A ppt. that introduces the issues surrounding the final project.

1. • h"p://vimeo.com/21141080
Look.
How many art skills can you list?

2. Your spheres of influence.

3. THEORY AS ACTION
THEORY AS ACTION
ARTS TOWARD SOCIAL JUSTICE

4. It is said that everyone dies twice…

5. Once when you physically die…

6. The second is the last time
anyone utters your name…

7. What can any one person do
to make a difference…
to enact positive change?

8. Artists have a creative advantage.

9. We have a command of the
visual world.

10. We make things.

12. ACTION
h"p://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/william_kamkwamba_on_building_a_windmill.html

13. Think about what these words
mean to you.

14. INVENTION

15. CHANGE

16. CONNECTION

17. CREATIVITY

18. EMPOWERMENT

19. COMMUNITY

20. KINDNESS

21. MORALITY

22. DEMOCRACY

25. GLOBAL CITIZEN
COMMUNITY
MEMBER
FAMILY
YOU

26. FOR YOUR FINAL PROJECT
YOU WILL HAVE TO PROVE
THAT YOU CAN RAISE
AWARENESS ABOUT A CAUSE
(ON A TEAM)

27. August 29, 2005

33. Lori and John L. Kent in 1965 at Mardi Gras!

39. Creativity
+
Memory
+
Resistance

40. Creativity
+
PROJECTS BY ARTISTS IN NEW ORLEANS
Memory
+
Resistance

41. The Vestiges Project
an artists + writers collective since 1984

44. Waterline
Jan Gilbert

47. Picture This
Elizabeth Underwood/Naftali Rutter

50. Positive Thoughts
Terrance Sanders

52. Fear of Water
Lori Kent

55. Lori MacWhorter

56. Ron Bechet

57. Malcolm McClay

59. 0 %
Malcolm McClay

60. Hurricane Free Zone
Generic Art Solutions

63. Green is the New Black
Catherine Burke

65. Band Aid House
Zoe McClosky

67. Untitled
Mark Bradford

69. Pink Tree, Pink!
Elizabeth Underwood

72. Bright Light Satellite
Art in Action

75. Floodwall
Jana Napoli

77. hp://www.floodwall.org/index.php

79. YOUR WORLD ?

85. http://animals.change.org/
*
http://www.berkshumane.org/

86. WHAT ELSE :-0

87. http://being.publicradio.org/programs/2010/moral-math/

88. hp://being.publicradio.org/programs/2010/wild‐love‐for‐world/

89. http://www.billmckibben.com/eaarth/quiz.html

91. www.350.org

95. http://www.wwf.org/

96. http://www.gnof.org/programs/gulf-coast-oil-spill-fund/disaster-on-the-gulf-coast/

97. • http://www.audubon.org/

98. hp://www.greenpeace.org/usa/

99. http://www.grownyc.org/recycling/faq
http://www.mfta.org/

100. Waste Production
In the U.S., 4.39 pounds of trash
per day and up to 56 tons of trash per year
are created by the average person.
http://www.cleanair.org/Waste/wasteFacts.html

101. Waste Production
Only about one-tenth of all solid garbage in
the United States gets recycled.
http://www.cleanair.org/Waste/wasteFacts.html

102. Waste Production
AMERICANS throw away 2.5 million plastic
bottles every hour.
http://www.cleanair.org/Waste/wasteFacts.html

103. Waste Production
Americans throw away enough aluminum cans
to rebuild our commercial air fleet every three
months, and enough iron and steel to supply
all our nation's automakers every day.
http://www.cleanair.org/Waste/wasteFacts.html

104. Waste Production
Throwing away one aluminum can wastes as
much energy as if that can were 1/2 full of
gasoline
http://www.cleanair.org/Waste/wasteFacts.html

105. YOUR TASK ?

110. ?

111. CHANGE

112. HOPE*

113. WEB 2.0

114. hp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADdfEDdjItcNR=1

115. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bmhjf0rKe8

116. http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends

117. http://www.kiva.org/

118. TOOLS
(note: there are rules
about hanging things up on campus)

123. YOKO ONO

124. YOKO ONO

129. QUESTIONS?