Thursday, March 25, 2010
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Saturday Class - February 13, 2010
MY WORK IN PROGRESS
Class was exciting for me. I enjoyed the visit to the "collage warehouse." The imagery was fantastic because there before my eyes was an entire world of odds and ends to explore and take back to class to create my art.
Power Point Presentation - February 10, 2010
ART B Y HANNAH HOCHI LIKE THE VALIDATION!
ART BY DEONORA PEDROArtists have the fabulous ability to express themselves in a wide and vast spectrum.
They can express their souls and being in many creative ways. The class presentation included many artistic and powerful intermedia ideas.
Also the presentation expressed different ways that our class would like to experiment with their personal art. I think the class gave ourselves permission to gaine validation for our personal art creativity and expression.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
I have been documenting my JFK University class activities and experiences on my art blog for a while. In my fall quarter I studied the importance of Community Arts. I learned that there are many opportunities available for creating one’s personal art career.
Sociology, religion and art are among some of the areas that have tried to understand and find solutions to help communities housing the most needy (i.e. orphans, drug addicts and the poorest of the poorest, etc.) of humanity around the globe. Each has looked and analyzed, in most cases using the foundation of respect, to find a solution to disparity. I have selected sociologist, Philippe Bourgois author of “In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio”, Mother Teresa, Catholic Church missionary and artist Lily Yeh, founder of The Village of Arts and Humanity organization to find my future personal artistic career niche in community arts and helping others.
I discovered that Philippe Bourgois’ book is a summary of the events that occurred during his stay in El Barrio (Harlem, New York) that spanned a period of five years studying and analyzing the sociology of the people living there. He discovered that the amount of drug dealers or crack houses is an indirect result of the lost jobs in Harlem. Bourgois states that many of the unemployed in the inner-city are not successful in finding work because they lack the skills of working efficiently with people that they don't already have an every day relationship such as factory jobs. Factory jobs moved out of the communities and left large minority groups without a collective workplace where everybody knew their task and how to complete it. The current availability of jobs within the community is mostly within the service sector. These jobs are individualized jobs where independence is required rather than a group or community effort. The jobs tended to pay low wages and were not “respected” by the residents. Their solution was to turn to the underground drug economy. Bourgois gained the trust of a few El Barrio residents and managed to change and better their lives. He reflects in his “epilogue” that through the years his contact with these same few has shown that they continue to live fruitful lives but the slums and desecration of the rest of the community still exists. In the long run, his efforts stagnated and failed to spread, evolve or manifest any organizations or communities that could have helped more individuals.
Mother Teresa described herself as "the call within the call" when she decided to start her Missionaries of Charity. She began her missionary work with the poor in 1948 after she adopted Indian citizenship and ventured out into the slums of Calcutta. Her efforts caught the attention of Indian officials, including the Prime Minister and helped fund her efforts along with the Catholic Church. Teresa received permission from the Vatican on October 7, 1950 to start the first diocesan congregation that would become the renowned “Missionaries of Charity” in India and worldwide.
Today the Missionaries of Charity house more than 4,000 nuns running orphanages, AIDS hospices, charity centers worldwide, caring for refugees, the blind, disabled, aged, alcoholics, the poor, homeless, victims of floods, epidemics and famine. The organization follows the strict dogmas of the Catholic Church and does not allow the individuals and participants to be creative or find their solace or authentic selves which art embodies so greatly. I realized that her format did not translate into community efforts with art which I feel is more effective to heal allowing one to feel an abundance of self respect, love, and understand to become a more independent individual.
The visual artist Lily Yeh is the founder, retired Executive Director and lead artist of The Village of Arts and Humanities in Philadelphia. She is an international figure who combines public art and community action. "The Village" is a community of volunteers and paid workers who take over abandoned lots in North Philadelphia and transform them into community gardens, arts centers, and parks. The Village stands as a guiding light of hope, pride and self respect in a struggling area of abandoned houses and every other urban ill you can imagine. Her art is beautiful, heroic and combines the work of the many hands in that community. The concept of “The Village” is a living object of sculpture which acts as a communal event. The interior of each project is shaped and touched by people's hands and includes as many people from the community as possible.
I deduce that she has found her niche and her art expression has been very effective in healing people in dire circumstances. With her art and vision, she has cultivated, taught soul healing and respect to each individual in the community affecting the people to be self sufficient and spreading their knowledge to other needy and depilated communities discharging a continual unstopping chain reaction changing the dynamics of each community.
I believe that I am now capable to invent a career in art community. My research has convinced me that I will be able to find my artist’s niche in my community (wherever that may be). I have been motivated to search out people, vital organizations, out-reach facilities housing drug addicts or AID victims, senior centers and prisons to teach the dynamics of individual soul searching and healing with community art.
References
American Catholic: Seasonal Features. Who Was Blessed Mother Teresa? http://www.americancatholic.org/features/teresa/WhoWasTeresa.asp
(10 Dec. 2009)
Bourgois, Philippe. In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio. UK: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Knight, Keith, et al. Beginner’s Guide to Community-Based Arts. Oakland: New Village Press, 2006.
