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Someone who wants to learn how art can help change the world and who knows nothing about your social issue and has never seen the artwork.
REQUIRED SOURCES:
Manoylov, “Scientists Say They’ve Pinpointed the Reasons Why People Protest” AND/OR Roberts, Psychological Research Explains Why People Protest”
Tufekci, “Do Protests Even Work?”
Rolling Stone “Indecline Debuts ‘The Art of Protest’ Documentary”
The visual artwork you choose to discuss
At least one outside source (this should be background information for whatever your art is protesting)
TO PREPARE FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT, YOU SHOULD
Choose a social issue that speaks to you (e.g., racial injustice, gender inequality, immigration, poverty, voter suppression, climate change, etc.) and
Find a visual artwork that addresses that social issue (and be sure to include an image of the artwork for your readers).
TO COMPLETE THIS ASSIGNMENT, YOU SHOULD
Fully explain the social issue your artwork is protesting;
Using our sources, describe for readers how art can help advance a protest movement;
Analyze the effectiveness of your particular artwork to effect change (be sure to describe all the details of the work);
Argue how those who oppose the protests against the social issue would see the artwork as propaganda (“propaganda,” according to Oxford, is “information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.”);