1. S OCIAL S TUDIES, S CIENCE, AND A RT E DUCATION Mark Dion: Troubleshooting USF Contemporary Art Museum January 13 – March 3, 2012

2. W HAT DO YOU SEE ?

3. W HAT IS THIS PERSON DOING ?

4. F INDING O BJECTS

5. N EW E NGLAND D IGS (2001) Mark Dion, chest with artifacts from New Bedford dig, 2001

6. N EW E NGLAND D IGS (2001) Mark Dion, balls collected during the New England Dig, 2001

7. N EW E NGLAND D IGS (2001) Mark Dion, drawer from Brockton cabinet

8. N EW E NGLAND D IGS (2001) Mark Dion, Providence Cabinet, 2001

9. C ONCRETE J UNGLE (T HE B IRDS ), 1992 Taxidermic birds, cardboard boxes, tires, toy truck, wash basin, motor oil canister, chair cushion, rolled carpet, linoleum flooring, wooden crates, aluminum cans, newspaper, plastic bags, containers, cups, bottles, and other assorted rubbish 59 x 165 1/3 x 51 inches Collection of Susan and Michael Hort, New York, NY

10. “Artistic Plan of Action”  Think about a natural place you care about.  Imagine and visualize if this area and its life were “trashed.”  Now imagine that you have the opportunity to organize a clean-up of the area and will use the objects found to create a work of art:  What objects are you likely to find at your selected site?  How would you go about classifying the objects?  What kind of clean-up are you likely to do on the objects to make them “presentable”?  What message might you communicate in your work of art?