.
• What are the major categories of the museums' holdings i.e. do they specialize in particular eras?  
• How long has each museum been in existence and how is each funded?
  
• Which was the most interesting to you and why?
• Try to find the administrative structure of the art museum (e.g. Trustees, directors, chain of command, etc.)  
  Discuss the structure and organization of the museum and of the website.
  

You have two options for your final term paper.  Please choose from one of the two options below:

OPTION 1:
Select a topic about a historical business/art topic, research the paper via the Internet (and through books if necessary), and submit a 4-6 page (word-processed, double spaced) paper on the topic.  Be sure to discuss both the art and the business element. Make sure you cite all your sources within the body of the paper and include a brief bibliography of these sources including any web sites accessed.  Several topics are listed below, or consult Ned or Sally if you have a different topic in
mind.

• William Hogarth's prints and the development of copyright law

• The business partnership of Donatello and Michelozzo (there is a wonderful book on this  topic at WSU & elsewhere)

• Michelangelo's problems with the commission of the Tomb of Pope Julius II

• Art sold on the open market: seventeenth century Dutch painting

• Currier and Ives' lithography business

A new art form: the fine art posters of Toulouse-Lautrec

Choose one of the following or consult Ned or Sally: 

(A great big THANK YOU to Doug Greathouse for developing the scripts and images depicted below!)

	The Record Michael A. Fresca 1998 Centerville Public Library 111 West Spring Valley Road Centerville, Ohio
Ancestral Spirit Dance Willis (Bing) Davis 1981 Sinclair Community College 444 West Third Street Building 12, 1st Floor Dayton, Ohio
	Incomplete Red Circles Steven Antonakos 1977 U.S. Federal Building 200 West Second Street Dayton, Ohio
Private Fair 1884 200 Block of North Main Street Dayton, Ohio
	William McKinley Augustus Lukeman 1909 Cooper Park S.E. Corner of Second & St. Clair Streets Dayton, Ohio
Flyover David Black 1996 Fifth & Main Street Dayton, Ohio
	Vietnam Veterans Memorial Park 1986 South Ludlow at Stewart Street Dayton, Ohio
A Celebration of Bicycling Jerome B. Meadows 1991 South Patterson at Carillon Drive (Adjacent to Bikeway) Dayton, Ohio
	Deeds Carillon 1942 Carillon Historical Park South Patterson at Carillon Drive Dayton, Ohio

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