community blueprint youth engagement presentation
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Using Interactive Art to Educate and Empower Young People
What are we doing today?What are we doing today?
• Intros, background of youth programming
• Interactive art examples
• Aerosol art
• Videos
• Photovoice
• Screen printing and button making
What is Guerrilla Art?
Definition
The act of creating art that sendsa message encouraging social change.
• It’s fun!• It’s engaging• It’s fun for almost any audience• It’s easy to create• It can be used for a million
different causes
Why is it useful?
Graffiti
Highly visible, bold messages meantto trigger responses from the viewer.
Pic March Downtown
Pic Bobby Spray
Pic Bobby Spray
Pic Bobby Spray
Pic Bobby Spray
Pic Bobby Spray
Pic Bobby Spray
Pic Bobby Spray
• Public press and engagement events used to call attention to a cause
Activism events
Posters
Posters
Posters
Posters
Posters
Posters
Posters
Posters
Health in Hometown – Photovoice
• Worked with 13 different counties around MN to answer the question, what is the health of my hometown?– Created a book, video,
website
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Posters
• It’s participatory• From and for your target
audience• Easily shareable
Videos as interactive art
Pic Kool Hip-Hop
Pic Kool Hip-Hop
Posters
Posters have long been one of the preferred mediums for activists to express themselves while informing the masses. Posters are inexpensive and easily reproducible.
Screenin’
• http://bethecatalyst.org/screenprint
• http://bethecatalyst.org/screenprint