Full Description
High school students, teachers, community members, and leaders come together in this innovative book to share the profound influence of artmaking and justice- oriented work. Authors paint vibrant images of being empowered and engaging in social change. Throughout their art-based meaning making, authors pose critical questions and unlock possibilities. Their first-tellings regarding the power of art provide readers with a lens to understand how they navigate injustices they endure and ways in which artmaking is a vehicle for transformation. Their artmaking is a call for change.
Authors emphasize how artmaking bridges relationships and brings diverse community members together with purpose. Together, they engage in new understandings of self and other. Authors identify how their arts-based collaborations publicly showcase their justice-oriented work, but more importantly, promote possibility and hope. Youth explore how artmaking plays a vital role in promoting collective efficacy and engaging diverse communities in social transformation.
Artmaking mobilizes people. And once activated, these authors utilize their newly cultivated communities to foster justice-oriented work throughout schools and communities. Their justice-oriented artmaking affords community members opportunities to respond in new ways by embracing community strengths and students' lived experiences. This authentic collaboration empowers the artmaker and community to promote justice-oriented work and practices centered on diversity and inclusivity.
Contents
Endorsements.
Chapter 1. Introduction: Artmaking as Authentic Collective Justice-Oriented Work; Christa Boske.
Section I. Using Artmaking To Create Empathic Learners.
Chapter 2. Seeing Souls; Amanda Price.
Chapter 3. Hear Me Out; Kai (Echo) Davis.
Chapter 4. Wild, Ooh (Shimmy): Excited About Being a Part of This; Fallon Herlinger.
Chapter 5. Selfless: My Voice is Art; Hannah Sinn.
Section II. Creating A Social Justice-oriented School Community.
Chapter 6. The Power of Artmaking: Leading other Men of Color and Creating Community; Leshun Collins.
Chapter 7. Out of Sight; Babatunde Motoni.
Chapter 8. To Give, to Challenge, to Learn Through Art: What it Means to Build Community; Lenard Jackson.
Chapter 9. The New Black; Michael Neville.
Section III. Building An Inclusive Community Of Learners Through Artmaking.
Chapter 10. Lost of Hope; Alex.
Chapter 11. Life; JaBrone.
Chapter 12. The Skeleton is My Anger: I Want it to Go Away; Cash Money.
Chapter 13. I Use My Art to Protect Myself and My Neighborhood; Mikai.
Chapter 14. Making Connections; Jeannie Oakhar.
Section IV. The Power Of Community-based Artmaking In Making Connections.
Chapter 15. Voices of the Unheard; Catera Davis.
Chapter 16. Jamie's Beginning; Jamie Neese.
Chapter 17. I Never Thought I Would be an Artist; Karnisha Grubbs.
Chapter 18. Going Full Circle; Stephanie "Leo" Leonardi.
Epilogue: Artmaker as Cultural Broker; Christa Boske.
