Connective Perspective Cloe Benedict Melissa Funk Jillian Harmon Jessica Wiciak
I am the art director for ArtWorks and am interested in engaging the community by pitching unusual and innovative art projects for them to driect themselves. What are some possibilities that I could consider?
ArtWorks Mission:
ArtWorks empowers and inspires the creative community to transform our everyday environments through employment, apprenticeships, education, community partnerships, and civic engagement.
ArtWorks Programming Areas: .Public Art, including public murals, sculptural bike
racks, and ArtCars mobile masterpieces. . Creative Enterprise with training and assistance through education, Apprentice projects, access to capital and community connections. . ArtRx, a program designed to improve the experience of the patients, families, and staff in healthcare environments
Our Approach:
In order to create an empowered, united community, the individuals making up the whole must also feel connected with themselves. We want the community to have the control to improve their surroundings with unique and innovative projects, that are easily excisable to all members of the community. We want to give the individuals a chance to heal through connection with those around them and creative projects provided to them by ArtWorks.
Connective Perspective
• Sophisticated Essence : In such a chaotic world, • Collective Renovation: Society is constantly Individuals are constantly seeking things that are familiar to them in order to find comfort and consolation. They are expanding natures cycle beyond the walls of its traditional boarders with alternative uses for ordinary objects. Through repurposing familiar materials for a new use, Society is able to find connection in unconventional ways. Nowadays humans crave reassurance with the unknown and seek “out-of-the-box” solutions to ordinary obstacles.
seeking innovative ways to improve all aspects of the world, but the resources being used to bring unique ideas to life are only accessible to a select part of the population. Steering away from technology to empower the community, the original use of everyday objects is being rethought in order to make this improvement. Recreating ways for ordinary items has allowed us to improve different aspects in the community. This movement toward recreating regular materials is a step in a new direction toward an improved community.
Sophisticated Essence
• In such a chaotic world, Individuals are constantly seeking things that are familiar to them in order to find comfort and consolation. They are expanding natures cycle beyond the walls of its traditional boarders with alternative uses for ordinary objects. Through repurposing familiar materials for a new use, Society is able to find connection in unconventional ways. Thus, nowadays humans crave reassurance with the unknown and seek “out-of-the-box” solutions to ordinary obstacles.
Sophistcated Essnece
Blog-o-Mirror Humans of New York is an exhaustive catalogue of New York City’s mostinteresting inhabitants. In 2010, HONY creator Brandon Stanton began exposing
these strangers short stories and portraits allowing aworldwide audience a glimpse into the lives of people found on the street of New York City. Because Brandon is revealing these strangers stories through various, he is creating a safe environment for people to discover that others have similar quirks.
Melody Remedy According to BBC NEWS, the art of music repurposed as therapy has re-
duce fear and stress and improved relationships in cancer patients coping with treatment. The Therapeutic Music Video intervention study required people ages 11-24 to write song lyrics based on their experiences and priorities. The results demonstrated the young adults’ desire to reach out and help others. Because doctors are involving music videos within the treatment process of cancer, young patients are feeling more connected.
Revised Inside PBS captures how people are leveraging their bodies to adapt to the
ever-changing planet. The studies show that humans are adding magnets to their figure tips. This cutting-edge surgery is allowing people to feel the magnetic force as well as noise waves, things that cannot be physical sensed in any other way. This surgery allows people who have lost senses the ability to connect to the world around them in a different way.
Collective Renovation
• Society is constantly seeking innovative ways to improve all aspects of the world, but the resources being used to bring unique ideas to life are only accessible to a select part of the population. Steering away from technology to empower the community, the original use of everyday objects is being rethought in order to make this improvement. Recreating ways for ordinary items has allowed us to improve different aspects in the community. This movement toward recreating regular materials is a step in a new direction toward an improved community.
Collective Renovation Repurposing
Seed Magazine exhibits a story of a fourteen-year-old boy who built a windmill out of scraps to produce water and energy for his family and eventually the whole village who were living in poverty. Inn vation through lack of resources enabled him to use wind power as a cleaner source of energy, which is now gaining in recognition around the world. Common items usually thrown away are being repurposed, causing us to rethink what we would commonly toss in a trash can
Brickteria
The development of bricks has become inexpensive, environmentally friendly, and simple according to Archdaily.The biotechnology start-up, bioMason, developed a way to make bricks from an abundant natural resource: bacteria. This could be the beginning of a decline in relying on limited resources and environmentally harmful chemicals used currently to create bricks and taking advantage of a substance found on every surface.
Solidifying
Anke Domaske has found a new use for spoiled milk. CNN reports that Domaske, who was once a scientist turned fashion designer, started QMilch to produce fabric out of the spoiled milk. QMilch uses a simple process and the lack of chemicals to create the new age material. This new way to manufacture fabric is not only innovating, but it is using something that would be wasted and _nding a purpose for it.
Connective Perspective Implications
• To further the use of art as a means of healing, ArtWorks can develop an Art Wall in the children’s wing of the hospital, giving the patients a constant outlet for expression. • To encourage future creative innovators, ArtWorks can offer middle school children the opportunity to shadow a professional in the field they are interested in. • To encourage partnerships through the arts, ArtWorks can create an opportunity for middle school students and DAAP students to collaborate and create clothing. The DAAP student will create silhouettes of various items of clothing and the children will design and paint the print.
Connective Perspective Implications
• To make artistic innovation accessible to everyone in the community, ArtWorks can use a mobile art truck to deliver portable art projects to those looking for a creative outlet. • To inspire uninspected uses of the trash found around the communitty, ArtWorks employees can gather recyclable materials around the city and provide them to the community to create a unique piece of art from something that would otherwise be thrown away • To fulfil the communities crave for connection, ArtWorks can create a community garden on the roof of the ArtWorks building leaving it up to the people of Cincinnati to work together to keep it alive.
Connective Perspective Implications
• To encourage group healing within the arts, ArtWorks will Create a “Community CD” featuring a variety of artists. These artists will potentially include CCM students, high school glee clubs, or local band, and compline a CD of their favorite covers and original songs. • To highlight the unique talent hidden within the people of the community , ArtWorks can sell coffee mugs designed by the youth of Cincinnati that feature an “artist bio”. This will allow kids and adults to relate to complete strangers within the area. • To allow the community an opportunity to connect with strangers, ArtWorks can create a system of trading baseball cards that feature “fun facts” about people in all areas of Cincinnati.