Patti Smith -
Just Kids (7 minutes) audio - https://www.npr.org/sections/monkeysee/2010/11/17/131384730/hear-patti-smith-read-from-just-kids
Excerpt from M Train - https://www.vogue.com/13355625/patti-smith-memoir-m-train-excerpt/
This is a research assignment. Research independently who Patti Smith is, listen to her Horses album on youtube, research who Robert Maplethorpe was, who some of the other artists were that Smith talks about in her memoir excerpts, and then explain to me what's so important about these people in terms of their impact on art. 500-1000 words, find and use at least 3 sources of information in total, cited at the end of your assignment. You may use material posted by classmates in the discussion forum - the two assignments, the discussion and your own independent research, are designed to support each other rather than be entirely separate tasks.