Course: Visualizing Women's Work: Using Art Media for Social Justice

In this video, you heard an overview of a variety of social justice centered art forms and projects. Visit Alexia Webster’s website to hear about the story behind the Street …

Gaining insight into an artist’s process and motivation helps strengthen visual literacy, and helps us view artwork critically and in greater depth beyond an initial reaction. Watch this video that …

Painting with hair and sculpting with televisions – view more about how artists Janine Antoni and Nam June Paik use surprising materials and methods for making their art.

In this video we are introduced to artists creating work to express ideas and emotions in a wide variety of media. View more works from Willie Cole and Yayoi Kusama. …

Visual literacy gives us a vocabulary for engaging with works of art in terms of the form, context, and content of artwork, and is important as it helps us gain …

Three examples of non-traditional commemorative monuments are Stolperstein, Sto te nema, and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice. Stolperstein consists of over 1200 site-specific commemorations of victims of the …

In this video, Melanie Manos and Kilala Ichie-Vincent discuss intersectionality and Kilala’s research on African American women’s contributions and labor. To gain more insight into the concept of intersectionality which …

In this video, Melanie Manos and Jay Campbell discuss how they determined the need to use visual identity to connect with the community and how their focus on the visual …

This video examined the creative problem-solving process centered on the challenge: “how do you visualize an absence?” Read a basic definition of historical erasure or learn more about the augmented …

Returning to the monuments that were viewed earlier in the course, this video begins to evaluate them as part of a male-centric, white male dominated (US) landscape of historical visual …

Suzanne Lacy creates public actions and live community participatory performance that call out political and legal systems for overlooking and obstructing women’s health, safety and voices. She’s an artist who …

Iranian artist Shirin Neshat’s works use images and text to explore gender dynamics and cultural identities. View more about Shirin Neshat.

The Guerrilla Girls are feminist activist artists who publicly expose gender and ethnic bias in the art world using pop culture aesthetics and advertising formats. They wear guerrilla masks for …

This video introduces the concept of “visual culture” including advertising and signage, murals and applied art, as well as historical visual culture such as monuments and plaques. If you would …

Performance art can be a powerful tool to address a variety of social justice issues, such as labor. View Melanie Manos’s work and read more about The Couple in the …