Overview
Art as Advocacy: Explorations into Literary and Visual Art to Provoke Change will consider essays, videos, interviews, poetry, and visual art whose aim is to highlight issues of social concern to disrupt the current conversation. Middle school students are developmentally at an age where they are ready to engage with the world outside of the classroom and need an outlet by which to do so. Students will learn about social struggles related to the specific periods and places of focus, study different artists’ pieces in reaction to social issues, and write and speak about the messages conveyed by the art and the techniques used to convey them. After learning the craft, students will then be charged with creating their own artist’s collectives, which will involve writing their themes and principles of design. They will then be required to write an essay explaining their collective’s mission and brand and to create artwork following those standards based on local issues they would like to disrupt. Finally, we will hold an exhibition of their collective’s art and put it on public display with changemakers as our audience.
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