Thursday, January 31, 2019
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Community? Engagements? Arts? Well, for starters this is a class taught at Transylvania University in Lexington, KY by professors Kremena Todorova and Kurt Gohde. The goal of this class is to form a relationship with the community by engaging in artistic projects with the community. The outcome of this will manifest itself in many ways, some recognizable and others not so much.
The pieces are what she is currently fascinated by. Worked with other Kurt and Kremena projects such as Unlearn Fear and Hate. Craftivism- craft can be used as a vehicle for change. Art as a tool for change in the individual.
ReplyDeleteTasha Golden- Elory song about domestic abuse. Wrote song and performed it. Art triggered transformation.
Essays that we were reading. Art as a public health issue.
Trauma, Journaling, and Storytelling all go together.
Prompt to learn things about each other. Write alluding to unspeakable.
Project can become more than just a documentary
Learn to tell a story with a beginning, middle, and an end. This tool will help them maybe confront their own stories.
Funding available for art in public health. Mental health art is a tool for help.
Experimenting with storytelling and transformation in peoples lives.
Anyone who is affected by incarceration
people being separated at the border.
juvenile detention center. Coloring party. Love letter to the world. sanitary institution. scrubs shoes without shoelaces walk with hands behind their back no one touches. Very removed setting.
Librarian and books- windows to the real world
Coloring party was just a drop in the bucket. Led to how can we go further. Is there a way to have therapeutic art experience.
Able to go once a month. Focusing on creating writing.
Public Health is affected by art. Vehicle for healing.
How do you get people to write about themselves?
Piggyback off others work, others ideas, or previous ideas
By in and you have to become a trustworthy person- make yourself vulnerable to them
Affecting policy ask questions and make it seem like it is a normal thing affecting people
talking about it and normalizing it
How do we tackle it with this current administration?
Especially that a lot of people who are traumatized with undocumented individuals. A lot of people in the juvenile system are people who got lost because their parents were detained and they were not eligible for foster care.
Lexington has become a little safe haven.
Third party organizations if the government isn't getting it done.