Step 1. Make a connection between your career field and the visual arts**. Write & post your thesis statement sentence= (visual arts + career field + connection) and visual artist born after 1900 within Graded Lesson 1 IDE Discussion Board. [How can or has aspects of the visual arts been used in your chosen career? or What does your career field and the visual arts have in common?, or how your career field has contributed to the visual arts, or how a similarity exists between the two. AND identify at least one visual artist born after 1900 to example your connection. ] [For example, an accountant goes through an analytical process to determine the financial status of a company, and visual artists Jeanne and Claude Christo went through a process when considering the creation of The Gates . Thus the commonality or common denominator is analytical thinking and processes. ] View these documents to broaden your concept of an artist and some example connections ( Thinking Around an Artist - Connections Wheel.pdf **The visual arts are those arts discussed in your textbook. **In addition: although the career field of nursing may be an art, it is not a visual art. Although the human body is art, it is not a visual art in itself. However, a nurse can use the visual arts (the artwork of Mary Cassatt for example) to promote mental well being of his/her patients and the human body can be used by artist in sculpture, photography etc. **In addition: not all visual images are visual artworks!! Visual images include some advertising, medical illustrations, etc. However, all visual artworks rely upon visual images- as all visual artwork are visual by nature. If this is unclear for you- send your instructor a BB Message with your specific questions. Step 2. Write your essay. (see below requirements for essay content and format) Submit your essay to the Writing Lab for their feedback on format, grammar, etc. (submit through (Use Writing Lab Announcement for submitting information) or email the [email protected] (allow at least 48hours workday turn around) (( Ensure you or the Writing Lab sends me an email of verification (time and date) of your submission. I do not need to see their feedback to you) The one required scholarly (found through class textbook & online CTC Library – not Internet websites) source must support at least one side of the connection you are claiming in your thesis statement with specific information and examples(in the form of at least 2 in-text citations from this source). Your paper must include documentation of sources within the essay in the form of in-text citations and then a works cited page. This is an absolute requirement to avoid Plagiarism. All references to images must be documented in MLA style as seen in the Example Essay. Please go to the Writing Lab’s workshop on Finding and Evaluating Sources- instructions for access found in the Announcements. In ad ...