ALT/Space: Teaching Artists Stories from the Field Favorite

Practitioner:

Date:

Aug 27 2014

Location:

Online

In this space, Teaching Artist contributors from around the U.S. and the world bring you stories of their work at the crossroads of art and learning. The stories that our bloggers bring to ALT/space are born inside the practice of teaching and art making in all artistic and expressive mediums: visual arts, dance, traditional arts, outsider art, music, theater, storytelling, writing and…?

External sources:

http://tajaltspace.com/about/

http://www.malkerosenfeld.com/

Posted by carlin wing on Aug 27 2014

Effectiveness

How does this project help?

Activates (people)Energizes and organizes people into action. Can include emotion work

Amplifies (issue or campaign)Brings public and political attention to an issue or campaign. Can include prefigurative action, making the invisible visible.

Does nothing (at all)Doesn't really have an impact, beyond possibly expressing the artist-activist's dissatisfaction with the world.

OtherHelps bring about change in a way not accounted for in the options above. Please describe how it does this in the text box below.

Provides (a useful service)Provides a useful social service.

Shifts (culture)Shifts the cultural landscape in order to imagine and enable change.

Strengthens (community)Strengthens, builds and celebrates community through ritual and/or symbol.

Sustains (change)Support and celebrate change that has already been won and needs to be sustained.