1. Art for Social Justice
Grade 11 Summative

2. Social justice art is art that makes a statement about injustices and is meant to protest, raise awareness and promote change. Art has been used as a means to record history, shape culture, cultivate imagination, and harness individual and social transformation. It can take any form including drawing, painting, sculpture, murals, graffiti, film, theatre, music, dance, and spoken word.

3. Guernica Artist: Pablo Picasso 1937 Palette of gray, black, and white
Anti-war – shows the suffering of people due to violence and chaos
Created in response to the bombing of Guernica, in northern Spain, by Nazi German and Fascist Italian warplanes at the request of Spanish Nationalists

5. Ruby Bridges walking to school in 1960 on the first day of court ordered desegregation in New Orleans flanked by US marshals.

6. COMPARE THE NEXT TWO SLIDES: Which artist is white and which artist is African American?  Which work shows how the situation looked and which shows how it felt to be the girl in the situation? How do you think it felt to be that girl? How did the artist communicate that feeling? What could you have done to help the girl if you had been there?

7. The Problem We All Live With
Artist: Norman Rockwell
1960

8. The Ordeal of Alice Artist: Jacob Lawrence
How did the historical and cultural events influence the artist?

9. We Love You… So Love Us Graffiti Artist: Banksy Born 1974 in England
Anonymous graffiti artist, political activist and film director
Album Cover

10. Follow your Dreams - Cancelled
Graffiti Artist: Banksy
Born 1974 in England
Stencil graffiti – replicates on multiple walls

11. Girl and Balloon Graffiti Artist: Banksy Wall of a stairway
“There is always hope”
2002

12. Ethnicities Graffiti Artist: Eduardo Korba 2016 Rio Olympics
Shows 5 Idigenous people from 5 continents
Inspired by Olympic rings
Shows how “we are all connected”
Holds Guinness World Record for largest mural created by one artist

13. Invisible Homeless
Artist: Luke Jerram and UK-based youth homelessness charity, Independent People
December, 2015
Bristol, England
Glass sculpture of sleeping body on bed of cardboard.

14. Field of Vision: A Garden for Others
Artist: Jenny Kendler
December, 2015
Louisville, Kentucky
Butterfly garden
Reclaimed wood, ultraviolet LED lights and milkweed
Draw people to overlooked river and support vulnerable butterfly populations
All the elements are meticulously intentional — the milkweed attracts butterflies, for example, while blacklight replicates the far-superior sight butterflies have compared to humans.

15. Stop Telling Women to Smile
Artist: Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Fall, 2012
New York City
Message about generder injustice and street harassment
Posters have real portraits and quotes

16. Untitled – refugee life jacket installation
Artist: Ai Weiwei
Fall, 2012
Berlin
Uses 14,000 used life jackets previously worn by refugees traveling from Turkey to Greece during the ongoing refugee crisis

17. The Za’Atari Project Artist: Joel Artista Over past four years Jordan
Series of public art murals that engages Syrian refugees, especially children, to make art so that camps are more welcoming
In partnership with nonprofits
Mural topics include social issues like access to water and hygiene
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18. All Hands on Deck Artist: Damon Davis and Activist Michael Skolnik
Ferguson, Missouri
After police shooting of Michael Brown on topic of police violence in August, 2014
Hands of activists photographed in a “hands up, don’t shoot” pose.

19. Stand Tall, Stand Loud Artist: Aaron Bell New York City
Sculpture ties to history of racial discrimination and black opporession
The base of the work reads, "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter," quoting Martin Luther King Jr.
Controversial as city didn’t want it in a park where yoga and other relaxing activities were taking place

20. EPA Regulations Artist: Nancy Ohianian
Effect of race and politics on a human right as simple as clean and safe drinking water
Specifically about one of Michigan’s poorest and blackest communities not having clean water

21. Inflatable Refugee Artist: Schellekens & Peleman, an artist collective
Belgian
20-foot inflatable refuge
Meant to focus public attention on the refugee crisis
“nomadic project” – travels around the world
Made from same materials as inflatable boats used by refugees to cross the Mediterranean sea
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22. Non-Violence Artist: Carl Fredrik Reutersward 1980
Across from apartment of John Lennon, New York City, moved to U.N. Headquarters
20-foot inflatable refuge
There are 16 copies on display around the world, most in Sweden (home of the artist)
Symbol of non-violence, peace and gun control

23. Untitled Wall Street Artist: Plastic Jesus
July 20, 2016, when Trump was officially nominated as the Republican Party’s presidential nominee
Box with barbed wire and tiny “Keep Out” signs around Trump’s Walk of Fame star
"Personally, I’ve got nothing against Donald Trump,” Plastic Jesus told The Huffington Post. “I have everything against his policies and the culture he's trying to create in America.”