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Guerrilla Art
Guerrilla Art
Summary/What is this Project About?
Summary/What is this Project About?
This lesson will address underrepresented populations, radical ways of making an artistic statement, and provide you an opportunity to express your own artistic statement about an issue important to you.
BIG IDEA:
BIG IDEA:
Social Protest/Power
Essential Question(s):
Essential Question(s):
How can underrepresented groups change the power structure in the artworld and in society?
How can you make a statement about a cause you believe in?
What You Will Learn:
What You Will Learn:
how artists communicate messages visually
how art can influence how people think and change peoples' minds
Absences:
Absences:
If you are absent, you can do the entire lesson individually! (but it's better if you're in class)
Guerrilla Art
Guerrilla Art
What is Guerrilla Art? Powerpoint
Finding Your Inner Guerrilla Artist: What to Do - How to Start
Activities:
Activities:
Day 1: DISCUSS/LEARN ABOUT THE ART
Day 1: DISCUSS/LEARN ABOUT THE ART
Set up Folders in Google Drive
Warm Up activity
Introduce Guerrilla Art Project/View PowerPoint
Day 2: PLAN
Day 2: PLAN
Planning your Guerilla Art:
*Read “Finding your Inner Guerilla Artist” Handout
*Complete "Planning Sheet: Activating Your Inner Guerilla"
Gather materials, get ready
Day 3 & 4: PROJECT
Day 3 & 4: PROJECT
Implement your Guerrilla Art Project.
*Documentation requirements: You will be required to document your finished installation. Process photos may be added as extra photos. You will need a minimum of 5 clear photos. You can use your computer, a phone, or a camera. Place your photos in the shared drive, TURN IN FOLDER, GUERRILLA ART TURN IN FOLDER, YOUR NAME FOLDER. This will ensure that all your photos are in one place. Label photos Firstname_Lastname1, Firstname_Lastname2, etc.
*Rules: Remember this is art, not vandalism!
Use non-destructive materials.
Do not use permanent or difficult to remove material (such as spray paint)
Be considerate of other humans and be polite
Day 5: REFLECTION AND SUBMITTING WORK
Day 5: REFLECTION AND SUBMITTING WORK
You will reflect on what you learned in this assignment.
You will place your reflection, planning sheet and photos in the TURN IN FOLDER in the shared drive, TURN IN FOLDER, GUERRILLA ART TURN IN FOLDER, YOUR NAME FOLDER. This will ensure that all your photos are in one place. Label photos Firstname_Lastname1, Firstname_Lastname2, etc.
Friday, October 9, 2020, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm
Join UofSC’s School of Visual Art and Design and us for a live presentation by Guerrilla Girls Frida Kahlo and Augusta Savage with a Q&A session to follow.
The Guerrilla Girls are a feminist, activist artist collective committed to fighting injustice in the arts. They wear signature gorilla masks in public and take on the names of dead women artists to remain anonymous. Founded in New York City in 1985, they began by flyposting text and photo-based messages on the streets of SoHo to call attention to discriminatory practices by galleries and museums towards women. Today, they use stickers, flyers, and advertising campaigns full of facts, humor, and outrageous visuals to expose bias and corruption in politics, art, film, and pop culture. They create works of art that reveal the understory, the subtext, the overlooked, and the downright unfair. The Guerrilla Girls believe in an intersectional feminism that fights discrimination and supports human rights for all people and all genders.
This program is part of the Justice Theme Semester in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of South Carolina. Support for this program comes from the College of Arts and Sciences, the Knight Foundation Fund at the Central Carolina Community Foundation, the Elizabeth M. Marion Visiting Artist Fund at the School of Visual Art and Design, and the Columbia Museum of Art. Free.
Sponsored by the Columbia Museum of Art
Do Women Have To Be Naked To Get Into the Met. Museum?, Guerrilla Girls, 1989
Do Women Have To Be Naked To Get Into the Met. Museum?, Guerrilla Girls, 1989
© courtesy www.guerrillagirls.com. Source: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/guerrilla-girls-do-women-have-to-be-naked-to-get-into-the-met-museum-p78793
When Racism And Sexism Are No Longer Fashionable, How Much Will Your Art Collection Be Worth?, Guerrilla Girls, 1989
When Racism And Sexism Are No Longer Fashionable, How Much Will Your Art Collection Be Worth?, Guerrilla Girls, 1989
© courtesy www.guerrillagirls.com Source: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/guerrilla-girls-when-racism-and-sexism-are-no-longer-fashionable-how-much-will-your-art-p78791
Questions:
Questions:
1. In your own words, define “guerrilla.”
2. What is the origin of the word “guerrilla”?
3. Why is the group called “the Guerrilla Girls”?
4. What methods do the Guerrilla Girls use to convey their messages?
5. Find a minimum of 10 images by the Guerrilla Girls, and copy them into your document. Select at least 5 (out of the 10) that are from the years 2000-2020.
6. Select 3 of the more recent works (from #5 above, or pick different ones; if different, provide an image) and write a minimum of two paragraphs describing the work, interpreting what you think it means, and judging whether you think it is successful.
7. What can the Guerrilla Girls do differently or better to get their message across?
8. Is it OK to use methods like tagging to communicate an art message? Why or why not?
9. Why are the Guerrilla Girls anonymous? Do you think this helps them or hurts them, or doesn’t matter. Why?
10. The Guerrilla Girls most well-known image, Do Women Have To Be Naked To Get Into the Met. Museum?, 1989, is the one that made the Guerrilla Girls famous. What historic painting is their image appropriated from? (Provide minimum of title, artist, year, current location). What are the similarities between the two images? What are the differences? Why do you think they chose this historic painting on which to base their image?
11. How successful are the Guerrilla Girls in communicating their message?
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