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Illustration by Mataparda
Based on a 1909 woodcut by John Bauer

Art Activism: Democracy, Dissent and the DIY Movement 
(Syllabus Here)
focuses on the history of artist response and role in political and social movements in the 20th and 21st centuries. We will look at understanding artistic and social movements from relational aesthetics to relational society as well as the tools used by graffiti and street artists, inventors, and activists to participate in the marketplace of ideas as well as our general economy. Public response to guerilla activism will be explored through the lenses of geography, demographics, history and culture and the outcomes will be analyzed. 

Today we looked at an INTRO TO ART ACTIVISM

and discussed MODELS OF DEMOCRACY

A reading from REBELS AND RENEGADES is due next week. 

In this text you're reading for overall background info on the European settling of North America.  Take note of phrases coined in the 1600s and 1700s that politicians may still be using today.  As you read, look ahead to current day American Democracy.  Can you predict what will happen next… to the settlers and colonies? to the changes in our government?  Are you surprised by anything you have read?  In what instances were the settlers getting it right?  What were some of their mistakes?