Mary Jane Jacob Lecture

The lecture that Mary Jane Jacobs gave was based upon one location, Charleston, South Carolina. The majority of the works that she mentioned were based in Charleston. Jacob's showed that Kwon's quote, "These artists eschew the constricting limitations not only of artistic conventions but of the traditional institutional spaces of their production, such as studios, museums and galleries”. Mary Jane Jacobs talked about how larger spaces were needed for art projects. She started by mentioning the Camoflauge House as one of these art projects. She soon began talking about Charleston and the projects she did there. You could tell from the way that she spoke about Charleston that she truly enjoyed the place and the work that she has done there. This included the house that was formerly a plantation that the artists refurbished and created rugs that had the names of those that had worked the soil (under slavery). Mary Jane Jacobs did not let the constrictions of a museum to keep her from showing art, even if the art was a house, as it was for the house in Charleston. These large art projects that she helped to show were art that questioned how people viewed the past. They made people think "about the past. This was what Mary Jane Jacobs wanted after she stated "Asks big questions about important concepts" in the beginning of her lecture. She certainly achieved that goal.