arc 200 intro to social justice

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Look.

How many art skills can you list?

Your spheres of influence.

How many art skills can you list?

THEORY AS ACTION THEORY AS ACTION

ARTS TOWARD SOCIAL JUSTICE

It is said that everyone dies twice…

Once when you physically die…

The second is the last time anyone utters your name…

What can any one person do to make a difference… to enact positive change?

Artists have a creative advantage.

We have a command of the visual world.

We make things.

h"p://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/william_kamkwamba_on_building_a_windmill.html

ACTION

Think about what these words mean to you.

INVENTION

CHANGE

CONNECTION

CREATIVITY

EMPOWERMENT

COMMUNITY

KINDNESS

MORALITY

DEMOCRACY

GLOBAL CITIZEN

COMMUNITY MEMBER

FAMILY

YOU

FOR YOUR FINAL PROJECT YOU WILL HAVE TO PROVE

THAT YOU CAN RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT A CAUSE

(ON A TEAM)

August 29, 2005

Lori and John L. Kent in 1965 at Mardi Gras!

Creativity +

Memory�

+ �Resistance

Creativity +

Memory�

+ �Resistance

PROJECTS BY ARTISTS IN NEW ORLEANS

The Vestiges Project�an artists + writers collective since 1984�

Waterline�Jan Gilbert �

Picture This�Elizabeth Underwood/Naftali Rutter�

Positive Thoughts�Terrance Sanders�

Fear of Water�Lori Kent�

Lori MacWhorter

Ron Bechet

Malcolm McClay

Malcolm McClay

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Hurricane Free Zone�Generic Art Solutions�

Green is the New Black�Catherine Burke�

Band Aid House�Zoe McClosky�

Untitled�Mark Bradford�

Pink Tree, Pink!�Elizabeth Underwood�

Bright Light Satellite�Art in Action�

Floodwall�Jana Napoli�

h"p://www.floodwall.org/index.php

YOUR WORLD ?

http://animals.change.org/

http://www.berkshumane.org/ *

WHAT ELSE :-0

http://being.publicradio.org/programs/2010/moral-math/

h"p://being.publicradio.org/programs/2010/wild‐love‐for‐world/

http://www.billmckibben.com/eaarth/quiz.html

www.350.org

http://www.wwf.org/

http://www.gnof.org/programs/gulf-coast-oil-spill-fund/disaster-on-the-gulf-coast/

• http://www.audubon.org/

h"p://www.greenpeace.org/usa/

http://www.grownyc.org/recycling/faq

http://www.mfta.org/

Waste Production

In the U.S., 4.39 pounds of trash per day and up to 56 tons of trash per year are created by the average person.

http://www.cleanair.org/Waste/wasteFacts.html

Waste Production

Only about one-tenth of all solid garbage in the United States gets recycled.

http://www.cleanair.org/Waste/wasteFacts.html

Waste Production

AMERICANS throw away 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour.

http://www.cleanair.org/Waste/wasteFacts.html

Waste Production

Americans throw away enough aluminum cans to rebuild our commercial air fleet every three months, and enough iron and steel to supply all our nation's automakers every day.

http://www.cleanair.org/Waste/wasteFacts.html

Waste Production

Throwing away one aluminum can wastes as much energy as if that can were 1/2 full of gasoline

http://www.cleanair.org/Waste/wasteFacts.html

YOUR TASK ?

?

CHANGE

HOPE*

WEB 2.0

h"p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADdfEDdjItc&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bmhjf0rKe8

http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends

http://www.kiva.org/

TOOLS (note: there are rules

about hanging things up on campus)

YOKO ONO

YOKO ONO

QUESTIONS?