What diverse roles to artists play in community arts?
Thank you to our final design and facilitation team who presented today. Snack was a variety of tasty ingredients so that we might create our own unique trail mix combination. This is representative of different artists trying to create change with uniqueness and various combinations in various contexts.
Our ritual was designed to stimulate our creativity by adding to a community drawing with pastels, markers or glitter. It was left for us to add to throughout the remainder of the presentation if we chose to. It was to assist us on reflecting on the question of role of artists in community.
Our presentation group talked about the role of an artist being risky and the fact that there is no way to anticipate how the audience will receive the expression. In the interest of bringing attention to a cause various artists, in various ways the group provided some examples. Site specific protest, using social media, is shown in this film clip:
Also the flash mob (example in link below) attracts attention; great potential if combined with a social change agenda.
The Hunts Point Fish Parade is an example of a community-building event that address a specific issue. It stimulates discussion and awareness as well as benefits of celebrating their community. The coverage begins about 1 min into this video clip.
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