Please click the link above to view the "Identity Mask and Performance Project" from the youth course I co-designed with Katina Papson-Rigby entitled, "ArtSpeaks." See course description below:
Art Speaks
What’s your personal story? Want a chance to share it using your creativity? Art can be one of the most powerful ways to communicate – so join this class and share your voice with the world! In Art Speaks we will explore identity, community, and culture using multiple arts forms including painting, collage, sculpture, photography, video, audio, music, writing, theater and dance. We will look at various contemporary artists’ work to get inspired to make our own art! You will have the chance to work both solo and collaboratively with your classmates in creating art that "speaks"!
What’s your personal story? Want a chance to share it using your creativity? Art can be one of the most powerful ways to communicate – so join this class and share your voice with the world! In Art Speaks we will explore identity, community, and culture using multiple arts forms including painting, collage, sculpture, photography, video, audio, music, writing, theater and dance. We will look at various contemporary artists’ work to get inspired to make our own art! You will have the chance to work both solo and collaboratively with your classmates in creating art that "speaks"!
Please click on the link above to view curriculum from the "Self as Knowledge" unit from the college level course I designed entitled "Cultural Hegemony and Creative Resistance." See course description below:
Cultural Hegemony and Creative Resistance
In this interdisciplinary course, students will engage in praxis-- theory, action, and reflection—to understand and challenge systemic and cultural oppression and hegemony. This course will use academic readings, pop culture references, and various art forms (film, photography, theater, dance, poetry…) to engage with the topics. Relying on the body and the self as sources of knowledge and wisdom, students will start with their own experiences and then apply them to the larger systems of oppression, power, and privilege. Students will explore how hegemony works through media and culture, and critique these forms of hegemony. Finally students will learn about how art has been used as a tool for cultural resistance, by looking at politicized artists, pieces, and techniques. Their final project for this course will be a counter hegemonic art piece, using any medium they prefer to analyze and apply the theories and concepts discussed in this course.
Cultural Hegemony and Creative Resistance
In this interdisciplinary course, students will engage in praxis-- theory, action, and reflection—to understand and challenge systemic and cultural oppression and hegemony. This course will use academic readings, pop culture references, and various art forms (film, photography, theater, dance, poetry…) to engage with the topics. Relying on the body and the self as sources of knowledge and wisdom, students will start with their own experiences and then apply them to the larger systems of oppression, power, and privilege. Students will explore how hegemony works through media and culture, and critique these forms of hegemony. Finally students will learn about how art has been used as a tool for cultural resistance, by looking at politicized artists, pieces, and techniques. Their final project for this course will be a counter hegemonic art piece, using any medium they prefer to analyze and apply the theories and concepts discussed in this course.