Monday, January 17, 2011

Class Minutes 1-12-11

Community Engagement through the Arts

January 12, 2011

Hop-Hop

Steve

  • Degree at UK with a strong emphasis on community development
  • Bring together development, arts, anthropology,
  • Glad everyone involved in CETA is not an “artist” and urges us to deconstruct that word
  • We should ask What is community? What is arts?
  • Personal background:

Kaleidescope

using hip-hop in youth development

took community needs (i.e. fair housing) and advocated for social change

working with refugees currently

telling the stories of students

arts work to subvert media in regards to SB 6

mural and stenciling

  • 3 themes for good, sustainable community development and arts

1. Do work with or by community, not for

2. Importance of local knowledge, the story

Importance of building trust and listening

3. Arts activism- bring it back to first point: who are you doing this with?

Empower people to tell their story

  • Ad Busters—culture jamming

Danny, editor of North of Center

  • moved to Lexington in 2000 for graduate work at UK
  • works at BCTC—soured on some of the larger missions of formalized education
  • Ph. D. work was on new journalism
  • writing for paper helps him to relate and humanize relationship with students
  • teaches a community that isn't as discussed in Lexington
  • this paper tries to give people voices who normally don't get a chance

Marty, President of the North Limestone Neighborhood Association

  • around 250 neighborhood associations in Lexington, about 15 are active
  • Neighborhood associations typically form around negative thing—challenge is to continue and be proactive after the problem is resolved
  • founded North Limestone NA about 9 years ago
  • North Limestone NA Vision and Values

1. Diversity

2. Green Space

3. Community Art

4. Safety

5. Pedestrian/Bike Friendly

  • Make sure you work based on values & vision of the community you work in
  • N. Limestone has really benefited from Transy trying to create community awareness & positive image
  • community leaders: Millers, Archie, Griffin

Nick, Local Artist

  • Drive By Press: print-making press in back of truck and travel to schools/programs to educate about print-making

traveled all around country

print-making demonstration: democratic art, able to give away

  • How can art make a commentary to the community?
  • Difference: reflect on whether or not this is our community
  • History of Street Art

Begins with cave art

Greek/Rome

Wheat paste advertisements—influence continues on street art

Hobos-symbols for information

Hip-Hop & street art connection

80's was a street art boom (Keith Herrington)

beginning of imagery instead of just names

Banksy—using the language of street art & stencils

Gallery culture and street art

Is what our class is doing street art?

Brad Stanely—visit by the Secret Service

Swoon-big woodcuts

Small-hummingbirds- run in w/ police

Shepard Fairey—move from street art to sanctioned art

Is sanctioned street art still street art?

Philadelphia wheat paste project at bar

Other guests present: Archie, Becky, Griffin, Stephen

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