Art To The People!

http://www.iisg.nl/exhibitions/art/titel.html is a website that features historical examples of social change facilitated through art by five European artists from the 1880s to 1930s.

Activism Through Graffiti in Tel Aviv

Photo collection of social activism through street art in Florentine, Tel Aviv:

Translates to “No Children, No Terror Attacks”

Link:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/telavivstreetart/

FiftyCrows Foundation

FiftyCrows is a San Francisco based foundation, which promotes social change through photography. Founded in 2001, this organization seeks to use documentary-style photos to arouse public interest in social concerns and facilitate interaction.

More information can be found on their websites:

http://fiftycrows.wordpress.com/

http://www.fiftycrows.org/

Art Work- A National Conversation about Art, Labor and Economics

This website is teaming with viable information and material that could be used to help the arts and culture group find their footing. It has information about other art activist groups, and the creative economy and then some, so take a look!

Craft + Activism = Craftivism!

To be someone who considers themselves an activist generally means that you are also someone who isn't afraid of getting their hands dirty with a fair amount of 'do it yourself' work. So when researching different ways to successfully craft a movement that will incite social change, one should consider all types of 'do it yourself' work, especially craft! (I throw in the especially because I am personally a big fan of gettin' crafty!)

http://craftivism.com/what.html

Explore the site to learn more!

Also, on a related note:

Grafitti Knitting/ Yarn bombing!

OH! And one more thing:

The rich robbing from the poor.

Work from the members of the Arts and Culture Group

Hey guys!

First off, I want ed to remind everyone that they should join the Arts & Culture Google group, as I have found it helpful in answering some of the questions I had about our projects and the group in particular.

My research so far has lead me to the efforts of some of the group members, and finding simillar kind of grassroots campaigns in other cities that might help offer inspiration/guidance to the current members of the MMP Arts and culture group. Just for our reference, here are a few links to the work of some of the artist in the group.

- - Article about the RECLAIM PRINT project. (Beth Pulcinella)

- - A blog of multimedia interviews genreally focusing on social issues/change. (Mariel Walloff)

- - Philadelphia Students Union. (Jacob Winterstien)

The next few links are of examples of what other people are doing to help encite change.

- - Media Action Grassroots Network (Looking at the Members list will give you many different examples of other groups that are like MMP, and can give you ideas for potential group functions.

- - Mural Arts Program (Just incase you don't know about it already.)

- - Philadelphia Association of Community Development Corporations. (Provides a link of other community development groups that might be interested in cooperating with MMP/Arts and culture.)

- - Meshed Histories: The Influence of Screen Printing on Social Movements. (Interesting article that talks about some of what Pat talked about in his original Arts and Culture pitch.


Okay! Thats all for now!