Grade 12 Art - Day 3 "Social Justice" Continued...

"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. Art has been used as a means to record history, shape culture, cultivate imagination, and harness individual and social transformation. It can not only be a means to generate awareness, but it can also be a catalyst to engage community members to take action around a social issue. Social justice art, consequently allows people to develop agency to interrupt and alter oppressive systemic patterns or individual behaviors. The processes by which people create and engage with art equips them with analytic tools to understand and challenge social injustices through social justice education (teaching for social justice), community building, and social activism/social movements. Examples of visual and performing social justice art includes: drawing, painting, sculpture, murals, graffiti, film, theater, music, dance, spoken word, etc."

- wikipedia

Using art for the purpose of Social Justice can take on many forms.  Here is a simple graphic with a strong message:

On a more local level, here is a video produced by high school students aimed at trying to shed some light on the truth surrounding the Jane and Finch area of Toronto:

Moving forward with our Social Justice mixed-media collages, I would like you to start to print, draw. and create imagery that will be glued to your canvas hardboard.  By now, you should have some thumbnail sketches that will serve to help create your final composition!