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.
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Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Art To The People!
JUST SEEDS Blog
From http://justseeds.org/ -
“Justseeds Artists' Cooperative is a decentralized community of artists who have banded together to both sell their work online in a central location and to collaborate with and support each other and social movements. Our website is not just a place to shop, but also a destination to find out about current events in radical art and culture. Our blog covers political printmaking, socially engaged street art, and culture related to social movements. We believe in the power of personal expression in concert with collective action to transform society.”
“Justseeds was originally started in 1998 by artist Josh MacPhee as a way to distribute his art and the Celebrate People's History poster series. He slowly expanded Justseeds to include the work of like-minded artists. In 2006, MacPhee reached out to a dozen like-minded artists and previous collaborators as well as the political street art blog Visual Resistance in order to re-envision Justseeds as a cooperative effort. Justseeds was transformed into Justseeds Artists' Cooperative, an artist/worker owned and run cooperative and blog, that launched in the summer of 2007.”
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
CORNBREAD
Darryl “Cornbread” McCray is a former Philadelphia graffiti artist who gained notoriety for spraying his logo across the city from the late 1960s to early 1970s. Now a mild-mannered arts advocate, McCray is appalled by the evolution of graffiti as an art to a form of vandalism. It was in the 1980s when McCray realized how spray paint and vandalism left Philadelphia a mess. McCray helped clean-up his city by becoming a member of Mayor Wilson Goode’s former Anti-Graffiti Network. Since this time, McCray has become an avid supporter of the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, and works as a public speaker for this cause.
Jon E. Bekken, chairman of Albright College’s communications department realized McCray’s value as a knowledgeable expert in street art and invited the artist to speak at the school. “I’m interested in a wide range of communications, in particular in ways in which people who don’t have access to media outlets try to get a voice,” Bekken said. McCray gave some pointers to prospective taggers of the college: “If you’ve got the talent to do graffiti, you can get paid for it. But don’t go out and vandalize.”
Shepard Fairey
In the year 2008, American artist Shepard Fairey created one of the most iconic and highly publicized images. This image was the colorful, politically motivated “HOPE” poster featuring the mug of Barack Obama. Although already an accomplished stencil artist, Fairey gained national attention for the political propaganda of his creation. Not only did his poster allude to the modern ideologies Obama hoped to bring to the White House through Fairey’s use of color and medium, but in effect, made our president as iconic as Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans.
SOURCES:
http://www.infoplease.com/biography/var/shepardfairey.html
http://beiderbecke.typepad.com/tba/images/2008/02/28/obama_hope.jpg
BANKSY
As an oft controversial, bold, and somewhat anonymous artist, Robin Banks (better known as Banksy) is England’s premier graffiti artist. Banksy’s art is displayed with guerilla-like tactics, astonishing the unknowing public. He is also world-renowned for his “headline-making stunts” which include leaving an inflatable doll (which was dressed as a Guantanamo prisoner) at Disneyland in California. Always provocative, Banksy even has a few celebrity collectors, such as Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. The most prevalent theme in Banksy’s work is his attempts to provoke the audience to think abstractly and away from the norm.
SOURCE:
JOSE CLEMENTE OROZCO by Jay Burnham
Jose Clemente Orozco (1883-1949) was a well-known Mexican muralist and political cartoonist of the first half of the 20th century. As he grew up in Mexico City, Orozco discovered his passion for art. From 1910-1916, Orozco worked as a cartoonist for the magazine El Hijo de Ahuizote where he expressed a great deal of social commentary regarding the Mexican Revolution. By the 1920s, Orozco had found his preferred medium in murals. Though, his commentary was still abundant. His political commentary expanded from the Revolution to his concerns about dehumanization through technology and the changing of morals Orozco witnessed.
HISPANO-AMERICA (1934) is one of Orozco’s murals which frames a Latin-American peasent using his (human) rights to protest imperialist oppression.
SOURCES:
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/Orozco/part2.html
Art For Social Change –- A Website
www.artforsocialchange.net is a world-wide project initiated by Dutch artist Rini Hartman. The site expresses the goals of the program:
“A belief in cultural and creative expressionism as a means to affect deep and lasting social change. Through art, we can challenge many of our society’s deepest assumptions, built upon the power of artistic creation and expression to:
*Spark new ideas
*Catalyze critical thinking
*Elicit new actions
*Inspire individuals
*And create visions
Art becomes a political act, a conscious effort to facilitate and participate in social change. If we want respect, love and beauty among us and others, we must actively promote it through our art.
This site shows different ways of using art, which may inspire you.”
8 VISIONS OF HOPE
At the 2000 United Nations Millennium Summit, 189 world leaders signed onto the Millennium Declaration and agreed to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). MDGs was initiated as a way to set goals to improve the lives of the world’s poorest people. Rini Hartman created the 8 VISIONS OF HOPE project to create awareness of MDGs. 8 Visions of Hope often approaches subjects such as poverty and human rights.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
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!
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!
Spotlight: JOE BORUCHOW
JOE BORUCHOW is a self-taught stencil artist working in Philadelphia. Though he originally began making stencils and cutouts to advertise local bands, Boruchow’s art has leapt off the “posting boards and telephone poles” of Philadelphia. His art now expresses social commentary on topics from war to politics to violence in our own city.
Sources:http://www.joeboruchow.com/
http://citypaper.net/blogs/clog/category/street-art/
Spotlight: LIBER-8 ME
Artist STEWART EBERSOLE depicts urban blight with the clenching fists of his “Liber-8 Me” project.
Sources:http://citypaper.net/blogs/clog/category/street-art/
http://citypaper.net/blogs/clog/2008/02/12/liber-8-me-unmasked-street-artist-stewart-ebersole-of-the-renegade-art-coalition-speaks/
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