Intro

Week 1 intro

Hello class, my name is Jacob Skarr and I go by the pronouns he, him, and his. There is no other particular name for a name, unless people just call me by my last name. Here at the University of California, Los Angeles I am a third year economics major with a minor in chicano studies. I am trying to see if there may be a way if I can minor in accounting. But overall being here at UCLA has been very fulfilling and has provided an experience beyond what I experienced. 

In particular regarding this class, I am fulfilling my chicano studies minor but I am more than excited to see what this class has to offer. Background knowledge or experience from a personal level is at the bare minimum, I am nowhere near to being an artist. Through this class I may expand my horizons and knowledge about art. I have learned very little aspects about the Latinx community that uses art as a form of resistance. 

So overall, I believe I will enjoy this class as it will provide a different experience of learning rather than the traditional lecture and discussion entity, but with a more hands on interaction which should make the class fun. I am looking forward to this quarter and this class in particular to take on everything it has to offer!

Lastly for this week's reading on “There’s No Place Like Aztlán: Embodied Aesthetics in Chicana Art” it was very interesting to see how the work coming from Aztlan was more from a perspective of reclamation and sense of displacement.