Discussion #3: Cross-Cultural Connections & Themes in Food & Shelter (Multiple Deadlines)
Posts with Classmate Comments due by Sunday at 11:59PM
Your Post Deadline is Thursday, 04/23/2026
For this discussion, we, as a class will continue to investigate the context of artworks. This time, we are going to discuss how cross-cultural influences may have played a role and identifying artworks that are multi-thematic.
Select any images, artworks, structures from this week’s section on Sustenance and Shelter. You will want to select something that you can discuss with regards to:
- cross cultural influence: the example must have influenced another culture or was influenced by another culture
- multi-thematic: the example must have characteristics of many themes present; identify the the themes from the table below (from Module 2). We have not learned about all themes yet, which is ok. Do your best to interpret the themes that are present in your example 🙂
This table describes the different Themes for Art Sustenance & Survival Religion & Spirituality Sexuality & Gender Culture & Ethnicity Nature Mortality & Immortality Identity Race Technology Power Protest Consumerism Politics Class
Getting started
1. Review the all content sections in this Unit’s and page on themes from last week’s module:
2. The following pages will help your investigation specifically:
3. After you have made your selection of which artwork to share, being researching how it can be described in terms of:
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cross cultural influence: the example must have influenced another culture or was influenced by another culture
- multi-thematic: the example must have characteristics of many themes present; identify the the themes from the table above.
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4. In your discussion post:
(1) share an image/s, please embed the image.
(2) discuss the cross cultural influence: please be specific and provide details, examples, resources to support your statements
(3) discuss how it can be discussed as multi-thematic: please be specific and provide details, examples, resources to support your statements
Your post should be approximately 150-200 words or up to 4 minutes (if a video/audio response).
If you’re including an image, be sure to embed the image into to post:
Your discussion and reply may be typed or video recorded, not sure how?…check out this link:
Replies due by Sunday at 11:59PM
All Replies to Classmates are Due 04/26/2026
Please reply to 2 students
Each student should provide 2 “deep dive” replies (2-3 sentences) responding to one or more of the following:
1) Compare and contract their response with your response.
2) Further consider themes in their example they may not have discussed in their original post.
These may be typed or video recorded, not sure how?…check out this link:
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