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Social justice art, and arts for social justice, encompasses a wide range of visual and performing art that aim to raise critical consciousness, build community, and motivate individuals to promote social change. [1] Art has been used as a means to record history, shape culture, cultivate imagination, and harness individual and social ...
Transformative arts is the use of artistic activities, such as story-telling, painting, sculpture and music-making, to precipitate constructive individual and social change. The individual changes effected through transformative arts are commonly cognitive and emotional .
The feminist art movement in the 1980s and 1990s built upon the foundations laid by earlier feminist art movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Feminist artists throughout this time period aimed to question and undermine established gender roles, confront issues of gender injustice, and give voice to women's experiences in the arts and society at large.
Kindness can create bonds and uplift communities. Practicing self-kindness is important for building resilience and self-worth," said Jaclyn McCusker.
The union then brought in thousands more lettuce and vegetable pickers in the Salinas Chicano Movement art developed out of necessity for a visual representation of the self perceived sociopolitical injustice that the movement was seeking out to change. As in any movement there is a need for signage that brings awareness to the issues at hand ...
The organization began in 1974 as National Committee - Arts for the Handicapped, then in 1985 became Very Special Arts. This changed to VSA arts in 1999, and simply VSA in 2009. Two years later, in 2011, VSA and the Kennedy Center's Office on Accessibility merged, becoming the Department of VSA and Accessibility at the John F. Kennedy Center ...
Participatory art is a form unto itself, while other types of art that interface with the public (social practice, socially-engaged art, community-based art, etc.) are its sub-types. While it may seem paradoxical, just because an artwork engages with the public, that does not make it participatory.
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