Social Issue Project

Social Issue Collage and 3-D Figure Study Objective: To effectively express a personal viewpoint of a social issue through a variety of art mediums.

Requirements: • Explore the website: Art and Social Issues in American Culture • Choose a social issue of personal significance • Gather imagery, statistics, poems, quotes, etc… regarding issue. • Create a collage/environment involving several demonstrated techniques • Create a 3-D clay figure symbolically representing the issue. • Combine collage and figure to create a clear and powerful statement regarding social statement. • Write an artist statement explaining the process and product.

Examples of Social Activist Artists

Kathe Kollwitz “Kollwitz felt that her social responsibility was to be an artist and an advocate against human suffering in the world.”

Ben Shahn

Guerrilla Girls

Jenny Holzer http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/holzer/#

Thomas Hart Benton

Dadaism

Examples in Advertising

Student Examples

Requirements: • Explore the website: Art and Social Issues in American Culture • Choose a social issue of personal significance • Gather imagery, statistics, poems, quotes, etc… regarding issue. • Create a collage/environment involving several demonstrated techniques • Create a 3-D clay figure symbolically representing the issue. • Combine collage and figure to create a clear and powerful statement regarding social statement. • Write an artist statement explaining the process and product.