Kasey

Money struggles

My issue was the struggle of not being able to afford some basic needs. I represented this in the image by putting in different examples of struggles like the girl in the pharmacy worried because she doesn’t have enough money for the medicine she’s buying.

Coming from what I recognize currently, I know that art and social awareness involve taking action. In order to make the two be present, there should be action taken. General means for social awareness is respect. Just to make sure that my knowledge on social awareness is correct, I am going to be referring to Keller, (2020, November 17). SEL for Students: Social Awareness and Relationship Skills. Being well informed on how to see from other peoples’ perspective, have empathy and collaborate with others are examples of acts of social awareness. An act or instance of art comes in many different forms, but the most general terms to label those forms would be; sound, visual and literary. Our focus is visual art. Visual art has many different styles and can have meanings that go beyond what is seen on the artwork. Art can be used for people to know more about social awareness, and social awareness can be used for people to understand art. There are many other ways to relate the two, but those were the ways that I found were the most graspable. When communicating or socializing with others, having social awareness is one of the ways that people are able to keep the communication going. Knowing how to connect, empathize and see from other peoples’ perspective allows people to converse smoother because it’ll be easier to get to know each other. With social skills, people can talk about art, letting it provoke. Oftentimes, talking about it with passion and good intent is a better way to go. It would become known how captivating art is because of the way it is being spoken about. Not only will this assist the provoking of art, but also the promotion of social awareness as there are artworks that promote social awareness. Another way to use art to promote social awareness is to create larger scale artworks that would always be present in public. The most common way of doing this is by creating murals. A physically large scale artwork will make the artwork more visible. Reading through “The Importance of Community Murals” by productcare.org (August 8, 2018,), we can see the ways on how murals make good effects. All 3 ways either help provoke art and promote social awareness. If not a physical artwork due to whatever conditions, then maybe sharing their art through a social media platform. However, if one is already active on a platform, then they could consider their insights or analytics to help promote or provoke their art. There are charts on ‘Global social media statistics research summary’ Bullock, L., Quick, J., & Wright, G. (2021, August 13) that show different engagement levels for things tied to social media. Their followers could be active at certain times, different than some of the charts showed, so they can take that to their advantage and post at a time around when their followers are active so that they can view it. They can make art provoke through this, and maybe even promote social awareness too depending on the artwork. Even though an artwork already has a meaning to it, or none, viewers are able to create their own and have it link back to social awareness. So, they could be unintentionally promoting social awareness by sharing their art.