Title: Activist Art: Art That Works | Helen Klebesadel: A Muse and Her Artist
Headings: Activist Art: Art That Works
Activist Art: Art That Works
Effective activist art:
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Content: Projects like the Clothesline Project display the work anywhere it will get the most attention. This project creates a vehicle for women affected by violence to express their emotions by decorating a shirt. They then hang the shirt on a clotheslines strung where the shirts can be viewed as testimony to the problem of violence against women. Clothesline Project website: http://www.clotheslineproject.org
• Making various uses of public media, a key strategy of much activist art. Much of it employs such mainstream media techniques as the use of zines, billboards, wheat-pasted posters, sub­way and bus advertising, and newspaper inserts to deliver messages that subvert the usual intentions of these commercial forms. Examples of groups that use these tactics are the wonderful protest signs that have been a part of the Capitol protests in Wisconsin. Other examples include the Guerrilla Girls , the Critical Art Ensemble, and the Grand Fury. All work of the above within some aspect of public space, and many ascribe their approach as an activist deployment of new media technology. They focus on the public sphere and address issues of sexism in the art world;