Painting Worldly Awareness

Our course is going to be named "Painting Worldly Awareness." We are going to focus on Issues of access in the Midwest and bring it together with issues of access in other places. For each day, we are focusing on a different topic and bringing it together with examples how artists around the world use their art to advocate and draw awareness to the issues they are addressing both globally and locally. We will primarily be focusing on street art in different areas that advocate for each issue we will be discussing.

We will begin our course by introducing an overview of the different issues we'll be focusing on: Access to food, water, security and education. Each day we will present an introduction as to how this issue is presented, both in the mainstream media and through art. We will provide examples to this issue, both in specific examples in other areas of the world and then ask students to compare them to local issues. After doing this we will provide examples of media coverage of these issues, including forms of art advocating for change. During the lessons, we will ask students to sketch out designs for their issue, which they will turn into banners at the end of the week.

Monday: Water Wars
Provide a brief history lesson into some famous water conflicts
Examples: Cocobamba Water War , Flint Michigan
Ask students to sketch notes in their personal sketchbooks of art advocating for water issues

Tuesday: Food Insecurity
Introduce food deserts in the US, Introduce conflict in Yemen, other places where access to food is denied or restricted
Art Examples-
  Artist- Murad Subay in Sana Yemen

 Photographer- Amy Toensing "Hunger in the Heartland

Resources:
http://www.foodispower.org/food-deserts/ 

https://www.barillacfn.com/en/magazine/food-for-all/food-insecurity-not-just-a-problem-for-developing-countries/ 

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/foodfeatures/hunger/ 

Wednesday: Education and Opportunity 

Begin with discussion- Is education a basic human right?
Giving students examples, we will ask them to consider how education impacts a country.

Art Examples:

 Apolo Torres, San Paulo : "Education is Not a Crime"