Community Blueprint Youth Engagement Presentation

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

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

Activism events

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

Posters

• It’s participatory• From and for your target

audience• Easily shareable

Videos as interactive art

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

Community Blueprint Youth Engagement Presentation

Entertainment & Humor

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