Using Interactive Art to Educate and Empower Young People

What are we doing today?What are we doing today?

• Intros, background of youth programming

• Interactive art examples

• Aerosol art

• Videos

• Photovoice

• Screen printing and button making

What is Guerrilla Art?

Definition

The act of creating art that sendsa message encouraging social change.

• It’s fun!• It’s engaging• It’s fun for almost any audience• It’s easy to create• It can be used for a million

different causes

Why is it useful?

Graffiti

Highly visible, bold messages meantto trigger responses from the viewer.

Pic March Downtown

Pic Bobby Spray

Pic Bobby Spray

Pic Bobby Spray

Pic Bobby Spray

Pic Bobby Spray

Pic Bobby Spray

Pic Bobby Spray

• Public press and engagement events used to call attention to a cause

Activism events

Posters

Posters

Posters

Posters

Posters

Posters

Posters

Posters

Health in Hometown – Photovoice

• Worked with 13 different counties around MN to answer the question, what is the health of my hometown?– Created a book, video,

website

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Posters

• It’s participatory• From and for your target

audience• Easily shareable

Videos as interactive art

Pic Kool Hip-Hop

Pic Kool Hip-Hop

Posters

Posters have long been one of the preferred mediums for activists to express themselves while informing the masses. Posters are inexpensive and easily reproducible.

Screenin’

• http://bethecatalyst.org/screenprint

• http://bethecatalyst.org/screenprint