Resources
These resources are meant to provide some context, reflection, inspiration, and jumping off points. But it is not necessary for applicants to use them in any way. They are here to help, if needed.
News Articles Relating to the 2021 Prompt
Reservations in Oregon have experienced a water crisis during the pandemic, with little assistance from governmental resources.
BIPOC children have been severely and disproportionately impacted by COVID-19.
Concerns about the spread of COVID-19 amongst incarcerated people increase.
Art is an important form of communication, as Oregon has witnessed during the BLM protests.
Agricultural workers still had to work in the terrible, smoky conditions created by the recent wildfires.
Dawn Wooten bravely spoke out and made allegations against ICE medical practices.
Further Reading & Resources
An Open Letter to the Union of Concerned Scientists: On Black Death, Black Silencing, and Black Fugitivity
An Affirmation of Black Life From a Concerned Black Human
Ruth Tyson
A Litany for Survival
Audre Lorde
The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
“Perhaps it’s true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house—the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture—must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. Preserved. Accounted for. Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Imbued with new meaning. Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story.”
Marcus Ellsworth
This video is a TEDx talk about art as activism.
Jeremy Okai Davis
Video topic: "art that speaks to racism & healing"
Art, Murals, & the Pandemic
This video is about murals in Portland on businesses closed due to the pandemic and vandalism.
Christopher Martin
An artist speaks about his textile artwork.
Activist Art -- video playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2Msl-2jgteOI3JIuvd65TH0XrkYNfMdx