This document discusses social activism in mixed media art projects and provides examples. It begins by defining activist art as art intended for a wide audience to raise awareness and give voice to marginalized groups in order to encourage social change. Examples of activist art incorporate public spaces and community participation. The document then provides details about a classroom project in Nicaragua, including statistics about poverty levels. It discusses education spending in the US compared to other countries. Students are then instructed to create mixed media posters or zines to raise awareness for this cause through creative works of art with messages.

1. Social Activism in Mixed
Media Projects
Art.with.a.Message.

2. What is Art with a Message?
Activist art is intended for a wider audience, and sets out to create
awareness for those who have been marginalized and
disenfranchised (I.E. The people of Nicaragua) so they can be seen
and given a voice.
Activist art incorporates the use of public space to address socio-
political issues and to encourage community and public participation
as a means of bringing about social change.
It aims to change society by opening up the dialogue, raising
consciousness, and empowering individuals and communities to
create positive change .

3. About
nicaragua:
ANSWERS

4. About Nicaragua: ANSWERS
• 2009 Elementary School Classroom for Village of San Martin,
Nicaragua Project Cost: $14,725.85 Background Nicaragua, bordered by
Honduras and Costa Rica in Central America, is the second poorest country in
the Western Hemisphere. Over 28% of the population in Nicaragua lives in
poverty with a per capita average annual income is $945. According to UN
figures, 80% of the indigenous population lives on less than $1 per day.

5. Nicaragua: current classroom state

6. About the US….
• More than $11,000 is spent on each student PER YEAR in the US.
• The US is tied for first place with Switzerland when it comes to
annual spending per student in it’s public schools
• Approximately 85% of students in the US are enrolled in tax-
subsidized public education which costs over $500 BILLION to fund
EACH YEAR on approximately 132,600 primary and secondary
schools = over $3.5 million per year/per school
• We have a literacy rate of 99% and a drop out rate of 6.6% -
however, 75% of crime in the US is committed by high school
dropouts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_the_United_States

7. Why we believe in this….
http://www.odfl.org/article.php?story=2
013Nicaragua
http://odfl.org/galleries/2014Nicaragua/i
mages/
http://odfl.org/galleries/2014SouthAfric
a/images/

8. Watch the video about who ODFL is

11. 1.South Korea
2.Japan
3.Singapore
4.Hong Kong
5.Finland
6.UK
7.Canada
8.Netherlands
9.Ireland
10.Poland
International “Education” Rankings
The United States places 17th in the developed world for education, according to a
global report by education firm Pearson.
Finland and South Korea, not surprisingly, top the list of 40 developed countries
with the best education systems. Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore follow. The
rankings are calculated based on various measures, including international test
scores, graduation rates between 2006 and 2010, and the prevalence of higher
education seekers.

13. Collection Boxes:
use a combo of the paper template and tape
technique
Your pair will be given a teachers name, make
a flashy/personalized box to collect funds in
their homeroom
Mixed Media Poster
OR ZINE Spread
-an 11x17 inch art poster illustrating an
idea/fact that will create awareness for ODFL
using mixed-media collage style including
images, stencil, block print, drawn design or
collage.
-The poster will be installed around campus to
further support ‘the cause.’
- Create a mixed-media mini magazine to be
handed out to homerooms
TAPE
SCULPTURE:
One group per period will be
chosen to complete a tape
sculpture to be displayed on
campus that support our
ODFL goal and mission of
bringing about awareness
PROPOSE YOUR
OWN:
-Come up with another
creative way to support the
ODFL project around
campus!
IE: ODFL fence weaving,
Decorate a large collection
box for other supplies,
instagram frame with text
like “I just donated” etc

14. Collection
boxes

15. Collection boxes
• Each pair will adjust
& personalize a
box, for their
chosen homeroom
• The box can be
personalized for
the teacher, and
should stand out to
encourage students
to donate.
• How you design
and decorate your
box is up to you!
• Click link for more
student samples

16. Collect Box Ideas!
Start with a simple box shape and add additional pieces and decorations to turn it into
a themed box

17. Additions on top or back to serve a
purpose or for decoration

18. Diorama message or themed according to the
class your box will be put in

19. Or no message at all- just an original
design

20. A few more examples:

21. Student Samples …

22. More student samples…
http://3dart653.blogspot.com/2013/03/odfl-collection-boxes-for-gahr.html

23. What is our goal going to be this year? How much do we
want to raise? How many students do we want to go on
the service trips with us?
What incentives from teachers and staff do you want to
see happen to encourage more donations?
How can we each help out?

24. Our Goals this year 2015
We have
raised $8,200
as a school,
since 2013
Student and Teacher
participants on the trip:
Cost per person:
$1 per student
at Gahr
& student trip
scholarships.

26. For this project…
• -You will be creating a work of
art that sends a message to
your viewer
• -Your point of view may be
extremely obvious OR it may
be obscured and be able to be
read multiple ways
• -The specific proposal for your
project should be something
you feel strongly about or
connected to
• -You may choose to use
words/text to better help get
your point across but text is not
required.

27. Classic examples of POSTER ART with a message: American Propaganda

28. Shepard Fairey
• Born in 1970 (42 years
old, probably the
youngest artist we will
study)
• He went to RISD (Rhode
Island School of Design)
• While at RISD Fairey
made his infamous
“Andre the Giant has a
Posse” and “Liberated”
posters

29. Getting the Message Out
Fairey’s idea of
phenomenology was
carried out through
posting up images
and posters all
around the world
Some of the images
were vague in
meaning and some
had very clear and
bold messages

30. War and art from Shepard Fairey

31. War as a theme

32. The environment as
a theme

33. Education as a theme

34. Peace as a theme

35. Dada Style Collage:

36. “fighting discrimination with facts, humor and fake fur since 1985”
•Theme: “reinventing the ‘F’ word: feminism
•Call themselves: “the conscious of the art world”
•Employ guerrilla tactics by putting up posters and flyers in public places
Guerilla Girls

37. The role of women in the art world

38. Chris Jordan
• Running the Numbers looks at
contemporary American
culture through the lens of
statistics.
• Each image portrays a specific
quantity of something: fifteen
million sheets of office paper
(five minutes of paper use);
The photo to the right depicts
one hundred million
toothpicks, equal to the
number of trees cut in the U.S.
yearly to make the paper for
junk mail.

39. Guns
photos depict 29,569 handguns, equal to the number of
gun-related deaths in the US in 2004.

40. Mixed Media Poster
Examples

43. Time to make your own…
Zine:
-a 5.5x8.5 inch zine (pronounced Zeen), a do-it-
yourself style pamphlet exposing truths and
spreading the word about the ODFL movement.
-You and your group will create a cut-and paste
layout for a spread (2 pages), using various materials
like type, stamps, handwritten notes, bits of paper,
images from the web or magazines, fabric, hand
drawn designs or images, etc.
-The best spreads will be photocopied and distributed
around campus in the form of a zine. We need
center spreads, front and back cover.

44. Zine examples
Scott Chenoweth
Click the link ^

46. Link to Zine made by gahr students