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El Puente was formed in 1982 when leaders of the Williamsburg and Greenpoint communities united to stop the youth from becoming involved in gang violence in the area. [3] Their motives were to stop teen violence and improve health issues, which, like asthma, was a result of harmful pollutants being released into the community. [4]
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 ...
Artists involved in AIDS activist organizations had the ideology that while art could never save lives as science could, it may be able to deliver a message. [2] Art of the AIDS crisis typically sought to make a sociopolitical statement, stress the medical impact of the disease, or express feelings of longing and loss.
Science and Charity is the second of three paintings created by Picasso in this period that deals with disease, the others are titled The Sick Woman (1894) and Last Moments (1899). It was created during a cholera epidemic in his hometown, which apparently caused the death of one of his sisters.
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Most commonly, social artists will address these problems by helping people express themselves and find their voice, or by bringing people together and using art to help them to foster an understanding of each other. [6] Social artistry can incorporate several different art forms including theatre, poetry, music and visual art.
The disease is not limited to human characters, but can help to achieve grim social realism in a novel. Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle portrays tuberculosis as common among cattle reaching the meat-packing plants of Chicago. Sinclair wrote that "men welcomed tuberculosis in the cattle they were feeding, because it made them fatten more quickly".
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 ...