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Group analysis on the work of W2 artist Brandon Breaux

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Group work analysis on the work of W2 artist Carrie Mae Weems

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Group work analysis on the work of W3 Artist, Krista Franklin

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"No nos podemos quedar paradas con los brazos cruzados en media del presente. (We can’t afford to stop in the middle of the bridge with arms crossed.) And yet to act is not enough. Many of us are learning to sit perfectly still, to sense the presence of the Soul and commune with Her. We are beginning to realize that we are not wholly at the mercy of circumstance, nor are our lives completely out of our hands . . . We are each accountable for what is happening down the street, south of the border or across the sea. And those of us who have more of anything: brains, physical strength, political power, spiritual energies, are learning to share them with those that don’t have. We are learning to depend more and more on our own sources for survival, learning not to let the weight of this burden, the bridge, break our backs. Haven’t we always borne jugs of water, children, poverty? Why not learn to bear baskets of hope, love, self-nourishment and to step lightly? Caminante, no hay puentes, se hacen puentes al anger. (Voyager, there are no bridges, one builds them as one walks.)"

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Inspired by Assata Shakur.

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Inspired by Assata Shakur.
Assata: In her own words

My name is Assata ("she who struggles") Olugbala ( "for the people" ) Shakur ("the thankful one"), and I am a 20th century escaped slave.  In the 1960s, I participated in various struggles: the black liberation movement, the student rights movement, and the movement to end the war in Vietnam. I  joined the Black Panther Party.

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Inspired by the poet Zubair Ahmed.
Zubair Ahmed is a Bengali-American poet and the author of City of Rivers (McSweeney’s, 2012). He lives in Oakland, California.

https://poets.org/poem/red-touch-sulfur

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Inspired by Langston Hughes.
Langston Hughes was a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance, the flowering of black intellectual, literary, and artistic life that took place in the 1920s in a number of American cities, particularly Harlem. A major poet, Hughes also wrote novels, short stories, essays, and plays. He sought to honestly portray the joys and hardships of working-class black lives, avoiding both sentimental idealization and negative stereotypes.

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Inspired by the artist Chetna also known as MosaicEye.

Chetna is a: CREATIVE WELLNESS FACILITATOR, MIXED MEDIA ARTIST + CREATOR
OF MOSAICEYE

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Inspired by 5 word personal poems and our larger class poem.

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Inspired by poet Sun Yung Shin
Korean American poet, writer and educator Sun Yung Shin was born in Seoul, South Korea and was adopted and raised in Chicago.

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Five Word Stories + Community Prompt

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Which artist/work/poem spoke to you from W2? Add it as a comment to this post, cite your source/artist, and hashtag your name!

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What are some ways you practice self care? What does self care mean to you?

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“As Jimmy Boggs used to remind us, revolutions are made out of love for people and for place. He often talked about loving America enough to change it. 'I love this country,' he used to say, 'not only because my ancestors' blood is in the soil but because of what I believe it can become.' Love isn't just something you feel. It's something you do everyday when you go out and pick the paper and bottles scattered the night before on the corner, when you stop and talk to a neighbor, when you argue passionately for what you believe in with whoever will listen, when you call a friend to see how they're doing, when you write a letter to the newspaper, when you give a speech and give 'em hell, when you never stop believing that we can all be more than what we are. In other words, Love isn't about what we did yesterday; it's about what we do today and tomorrow and the day after.”
― Grace Lee Boggs, The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century

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What does freedom mean to you?
When do you feel most free?

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"Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensity social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.”

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1. Which artist/writer/activist spoke to you most and why?
*Add it as a comment to this post.