Creative Worlds
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Creative Worlds
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Creative Worlds
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In the Spring of 2019, students in the Creative Worlds explored concepts of community engagement within the practices of art and design through a semester-long collaboration with Columbia College Chicago archives. Heidi Marshall and Dominic Rossetti taught students how to “read an image” with posters from two of the archives’ historical collections: The Chicago Anti-Apartheid Movement (link), and Columbia students respond to Kent State. In order to interpret these The students read texts to consider the role of art in two of the most powerful events of the 20th Century: South Africa’s Anti-Apartheid Movement, and the response to the killings of students by National Guard at Kent State.
Also during the semester, students were joined by artist, Regin Igloria, a socially-engaged, Chicago-based artist who uses zines and artists’ books to engage communities in constructing their own creative narratives and contribute them to a moveable and expanding library. Students used the technique of mind mapping to consider all of the themes of the works they reviewed at archives, and created one-page zines to creatively interpret their meaning and impact. These works will be exhibited at the Read/Write Library in Chicago, IL.
According to the students of this course, art’s main role in social change is to bring awareness and spark discussion through powerful symbols, ideas, and iconography. The poster artworks in these collections are a record of the power of art to fight for human rights and dignity.
Also during the semester, students were joined by artist, Regin Igloria, a socially-engaged, Chicago-based artist who uses zines and artists’ books to engage communities in constructing their own creative narratives and contribute them to a moveable and expanding library. Students used the technique of mind mapping to consider all of the themes of the works they reviewed at archives, and created one-page zines to creatively interpret their meaning and impact. These works will be exhibited at the Read/Write Library in Chicago, IL.
According to the students of this course, art’s main role in social change is to bring awareness and spark discussion through powerful symbols, ideas, and iconography. The poster artworks in these collections are a record of the power of art to fight for human rights and dignity.
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Estefania Badillo, Rachel Baranowski, Sarah Benitez, Mason Burch, Dj Buschauer, Zack Daniels, Nathan Horowitz, Vana Jaramillo Ortega, Marquise LaPlace, Dave McGonigal, Samantha Mcgrath, Jonathan Morales, Ashley Morrison, Bruno Nobile, Rex Otto, Austin Parker, Alana Pendergraft, Elliott Pepich, Isaac Rivera, McKenna Roman, Samuel Silverman, Samuel Stukel, Xitlaly Viveros, Emelyn Walsh
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Highet, Juliet. 2014. “Apartheid’s Artistic Legacy,” New African Magazine: 84 – 87.
Miller, Kimberly Anne. 2009. "Moms with guns: women's political agency in anti-apartheid visual culture". African Arts. 42: 68-75.
Young, Allison K. 2017. "Visualizing Apartheid Abroad: Gavin Jantjes's Screenprints of the 1970s". Art Journal / College Art Association of America. 76: 3-4.
Armstrong, Catherine. 2016. Using non-textual sources: a historian's guide. London: Bloomsbury.
O'Hara, John Fitzgerald. 2006. "Kent State/May 4 and Postwar Memory". American Quarterly. 58 (2): 301-328.
Power, Nina. “The art of protest: can artists respond effectively to social and political upheaval?” Tate Museum blog. February 22, 2016. <https://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/articles/art-protest>
Ruffing, Greg. “’The Artist as a Catalyst of Social Change?’ Part 2: Regin Igloria and North Branch Projects.” Sixty Inches from Center. December 6, 2018. <http://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/the-artist-as-a-catalyst-of-social-change-part-2-regin-igloria-and-north-branch-projects/>
Miller, Kimberly Anne. 2009. "Moms with guns: women's political agency in anti-apartheid visual culture". African Arts. 42: 68-75.
Young, Allison K. 2017. "Visualizing Apartheid Abroad: Gavin Jantjes's Screenprints of the 1970s". Art Journal / College Art Association of America. 76: 3-4.
Armstrong, Catherine. 2016. Using non-textual sources: a historian's guide. London: Bloomsbury.
O'Hara, John Fitzgerald. 2006. "Kent State/May 4 and Postwar Memory". American Quarterly. 58 (2): 301-328.
Power, Nina. “The art of protest: can artists respond effectively to social and political upheaval?” Tate Museum blog. February 22, 2016. <https://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/articles/art-protest>
Ruffing, Greg. “’The Artist as a Catalyst of Social Change?’ Part 2: Regin Igloria and North Branch Projects.” Sixty Inches from Center. December 6, 2018. <http://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/the-artist-as-a-catalyst-of-social-change-part-2-regin-igloria-and-north-branch-projects/>
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Erase of Culture Protesting through Art, Not allowing Culture to be Erased by Protesting Through Art
by Ashley Morrison