We are an unusual class in a Chicago Public School. Our Multi-Media
Art class has been adapted to create Guerrilla Artworks. Our goal is to
be more than students making art projects. My students are functioning
as artists in a collective who will make art that will be put out into
the community. Community can be defined as school, neighborhood, city,
other states, other countries, cyberspace even!
We
create artwork that has specific messages that the students choose.
Those messages may be personal, aesthetic, or about social justice.
Finished artwork will be displayed into our every day world instead of a
gallery space. This way, people moving through their daily lives have
access to art at any moment. Viewers are confronted by art when they
least expect it. People may see work posted at the grocers, local
business, on the street, or even receive an artwork to keep.
We are hoping to engage viewers to not only view our
work, but to also respond to the artwork through this blog. Students
will regularly blog about their creative process and post images of
completed pieces. Viewers are invited to find the artwork they see or
receive and post their own comments and/or questions. We hope to create a
conversation about art between viewers, blog followers, and the student
guerrilla artists.
Please watch for our first project launch - 'Zines!
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