Humility, Compassion, Beauty and Community
Sociology, religion and art are among some of the areas that have tried to understand and find solutions to help communities housing the most needy (i.e. orphans, drug addicts and the poorest of the poorest, etc.) of humanity around the globe. Each has looked and analyzed, in most cases using the foundation of respect, to find a solution to disparity. I have selected sociologist, Philippe Bourgois author of “In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio”, Mother Teresa, Catholic Church missionary and artist Lily Yeh, founder of The Village of Arts and Humanity organization to find my future personal artistic career niche in community arts and helping others.
I discovered that Philippe Bourgois’ book is a summary of the events that occurred during his stay in El Barrio (Harlem, New York) that spanned a period of five years studying and analyzing the sociology of the people living there. He discovered that the amount of drug dealers or crack houses is an indirect result of the lost jobs in Harlem. Bourgois states that many of the unemployed in the inner-city are not successful in finding work because they lack the skills of working efficiently with people that they don't already have an every day relationship such as factory jobs. Factory jobs moved out of the communities and left large minority groups without a collective workplace where everybody knew their task and how to complete it. The current availability of jobs within the community is mostly within the service sector. These jobs are individualized jobs where independence is required rather than a group or community effort. The jobs tended to pay low wages and were not “respected” by the residents. Their solution was to turn to the underground drug economy. Bourgois gained the trust of a few El Barrio residents and managed to change and better their lives. He reflects in his “epilogue” that through the years his contact with these same few has shown that they continue to live fruitful lives but the slums and desecration of the rest of the community still exists. In the long run, his efforts stagnated and failed to spread, evolve or manifest any organizations or communities that could have helped more individuals.
Mother Teresa described herself as "the call within the call" when she decided to start her Missionaries of Charity. She began her missionary work with the poor in 1948 after she adopted Indian citizenship and ventured out into the slums of Calcutta. Her efforts caught the attention of Indian officials, including the Prime Minister and helped fund her efforts along with the Catholic Church. Teresa received permission from the Vatican on October 7, 1950 to start the first diocesan congregation that would become the renowned “Missionaries of Charity” in India and worldwide.
Today the Missionaries of Charity house more than 4,000 nuns running orphanages, AIDS hospices, charity centers worldwide, caring for refugees, the blind, disabled, aged, alcoholics, the poor, homeless, victims of floods, epidemics and famine. The organization follows the strict dogmas of the Catholic Church and does not allow the individuals and participants to be creative or find their solace or authentic selves which art embodies so greatly. I realized that her format did not translate into community efforts with art which I feel is more effective to heal allowing one to feel an abundance of self respect, love, and understand to become a more independent individual.
The visual artist Lily Yeh is the founder, retired Executive Director and lead artist of The Village of Arts and Humanities in Philadelphia. She is an international figure who combines public art and community action. "The Village" is a community of volunteers and paid workers who take over abandoned lots in North Philadelphia and transform them into community gardens, arts centers, and parks. The Village stands as a guiding light of hope, pride and self respect in a struggling area of abandoned houses and every other urban ill you can imagine. Her art is beautiful, heroic and combines the work of the many hands in that community. The concept of “The Village” is a living object of sculpture which acts as a communal event. The interior of each project is shaped and touched by people's hands and includes as many people from the community as possible.
I deduce that she has found her niche and her art expression has been very effective in healing people in dire circumstances. With her art and vision, she has cultivated, taught soul healing and respect to each individual in the community affecting the people to be self sufficient and spreading their knowledge to other needy and depilated communities discharging a continual unstopping chain reaction changing the dynamics of each community.
I believe that I am now capable to invent a career in art community. My research has convinced me that I will be able to find my artist’s niche in my community (wherever that may be). I have been motivated to search out people, vital organizations, out-reach facilities housing drug addicts or AID victims, senior centers and prisons to teach the dynamics of individual soul searching and healing with community art.
References
American Catholic: Seasonal Features. Who Was Blessed Mother Teresa? http://www.americancatholic.org/features/teresa/WhoWasTeresa.asp
(10 Dec. 2009)
Bourgois, Philippe. In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio. UK: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Knight, Keith, et al. Beginner’s Guide to Community-Based Arts. Oakland: New Village Press, 2006.
My Art Date
On the previous weekend (January 31st) I had the privilege of attending an art day that included activities such as yoga class, pot luck brunch and art making.
I enjoyed working on my art journal which I began this fall.
Art Murmur Galliers in Oakland
This past Friday (February 5th) I visited a few of Oakland’s Art Murmur Galleries that are open every first Friday of each month.
I enjoyed all the art exhibited including projected art movies on the building walls in this area located on Grand Avenue and Telegraph Avenue. There were many people and it had the characteristics of an outside fair with food and other oddities for sale.
Intermedia
World war, conflict and destruction has been on mind for a long time. I am sad that many human beings are suffering and dying especially soldiers from many countries.
I have been writing lists of names of deceased American soldiers and pray for their souls and their families. I am in the process of creating book art that reflects war and its tragedy on humans.
For my 2-d art project I have a created a collage of found objects (wood, paper and metal) also on the theme of war.
My art is helping process my emotions on sadness and heartbreak relating to world war and chaos.
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