The time is now : creating community through social justice artmaking / Christa Boske.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boske, Christa, author.

Series:

Promoting justice, diversity, and inclusivity through arts-based practices.

Promoting justice, diversity, and inclusivity through arts-based practices

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts in education--Social aspects--United States.

Arts in education.

Arts--Study and teaching--United States.

Arts.

Social justice and education--United States.

Social justice and education.

Teaching--Social aspects--United States.

Teaching.

Social justice in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (143 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Charlotte, NC : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2023]

Summary:

"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. 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. Their artmaking is a call for change"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-64802-703-2

OCLC:

1348488584