Hi folks! Here is that list of ideas we brainstormed yesterday. If you weren’t in class, please add your ideas in the comments.
Afrofuturism
Black Lives Matter movement
- Diversity in Film, Films like Black Panther showing Black people in bigger roles.
- Black Lives Matter Movement, Showing support for equality.
Street Art
Street stickers
Murals
- Guerilla girls: A feminist movement that began with hanging satirical and comedic posters around New York City. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Guerrilla-Girls
- Graffiti Art- Hip hop culture – B-Boying.
- Tatyana Fazlalizadeh “Stop Telling Women to Smile”
- Keith Haring “crack is wack”
Textile Arts
- Hawaiian Flag Quilts-
https://rockymountainquilts.com/files/antiquequilt_congg3.php
Anti slavery sewing circles: Women decorated fabrics with abolitionist symbols to combat slavery https://graphicarts.princeton.edu/2018/05/05/abolitionist-sewing-circles/
- AIDS Memorial, honoring the lives lost due to AIDS.
- AIDS Awareness, educating and spreading information about AIDS.
Music-
- music of the civil rights movement
-Nat King Cole
-Sam Cooke
-Stevie wonder ( Happy Birthday to Ya is for Martin Luther King jr to make help make his birthday a national holiday)
– Aretha Franklin
https://teachrock.org/lesson/the-music-of-the-civil-rights-movement/
Sound Track for a Revolution- 2009 documentary
“Bill Guttentag’s documentary examines the importance of music during the U.S. civil rights movement that took place during the 1950s and ’60s. The various sit-ins and public demonstrations of the era incorporated protest songs, folk tunes and spirituals, music that was a crucial part of the movement…”
Riot Grrrl movement: A punk movement that encouraged women and girls alike to produce music to spread anti-racist and anti-sexist messages https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/05/03/arts/music/riot-grrrl-playlist.html
Other ideas
Propaganda billboards
Confederate Statues
Barbara Kruger
Tatiana Fazlalizadeh
Hugh masekela
Miriam Makeba
Act UP (die-ins, etc)
Art of the Black Power Movement – movement that believes in racial pride.
– Chilean Arpilleras
– Pollution “Standing Rock”
– Quilts spread awareness for change
