Art+Activism

ASSIGNMENTS
@Visual Arts 10 Culminating Activity Handout

**ART ACTIVISM / SOCIAL ART / PROTEST ART / COMMUNITY ART/ POLITICAL ART**
Artistic Activism - Reading List Actipedia - An open-access, community-generated wiki to document, share and inspire Creative Activism. Tate Gallery / Activist Art

**ECOLOGY & ART**
Environmental Justice Eco-Art Arts and Environmental Change: the elusive power of contemporary art

**HUMAN RIGHTS & ART**
@Native Studies Political Ai Weiwei Review: momentous and moving Feminism Tate / Gorilla Girlz Fierce Women of Art | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios media type="youtube" key="zHair5dvG0s" width="362" height="202" align="left"

Gorilla Girlz Art and Feminism (4 min. video) media type="custom" key="28458509" width="103" height="121" align="left"

MENTAL HEALTH & ART
A Short History of Mental Illness in Art (article & paintings) Mindful: exploring mental health through art (exhibit website) Seeing Mental Health Through Art (PDF student exhibit) Mental Illness and Creativity (PDF Stanford University article) The Life, Art and Mental Illness of Frida Kahlo [|ARTISTS AND MENTAL ILLNESS INTERVIEW SERIES: BASSEY IKPI] [|ARTISTS AND MENTAL ILLNESS INTERVIEW SERIES: TIMOTHY HYUNSOO LEE] Secrets of the Creative Brain (Article:The Atlantic)

Brushes with Life: [|Art, Artists and Mental Illness] (2008)

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"Mental illness and creativity have been linked for many years. In this film eight artists who struggle with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and other brain disorders talk candidly about how doing their art helps them heal."

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