This course takes on the unprecedented mid-term election of November 2018. We will use our objects, media, and social practice art skills to grapple with getting out the vote in this particular election. Students will collaborate with art centered groups in the central valley of California with one or more field trips to District 21 (Visalia) and District 10 (Modesto). Activists have targeted these as key battleground districts. Social Practice Art strategies of guerilla theatre, performance art, video, banner painting, and puppetry will be used to bring awareness to the urgency of the 2018 VOTE. The history of art activism will be studied from World War 2 such as Claude Cahun on the isle of Jersey during the Nazi occupation, to dadaists's Caberet Voltaire, Richard Prince, Guerilla Girls, Gordon Parks photographs, Black Panthers, Nancy Spero, Richard Kamler's Roar of Lions, Red Horse drawings among others.

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